TimesLines, Inc v. Facebook, Inc.

Filing 136

MEMORANDUM by Facebook, Inc. in support of motion in limine 135 to Exclude Evidence, Argument, and Testimony Regarding Non-Actionable Alleged "Confusion" (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Brendan Hughes, # 2 Exhibit A - F)(Willsey, Peter)

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Exhibit A Page 1 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 2 DISTRICT OF UTAH 3 4 -oOoTIMELINES, INC., : Civil Action No. 11-6867 5 Plaintiff, : 6 -vs- : 7 FACEBOOK, INC., : 8 Defendant. : 9 10 -oOo- 11 12 TELEPHONIC DEPOSITION OF RANDY CASSIDY 13 14 Location: 15 175 South Main Street, Suite 710 Salt Lake City, Utah 16 17 18 Date: 19 September 18, 2012 9:41 a.m. 20 21 Reporter: Denise Kirk, CSR/RPR 22 23 24 Job No. 53166 25 TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 27 1 Q. And the year? 2 A. 2012. 3 4 So I'm off by a year what I'm saying, I guess. Q. 5 No problem, I just wanted to clear it up. So around January 24, 2012 is when you 6 first learned of Facebook's use of the term 7 "Timeline"? 8 9 A. Yeah, that or maybe even December when they were launching it or whatever. 10 Q. Okay. 11 A. Brian is a very good friend of mine. 12 Q. Does this appear to be a true and correct 13 14 copy of the e-mail that you sent back in January 2012? A. 15 16 19 20 21 Yes, it does. MS. MAYALL: Ms. Kirk, I'd like to enter this in as Exhibit 5. 17 18 Who is Brian Hand? (Exhibit 5 marked for identification.) Q. Mr. Cassidy, how did you learn about Facebook's use of the term "Timeline"? A. I must have read it somewhere or saw it on the Internet or somewhere. 22 Q. Okay. 23 A. I don't recall exactly, but I heard it 24 25 somewhere. Q. Did you get a response from Brian to this TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 38 1 2 3 4 5 6 Q. Well, "before this" meaning January of 2011? A. Yeah. Yeah, I knew Brian was working on this and he had shared the site with me. Q. How often do you visit the Timelines web site? 7 A. Not very. 8 Q. Once a month? 9 A. No. 10 Q. Less than? 11 A. Yes. 12 Q. Okay. 13 14 And you don't know if you are a registered user? A. Well, if you need to be a registered user 15 to get the information that I got, then I'm probably a 16 registered user, by the theory of deduction. 17 Q. But you are not sure? 18 A. No. 19 Q. Do you know if Timelines, Inc. offers any 20 of its services for sale? 21 A. I don't. 22 Q. Okay. 23 24 25 So we talked about Brian Hand. Do you know what his role is with Timelines, Inc.? A. Well, I would assume from his -- from this e-mail here that he's the co-founder and chairman. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 41 1 this is the e-mail that you sent to Brian in January 2 of 2012; is that correct? 3 A. That is correct. 4 Q. And is this around the time that you first 5 6 7 8 9 10 learned about Facebook's use of the term "Timeline"? A. It was say probably just after -- I would say within a week or two. Q. So after you first learned of Facebook's use of the term "Timeline", did you visit the Timelines web site? 11 A. I don't know. 12 Q. You don't remember? 13 A. No. 14 Q. You don't remember mistakenly visiting the I don't remember. 15 Timelines web site thinking it was offered by 16 Facebook? 17 MR. WELTMAN: Object to form. 18 A. I don't even know what you are asking. 19 Q. Did you ever mistakenly go to 20 www.Timelines.com thinking it was offered by Facebook? 21 22 MR. WELTMAN: A. Object to form. Why would I do that? 23 sold Timelines to Facebook. 24 I thought Brian had to congratulate him. 25 Q. That's why I called him, When did you call him? TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 50 1 And so when I saw it -- I mean, it's not 2 like we talk every day or every month or every six 3 months, frankly. 4 It's one of those things that we pick up 5 wherever we happened to leave off in life. 6 that and I was excited for Brian. 7 And I saw And, you know, it's certainly not the 8 first successful thing he's done in his life and it's 9 not the last, but it's another success and I picked 10 the phone up to congratulate him. 11 Q. Congratulate him on what? 12 A. On the fact that Facebook had picked up 13 14 his Timelines software -- or whatever you call it. Q. 15 Okay, thank you. After you learned of Facebook's use of the 16 term "Timeline", did you log into your Facebook 17 account more frequently than you did before? 18 A. No. 19 Q. Now, if we refer back to deposition 20 Exhibit 5, this is the e-mail that you wrote to Brian 21 Hand January 2012; correct? 22 A. That's correct. 