Electronic Scripting Products, Inc. v. HTC America, Inc.

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 EUREKA DIVISION 7 8 ELECTRONIC SCRIPTING PRODUCTS, Case No. 17-cv-05806-RS (RMI)

INC.,

9 Plaintiff, ORDER ON JOINT DISCOVERY 10 LETTER BRIEF v. 11 Re: Dkt. No. 87

HTC AMERICA INC.,

12 Defendant. 13 14 Before the court is the parties’ Joint Discovery Letter Brief (dkt. 87). In the brief, 15 Defendant HTC America, Inc. (“HTCA”) requests that the court enter the District’s model 16 protective order in this case “because the parties’ claims and defenses will necessarily implicate 17 confidential technical and financial material from the parties and third parties.” Id. at 2. Plaintiff 18 Electronic Scripting Products, Inc. (“ESPI”), asserts that it is “happy to have no protective order,” 19 but requests that if one is entered, two modifications be made, the first regarding the “prosecution 20 bar” and the second regarding the designation of confidential information. Id. The matter came on 21 for hearing before the undersigned on…