Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C. v. Eastman Kodak Company

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• granting motion to quash, in part, because defendant had sought leave to amend the pleadings to assert the defense, but had not yet been granted leave to do so
• quashing deposition of counsel when party could obtain information from a more convenient witness
• surveying the analysis by other courts in setting out the general permissibility of deposing patent prosecution counsel where an inequitable conduct defense has been raised, though finding these cases inapposite to the issues before the court
• “Clearly a deposition of [counsel] would require diligent efforts to avoid disclosure of attorney-client communications and protected work-product material, a painstaking process that poses risks that other sources of discovery do not.”

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