23 Q. When you wrote the second sentence which 24 says: 25 Timelines software"? "I truly believed that they were using your TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 51 1 A. Yes. 2 Q. Is there a reason why that was in past 3 tense? 4 5 A. been in past tense? 6 7 Q. A. 12 Well, I'm just trying to think. why I asked you a question. 10 11 I'm just asking you a question, Mr. Cassidy. 8 9 Is there a reason that it shouldn't have That's Um -- Q. As long as it's rhetorical, I'm fine with A. So I wrote the e-mail in response to a it. 13 conversation and then a followup conversation that I 14 had with Brian. The -- 15 Q. And -- I'm sorry, go ahead. 16 A. The first one being the conversation where 17 I thought I was congratulating him, and then the 18 second Brian called me back a couple of days later -- 19 you know, it may have been a week, maybe an hour, I 20 don't know -- and said, you know, listen, based upon 21 our conversation, you know, you were clearly confused 22 as to what Facebook is doing. 23 that in an e-mail to me? 24 25 Would you mind putting And I said: No, not at all. So that's what I did. Q. When you wrote: "I truly believed that TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Exhibit B Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 K. KOENEMAN IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION TIMELINES, INC., ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) Civil Action ) No. 11-cv-06867 FACEBOOK, INC., ) ) Defendant. ) ----------------------) 9 10 DEPOSITION OF KEITH KOENEMAN 11 Chicago, Illinois 12 September 19, 2012 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Reported by: JANICE M. KOCEK, CSR, CLR JOB NO. 53903 TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 32 1 K. KOENEMAN 2 do you want it. 3 no, but my page still changed. 4 Q. And I thought I always said And when I say the word timeline 5 feature of the Facebook page, what, what does 6 that mean to you? 7 A. Well, so here -- here is -- I 8 immediately think of Brian's company, 9 Timelines, Inc., and, and LifeSnapz -- 10 MS. REPORTER: 11 THE WITNESS: And Life -So there's, there's 12 Timelines, Inc., and then there's a Web 13 site LifeSnapz and there's a Web site 14 timelines.com. 15 So I coached basketball with Brian, 16 fourth grade basketball three years ago. 17 Basketball is a fall and winter sport. 18 it was -- you know, we started in the fall 19 of 2009, went through the winter of 2010. 20 So, so roughly from, like, October of 2009 21 to -- I'm not sure when exactly the season 22 ended, like, April, May 2010. 23 So Brian coached basketball. It was 24 a pretty big commitment actually. 25 have practices two days a week and then TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 So We'd Page 33 1 K. KOENEMAN 2 we'd have a game on Saturday. 3 plus we'd talk on the phone and, like, 4 e-mail and stuff. 5 commitment. 6 And then So it was a pretty big So I saw Brian at a minimum of three 7 days a week and in some weeks, you know, 8 four times or five times. 9 Q. And how long ago was this? 10 A. It was in -- it was about three 11 years ago. 12 was, like, September, October 2009. 13 almost three years ago right now. So it's September of 2012 now. It So it was 14 Q. Was it for only one season? 15 A. Yes, fourth grade basketball. But 16 from October through April, let's say, April. 17 November, December to April, so seven months. 18 And it was -- you know, it was sixteen fourth 19 grade kids. 20 played basketball, so they were really excited 21 about it. 22 kids, and sort of as parents/coaches it was a 23 pretty big deal for us. 24 it. 25 It was the first time they ever It was a really big deal for them as So we enjoyed doing It was a lot of work. Anyway, so in the course of doing TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 35 1 K. KOENEMAN 2 you know, sort of fun for me, but it was sort 3 of important for me because I was dealing with 4 my kid. So I paid attention to the photos. 5 And then, you know, I know Brian 6 socially as well. 7 together and, like, we -- there's a group of 8 friends that have, like, parties and stuff, so, 9 you know, I'm pretty friendly with him. 10 We've taken vacations And so I would look at his photos 11 and I'd look at my account from LifeSnapz. 12 then also I would talk to Brian about, you 13 know, when we were coaching, you know, how's 14 your work week, did you have a rough week, was 15 it good, was it bad, whatever. 16 he'd give me updates; oh, it's really going 17 well. 18 whatever. And And, you know, We have a new client, you know, 19 So I definitely had, like, a little 20 bit of knowledge that he had this company, not 21 just because I saw the photos and used the 22 site, but just because sort of like how's it 23 going, how did your week go. 24 little updates at basketball or whatever. 