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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`MARSHALL DIVISION
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`ORDER
`The Court issues this order sua sponte. Before the Court are Defendant Daiichi Sankyo
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`CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:20-CV-00337-JRG
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`SEAGEN INC.,
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`DAIICHI SANKYO CO., LTD.,
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`ASTRAZENECA PHARMACEUTICALS
`LP, and ASTRAZENECA UK LTD
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`Plaintiff,
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`Defendant,
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`Intervenor-Defendants.
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`Co., Ltd.’s (“DSC”) Motion to Compel the Deposition of Clay Siegall, Ph.D. (Dkt. No. 178),
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`DSC’s Motion to Compel Seagen Inc.’s Discovery Production (Dkt. No. 179), Seagen Inc.’s
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`(“Seagen”) Motion to Compel the Deposition of Sunao Manabe (Dkt. No. 186), Seagen’s Renewed
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`Motion to Compel Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.’s Production of Development Documents and for
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`Relief under Rule 37 (Dkt. No. 187), and Seagen’s Motion to Compel Depositions of Toshinori
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`Agatsuma, Yuki Abe, Yuji Kasuya, and Koji Morita (Dkt. No. 188) (collectively, the “Motions”).
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`The Court hereby sets the Motions for an in-person hearing on Wednesday,
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`November 10, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. central time in Marshall, Texas. The Court ORDERS that lead
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`and local counsel for Seagen, DSC, and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP and AstraZeneca UK
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`Ltd (collectively, “AstraZeneca”) meet and confer in-person in an effort to resolve these disputes
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`beginning at 9:00 a.m. central time on November 10, 2021 and continuing until the Court takes
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`Case 2:20-cv-00337-JRG Document 200 Filed 11/05/21 Page 2 of 2 PageID #: 8234
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`up these matters on their merits. Such in-person meet and confer efforts shall take place within
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`the Sam B. Hall, Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Marshall, Texas. The Court
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`may increase or decrease the meet and confer process as the Court believes to be beneficial to the
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`parties, the Court, and the interests of justice.
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`RODNEY GILSTRAP
`UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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`So ORDERED and SIGNED this 5th day of November, 2021.
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