Garrison

Plaintiffs seek inspection, under the provisions of Rule 34, F.R.Civ.P., of communications between an officer of defendant General Motors Corporation (hereafter referred to as GMC) and an attorney in the corporation’s patent section, as well as communications between attorneys in the patent section and communications between patent section attorneys and corporation employees and representatives' of the company’s Saginaw Steering Gear Division, hereafter referred to as SSGD.

All of the attorneys in the patent section working in Michigan were members of the Michigan Bar except Mr. Beecher, who was admitted to practice in Indiana and Massachusetts. All but one of the attorneys involved in the company’s patent section in Washington, D. C., were members of the Bar of the District of Columbia.

The employees of the corporation at SSGD include the Division Manager, Mr. W. H. Doefner, Mr. C. W. Lincoln, Chief Engineer, Paul W. Wysong, Senior Project Engineer, and H. A. Boehringer, Assistant Chief Engineer. It appears from the affidavit of Mr. Doefner that the above mentioned persons, individually and as a group, took substantial part in the decisions that were made at SSGD on the advice…