Limiting Disclosure Under a Protective Order
Plaintiff sought an order preventing access to its protected materials by a specified individual.
Protective Orders
Protective Order & Copyright Issues
My what a lovely courthouse. Protective order and copyright infringement and damages just seem to fit somehow.
Prosecution/Acquisition Bars
Most protective order fights center on source code review and prosecution/acquisition bars. The latter was the subject here.
More COVID-19 source code review provisions
Consistent with prior similar orders, the order in this case provided for a different code review process during the pandemic.
Source Code Review Provisions
Protective orders are like James Bond’s suits. They’re tailored, but the judge usually has some rules that you can expect will be present – especially on code review.
Judge Albright (Semiconductor) Patent Litigation FAQs
Although it’s identified as a FAQ, it really is a listing of some recent telephonic rulings on issues in patent cases, with strong emphasis on semiconductor cases. So your mileage (like your case’s facts) may differ.
More Protective Order provisions
Another data point on protective orders from River City, this time dealing with source code review.
Prosecution and Acquisition bars
You don’t see a lot of cases passing on appropriate restrictions on prosecution and acquisition bars in protective orders. This order presents the right set of facts to make the issues relevant.
Prosecution Bars
An issue that sometimes comes up in negotiating protective orders is whether an acquisition bar should be included, i.e. a prohibition of counsel who see confidential documents from prosecuting patents in a certain field. In this case the magistrate judge declined to adopt the proposed acquisition bar, and the defendant appealed that decision to the district judge.
Motions for Protective Order and In-House Counsel
This protective order opinion addresses the question of disclosure of certain information to a specified in-house counsel. It provides one of the relatively rare examples of a court resolving protective order disputes in an opinion which explains why the requested language was or was not adopted. (With dreadnought-sized footnotes).