25 He'd give me Anyway, so that's by background to TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 36 1 K. KOENEMAN 2 answer your question, which was what do you 3 think of timeline. 4 immediately thought of Brian and his companies. 5 So when I heard timeline, I So when I logged on to Facebook 6 whenever it was, roughly a year ago, and 7 Facebook offered me, like, hey, we have this 8 new timeline feature, I immediately thought of 9 Brian and his companies, Timelines and 10 Facebook. 11 my first thought was this is awesome, Brian 12 sold his company to Facebook, like, it's 13 awesome. 14 It was my first thought. In fact, And so I was thinking I should, 15 like, send him flowers or, like, send him a 16 basket or, like, do something celebratory for 17 Brian. 18 this was, like, a weekday, so it was like a 19 Tuesday or a Wednesday or whatever. 20 thinking I'm going to see Brian on Friday. 21 first I'll just ask him about it and then I'll 22 send him something. 23 But I didn't, because I was thinking -- So I saw him on whatever. And I was So I can't 24 remember whether it Friday or Saturday, but I 25 saw him on a weekend evening at some sort of TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 90 1 K. KOENEMAN 2 into my own house with my own key and thought I 3 was in my neighbor's house. 4 5 6 Q. Right. Why would I? Because of your prior knowledge of Timelines, Inc., and -A. Prior knowledge that I own this 7 house and I have this key in my pocket. 8 haven't forgot that I live at 606 Arlington and 9 that my key opens the door. I You know, I 10 haven't forgot that I have a password on 11 LifeSnapz and when I log in to LifeSnapz, it 12 takes me to LifeSnapz. 13 Q. Okay. Why would I? Just to round this out here, 14 for the rest of the deposition, I just want to 15 revisit real quickly Timelines, Inc.'s, other 16 services. 17 A. Okay. 18 Q. Have you -- have you ever registered 19 20 to use timelines.com? A. No. But I thought about it and I, 21 I, I told you that story, which is Brian told 22 me about how excited he was about timelines.com 23 and that it had timelines, which they had been 24 developing for some time for LifeSnapz, but he 25 thought it had a much bigger potential. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 91 1 K. KOENEMAN 2 So I actually went to the site and I 3 sort of checked it out and looked at the 4 subjects and so forth and thought this is 5 really cool, maybe my son would like this, 6 maybe my son's teacher would like it. 7 it's a good pedagogical or educational tool. 8 9 Maybe But, you know, at the time -- it was three years ago. So at the time I was 10 probably, like, 41 years old. 11 historical timelines for me as a 41-year-old 12 were sort of less relevant, but I could see how 13 they'd be very relevant for, like, my son or my 14 son's friends. 15 16 17 Q. Those sort of Have you used any other services offered by Timelines, Inc.? A. I never registered for the 18 timelines.com site. 19 LifeSnapz. 20 Q. I did register for Other than LifeSnapz. Right now I'd 21 like to just focus a little bit about any other 22 services offered by Timelines, Inc. 23 covered LifeSnapz. 24 25 So we So with respect to timelines.com and just getting this straight. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Exhibit C Page 1 1 ESTHER BARRON IN THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION 2 3 4 5 6 TIMELINES, INC., 7 8 Plaintiff, 9 10 vs. 11 FACEBOOK, INC., 12 Defendant. ) ) ) )Civil Action )No. ) )11-CV-06867 ) ) ) ) ) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 DEPOSITION OF ESTHER BARRON Friday, September 21, 2012 Chicago, Illinois 20 21 22 23 24 25 Reported By: TRICIA J. FLASKA, CSR, RPR JOB NO. 53625 TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 12 1 ESTHER BARRON 2 A Certainly. 3 Q So currently, where do you work? 4 A Northwestern University School of Law. 5 Q Are you a professor at Northwestern? 6 A I am a clinical associate professor. 7 Q And what are your responsibilities as a 8 9 clinical associate professor? A Well, I'm also the director of the 10 Entrepreneurship Law Program at Northwestern Law 11 School, so I run our Entrepreneurship Law Center and 12 I -- which includes a clinic, and I teach 13 entrepreneurship law -- and I co-teach -- I co-teach 14 entrepreneurship law, sorry, and I co-teach venture 15 capital. 16 17 Q And how long have you been working at Northwestern University? 18 A I believe eight years. 19 Q And prior to working at Northwestern, where 20 were you employed? 21 A Goldberg Kohn. 22 Q What was your position at Goldberg Kohn? 23 A I was an associate. 