Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc.

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MOTION for Leave to File Supplement Invalidity Contentions filed by Google Inc.. (Attachments: #1 Affidavit Declaration of Mark Francis in support of Motion for Leave to Supplement Invalidity Contentions, #2 Proposed Order Proposed Order Granting Google Inc's Motion for Leave to Supplement Invalidity Contentions)(Sabnis, Cheryl) (Filed on 7/8/2011)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 ROBERT A. VAN NEST - #84065 rvannest@kvn.com CHRISTA M. ANDERSON - #184325 canderson@kvn.com KEKER & VAN NEST LLP 710 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94111-1704 Telephone: (415) 391-5400 Facsimile: (415) 397-7188 7 DONALD F. ZIMMER, JR. (SBN 112279) fzimmer@kslaw.com 8 CHERYL A. SABNIS (SBN 224323) csabnis@kslaw.com 9 KING & SPALDING LLP 10 101 Second Street – Suite 2300 San Francisco, CA 94105 11 Telephone: (415) 318-1200 Facsimile: (415) 318-1300 12 13 14 SCOTT T. WEINGAERTNER (Pro Hac Vice) sweingaertner@kslaw.com ROBERT F. PERRY rperry@kslaw.com BRUCE W. BABER (Pro Hac Vice) bbaber@kslaw.com KING & SPALDING LLP 1185 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036-4003 Telephone: (212) 556-2100 Facsimile: (212) 556-2222 IAN C. BALLON (SBN 141819) ballon@gtlaw.com HEATHER MEEKER (SBN 172148) meekerh@gtlaw.com GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP 1900 University Avenue East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Telephone: (650) 328-8500 Facsimile: (650) 328-8508 Attorneys for Defendant GOOGLE INC. 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 16 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 17 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 18 ORACLE AMERICA, INC. 19 20 Plaintiff, v. 21 GOOGLE INC. 22 Defendant. 23 24 Case No. 3:10-cv-03561-WHA Honorable Judge William H. Alsup Hearing Date: August 18, 2011 Hearing Time: 2:00 p.m. DEFENDANT GOOGLE INC.’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS 25 26 27 28 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................. 1 3 II. LEGAL STANDARDS ........................................................................................................ 2 4 III. BACKGROUND FACTS .................................................................................................. 3 5 6 7 A. Google’s Difficult Search for Prior Art .......................................................................... 3 B. Procedural History .......................................................................................................... 4 IV. ARGUMENT ..................................................................................................................... 5 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 A. ‘104 Patent Charts A-9 and A-12, § 103 (AAPA/Rau) and § 103 (Gries/Rau) ..................................................................................................................... 5 B. ‘104 Patent, Chart A-10, § 103 (Tafvelin in view of dynamic linking as described in Daley, Krakowiak, and/or Vyssotsky)......................................................... 6 C. ‘702 Patent, § 102 (JavaOS) ........................................................................................... 6 D. ‘702 Patent, Chart B-4, § 103 (Multics Segment Binder as Described in Organick, Honeywell, and/or Vyssotsky) ........................................................................ 7 E. ‘205 Patent; Charts E-9, E-10, E-11; § 103 (Wakeling/Magnusson), § 103 (Lewis/Magnusson), § 103 (Deutsch/Magnusson).......................................................... 8 F. Defenses raised in February and March 2011 as part of the reexamination proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office...................................................................... 8 17 18 G. ‘447 Patent, Chart F-6, § 103 (Wahbe/Java Language Specification); ‘476 Patent, Chart G-6, § 103 (Roskind/Roskind Patent) ....................................................... 9 19 H. ‘447 patent, Chart F-7, § 103 (Gong); ‘476 patent, Chart G-4, § 103 (Gong)................ 9 20 I. § 101/102 Printed Matter Defense ................................................................................ 10 21 IV. CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................. 10 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 i GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES 2 Page(s) 3 CASES 4 Acco Brands, Inc. v. PC Guardian Anti–Theft Products, Inc., No. 04-cv-03526, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88142 (N.D. Cal. May 22, 2008)............................2 5 6 IXYS Corp. v. Advanced Power Tech., Inc., 321 F. Supp. 2d 1133 (N.D. Cal. 2004) ....................................................................................8 7 The Bd. of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys., Inc., No. 05-cv-04158, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16556 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 4, 2008) ................. 