As a recent ruling from Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal in the
Northern District of California demonstrates, plaintiffs must walk
a tightrope when deciding what to disclose in their Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 2019.210
statements.
In a wide ranging battle to protect its intellectual property,
which includes the filing of criminal and civil complaints in Taiwan
and a Taiwanese police raid of Defendants' offices,
Plaintiffs VIA Technologies, Inc. and VIA Labs, Inc. (hereinafter
"VIA") filed a patent infringement and trade secrets
misappropriation suit against Defendants ASUS Computer
International, ASUSTek Computer Inc., and ASMedia Technology, Inc.
(hereinafter "ASUS") in late 2014.
Earlier this year, VIA filed a motion to compel the additional
production of documents, alleging that ASUS's production was
insufficient. ASUS countered that it only needed to produce
documents related to trade secrets that VIA had specifically
identified in its § 2019.210 statement. Although