24 Q And how long were you an associate at 25 Goldberg Kohn? TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 31 1 ESTHER BARRON 2 A I don't recall. 3 Q Do you think it was in the 2011 school 4 year? 5 A I think so. 6 Q Okay. 7 Do you think he spoke in the 2010 school year? 8 A I think he did. 9 Q Has he spoken to your class during this 10 year? 11 A He has not. 12 Q Okay. Does he have plans to -- or do you 13 have plans to have Mr. Hand speak to your class this 14 year? 15 A I do not have any plans for that. 16 Q So he spoke to your class in 2011 and 2010. 17 Do you recall whether he spoke to your class in 18 2009? 19 A I don't recall. 20 Q And just to save time, anything before 21 2009, do you recall any specific dates in which he 22 would have spoken to your class? 23 A I don't recall any specific dates. 24 Q Even years? 25 A I don't. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 33 1 2 ESTHER BARRON A It was an entrepreneurship conference 3 co-sponsored by different departments at 4 Northwestern University. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Q And you said he spoke on a panel; is that correct? A At that conference I believe he spoke on a panel. Q Do you recall seeing Mr. Hand speak at any other conferences hosted by Northwestern? A I don't recall. I don't recall seeing him speak at other conferences. 13 Q Any conferences at all? 14 A Not that I recall. 15 Q Other than speaking to your class or 16 speaking with Mr. Hand at the conference, have you 17 had any other interactions with Mr. Hand? 18 A I have seen him at events in Chicago. 19 Q What types of events? 20 A Events focused on entrepreneurship. 21 Q Are you friends with Mr. Hand, you know, 22 socially, or is it typically in that context, in 23 conferences and lectures and things like that? 24 25 A In the context of conferences and lectures, although -- yeah. It's a professional relationship. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 34 1 2 3 ESTHER BARRON Q Okay. You haven't gone on any vacations with his family or anything? 4 A Correct. 5 Q So just to confirm, are you familiar with 6 any of the types of services that Timelines, Inc. 7 offers? 8 9 10 11 A I did not go back and review what -- it under the umbrella of Timelines. Q Okay. But as of right now, what services do you believe Timelines, Inc. offers? 12 A I believe Photogram is part of Timelines. 13 Q Any other services? 14 A Just my understanding is it organizes 15 photographs in chronological order for various 16 events in a person's life. 17 18 Q And when you said "it," you were referring to Photogram; is that correct? 19 A No. 20 Q The website at Timelines.com or -- 21 A I can't be any more specific. I'm referring to Timelines. My 22 understanding is that Timelines is a service that 23 you use online to organize photographs of various 24 events in your life in a chronological order. 25 Q And what are you basing that understanding TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 35 1 2 ESTHER BARRON on? Mr. Hand's lectures? 3 A Correct. 4 Q Anything else? 5 A No. 6 Q Are you -- or have you ever visited the 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 website Timelines.com? A I may have. recollection. Q I don't have a specific I would say I probably have. And when do you think you last went to Timelines.com? A class. Q Probably close to a visit by Brian to my Mr. Hand. So most likely -- he didn't visit your class in 2012, right? A He did not. So it would likely have been in 2011. Q So to confirm, you believe that the last 19 time you went and visited Timelines.com would have 20 been in 2011? 21 22 23 24 25 A Again, I don't have a specific recollection, but that's my best guess. Q Okay. Are you a registered user of Timelines.com? A I don't believe so. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 42 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ESTHER BARRON 2010 or 2011? A I don't recall the date of the conversation. Q And what was the nature of the conversation? A The general nature was that I mentioned to 8 Brian Hand that when I learned of Facebook's 9 Timeline update or application, that I wondered 10 11 12 13 whether it was connected to his company in some way. Q And what did Mr. -- how did Mr. Hand respond? A He responded -- actually, I don't remember 14 his response. 15 conversation with the understanding that it was not 16 part of his company. 17 Q I remember coming away from the And now that we've discussed this 18 conversation, is your memory refreshed at all as to 19 when this conversation with Mr. Hand would have 20 occurred? 21 A No. 22 Q Do you recall ever seeing Facebook use the 23 term "Timeline"? 