There is no legal basis for a judicial order allowing only the representing attorney, but not his client, to inspect documents obtained in the course of a seizure and possibly containing trade secrets of the party subject to such seizure.
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Translation by Leo Lahme.
For a case note on this decision together with the Japanese IP High Court decision “In Camera Proceedings/FOMA” by Christopher Heath, see this issue of IIC at doi:10.1007/s40319-017-0649-z.
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Code of Civil Procedure, Sec. 145. “KCM v. Viel”. IIC 48, 977–979 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-017-0650-6
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