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

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CARL ZEISS MEDITEC, INC.,

Case No. 4:19-cv-04162-YGR Plaintiff, PRETRIAL ORDER NO. 1 v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 566 & 570 TOPCON MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC., et al., 9 Defendants.

This Order resolves the outstanding dispute between the parties1 concerning the identification of the trade secrets upon which the pending counts are based. By way of background, the Corrected Fourth Amended Complaint (“C4AC”) identifies three claims for misappropriation of trade secrets (Counts 1-3), two contract claims (Counts 4-5), and a copyright infringement claim (Count 6). (See generally Dkt. No. 483-3 (redacted).) Through the discovery process, plaintiff Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. (“Zeiss”) has filed numerous disclosures identifying the trade secrets upon which their misappropriation claims are based. Following plaintiff’s Fourth Supplemental Disclosure of Trade Secrets and the resulting discovery dispute, the Court instructed the…