24 A A specific occurrence or just generally? 25 Q Just generally. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Exhibit D Page 1 1 DON JENKINS IN THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION 2 3 4 5 6 TIMELINES, INC., 7 8 Plaintiff, 9 10 vs. 11 FACEBOOK, INC., 12 Defendant. ) ) ) )Civil Action )No. ) )11-CV-06867 ) ) ) ) ) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 DEPOSITION OF DON JENKINS Friday, September 21, 2012 Chicago, Illinois 20 21 22 23 24 25 Reported By: TRICIA J. FLASKA, CSR, RPR JOB NO. 53625 TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 19 1 DON JENKINS 2 3 4 (Exhibit 3 marked for identification.) BY MR. HUGHES: Q Mr. Jenkins, I'd just like to walk through 5 this with you real quickly. 6 Production No. 1 states, you know, "Please provide a 7 representative printed screenshots of your Facebook 8 profile, to the extent one exists, that displays 9 your post as a 'Timeline' or in chronological order, So Request For 10 including but not limited to any screenshots that 11 bear the term 'Timeline.'" 12 13 In response to that document request, Mr. Jenkins, what did you state? 14 A "None." 15 Q Why did you state that? 16 A I do not have a Facebook profile. 17 Q Okay. 18 Have you ever had a Facebook profile? 19 A No. 20 Q Do you intend to have a Facebook profile in 21 the future? 22 A Not in my plans. 23 Q And why is that? 24 A Not interested. 25 Q And in response to Document Request No. 2, TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 21 1 DON JENKINS 2 Timelines, Inc., are you referring to both 3 Timelines.com and LifeSnapz.com? 4 A Yes. 5 Q So to confirm, you are not a registered 6 user of Timelines.com; is that correct? 7 A No. 8 Q And you were not a registered user of 9 LifeSnapz.com; is that correct? 10 A That's correct. 11 Q Great. Mr. Jenkins, with respect to 12 Request for Production No. 3, called for "Documents 13 sufficient to identify the date you first used 14 Timeline, Inc. services." 15 16 And in response to that, what did you say, Mr. Jenkins? 17 A What number are we on? 18 Q 3. 19 A I said "None." Although, I have visited 20 the website just obviously to familiarize myself 21 with it after being produced to the concept by Brian 22 on numerous occasions. 23 Q And when you say "the website" -- 24 A Timelines. 25 Q Timelines.com? TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 22 1 DON JENKINS 2 A Right. 3 Q Okay. And when do you recall first 4 visiting the domain name Timelines.com -- or rather 5 the web page at the domain name Timelines -- 6 A Probably spring of 2009. 7 Q And roughly how many times have you visited 8 Timelines.com since spring of 2009? 9 A I don't know. 10 Q And when was the last time that you visited 11 10, 15 times. Timelines.com? 12 A Probably several weeks ago. 13 Q And why did you visit that website at that 14 time? 15 A 16 17 Just to familiarize myself with the latest content. Q And prior to that do you recall visiting 18 Timelines.com -- or when was the last time before 19 that that you recall visiting Timelines.com? 20 A Probably -- I don't remember the exact 21 timing, but it was in reference to someone had told 22 me they went on a trip and had posted some 23 information. 24 Q You think it was in 2011 or 2010? 25 A Probably 2011. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 25 1 DON JENKINS 2 2009? 3 A Yes. 4 Q And when was that? 5 A Regularly. Socially and business wise, 6 we're in related businesses and we always try to, 7 you know, share with each other what each other is 8 doing. 9 random. And there's no regular pattern. It's just 10 Q Okay. 11 A Families know each other. 12 Q Have you gone on any vacations with Mr. 13 Hand? 14 A No. 15 Q How do your families know each other? 16 A Kids participate in mutual sports and Brian 17 and I obviously have overlapping professional areas 18 of expertise. 19 20 Q And if I recall correctly, do you have a son; is that correct? 21 A Yes. 22 Q And does your son play basketball on Mr. 23 Hand's son's basketball -- 24 A 25 baseball. Yeah. I think it was basketball and TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 26 1 DON JENKINS 2 Q Do you have any other children? 3 A Yeah. 4 Q Does she play any sports with Mr. Hand's 5 children? 6 A No. 7 Q How did you first meet Mr. Hand? 8 A That's a good question. 9 A daughter. Would have to just say in the venture circles, and then when our kids 10 became involved in the same sport, you know, the 11 connection and "Don't I know you from somewhere?" 12 And kind of just started becoming professional 13 acquaintances. 14 in background. 