Reciprocity for Foreign Discovery in U.S. Courts

//Reciprocity for Foreign Discovery in U.S. Courts

Reciprocity for Foreign Discovery in U.S. Courts

Reciprocity for Foreign Discovery in U.S. Courts

RESOLVED, that IPO supports amending 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to require (1) that information produced pursuant to the statute be subject to adequate protections for confidential information, including trade secrets, in the foreign proceedings, (2) that the information is discoverable or admissible in the foreign proceeding, and (3) that prior to the application having been made the applicant could have been subject to an equivalent order for production under the rules of this jurisdiction or the foreign jurisdiction.