Case: Trademarks/Work Product (D.N.J.)

Most of Rockwell Automation Inc.'s privilege designations are sustained, and therefore protected from discovery, in this trademark and unfair competition action. Rockwell invokes the work-product doctrine, which requires proof that a document was prepared for reasonably anticipated litigation and prepared because of the prospect of litigation. Rockwell’s investigation of the gray market for its industrial automation products specifically targeted reseller Radwell Int’l Inc. and others for litigation. The case is Rockwell Automation, Inc. v. Radwell Int’l, Inc., 2019 BL 148437, D.N.J., No. 15-5246(RBK/JS), 4/25/19.