Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc.

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Amended MOTION for Leave to File Supplement Invalidity Contentions filed by Google Inc.. (Attachments: #1 Affidavit Declaration of Mark Francis in support of Amended Motion for Leave to Supplement Invalidity Contentions, #2 Proposed Order Proposed Order Granting Google Inc's Amended Motion for Leave to Supplement Invalidity Contentions)(Banner, Brian) (Filed on 7/13/2011)

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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) 8 fzimmer@kslaw.com CHERYL A. SABNIS (SBN 224323) 9 csabnis@kslaw.com 10 KING & SPALDING LLP 101 Second Street – Suite 2300 11 San Francisco, CA 94105 Telephone: (415) 318-1200 12 Facsimile: (415) 318-1300 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 19 ORACLE AMERICA, INC. Plaintiff, 20 21 v. 22 GOOGLE INC. 23 24 25 26 27 28 Defendant. 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 AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS 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 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) ........................................................................................... 7 D. ‘205 Patent; Charts E-9, E-10, E-11; § 103 (Wakeling/Magnusson), § 103 (Lewis/Magnusson), § 103 (Deutsch/Magnusson).......................................................... 7 15 E. Defenses raised in February and March 2011 as part of the reexamination proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office...................................................................... 8 16 F. § 101/102 Printed Matter Defense .................................................................................. 8 17 IV. CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................... 9 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 i GOOGLE’S AMENDED 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) ........................ 2-3 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............................................................................................................................ 8-9 14 35 U.S.C. § 102.....................................................................................................................6-7, 8-9 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 AMENDED 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 Oracle 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. Five claim charts relating to references that 21 Google discovered before it identified its chosen invalidity defenses on June 15 were provided to 22 Oracle on the day that Google filed its original motion.1 23 24 1 Although this motion originally sought leave to supplement Google’s Invalidity Contentions with those five claim charts, Google has amended the scope of this motion to limit its request to 25 just one of those claim charts, a supplemental version of chart A-10. The changes to this chart simply add citations to two additional references regarding the Multics system, which reinforce 26 the invalidity theory raised in the original chart A-10. Because the substance of this defense was disclosed to Oracle in May, Oracle will suffer little, if any, prejudice as a result of the additional 27 citations. 28 1 GOOGLE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 Both parties have known since May that the scope of this case would soon be reduced by 2 more than half, once Oracle clarified which 50 claims—out of the 132 claims originally asserted 3 —it actually intended to pursue at trial. Had Google filed this motion before Oracle narrowed its 4 case and included all of the potential changes to its invalidity contentions, the resulting motion 5 would have been several times larger than this one, and the bulk of it would have been mooted 6 almost immediately by the parties’ narrowing decisions. The burden on the parties and the Court 7 would have been even more severe had Google filed successive motions for each set of 8 discoveries over the course of the spring and summer. Under these circumstances, where the 9 contents of the supplemental contentions have already been disclosed, leaving no reason to 10 subject the parties and the Court to unnecessary briefing, it would elevate form over substance to 11 penalize Google by depriving it of several of its strongest invalidity defenses. See Yodlee, Inc. v. 12 CashEdge, Inc., No. 05-cv-1550, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39564 at *4 (N.D. Cal. May 17, 2007) 13 (“The Patent Local Rules supplement the Civil Local Rules and the Federal Rules of Civil 14 Procedure, which are to be construed to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of 15 every action. … [I]t would be unjust for information so highly material to the merits to be 16 avoided on the basis of such mere technicalities”) (citations and quotations omitted). 17 For the foregoing reasons, as explained further below, Google respectfully requests that 18 the Court grant leave for it to supplement its invalidity contentions. 