HotSpot Therapeutics, Inc. v. Nurix Therapeutics, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 HOTSPOT THERAPEUTICS, INC., Case No. 22-cv-04109-TSH
Plaintiff,
DISCOVERY ORDER
v. Re: Dkt. No. 66 NURIX THERAPEUTICS, INC., Defendant.
12 The parties have a dispute over a proposed protective order. ECF No. 66. HotSpot wants the protective order to include the following sentence: “CONFIDENTIAL Information shall include information disclosed, transferred, or made available by one Party to the other during the term of the Collaboration and Materials Transfer Agreement, dated September 17, 2015, as amended on November 8, 2016 (the ‘Collaboration Agreement’).” However, the Court agrees with Nurix that this categorical rule doesn’t make sense. Just because a document was disclosed to somebody at HotSpot pursuant to the Collaboration Agreement doesn’t mean it was disclosed to every person who would be entitled to see confidential information under the protective order. HotSpot also argues that its employees need to be able to review Nurix’s alleged…