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In our recent post about the Court finding a protective order violation by an inventor / principal / expert / man of many hats, we promised a second post about how the accused infringer used PDF metadata from PACER in a clever way to establish the protective order violation. This is that second post.

Basically, the parties disputed who had edited a document containing Attorney's Eyes Only information. The inventor had switched counsel, but the moving party claimed that the edits were made by the inventor, not counsel.

Screenshot of the metadata for a highlight as it appears in Adobe Acrobat
Screenshot of the metadata for a highlight as it appears in Adobe Acrobat D.I. 81-17

The moving party showed that the PDF with the AEO information included highlights, and that the metadata …