Interserve, Inc. et al v. Fusion Garage PTE. LTD

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Request for Judicial Notice re 20 MOTION to Dismiss , Motion to Strike, and Motion for a More Definite Statement; Memorandum of Points and Authorities filed byFusion Garage PTE. LTD. (Related document(s) 20 ) (Doolittle, Patrick) (Filed on 1/28/2010)

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1 QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART OLIVER & HEDGES, LLP Claude M. Stern (Bar No. 96737) 2 [e-mail] Patrick Doolittle (Bar No. 203659) 3 [e-mail] 50 California Street, 22nd Floor 4 San Francisco, California 94111 Telephone: [phone] Facsimile: [phone] 6 Attorneys for Defendant Fusion Garage PTE Ltd. 7 8 9 10 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION CASE NO. C 09-cv-5812 JW REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT'S MOTION TO DISMISS, MOTION TO STRIKE, AND MOTION FOR A MORE DEFINITE STATEMENT Date: Time: Dept.: Judge: April 5, 2010 9:00 a.m. 8, Fourth Floor The Hon. James Ware

11 INTERSERVE, INC. dba TECHCRUNCH, a Delaware corporation, and CRUNCHPAD, 12 INC., a Delaware corporation, 13 14 vs. Plaintiffs,

15 FUSION GARAGE PTE LTD., a Singapore company, 16 Defendant. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE Defendant Fusion Garage PTE Ltd. ("Fusion Garage") respectfully requests that the Court

3 take judicial notice pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 201 of the following documents, copies 4 of which are attached as exhibits to the Declaration of Patrick C. Doolittle filed concurrently 5 herewith: 6 7 8 9 10 · · Exhibit A: Michael Arrington, We Want a Dead Simple Web Tablet for $200. Help Us Build It, TECHCRUNCH, July 21, 2008, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/ we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it/ (last accessed Jan. 27, 2010). Exhibit B: Michael Arrington, Update on the TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A, TECHCRUNCH, August 30, 2008, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/30/updateon-the-techcrunch-tablet-prototype-a/ (last accessed Jan. 27, 2010).

Both of these documents were referenced and/or quoted in Plaintiffs' Complaint. (Dk. 1 at

11 3-4). It is appropriate to take judicial notice of documents that a plaintiff expressly refers to in its 12 complaint when ruling on a motion to dismiss or other motion on the pleadings. See, e.g., In re 13 Verifone Holdings, Inc. Sec. Litig., No. 07-6140, 2009 WL 1458211, *1 n.1 (N.D. Cal. May 26, 14 2009) (granting judicial notice "as to those documents referenced in the complaint"); Myers15 Armstrong v. Actavis Totowa, LLC, No. 08-4741, 2009 WL 1082026, *5 n. 5 (N.D. Cal. April 22, 16 2009) ("Judicial notice of the full text of documents referenced in a complaint is proper under the 17 doctrine of incorporation by reference"); Lindner v. IBM Corp., No. 06-4751, 2008 WL 2461934, 18 *1 n. 1 (S.D.N.Y. June 18, 2008) ("In considering a motion to dismiss, the Court may take judicial 19 notice of documents integral to or referred to in the complaint.") 20 21 DATED: January 28, 2010 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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