Toshiba Corporation tells AMD subpoena server to bog off

TOSHIBA CORPORATION took a different course to Toshiba America when AMD process servers attempted to deliver a subpoena.

In a filing it made to the court presiding over the AMD antitrust action against Intel, it said no legally valid service of the subpoena was made to either Toshiba America Information Systems nor to Toshiba America. And certainly not to itself. Neither of these firms can accept subpoenas on its behalf, its lawyers said.

In the words of the filing: "Both TAIS and TAI refused to accept the subpoena, and each company unequivocally informed the process servers that it was not authorized to accept such service."

It must have been an interesting scene in the reception area, because a TAIS senior lawyer was summoned, and the process server just left the subpoena in the lobby, where presumably it still lies in case any Tosh employee accepts services by touching it. Or perhaps someone with a pair of tongs dropped it in the litter bin outside.

The Toshiba Corporation lawyers wrote to AMD lawyers and told them leaving it in the lobby was improper and invald.

Despite all this, Toshiba Corporation must have read the subpoena, because the next dozen or so objections are similar to the objections made by Toshiba America. µ

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