19 II. 20 LEGAL STANDARDS Patent Local Rule 3-6 provides that a party may supplement its contentions “by order of 21 the Court upon a timely showing of good cause.” The rule provides “[n]on-exhaustive 22 examples” of circumstances that may support a finding of good cause, including “a claim 23 construction by the Court different from that proposed by the party seeking amendment” and 24 “recent discovery of material, prior art despite earlier diligent search.” Other factors that courts 25 consider in the good cause determination include “the relevance of the newly-discovered prior 26 art, whether the request to amend is motivated by gamesmanship, [and] the difficulty of locating 27 the prior art,” Acco Brands, Inc. v. PC Guardian Anti–Theft Products, Inc., No. 04-cv-03526, 28 2 GOOGLE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88142 at *5 (N.D. Cal. May 22, 2008), whether movants were diligent in 2 amending their contentions, and whether the other party would be prejudiced if the motion were 3 granted. Vasudevan Software, Inc. v. IBM, No. 09-cv-05897, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33132 at 4 *4-5 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 18, 2011). In weighing the effect of any alleged delay in moving for leave 5 to amend, courts consider whether movants acted promptly in communicating potential changes 6 to their contentions to opposing parties, thereby minimizing or eliminating the risk of prejudice. 7 See, e.g., The Bd. of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys., Inc., No. 8 05-cv-04158, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16556 at *8-9 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 4, 2008). 9 III. BACKGROUND FACTS 10 A. Google’s Difficult Search for Prior Art 11 The accompanying Declaration of Mark H. Francis details Google’s search for relevant 12 art. (Decl. at ¶ 1-3.) In brief, the asserted patents relate to virtual machine technology that was 13 first developed in the 1960s, and they claim techniques that have been widely used in software 14 other than virtual machines since the early days of computers. As a result, Google’s review of 15 the prior art encompassed many thousands of publications, patents, and products that span at 16 least five decades, much of which was not easily searchable or was only available in hard copy in 17 various locations. (Decl. at ¶ 2, 4-16.) 18 Compounding the difficulty of the search was the fact that technical terms used in the 19 patents are not used consistently in the prior art—not because the prior art does not disclose the 20 concepts, but because the terms used to describe the same techniques have changed over the past 21 fifty years. As a result, even where documents were electronically available, keyword searching 22 was often ineffective and a more traditional brute force review was necessary. (Decl. at ¶ 13.) 23 Moreover, Google lacked access to one of the key starting points for a prior art search: 24 the inventors’ documents and records. Here, there are seven inventors named on the seven 25 asserted patents, none of whom are still employed by Oracle. Throughout the duration of 26 discovery, Oracle represented that all documents from the named inventors of the patents had 27 28 3 GOOGLE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 been destroyed, and provided testimony to that effect on April 14, 2011.2 (See Exs. A and B.) 2 As a result, Google has been hampered in investigating when the inventions were conceived, 3 who was involved, whether any products actually implemented the invention, and what prior art 4 was known to the inventors.3 5 Google’s search for relevant prior art has been ongoing throughout this litigation, and the 6 wide-ranging scope of the relevant art means that additional avenues for research have appeared 7 along the way, as in the case of the five references discovered after Oracle narrowed its claims. 8 Google only learned of those references by speaking with additional experts it retained in May. 9 In total, Google has expended over fifteen hundred person hours in the search process, involving 10 over fifteen individuals, including technical consultants and experts. (Decl. at ¶ 17.) 11 B. 12 Procedural History Google served its Initial Contentions in January of this year. It disclosed additional 13 invalidity defenses to Oracle in February and March 2011, when Google filed reexamination 14 requests with the U.S. Patent Office, including detailed claim charts. Oracle and the law firm of 15 Morrison & Foerster, Oracle’s trial counsel here, have been actively involved in the 16 reexamination proceedings and thus privy to Google’s disclosures in that context. Google 17 repeatedly requested Oracle’s non-opposition to the instant motion for leave, and even disclosed 18 a draft of its supplemental contentions and claims charts to Oracle in May 2011. (See Exs. D-G.) 19 See Bd. of Trustees, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16556 at *10-11 (granting a motion for leave to 20 supplement when the disclosing party “did not have its head in the sand” and “it immediately 21 served amended contentions” upon discovery of new grounds). On June 1, by agreement of the 22 parties (Dkt. No. 144) and approval of the Court (Dkt. No. 147), Oracle limited its allegations to 23 24 2 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. 25 3 Just weeks ago, however, Google was informed that Oracle had suddenly discovered 26 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 27 discovers and produces new documents that are material to Google’s invalidity defenses, Google 28 4 GOOGLE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 50 patent claims. On June 15, Google responded by limiting its invalidity defenses to six 2 grounds per patent claim, for a total of 48 invalidity defenses, only five of which were previously 3 unknown to Oracle. 