15 16 17 Q After that, given common interests When did you first meet him? Is that what you're referencing here in fall of 2008? A No. I would have to say probably six or 18 seven years ago. 19 than that. 20 ago. 21 22 Q Actually maybe even longer ago Probably maybe like eight or nine years Is that in connection with any other business ventures started by Mr. Hand? 23 A No. 24 Q So your first meeting with Mr. Hand, do you 25 No. recall what the nature of that was? TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 36 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 DON JENKINS website? A Yeah. I already stated that I've been on there in the past several weeks. Q Did you ever visit the Timelines.com website believing that it was offered by Facebook? A Only after the discovery of the report in 8 the media that they had offered something similar. 9 I was assuming that it was purchased by Facebook. 10 Q And when you visited the Timelines website 11 did you believe that it was offered by Facebook at 12 that time? 13 A No. When you visited the website. What happened was I saw information 14 that led me to believe that the company had been 15 purchased by Facebook. 16 assumption. 17 a press release that would say, hey, we've just 18 purchased this company for so many X of millions of 19 dollars or what have you and none of that 20 information was available, which wouldn't be 21 necessarily uncommon, and was just under the 22 impression that, you know, Brian had, once again, 23 successfully built a company and had sold it off to 24 a very large company, which he's got a track record 25 of doing. At least that was my And then looked on the website to find TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Exhibit E Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 PAM COLE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION - - Timelines, Inc., : : Plaintiff, : : vs. : Case No. : 11-CV-06867 Facebook, Inc., : : Defendant. : - - DEPOSITION OF PAM COLE - - Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:40 a.m. 3242 West Henderson Road, Suite A Columbus, Ohio 43220 15 16 - - 17 18 SHAYNA M. GRIFFIN REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL REPORTER CERTIFIED REALTIME REPORTER 19 - - 20 21 22 23 24 Job No: 53167 25 TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 18 1 PAM COLE 2 Inc.? 3 A. Yes. 4 Q. And what is Timelines, Inc.? 5 A. Timelines, Inc., is a company that 6 provides services based around the idea of a 7 timeline. 8 LifeSnapz, which is a photo -- a photo organization 9 site where you can selectively share photos with The one that I have used most is 10 others. 11 Q. 12 around a timeline. 13 what a timeline is? 14 You said that Timelines provides services What's your understanding of MR. WELTMAN: Object to form and 15 foundation. 16 A. 17 information in a chronological way. 18 Q. 19 learned about Timelines, Inc.? 20 A. 21 daughter was born, so I think 2008. 22 Q. 23 Inc.? 24 A. 25 software developer, I believe. A timeline is an organization of Okay. Do you remember when you first Well, it was around the time my first Okay. How did you learn about Timelines, My brother works for the company. TSG Reporting - Worldwide He's a And he told us about 877-702-9580 Page 19 1 PAM COLE 2 it. 3 Q. What's your brother's name? 4 A. His name is Geoffrey Buesing. 5 Q. Do you know how long he has been with 6 Timelines, Inc.? 7 A. 8 with Timelines, Inc., but I do know that he's been 9 there at least as long as I've heard of it, so at I do not know exactly how long he's been 10 least since 2008. 11 with some of these people for quite a while. 12 Q. And you said he's a software developer? 13 A. I think that's what he is, yes. 14 Q. Okay. 15 Timelines, Inc., website? 16 A. Yes. 17 Q. Do you visit the website? 18 A. I do. 19 Q. Are you a registered user of the website? 20 A. I am a registered user of LifeSnapz, which 21 is a product of theirs. 22 register of the Timelines website. 23 Q. 24 LifeSnapz and Timelines, Inc., in terms of the 25 services that they respectively provide? Okay. But I believe he's been working Are you familiar with the But I do not know if I'm a And is there a difference between TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 21 1 PAM COLE 2 and I think it's the same people, but I'm not sure 3 if it's actually a Timelines product or a separate 4 product. 5 Q. 6 you visited the Timelines, Inc., website? 7 A. Do I remember the date or what? 8 Q. Yes, the date. 9 A. It was probably 2008 sometime. 10 Q. Okay. 11 A. Probably shortly before or after the birth 12 of my oldest daughter, so maybe sometime in the 13 summer of 2008. 14 Q. 15 your first visit to the website? 