2-3, 4, 8 8 9 Vasudevan Software, Inc. v. IBM, No. 09-cv-05897, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33132 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 18, 2011) ............................2 10 Yodlee, Inc. v. CashEdge, Inc., No. 05-cv-1550, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39564 (N.D. Cal. May 17, 2007)..............................2 11 12 STATUTES 13 35 U.S.C. § 101..............................................................................................................................10 14 35 U.S.C. § 102...................................................................................................................... 6-7, 10 15 35 U.S.C. § 103...................................................................................................................... passim 16 17 18 19 OTHER AUTHORITIES Patent L.R. 3-3 .................................................................................................................................8 Patent L.R. 3-6 ....................................................................................................................... passim 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ii GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on August 18, 2011 at 2:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as 2 counsel may be heard, Defendant Google Inc. (“Google”) will, and hereby does, respectfully move 3 for leave to supplement its invalidity contentions. This Motion is based on the following 4 memorandum of points and authorities in support, the Declaration of Mark H. Francis (“Decl.”) and 5 accompanying exhibits, the entire record in this matter, and on such evidence as may be presented at 6 the hearing of this Motion. 7 I. 8 9 INTRODUCTION In this motion, Google seeks leave to supplement its invalidity contentions with certain invalidity defenses that it has now determined are among its strongest in the case. In the five and 10 a half months that have passed since Google served its invalidity contentions (“Initial 11 Contentions”), the Court has issued a claim construction order that opened the door to some 12 additional invalidity defenses and Google has developed others in the course of discovery and its 13 ongoing search and analysis of the voluminous and highly technical prior art in the case – both of 14 which are recognized grounds for “good cause” under Patent Local Rule 3-6. Although Oracle 15 has refused to consent to supplementation, it cannot deny that during that five and a half months 16 Google has repeatedly informed it of potential changes to Google’s invalidity contentions. 17 Oracle also cannot deny that its refusal to provide discovery into its JavaOS product has delayed 18 Google’s investigation of a key piece of prior art. Oracle’s claim of prejudice rings hollow in 19 light of the fact that it has had invalidity claim charts for almost all of the references at issue 20 since May 16, and in some cases months earlier. 21 Both parties have known since May that the scope of this case would soon be reduced by 22 more than half, once Oracle clarified which 50 claims – out of the 132 claims originally asserted 23 – it actually intended to pursue at trial. Had Google filed this motion before Oracle narrowed its 24 case and included all of the potential changes to its invalidity contentions, the resulting motion 25 would have been several times larger than this one, and the bulk of it would have been mooted 26 almost immediately by the parties’ narrowing decisions. The burden on the parties and the Court 27 would have been even more severe had Google filed successive motions for each set of 28 1 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 discoveries over the course of the spring. Under these circumstances, where the contents of the 2 supplemental contentions have already been disclosed, leaving no reason to subject the parties 3 and the Court to unnecessary briefing, it would elevate form over substance to penalize Google 4 by depriving it of several of its strongest invalidity defenses. See Yodlee, Inc. v. CashEdge, Inc., 5 No. 05-cv-1550, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39564 at *4 (N.D. Cal. May 17, 2007) (“The Patent 6 Local Rules supplement the Civil Local Rules and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which 7 are to be construed to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action. … 8 [I]t would be unjust for information so highly material to the merits to be avoided on the basis of 9 such mere technicalities”) (citations and quotations omitted). 10 For the foregoing reasons, as explained further below, Google respectfully requests that 11 the Court grant leave for it to supplement its invalidity contentions. 