In Re Echostar Communications Corporation

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• finding that Echostar waived attorney client privilege over communications when it asserted the defense of reliance on advice of counsel
• explaining that work product that is never communicated to the client is not discoverable
• distinguishing between “factual” and “opinion” work product in analyzing advice-of-counsel defense to a charge of patent infringement
• finding waiver “for any document or opinion that embodies or discusses a communication to or from it concerning whether that patent is valid, enforceable, and infringed by the accused”
• \[W]ork-product immunity . . . promotes a fair and efficient adversarial system. . . .\
• “[W]ork product waiver is not a broad waiver of all work product related to the same subject matter like the attorney-client privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).