· 3/24/2000
Mosel Vitelic Corp. v. Micron Technology, Inc.
Citations
- 162 F. Supp. 2d 307
- 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21580
- 2001 WL 520829
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- involving opinion letters drafted by counsel concerning whether the client’s products infringed existing patents
- “Thom effectively encourages patent attorneys to deliberately omit damaging information from their opinion letters in order to insulate their clients from a finding of willful infringement.”
- “This court does not believe that the law should encourage or reward ... the creation of opinion letters that, while facially valid, are ‘fraught with ineptitude [or] error’ in an effort to protect the client.”
- rejecting narrow waiver of work product
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Judges: Sleet
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