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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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*E-FILED 4/2/08*

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

AQUA-LUNG AMERICA, INC., 

Plaintiff,

 v.

AMERICAN UNDERWATER PRODUCTS, INC.,

et al,

Defendants . /

NO. C 07-2346 RS

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

COMPEL IN PART

Plaintiff Aqua-Lung America, Inc. moves to compel further written discovery responses from

defendants Two Forty Deuce Corporation (“TFD”) and American Underwater Products, Inc, 3

dba Oceanic (“Oceanic”). At the hearing, the Court directed the parties to engage in further meet

and confer negotiations to resolve or at least narrow the scope of their disputes. The parties did so

and reported that they were able to reach agreement in many areas. This order memorializes the

agreements the parties reached and resolves the remaining disputes.

1. The motion to compel is granted with respect to Document Request Nos. 1 and 2 directed

at both Oceanic and TFD, as limited by agreement to non-privileged matter that was transmitted to

the patent issuing authorities. Defendants represented at the hearing that the only patent file history

that they object to producing is an application filed very recently that does not yet include any

communications or analysis of the claims. That objection is overruled. While the application itself

may be somewhat less probative than any file history that subsequently develops, the application is

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not wholly irrelevant and would be subject to production as part of a more developed file history;

hence there is no basis to withhold it now.

2. The motion to compel is granted as to Document Request Nos. 3-10 directed at TFD

seeking materials related to its corporate existence.

3. As to Document Requests Nos. 14 and 16-18 directed to Oceanic, the motion is granted in

part. Oceanic shall produce marketing, sales, and profit information but need not produce customer

lists nor correspondence with customers or dealers, except to the extent any such correspondence is

responsive to some other request.

4. The motion to compel is granted with respect to Interrogatories 1 and 3-5 directed to

Oceanic and with respect to Interrogatories 3, 5, 7-8 and10 directed to TFD. With respect to those

interrogatories seeking identification of communications between the parties (Oceanic No. 1 and

TFD Nos. 3-5 and 10) defendants shall provide reasonably detailed and specific responses. As

agreed by the parties, defendants shall hereinafter be precluded from presenting any evidence at trial

pertaining to any oral representation responsive to these interrogatories not identified in the

supplemental responses, except upon a showing of good cause.

5. All further responses and production of documents required by this order shall be served

within 14 days of the date of this order.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 2, 2008 

RICHARD SEEBORG

United States Magistrate Judge

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THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT NOTICE OF THIS ORDER HAS BEEN GIVEN TO:

A. James Isbester jamie@itpatentcounsel.com, donna@itpatentcounsel.com

Joel A Kauth joel.kauth@kppb.com

Douglas V. Rigler drigler@young-thompson.com

Gillian Winifred Thackray gillian@itpatentcounsel.com

Counsel are responsible for distributing copies of this document to co-counsel who have not

registered for e-filing under the Court's CM/ECF program. 

Dated: 4/2/08 Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: Chambers 

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