12 II. LEGAL STANDARDS 13 Patent Local Rule 3-6 provides that a party may supplement its contentions “by order of 14 the Court upon a timely showing of good cause.” The rule provides “[n]on-exhaustive 15 examples” of circumstances that may support a finding of good cause, including “a claim 16 construction by the Court different from that proposed by the party seeking amendment” and 17 “recent discovery of material, prior art despite earlier diligent search.” Other factors that courts 18 consider in the good cause determination include “the relevance of the newly-discovered prior 19 art, whether the request to amend is motivated by gamesmanship, [and] the difficulty of locating 20 the prior art,” Acco Brands, Inc. v. PC Guardian Anti–Theft Products, Inc., No. 04-cv-03526, 21 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88142 at *5 (N.D. Cal. May 22, 2008), whether movants were diligent in 22 amending their contentions, and whether the other party would be prejudiced if the motion were 23 granted. Vasudevan Software, Inc. v. IBM, No. 09-cv-05897, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33132 at 24 *4-5 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 18, 2011). In weighing the effect of any alleged delay in moving for leave 25 to amend, courts consider whether movants acted promptly in communicating potential changes 26 to their contentions to opposing parties, thereby minimizing or eliminating the risk of prejudice. 27 See, e.g., The Bd. of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys., Inc., No. 28 2 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 05-cv-04158, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16556 at *8-9 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 4, 2008). 2 III. BACKGROUND FACTS 3 A. Google’s Difficult Search for Prior Art 4 The accompanying Declaration of Mark H. Francis details Google’s search for relevant 5 art. (Decl. at ¶ 1-3.) In brief, the asserted patents relate to virtual machine technology that was 6 first developed in the 1960s, and they claim techniques that have been widely used in software 7 other than virtual machines since the early days of computers. As a result, Google’s review of 8 the prior art encompassed many thousands of publications, patents, and products that span at 9 least five decades, much of which was not easily searchable or was only available in hard copy in 10 11 various locations. (Decl. at ¶ 2, 4-16.) Compounding the difficulty of the search was the fact that technical terms used in the 12 patents are not used consistently in the prior art – not because the prior art does not disclose the 13 concepts, but because the terms used to describe the same techniques have changed over the past 14 fifty years. As a result, even where documents were electronically available, keyword searching 15 was often ineffective and a more traditional brute force review was necessary. (Decl. at ¶ 13.) 16 Moreover, Google lacked access to one of the key starting points for a prior art search: 17 the inventors’ documents and records. Here, there are seven inventors named on the seven 18 asserted patents, none of whom are still employed by Oracle. Throughout the duration of 19 discovery, Oracle represented that all documents from the named inventors of the patents had 20 been destroyed, and provided testimony to that effect on April 14, 2011.1 (See Exs. A and B.) 21 As a result, Google has been hampered in investigating when the inventions were conceived, 22 who was involved, whether any products actually implemented the invention, and what prior art 23 was known to the inventors.2 24 25 1 Oracle did produce documents from one named inventor, James Gosling, but not during the 1990-93 timeframe, and Gosling’s ‘104 patent bears an initial filing date of December 22, 1992. 26 2 Just weeks ago, however, Google was informed that Oracle had suddenly discovered 27 documents associated with two of the named inventors (one of whom had already been deposed), but it is unclear if Oracle has produced those documents yet. (See Ex. C.) To the extent Oracle 28 3 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 Google’s search for relevant prior art has been ongoing throughout this litigation, and the 2 wide-ranging scope of the relevant art means that additional avenues for research have appeared 3 along the way, as in the case of the five references discovered after Oracle narrowed its claims. 4 Google only learned of those references by speaking with additional experts it retained in May. 5 In total, Google has expended over fifteen hundred person hours in the search process, involving 6 over fifteen individuals, including technical consultants and experts. (Decl. at ¶ 17.) 7 B. 8 9 Procedural History Google served its Initial Contentions in January of this year. It disclosed additional invalidity defenses to Oracle in February and March 2011, when Google filed reexamination 10 requests with the U.S. Patent Office, including detailed claim charts. Oracle and the law firm of 11 Morrison & Foerster, Oracle’s trial counsel here, have been actively involved in the 12 reexamination proceedings and thus privy to Google’s disclosures in that context. Google 13 repeatedly requested Oracle’s non-opposition to the instant motion for leave, and even disclosed 14 a draft of its supplemental contentions and claims charts to Oracle in May 2011. (See Exs. D-G.) 15 See Bd. of Trustees, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16556 at *10-11 (granting a motion for leave to 16 supplement when the disclosing party “did not have its head in the sand” and “it immediately 17 served amended contentions” upon discovery of new grounds). On June 1, by agreement of the 18 parties (Dkt. No. 144) and approval of the Court (Dkt. No. 147), Oracle limited its allegations to 19 50 patent claims. On June 15, Google responded by limiting its invalidity defenses to six 20 grounds per patent claim, for a total of 48 invalidity defenses, only five of which were previously 21 unknown to Oracle. 