Optiver Austraila Pty Ltd. & Anor. v. Tibra Trading Pty Ltd. & Ors.

Filing 6

ORDER GRANTING EX PARTE APPLICATION PURSUANT 28 USC SECTION 1782 PERMITTING DISCOVERY FOR USE IN FOREIGN PROCEEDING by Judge Paul S. Grewal granting 5 Motion Leave to Subpoena Information; granting 1 Motion Leave to Subpoena Information (psglc1, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 10/12/2012)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 United States District Court For the Northern District of California 8 SAN JOSE DIVISION 11 OPTIVER AUSTRALIA PTY LTD & ANOR, 12 Plaintiff, v. 13 14 TIBRA TRADING PTY LTD. & ORS., 15 Defendant. 16 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Case No.: C 12-80242 EJD (PSG) ORDER GRANTING EX PARTE APPLICATION PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1782 PERMITTING DISCOVERY FOR USE IN FOREIGN PROCEEDING (Re: Docket No. 1) 17 Applicant Optiver Australia Pty. Ltd. & Anor. (the “Applicant”) applies ex parte to obtain 18 certain discovery from Google, Inc. (“Google”) for use in a foreign proceeding. The Applicant 19 seeks leave to subpoena information related to emails sent to and from its former employees, who 20 are now employed by its direct competitor in the arbitrage business, Tibra Trading Pty Ltd. & Ors. 21 (“Tibra”). 1 The Applicant alleges that between November 2005 and July 2006, several of its former 22 employees copied Optivar’s proprietary source code, left Optivar, and then used its source code to 23 found Tibra. The court GRANTS the Applicants’ request to serve a subpoena. The court’s order is 24 without prejudice, however, to Google moving to quash that subpoena, and any hearing on such a 25 26 27 28 1 To avoid the limitations imposed by the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. §2701 et seq., Applicant contends that it does not seek the contents of emails but only subscriber and communications information. 1 Case No.: C 12-080242 EJD (PSG) ORDER 1 motion to quash may be heard on an expedited basis. The Applicant shall immediately serve a copy 2 of this order on Google together with their subpoena. 3 IT IS SO ORDERED. 4 Dated: 10/12/2012 _________________________________ PAUL S. GREWAL United States Magistrate Judge 5 6 7 8 9 United States District Court For the Northern District of California 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2 Case No.: C 12-080242 EJD (PSG) ORDER

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