Procter & Gamble Company v. SC Johnson & Son Inc, No. 9:08-cv-00143 (E.D. Tex. Feb. 19, 2009)

From the Opinion

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At the January 23, 2009 Case Management Conference, the court ordered the parties to submit estimates of the cost involved in the production of documents in searchable Tagged Image File Format (“TIFF”) with Optical Character Recognition (“OCR”) before it made a ruling on the format of electronic discovery. The parties have now agreed that all documents are to be produced electronically in TIFF format; the only remaining issue is whether Defendant S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. should have to perform the OCR process on these documents prior to1 production.