16 A. I did. 17 Q. What do you do on the Timelines website as 18 a registered user? 19 A. 20 Timelines website itself that I'm aware of. 21 that you can share pictures that you have of events 22 such as if you go to some kind of event where 23 there's a crowd of people, you can put your pictures 24 up there, and I think other people can put their 25 pictures up there and organize them together. Okay. Do you remember the first time that Did you register at or around the time of I haven't really done anything on the TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 I know But I Page 22 1 PAM COLE 2 haven't actually done that. 3 Q. 4 Timelines website? 5 A. 6 separate from LifeSnapz's website? 7 Q. Yes. Right now we are, yes. 8 A. Okay. Not very frequently. 9 Q. Like over the past six months, have you How often have you logged into the And we're talking about Timelines' website 10 logged into the website? 11 A. I have not. 12 Q. The past year? 13 A. I do not think I have. 14 at it really briefly before. 15 Q. 16 start using the Timelines, Inc., website more 17 frequently? 18 A. I don't currently have any plans to. 19 Q. Okay. 20 you're not currently using or interested in 21 particularly right now; correct? 22 A. 23 I've only looked Do you have any plans or do you intend to So it sounds like it's a service That's correct. MR. WELTMAN: 24 BY MR. BADOLATO: 25 Q. Object to the form. Do you know if Timelines, Inc., offers any TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 30 1 PAM COLE 2 that they were trying to -- he told me they were 3 trying to find ways to use it, trying to find ways 4 to monetize it, the product they had made. 5 Q. 6 Timelines -- were you thinking Timelines, Inc., had 7 sold a timeline to Facebook? 8 A. 9 him. So that being the case, did you think that Well, I didn't know. That's why I asked I didn't know if he had sold it to Facebook or 10 if they had some sort of software that you could use 11 on Facebook or what it was. 12 Facebook timeline was actually out there and in use. 13 So I couldn't -- you know, I couldn't look at it. 14 Q. 15 And this is before the Right. Did your brother respond to your question 16 in this e-mail? 17 A. He did not. 18 Q. Did you ever follow up with him about the 19 question? 20 A. 21 as opposed to e-mail. 22 Q. Do you remember what he said? 23 A. I don't remember what he said, but he did 24 say that it was not their Timelines product that 25 Facebook was doing. I think that I talked to him on the phone TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Exhibit F Page 1 1 THOMAS R. FALLON 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS 4 EASTERN DIVISION 5 -------------------------------------------------------- 6 TIMELINES, INC., 7 8 9 Plaintiff, -vsFACEBOOK, INC., 10 11 Case No. 11-CV-06867 Defendant. -------------------------------------------------------- 12 13 14 Examination of THOMAS R. FALLON, taken at 15 the instance of the Defendant, under and pursuant to the 16 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, before 17 JESSICA R. WAACK, Certified Realtime Reporter, Registered 18 Diplomate Reporter, Certified Shorthand Reporter and 19 Notary Public in and for the State of Wisconsin, at 20 735 North Water Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, 21 September 25, 2012, commencing at 1:29 p.m. and concluding 22 at 2:07 p.m. 23 24 Job No. 53573 25 TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 6 1 2 THOMAS R. FALLON Q 3 Do you have any questions about the process or the procedure we'll be following today? 4 A No. 5 Q In order to prepare for today's deposition, did 6 7 you speak with anybody at Timelines, Inc.? A 8 I believe I mentioned I was going to be deposed to Bob Armour. 9 Q And when did you mention that? 10 A Probably the day or two after I got the initial 11 phone call from whoever I got the phone call from. 12 Q You don't recall who called you? 13 A I do not. There's been three or four different 14 people saying I'm with so and so, I'm with so and 15 so. 16 Q 17 I don't know who everybody is, no. Okay. And when you say you mentioned it to Bob Armour, was that over a telephone conversation? 18 A I believe it was in person. 19 Q How do you know Bob Armour? 20 A He is my brother-in-law. 21 Q When was the first time that you met Mr. Armour? 22 A Seventeen, eighteen years ago. 23 Q And what was the nature of the conversation that 24 25 you had with him? A Just told him that I was contacted by someone to TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 13 1 THOMAS R. FALLON 2 appears to be a true and correct copy of the 3 subpoena that was served upon you. 4 A It appears to be, yes. 5 Q Thank you. 6 If you can please turn to what's identified at the bottom. 