Google Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc.

Filing 188

Google Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc.

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Case 5:03-cv-05340-JF

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1 KEKER & VAN NEST, LLP

MICHAL H. PAGE - #154913
2 MA A.

KLAUS H: HA - #224905
710 Sanome Street

LEMLEY -#155830

3 AlA Y S. KRSHNAN - #222476
4 San Francisco, CA 94111-1704

Telephone: [phone] .
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6 Attorneys for Plaitiff and Counterdefendant
GO OGLE INC. and . 7 Thd-Par Defendats ASK JES, INC.

and EARTHIN, INC.
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UNTED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHRN DISTRCT OF CALIFORNIA

GOOGLE INC., a Delawar corporation,
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Case No. C 03-5340-JF (EAI

Plaitiff
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PLAITIFF GOOGLE INC.'S FIRT SET
OF REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION TO

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AMRIcAN BLIN & WALLPAPER

AMRICAN BLIN & WALLPAPER
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FACTORY, INC. .

Delaware corporation d//a decoratetoday.com, Inc. and DOES 1-

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FACTORY, INC., a Delaware coipration

18 AMRICAN BLIN & WALLPAPER
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CAPE COMMCATIONS

22 GOOGLE INC., AMRICA ONLIN, INC.,
23 CORPORATION, COMPUSERVE .INTERACTI SERVICES, INC., ASK
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24 JEEVES, ING., and EARTH~ INC.,
Counter Defendants!
Thd-Part Defendats.

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OGLE'S FIRST SET OF REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION TO AMERICAN BLIN & WALLPAPER

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1 PROPOUNING PARTY:
2 RESPONDING PARTY:
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PLAIFF EARTHIN, INC.
Defendant and Counter-Plainti AMRICAN
BLIN & WALLPAPER FAClORY,

INC.

SET NO.:

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the Federa Rules of Civil Proedure, Plaitiff

Google Inc. hereby

6 ,requests that Defendat and Counter-Plaiti American Blind ll. Walpaper Factory, Inc.
7 ("American Blind''), aIwer each of

the following Reques for Admssion separately and fully,

9 DEFITIONS
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8 in wrting and under oath, and serve a copy upn the undersigned counsel with th (30) days.

"AMRICAN BLIN" means American Blind, its subsidianes, divisions,

11 predecessor and successor companes, afliates, parents, any joint ventu to wmch it may be a .
12 pary, and/or each of its employees, ag.ents, offcers, directors, representatives, consultants,

13 accountants and attorneys, including any persn who sered in any such capacity at any time.
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"YOU," "YOUR/' and. any varåtions thereof refer to AMRICAN BLIND, its

15 subsidianes, divisions, predecessor and successor companes, affiliates, parnts, any joint
16' ventue to which it may he a pary, and/or each of its. employees, agents, officers, diectors,
17 representatives, constants, accountats and attorneys, including any persn who served in any
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The ter "ALæGED AMCAN BLIND MA" shall include anyone, and

of, the terms American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, America Blind Factory, America

21 Blind, American Blinds, Deratetoday, decoratetoday, and/or decoraetoday.com. .

22 4.. The tenn"BROAD MATCH KEYWORD" shall-mea a tenn that wil trgger an
23 ad on a Google seach resuts page when a user's query includes tht term, even if the quer
24 includes oter terms. A BROAD MATCH KEYWORD also will trgger an ad if

the usr's

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query includes synonym, related phres, and plurals, even if the query does not conta the

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INSTRUCTONS
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Each response shal be preceded by the Request for Admssion to which it

3 respollds and shall be anwered separately and fully in wrtig mider oath, unless it is objected
4 to, in which event the reasn(s) for the objection shal be stated in lieu of that porton of

the

5 anwer to which the objection applies.
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All responses

to the'

Requests for Admission shal be signed by the person makng

7 them tld all objections signed by the attorney makg them mider the stdads set fort in
8 Federa Rule of Civil Procedure 11. No par of the Request

for Admission shall be left
that Reques.

