ZENITH RADIO CORP. v. RADIO CORP. OF AMERICA

Civ. No. 1247.

121 F.Supp. 792 (1954)

ZENITH RADIO CORP. v. RADIO CORP. OF AMERICA et al.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

May 20, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur G. Connolly and Thomas Cooch of Connolly, Cooch & Bove, Wilmington, Del., Joseph S. Wright, Francis W. Crotty and Philip J. Curtis, Chicago, Ill.; Willis H. Taylor, Jr., R. Morton Adams and Thomas F. Reddy, Jr., of Pennie, Edmonds, Morton, Barrows & Taylor, New York City, and Thomas C. McConnell of McConnell, Lutkin & Van Hook, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Caleb S. Layton of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., Stephen H. Philbin of Fish, Richardson & Neave, New York City, John W. Nields, (of Cahill, Gordon, Zachry & Reindel), New York City, and Leonard Lyon, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Radio Corporation of America.

John J. Morris, Jr. of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del., Thomas Thacher and Delevan Smith of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for defendant General Electric Co.

William Prickett, Wilmington, Del., and John E. F. Wood and Henry R. Ashton, New York City, for defendant Western Electric Co., Inc.


LEAHY, Chief Judge.

Claiming sanctuary for some 1600 documents, defendants have refused to produce them for various reasons of privilege, opinion, "work product", and absence of good cause. The withheld documents roughly fall into five categories: (1) those passing between the inventor and patent department employees; (2) those passing between various employees of the same patent department and their related memoranda; (3) those passing between patent department employees...

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