Motion Against Ramey LLP for Alleged Protective Order Violations Now Fully Briefed

One last case filed by Lauri Valjakka, in the Northern District of California, remains open, with briefing having completed on defendant Netflix’s motion asking for an order to show cause why former plaintiff counsel Ramey LLP (and its principal William P. Ramey III) should not be sanctioned. Netflix contends that Ramey LLP violated the case’s protective order by sharing sensitive Netflix-produced information with AiPi, LLC, an entity formerly operating in the background of multiple patent litigation campaigns, sometimes as funder, sometimes as “de facto lead counsel”. AiPi filed a motion to quash a related subpoena in the Eastern District of Virginia, where earlier this year that court ordered “full and complete discovery”, including forensic discovery, from AiPi. An assertion of privilege preventing the production of certain materials was brushed away this past week; per the court, “it is clear that AiPi was not representing Valjakka as his attorney throughout most of their relationship” such that “the parties’ designated third-party neutral forensic expert” PricewaterhouseCoopers has been ordered to “produce all documents currently sequestered based on Mr. Valjakka’s improper claim of privilege”.