22 Oracle’s counsel Marc Peters conceded during a meet-and-confer call on May 23, 2011 23 that there would be no prejudice to Oracle if Google supplemented its invalidity contentions. 24 Google memorialized Mr. Peters’ concession in a letter to Oracle’s counsel on May 25, and in a 25 response to that letter on May 31, Oracle did not dispute it. (See Exs. H and I.) Although Oracle 26 27 28 discovers and produces new documents that are material to Google’s invalidity defenses, Google reserves the right to seek permission from the Court to provide further supplementation. 4 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 now claims that it would not have made that statement had it known how many of the 2 subsequently-disclosed defenses Google intended to use at trial, that argument makes no sense. 3 If Oracle would not have been prejudiced by Google’s adding all of its subsequently-disclosed 4 defenses to its original Invalidity Contentions, it cannot be any more prejudiced by the addition 5 of just a small subset of those defenses. 6 IV. ARGUMENT 7 Google’s bases for good cause align directly with the examples prescribed by the Patent 8 Local Rules. 9 A. ‘104 Patent Charts A-9 and A-12, § 103 (AAPA/Rau) and § 103 (Gries/Rau) 10 Google seeks to add new charts A-9 and A-12 that disclose 35 U.S.C. § 103 (“§ 103”) 11 obviousness combinations based on the Rau reference. These defenses respond to the Court’s 12 Claim Construction Order, which rejected Google’s proposed claim constructions for both 13 “intermediate form (object) code” and “resolve.” (See Dkt. No. 137 at 17, 23-25.) Specifically, 14 Google’s proposed construction of “resolve” required that a symbolic reference be “replace[d] at 15 least for the life of the process.” In contrast to Google’s proposed construction, Rau warns that 16 “[a]ttempting to retain the [resolved] version [of an instruction] for extended periods of time will 17 entail the use of large amounts of memory . . . [and may] defeat the purpose of using an 18 [interpreted language].” (See Ex. J, Rau at 71.) Thus, Rau’s disclosure did not read directly on 19 Google’s proposed construction. However, Rau does read on the Court’s construction, which 20 requires only the “determining [of] the numerical memory-location reference that corresponds to 21 [a] symbolic reference.” Accordingly, the Rau reference has become more important in light of 22 the Court’s construction of “resolve.” 23 Rau’s materiality is further emphasized in light of the Court’s construction of 24 “intermediate form (object) code,” which requires that the code be “executable” (Dkt. No. 137 at 25 17), because Rau discloses an intermediate form that is executable (i.e., may be interpreted). 26 (See Ex. J, Rau at 67 (“Given a host architecture and a high level language, one could either 27 interpret the latter directly, compile it into the machine language or compile it into an 28 5 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 intermediate language which is then interpreted.”).) Accordingly, Google’s supplementation is 2 warranted. See Patent L.R. 3-6(a). 3 Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of this supplementation, as supplemental charts A- 4 9 and A-12, or their equivalent, were provided to Oracle on or before May 16, 2011. 5 B. 6 Daley, Krakowiak, and/or Vyssotsky) 7 ‘104 Patent, Chart A-10, § 103 (Tafvelin in view of dynamic linking as described in Google seeks to add new chart A-10 that discloses a § 103 obviousness combination 8 based on Tafvelin in view of Daley, Krakowiak, and/or Vyssotsky. Google discovered each of 9 these references only after serving its Initial Contentions, despite earlier diligent search. (Decl. 10 at ¶ 18.)3 See Patent L.R. 3-6(b). Google provided chart A-10 based on Tafvelin and Daley to 11 Oracle on May 16, 2011. Daley was cited for its disclosure of the dynamic linking feature that 12 has been part of the Multics operating system since the 1960s. After Google disclosed Tafvelin 13 and Daley to Oracle, one of Google’s retained experts discovered Krakowiak and Vyssotsky. 14 These two references disclose the same Multics dynamic linking system that is disclosed in 15 Daley, and simply provide additional information about this feature. Because Oracle was 16 already aware of Multics dynamic linking as a result of Google’s disclosure of Daley, Oracle 17 does not suffer any prejudice as a result of the later disclosure of Krakowiak and Vyssotsky. For 18 at least these reasons, the Court should allow supplemental chart A-10. See Patent L.R. 3-6(b) 19 (“good cause include[s] … recent discovery of material, prior art despite earlier diligent search”). 