Wisk Aero LLC v. Archer Aviation Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 WISK AERO LLC, Case No. 21-cv-02450-WHO (DMR)

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON JOINT DISCOVERY

v. LETTER

ARCHER AVIATION INC., Re: Dkt. No. 287-1 Defendant.

The parties filed a joint discovery letter in which Defendant Archer Aviation Inc. (“Archer”) sought to modify the operative protective order to give certain Archer employees limited access to documents designated as Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only (AEO) by Plaintiff Wisk Aero LLC (“Wisk”). [Docket No. 278.] On July 1, 2022, the court denied the joint letter without prejudice because the dispute “is fact-intensive and requires the court to balance the risk of inadvertent disclosure of trade secrets to a competitor against the risk of impairing a party’s defense or prosecution of its claims” and “the parties only provided generalized concerns about the risks.” [Docket No. 279 (7/1/22 Order) (citing Brown Bag Software v. Symantec Corp., 960 F.2d 1465,…