Posted by: olddog967 In reply to: spencer who wrote msg# 171402 Date:11/15/2006 3:05:19 PM Post #of 171435
spenser: The settlement negotiations actually referred to license negotiations between IDCC and unidentified 3rd parties related to the patents at issue. The magistrate judge ruled that that wasn't an appropriate subject for discovery.
Nokia's other discovery request that the judge ruled against was in regard to patent validity. the judge stated that was irrelevant to the Lanham Act claims