20 C. ‘702 Patent, § 102 (JavaOS) 21 Google seeks to rely on Oracle’s JavaOS product as anticipating the claims of the ‘702 22 patent. Oracle stated in its infringement contentions that its “JavaOS” product implements the 23 ‘702 patent, and it is undisputed that JavaOS was publicly released and licensed more than a year 24 before the filing date of the ‘702 patent, invalidating the ‘702 patent under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (“§ 25 26 27 28 3 Tafvelin was published in 1975, Daley in 1968, and Vyssotsky in 1965. These publication dates illustrate the breadth of Google’s search for prior art – and that the well-known techniques claimed in the ‘104 patent date back to the early days of computers. 6 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 102”). (See Exs. K and L.) However, Oracle did not produce any JavaOS source code until May 2 2011, and has still not produced the JavaOS source code that predates the ‘702 patent by a year. 3 In view of Google’s persistence on this subject, Oracle just sent Google a letter trying to amend 4 its infringement contentions without leave of the Court, and argue that its identification of 5 JavaOS 1.0 as a product practicing the patent was “in error.” (See Ex. M.) Thus, Google’s 6 difficulty in understanding and charting the relevant JavaOS information is a direct result of 7 Oracle’s own discovery abuse, as Oracle desperately tries to keep its own invalidating product 8 out of the case. Given Oracle’s untimely production of this highly relevant prior art evidence, 9 Oracle should not now be heard to complain that Google has not provided invalidity charts for 10 JavaOS. See Patent L.R. 3-6(c) (“good cause [in the context of infringement contentions] 11 include[s] … recent discovery of nonpublic information…”); see also Patent L.R. 3-6(b). 12 Google specifically requests the ability to further supplement its contentions with invalidity 13 charts based on JavaOS after Oracle has produced all relevant documents and source code. 14 D. 15 Honeywell, and/or Vyssotsky) 16 ‘702 Patent, Chart B-4, § 103 (Multics Segment Binder as Described in Organick, With the exception of Vyssotsky, Google disclosed everything in this supplemental 17 defense in its Initial Contentions. Google discovered the Vyssotsky reference only after serving 18 its Initial Contentions, despite earlier diligent search. See Patent L.R. 3-6(b). As discussed 19 above in section IV.A.2, Vyssotsky discloses the dynamic linking feature of the Multics operating 20 system. This feature, also known as the Multics segment binder, is similarly described in 21 Organick and Honeywell, and Google seeks to supplement chart B-4 with the additional 22 description of this system that is found in Vyssotsky. Because Google disclosed this system to 23 Oracle in the Initial Contentions, Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of this supplementation. 24 Furthermore, supplemental chart B-4 has already been provided to Oracle, weeks in advance of 25 expert reports, and in particular the rebuttal expert reports to which these contentions will be 26 most relevant. For at least these reasons, the Court should allow supplemental chart B-4. See 27 Patent L.R. 3-6(b) (“good cause include[s] … recent discovery of material, prior art despite 28 7 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 earlier diligent search”). 2 E. ‘205 Patent; Charts E-9, E-10, E-11; § 103 (Wakeling/Magnusson), § 103 3 (Lewis/Magnusson), § 103 (Deutsch/Magnusson) 4 Google seeks to add supplemental charts E-9, E-10, and E-11. These charts represent 5 § 103 obviousness combinations based on references that were charted in Google’s Initial 6 Contentions as § 102 anticipation references. In its Initial Contentions, Google specifically 7 disclosed its intention to use its § 102 references as § 103 prior art in combinations with other 8 charted references. (See Ex. N.) See Bd. of Trustees, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16556 at *9 (citing 9 IXYS Corp. v. Advanced Power Tech., Inc., 321 F. Supp. 2d 1133, 1153 n.19 (N.D. Cal. 2004) 10 (finding that plaintiff “has long been on notice of these potential combination [sic]. In the 11 interests of privileging substance over form, the court will proceed to address these most 12 pertinent-and most well-known-of combinations.”)). Except for the fact that the Magnusson 13 reference is combined with Wakeling, Lewis, and Deutsch, no new material has been added to 14 any of the charts that Google previously provided in its Initial Contentions. Accordingly, Oracle 15 has been on notice of the specific prior art references and Google’s reservation of rights to 16 combine these references as § 103 combinations. Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of this 17 supplementation, as supplemental charts E-9 through E-11, or their equivalents, were provided to 18 Oracle on or before May 16, 2011. 19 F. 20 proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office. 21 Defenses raised in February and March 2011 as part of the reexamination Google seeks to supplement charts A-2 and A-3 (‘104 patent); to add new charts C-8, C- 22 9, C-11 (‘720 patent); to add new charts D-5 and D-6 (‘520 patent); and to add new chart F-5 23 (‘447 patent). Within four to eight weeks of serving its Initial Contentions, these references were 24 all submitted to the U.S. Patent Office in reexamination requests (and thereby disclosed to 25 Oracle). Each reexamination request included detailed invalidity charts for these references in 26 conformance with Patent L.R. 3-3. Accordingly, Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of this 27 supplementation as it has been on notice of these invalidity defenses since at least early March. 