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In quashing Amazon subpoena to Nokia, US court pushes back on Section 1782

By Melissa Ritti ( January 17, 2025, 16:53 GMT | Comment) -- A US judge in Delaware yesterday said he wouldn't order Nokia to produce certain “multi-technology” licenses and more than 27,000 pages of licensing communications relating to Nokia's video codec standard essential patents that Amazon says it needs to defend allegations of infringement overseas. The ruling by US District Judge Gregory Williams draws an important distinction between want and need, in what could be a harbinger of things to come at the court that fields more patent-related requests under Section 1782 — which facilitates discovery for use in foreign proceedings — than any other in the US.Time is money, and that means litigating in the US — where a patent case can easily take years to get to trial — is an expensive endeavor....

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