Impact Engine, Inc. v. Google LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 IMPACT ENGINE, INC., CASE NO. 3:19-cv-01301-CAB-DEB
Plaintiff,
ORDER ON MOTION TO COMPEL
vs. PRODUCTION OF CERTAIN
DOCUMENTS
GOOGLE LLC, [Doc. No. 118] Defendant.
15 16 Google propounded a request on Impact Engine for production of “[all] Documents Regarding any contracts or agreements between Plaintiff and any Third Party concerning (1) This Litigation and/or (2) any Asserted Patent or Related Patent.” [Doc. No. 101.] Impact Engine indicated it would produce non-privileged responsive documents except for potential agreements related to litigation funding on the basis such documents were not relevant. The magistrate judge found the withheld documents relevant and therefore discoverable. He did not however make any determination regarding privilege or other protections. [Id.] Impact Engine appealed the order and finding no clear error in the magistrate judge’s ruling, the Court overruled Impact Engine’s objection to the relevancy 27 …