On March 9, 2012, ALJ Essex granted complainants Litepanels, Inc.’s and Litepanels, Ltd.’s (“Litepanels”) motion to compel discovery and ordered respondents Fuzhou F&V Photographic Equipment Co., Ltd (“F&V”) and Shantou Nanguang Photographic Co. Ltd. (“Nanguang “) to provide full and complete responses various interrogatories and requests for production.  ALJ Essex did not find that the F&V and Shantou had waived all objections to the discovery requests.  While the discovery responses were late, it was any overly harsh at this point in the investigation to find such a waiver.  ALJ Essex, however, noted that he will reconsider his ruling if F&V and Nanguang continue to refuse to respond to discovery or fail to give meaningful answers to interrogatories or responses to the document requests.