Vetrotech v. Interver, Court of Cassation of France, 13 February 2013 ”

The French Supreme Court condemned a patentee’s undue use of an evidentiary measure (infringement seizure, "saisie-contrefaçon") as a way to obtain information from a competitor, specifically information relating to the manufacturing processes of its direct competitor, beyond the scope of the lawsuit ("fishing expedition").

The full summary of this case has been posted on Kluwer IP Law.