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For Your Eyes Only: IP Atty’s Who Misuse Confidential Documents Face Sanctions, Discipline

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Patent and other high technology litigation invariably involves the disclosure of highly confidential technical and financial information.  One of the first orders usually entered in such cases is a protective order, which enables parties to designate and disclose to a limited universe of people what the producing party considers to be confidential information.  Typically, protective […]

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PTAB And District Court Litigators Risk USPTO Ethical Discipline For Protective Order Violations

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In patent litigation, one of the first orders of business is entry of a protective order protecting the participant’s confidential information. While protective orders come in all shapes and sizes, such orders uniformly prohibit a receiving party from disclosing a producing party’s confidential information except to a limited universe of defined individuals. In addition, a

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