Requirements

TIMG was engaged to manage a multi-national, multi-issue litigation concerning an intellectual property patent dispute. Approximately 750 GB of source data was acquired from the client’s internal document management system, which needed to be electronically processed, and approximately 60 backup tapes that needed to be collected, restored and catalogued. The case was being heard in New Zealand and the United States of America. The clients required TIMG to process and deliver data for cases being heard in both jurisdictions, while we solely managed the New Zealand arm of the operation.

The Process

TIMG was chosen to run this project due to our consulting experience and reputation in the New Zealand market due to our parent company operations. Overall, TIMG assisted the client in culling the data from the processing stage based on many date and search term filters. The review consisted of over 265,000 documents, which were organised into different Review Workflows and reviewed for different strains of the case. This process was aided by using conditional coding templates to keep the review consistently coded.

Outcome

The outcome was successful for the client in that the matter was settled. As a result, neither side of the litigation received payment or admission of liability. There would also be no further infringement proceedings against the client’s products.

| The settlement was effective immediately, and both companies could begin requesting the withdrawal of the pending litigation cases.