4 Oracle’s counsel Marc Peters conceded during a meet-and-confer call on May 23, 2011 5 that there would be no prejudice to Oracle if Google supplemented its invalidity contentions. 6 Google memorialized Mr. Peters’ concession in a letter to Oracle’s counsel on May 25, and in a 7 response to that letter on May 31, Oracle did not dispute it. (See Exs. H and I.) Although Oracle 8 now claims that it would not have made that statement had it known how many of the 9 subsequently disclosed defenses Google intended to use at trial, that argument makes no sense. 10 If Oracle would not have been prejudiced by Google’s adding all of its subsequently disclosed 11 defenses to its original Invalidity Contentions, it cannot be any more prejudiced by the addition 12 of just a small subset of those defenses. 13 IV. ARGUMENT 14 Google’s bases for good cause align directly with the examples prescribed by the Patent 15 Local Rules. 16 A. ‘104 Patent Charts A-9 and A-12, § 103 (AAPA/Rau) and § 103 (Gries/Rau) 17 Google seeks to add new charts A-9 and A-12 that disclose 35 U.S.C. § 103 (“§ 103”) 18 obviousness combinations based on the Rau reference. These defenses respond to the Court’s 19 Claim Construction Order, which rejected Google’s proposed claim constructions for both 20 “intermediate form (object) code” and “resolve.” (See Dkt. No. 137 at 17, 23-25.) Specifically, 21 Google’s proposed construction of “resolve” required that a symbolic reference be “replace[d] at 22 least for the life of the process.” In contrast to Google’s proposed construction, Rau warns that 23 “[a]ttempting to retain the [resolved] version [of an instruction] for extended periods of time will 24 entail the use of large amounts of memory . . . [and may] defeat the purpose of using an 25 [interpreted language].” (See Ex. J, Rau at 71.) Thus, Rau’s disclosure did not read directly on 26 27 28 reserves the right to seek permission from the Court to provide further supplementation. 5 GOOGLE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 Google’s proposed construction. However, Rau does read on the Court’s construction, which 2 requires only the “determining [of] the numerical memory-location reference that corresponds to 3 [a] symbolic reference.” Accordingly, the Rau reference has become more important in light of 4 the Court’s construction of “resolve.” 5 6 Rau’s materiality is further emphasized in light of the Court’s construction of “intermediate form (object) code,” which requires that the code be “executable” (Dkt. No. 137 at 7 17), because Rau discloses an intermediate form that is executable (i.e., may be interpreted). 8 (See Ex. J, Rau at 67 (“Given a host architecture and a high level language, one could either 9 interpret the latter directly, compile it into the machine language or compile it into an 10 intermediate language which is then interpreted.”).) Accordingly, Google’s supplementation is 11 warranted. See Patent L.R. 3-6(a). 12 Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of this supplementation, as supplemental charts A- 13 9 and A-12, or their equivalent, were provided to Oracle on or before May 16, 2011. 14 B. ‘104 Patent, Chart A-10, § 103 (Tafvelin in view of dynamic linking as described in 15 Daley, Krakowiak, and/or Vyssotsky) 16 Google seeks to add new chart A-10 that discloses a § 103 obviousness combination 17 based on Tafvelin in view of Daley, Krakowiak, and/or Vyssotsky. Google discovered each of 18 these references only after serving its Initial Contentions, despite earlier diligent search. (Decl. 19 at ¶ 18.)4 See Patent L.R. 3-6(b). Google provided chart A-10 based on Tafvelin and Daley to 20 Oracle on May 16, 2011. Daley was cited for its disclosure of the dynamic linking feature that 21 has been part of the Multics operating system since the 1960s. After Google disclosed Tafvelin 22 and Daley to Oracle, one of Google’s retained experts discovered Krakowiak and Vyssotsky. 23 These two references disclose the same Multics dynamic linking system that is disclosed in 24 Daley, and simply provide additional information about this feature. Because Oracle was 25 26 27 28 4 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 AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 already aware of Multics dynamic linking as a result of Google’s disclosure of Daley, Oracle 2 does not suffer any prejudice as a result of the later disclosure of Krakowiak and Vyssotsky. For 3 at least these reasons, the Court should allow supplemental chart A-10. See Patent L.R. 3-6(b) 4 (“good cause include[s] … recent discovery of material, prior art despite earlier diligent search”). 