9 unanswered merely because an objection lias been Inteipse to another par of

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If AMRICAN BLIN witholds inormation responsive, in whole or in par to

11 any Reques for Admssion on any bass, please identify: (a) any privilege or immunty from
12 discovery asserted;. (b) all documents or thgs which contain or refer to the inormation; (c) all
13 .ip.dividuals having knowledge of the inormation; (d) the subject matter and general natue of

the

14 inormation; and (e) all facts which are aleged to support the

asserton of

privilege or imunty.

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The obligation- to provide the inormation sought by these discovery requets, or

16 par thereof, is contiuing with the requiements ofFedera Rule of

Civil Procedure 26(e).

17 REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION
18 REQUEST FOR ADMISSION NO.1:

19 Admit tht if an' ad appear on a Google search results page when a user searches for
20 "American Blind & Walpaper Factory" only bec.ause the advertiser has

selected "blind" as a
th ad does not include any vanant of

21 BROAD MATCH KEYWORD, and that if

the ALLEGED

22 AMRICAN BLIND MA in its text no ALLEGED AMRICAN BLIN MAS has
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24 REOUEST FOR ADMISSION NO.2:

25 Admit that if an ad appear on a Google searh results page when a user searches for
26 "american blind," the user has no way to determe for cert whether the ad's appearce was
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1 DATED: Januar 26, 2006
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KEKER & VAN NEST, LLP

By:
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S.' SHNAN A ey for Plaitif and Counterdefendant
GOOGLE INC.

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EARTHIN INC. .

and Thd-Par Defendants ASK JEEVES, INC. and

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PROOF OF SERVICE
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San Fracisc, State of Californa in the offce of a member of the bar of ths cour at whose diection the followig servce was made. i am over the age of eighteen year and not a par to the with action. My business addrss is Keker & Van Nest, LLP, 710 Sansome Stret, San Francisco, Calforna 94111. On January 26, 2006, I served the followig documents: I am employed in the City and County of

6 PLAITIFF COOGLE INC.'S FIT SET OF REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION TO AMRICAN BLIN & WALLPAPER FACTORY, INC.
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by A ITORNEY SERVICE, by placing a tre and corrct copy in a sealed envelope addrsed as shown
below, and dispatching a registered agent of proces with instctons to hand ca the above and mae

delivery to the followig durg normal busines hour, by leavig the package with the pern whose

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name is shown or the persn autorid to accet courer deliveries on behalf of the addrsee.

Robert N. Philips, Es.
Howrey Simon Arold & Whte, LLP

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525 Market Street, Suite 3600 san Fracisco, CA 94105-2708

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by PDF TRSMISSION AN UNITED STATES MAl by transmitg- via PDF on ths date. A tre
and correct copy of same was placed in a sealed envelope addressed as shown. below. i am reily famliar

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Keker & Van Nest, LLP for collecon and processing of correspondence for mailig. Accordig to that practice, items are deposited wi the United Sttes Postl Servce at Sa Fracisco, California on that same day with postae thereon fuy prepaid. I am aware that, on motion of the par
with the practice of

served, service is presed invalid if the posta cacelltin date or the postge meter date is more than one'
day afer ile date of deposit for mailing stte iI ths affdavi.

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Susan J. Greenspn, Esq. David A. Ramelt,.Esq. Kelley Dre & Waren LLP 333 West Wacker Drive Chicago, iL' 60606

Stephen E. Taylor, Esq.. . Taylor & Company Law Offces. Inc.

One Ferr Building .
Suite 355 San Fracisco, CA 94111-4209

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sgreenspon(qkelleydre.com

drelt~keIIYdrve.com
penalty of peIur under the laws of the State of

stYlor~tcolaw.com

21 Executed on Janua 26,2006, at San 'Fracisco, Californa. I, Robert W. Thomas, declare under
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Calforna that the above is tre and correc.

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Robert W. Thmas

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