28 8 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 G. ‘447 Patent, Chart F-6, § 103 (Wahbe/Java Language Specification); ‘476 Patent, 2 Chart G-6, § 103 (Roskind/Roskind Patent) 3 Google seeks to add new charts F-6 and G-6 that disclose § 103 obviousness 4 combinations that render the claims of the ‘447 and ‘476 patents invalid. While Google 5 possessed the Java Language Specification and the Roskind Patent before serving its Initial 6 Contentions, neither was sufficient on its own to anticipate the claims of the respective patent. 7 Google discovered Wahbe and the other Roskind reference only after serving its Initial 8 Contentions, despite earlier diligent search. See Patent L.R. 3-6(b). Oracle suffers no prejudice 9 as a result of this supplementation, as charts F-6 and G-6 have already been provided to Oracle, 10 weeks in advance of expert reports, and in particular the rebuttal expert reports to which these 11 contentions will be most relevant. 12 H. 13 ‘447 patent, Chart F-7, § 103 (Gong); ‘476 patent, Chart G-4, § 103 (Gong) Google seeks to add new charts F-7 and G-4 that disclose § 103 obviousness defenses for 14 the ‘447 and ‘476 patents. While Google had the Gong reference when it served its Initial 15 Contentions, the materiality of Gong was not apparent because it was published after the filing 16 date of the ‘447 and ‘476 patents. Thus, it is not technically prior art. Upon further inspection, 17 however, Gong turns out to be highly material to the question of these patents’ validity. The 18 reference, which was authored by the named inventor on both the ‘447 and ‘476 patents, 19 essentially admits that the security methods claimed in the patents would have been obvious 20 since they are just a collection of well-known security techniques. (See Ex. O, Gong at 21 Introduction (“It is worth emphasizing that this work by itself does not claim to break significant 22 new ground in terms of the theory of computer security. Instead, it offers a real world example 23 where well-known security principles are put into engineering practice to construct a practical 24 and widely deployed secure system.”).) Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of this 25 supplementation, as supplemental charts F-7 and G-4, or their equivalent, were provided to 26 Oracle as early as May 16, 2011. 27 28 9 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 I. § 101/102 Printed Matter Defense 2 Google also seeks to provide further elaboration of its invalidity defense based on the fact 3 that the identified claims are non-statutory subject matter. Although Google originally identified 4 that defense as one based on § 101, it has since learned that courts conduct what is in effect the 5 same analysis under both § 101 and § 102. Although it is unclear if it is even necessary for 6 Google to amend its contentions to raise this point, which simply clarifies the potential legal 7 bases for a “printed matter” defense, Google has included this contention in the interest of clear 8 and open disclosure. This issue is essentially a question of law and thus has no impact on fact or 9 expert discovery. Because the basic defense was identified in Google’s Initial Contentions and 10 presented in its present form as early as May 16, 2011, Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of 11 this supplementation. 12 IV. 13 14 CONCLUSION For the forgoing reasons, Google respectfully requests that it be granted leave to include in its narrowed invalidity contentions certain theories not included in its Initial Contentions. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 10 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 DATED: July 8, 2011 KING & SPALDING LLP 2 By: /s/ Scott Weingaertner_________ 3 4 5 6 7 ROBERT A. VAN NEST - #84065 rvannest@kvn.com CHRISTA M. ANDERSON - #184325 canderson@kvn.com KEKER & VAN NEST LLP 710 Sansome Street San Francisco, CA 94111-1704 Telephone: (415) 391-5400 Facsimile: (415) 397-7188 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 SCOTT T. WEINGAERTNER (Pro Hac Vice) sweingaertner@kslaw.com ROBERT F. PERRY rperry@kslaw.com BRUCE W. BABER (Pro Hac Vice) bbaber@kslaw.com MARK H. FRANCIS (Pro Hac Vice) mfrancis@kslaw.com KING & SPALDING LLP 1185 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036-4003 Telephone: (212) 556-2100 Facsimile: (212) 556-2222 15 16 17 18 19 DONALD F. ZIMMER, JR. (SBN 112279) fzimmer@kslaw.com CHERYL A. SABNIS (SBN 224323) csabnis@kslaw.com KING & SPALDING LLP 101 Second Street – Suite 2300 San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: (415) 318-1200 Facsimile: (415) 318-1300 20 21 ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT GOOGLE INC. 22 23 I hereby attest that Mark H. Francis concurs in the e-filing of this document. 24 25 /s/ Cheryl A. Sabnis /s/ 26 27 28 11 GOOGLE’S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA

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