Aspex Eyewear, Inc. v. E'Lite Optik, Inc.

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• noting that the waiver applies to “any issue to which [the attorneys] will testify”
• “[O]nce a client decides to call the attorneys as witnesses, the [privilege] must give way to full disclosure on any issue to which they will testify.”
• defendants waived work product protection by presenting an opinion of 27 counsel as a defense
• “Although the defense of reliance on advice of counsel to an allegation of willful infringement is an issue that appears unique to patent litigation, reliance on the advice of counsel defense, in general, is not.”

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