7 A Okay. 8 Q Okay. It's page No. 4. 9 And at the top of that document, it says, "Request For Documents and Things." 10 A Yes. 11 Q Great. I'm just going to review each one of these 12 and ask you some questions. 13 production No. 1, we had asked for, 14 "Representative print screenshots of your Facebook 15 profile, to the extent one exists, that displays 16 your posts as a 'timeline' or in chronological 17 order, including but not limited to any 18 screenshots that bear the term 'timeline.'" 19 read that correctly? 20 A Yes. 21 Q Okay. So for request for 22 And you don't have any documents in response to this request? 23 A No. 24 Q So you do not use Facebook? 25 A No. I do not have a Facebook profile, no. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Did I Page 14 1 THOMAS R. FALLON 2 Q Okay. 3 A I don't think so. 4 Q So just to be -- to confirm, have you ever had a 5 Have you ever visited the Facebook website? Facebook profile? 6 A I have never had a Facebook profile. 7 Q Okay. 8 Thank you. Are you familiar with what Facebook is? 9 A Yes. 10 Q What is it? 11 A A social network. 12 Q Do you recall when you first learned about 13 Facebook? 14 A I do not. 15 Q More than five years ago? 16 A I would think so, yes. 17 Q Okay. 18 Are you familiar with any other social networks that are provided on the Internet? 19 A Yes. 20 Q Which ones? 21 A Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, all of those. 22 Q Do you use Twitter? 23 A I do not. 24 Q Do you use Pinterest? 25 A I do not. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 15 1 THOMAS R. FALLON 2 Q Do you use LinkedIn? 3 A I do not, but apparently -- my company has me set 4 5 up on LinkedIn. Q Okay. I have never used it. So is it fair to say that you don't use any 6 of those social networks that are available 7 online? 8 A Yes. 9 Q Okay. 10 MS. MAYALL: I'd like to go back to -- 11 let me take a step back. 12 designate the subpoena for document requests as 13 Deposition Exhibit 2, so I can refer to it going 14 forward. 15 BY MS. MAYALL: 16 Q If we can please So going back to Deposition Exhibit 2 on page 4 17 here of the requests for production, I'd like to 18 move on to request for production No. 2, 19 "Documents sufficient to show your use of 20 Timelines, Inc.'s services." 21 And you didn't produce any documents in 22 response to this request, is that correct? 23 A Yes. 24 Q So you do not use Timelines, Inc.'s services? 25 A No. TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 18 1 2 THOMAS R. FALLON Q Okay. And Timelines, Inc. at 3 www.timelinesinc.com, do you have an idea of what 4 services are offered at that website? 5 A Similar situation. I believe you can put in a 6 time, and it says all the things -- all the things 7 that happened around that time. 8 have that much of a recollection of what it -- 9 what all was involved. 10 Q Okay. Fair enough. I really don't So other than Mr. Armour 11 possibly signing you up for the Timelines, Inc. 12 at www.timelinesinc.com website, you've never 13 visited the website or registered or logged in 14 yourself? 15 A No. 16 Q Okay. And same question for LifeSnapz. Other 17 than Mr. Armour possibly registering you for 18 LifeSnapz, you've never independently visited 19 their website or logged in yourself? 20 A No. 21 Q Okay. I'd like to go back to Deposition Exhibit 22 No. 2 and just move on to request for production 23 No. 3, "Documents sufficient to identify the date 24 you first learned of Timelines, Inc.'s services." 25 You don't have any documents responsive TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580 Page 23 1 THOMAS R. FALLON 2 said, is that you guys? 3 not. 4 Q But you hadn't -- okay. 5 Sorry. Strike that. What do you mean by, "Is that you guys?" 6 7 And he said, no, it's You just asked him, "Is that you guys?" A Yeah, he had talked to me previously about this 8 new thing that he had called Timelines. 9 after six months, three months, whatever it was, Sometime 10 Facebook coming out with something called 11 Timelines. 12 thing. 13 he said no. 14 Q 15 16 A And And what do you mean by, "Did you guys hook up I thought maybe they sold their service to Facebook. Q 19 20 Did you guys hook up with Facebook? with Facebook?" 17 18 And I said, hey, they're using your And then other than Mr. Armour saying no, did he have any response? A I'm sure he did, yes. I don't recall what it was. 21 But he was very emphatic saying it wasn't him, and 22 he wasn't happy about it. 23 Q 24 25 Did he express to you why he wasn't happy about it? A No. I had assumptions on my part, but, no, he TSG Reporting - Worldwide 877-702-9580

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