It filed a 1782 action in San Francisco seeking information on the relationship between Chevron and Diego Borja, a character who filmed exparte meetings with the judge that Chevron described as evidence of corruption.
Fifth, if you are approached with potentially invalidating prior art, you may wish to force your own patents to be examined exparte in order to save both the time and multi-million dollar costs involved with litigation.
In the film itself, Attorney Donziger brags of his exparte contacts with the Ecuadorian judge, confessing that he would never be allowed to do such things in the United States, but, in Ecuador, everyone plays dirty.