AVENTIS CROPSCIENCE v. PIONEER HI-BRED INTERN.

No. 1:00 CV 00463.

294 F.Supp.2d 739 (2003)

AVENTIS CROPSCIENCE, N.V. Plaintiff, v. PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC. and Dow Agrosciences LLC. Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina.

November 20, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy G. Barber, Bradley Clayton Morris, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Charlotte, NC, Eric H. Weisblatt, Regis F. Slutter, Barbara W. Walker, Ronni S. Jillions, Susan M. Dadio, Albert Tramposch, Catherine B. Richardson, H. Jonathan Redway, David M. Schlitz, Ryan P. Page, Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis, L.L.P., Alexandria, VA, Allen Robert Baum, Burns Doane Swecker & Mathis, Durham, NC, for plaintiff/counter-defendants.

William Kearns Davis, Daniel Alan M. Ruley, Bell Davis & Pitt, P.A., Winston-Salem, NC, William H. King, Jr., McGuire Woods, LLP, Richmond, VA, Daniel J. Cosgrove, Zarley McKee Thomte Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C., Des Moines, IA, Leora Ben-Ami, Thomas F. Fleming, Howard Suh, Melissa Mandrgoc, Christopher T. Jagoe, Oliver Bennett, Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells, LLP, New York, NY, Kurt E. Lindquist, II, Charlotte, NC, for defendants/counter-claimants.


ORDER

ELIASON, United States Magistrate Judge.

The matter before the Court concerns defendants' request to conduct discovery in this patent action, with respect to collecting attorneys' fees pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 285, after plaintiff's patent claims have been dismissed. Plaintiff opposes any additional discovery.

Factual and Procedural History

Plaintiff filed this action alleging that defendants had infringed four of...

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