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In a declaratory judgment action brought by Global Tubing, the district court granted the Plaintiff's motion for summary judgment of unenforceability for inequitable conduct.
Parties in the discovery phase of litigation often exchange confidential documents and information, which may contain proprietary information such as the technical aspects...
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Plaintiff Global Tubing, LLC ("Global") filed a motion to compel production of documents withheld as privileged by Defendant Tenaris Coiled Tubes, LLC ("Tenaris"). As explained by the district court, in its motion to compel, Global claimed that Tenaris obtained its patents by deceiving the Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO"), withholding prior art in prosecuting the main patent, and then altering and withholding a key piece of the prior art. Global contended that Tenaris' actions withholdin...