Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. v. Topcon Medical Systems, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC., Case No. 19-cv-04162-SBA(LB)

Plaintiff,

DISCOVERY ORDER

v. Re: ECF No. 381 TOPCON MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., et al., Defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION The parties have three discovery disputes: (1) whether Topcon must produce custodians and repositories now (as opposed to identifying them in thirty days when it produces an audit report about the searches); (2) whether Zeiss must pay for Topcon’s review of attachments to emails; and (3) whether Topcon must produce information about the DICOM decoder, which is a software component in Topcon’s Harmony product, and then produce engineer Artur Kowalski for a deposition.1 The court held a hearing on June 30, 2022, and ordered that (1) Topcon must produce the audit report in thirty days and has ninety days to complete any additional investigation, (2) the record does not support shifting fees, and (3) Zeiss may…