5 C. ‘702 Patent, § 102 (JavaOS) 6 Google seeks to rely on Oracle’s JavaOS product as anticipating the claims of the ‘702 7 patent. Oracle stated in its infringement contentions that its “JavaOS” product implements the 8 ‘702 patent, and it is undisputed that JavaOS was publicly released and licensed more than a year 9 before the filing date of the ‘702 patent, invalidating the ‘702 patent under 35 U.S.C. § 102 10 (“§ 102”). (See Exs. K and L.) However, Oracle did not produce any JavaOS source code until 11 May 2011, and has still not produced the JavaOS source code that predates the ‘702 patent by a 12 year. In view of Google’s persistence on this subject, Oracle just sent Google a letter trying to 13 amend its infringement contentions without leave of the Court, and argue that its identification of 14 JavaOS 1.0 as a product practicing the patent was “in error.” (See Ex. M.) Thus, Google’s 15 difficulty in understanding and charting the relevant JavaOS information is a direct result of 16 Oracle’s own discovery abuse, as Oracle desperately tries to keep its own invalidating product 17 out of the case. Given Oracle’s untimely production of this highly relevant prior art evidence, 18 Oracle should not now be heard to complain that Google has not provided invalidity charts for 19 JavaOS. See Patent L.R. 3-6(c) (“good cause [in the context of infringement contentions] 20 include[s] … recent discovery of nonpublic information…”); see also Patent L.R. 3-6(b). 21 Google specifically requests the ability to further supplement its contentions with invalidity 22 charts based on JavaOS after Oracle has produced all relevant documents and source code. 23 D. ‘205 Patent; Charts E-9, E-10, E-11; § 103 (Wakeling/Magnusson), § 103 24 (Lewis/Magnusson), § 103 (Deutsch/Magnusson) 25 Google seeks to add supplemental charts E-9, E-10, and E-11. These charts represent 26 § 103 obviousness combinations based on references that were charted in Google’s Initial 27 Contentions as § 102 anticipation references. In its Initial Contentions, Google specifically 28 7 GOOGLE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 disclosed its intention to use its § 102 references as § 103 prior art in combinations with other 2 charted references. (See Ex. N.) See Bd. of Trustees, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16556 at *9 (citing 3 IXYS Corp. v. Advanced Power Tech., Inc., 321 F. Supp. 2d 1133, 1153 n.19 (N.D. Cal. 2004) 4 (finding that plaintiff “has long been on notice of these potential combination [sic]. In the 5 interests of privileging substance over form, the court will proceed to address these most 6 pertinent-and most well-known-of combinations.”)). Except for the fact that the Magnusson 7 reference is combined with Wakeling, Lewis, and Deutsch, no new material has been added to 8 any of the charts that Google previously provided in its Initial Contentions. Accordingly, Oracle 9 has been on notice of the specific prior art references and Google’s reservation of rights to 10 combine these references as § 103 combinations. Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of this 11 supplementation, as supplemental charts E-9 through E-11, or their equivalents, were provided to 12 Oracle on or before May 16, 2011. 13 E. Defenses raised in February and March 2011 as part of the reexamination 14 proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office. 15 Google seeks to supplement charts A-2 and A-3 (‘104 patent); to add new charts C-8, C- 16 9, C-11 (‘720 patent); to add new charts D-5 and D-6 (‘520 patent); and to add new chart F-5 17 (‘447 patent). Within four to eight weeks of serving its Initial Contentions, these references were 18 all submitted to the U.S. Patent Office in reexamination requests (and thereby disclosed to 19 Oracle). Each reexamination request included detailed invalidity charts for these references in 20 conformance with Patent L.R. 3-3. Accordingly, Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of this 21 supplementation as it has been on notice of these invalidity defenses since at least early March. 22 F. § 101/102 Printed Matter Defense 23 Google also seeks to provide further elaboration of its invalidity defense based on the fact 24 that the identified claims are non-statutory subject matter. Although Google originally identified 25 that defense as one based on § 101, it has since learned that courts conduct what is in effect the 26 same analysis under both § 101 and § 102. Although it is unclear if it is even necessary for 27 Google to amend its contentions to raise this point, which simply clarifies the potential legal 28 8 GOOGLE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 bases for a “printed matter” defense, Google has included this contention in the interest of clear 2 and open disclosure. This issue is essentially a question of law and thus has no impact on fact or 3 expert discovery. Because the basic defense was identified in Google’s Initial Contentions and 4 presented in its present form as early as May 16, 2011, Oracle suffers no prejudice as a result of 5 this supplementation. 6 7 8 9 IV. 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. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 9 GOOGLE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DATED: July 13, 2011 KING & SPALDING LLP By: /s/ Scott Weingaertner_________ 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 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 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 ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT GOOGLE INC. 23 24 I hereby attest that Mark H. Francis concurs in the e-filing of this document. 25 26 /s/ Brian C. Banner /s/ 27 28 10 GOOGLE’S AMENDED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT INVALIDITY CONTENTIONS, CIV. NO. CV 10-03561-WHA

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