Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al

Filing 1255

Unopposed MOTION for Leave to Exceed the Court's Standing Order for Deposition Designations by Adobe Systems Incorporated, Amazon.com Inc., CDW Corporation, Citigroup Inc., Google Inc., J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc., Staples, Inc., The Go Daddy Group, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., YouTube, LLC. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order)(Thane, Joshua)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
TYLER DIVISION
EOLAS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. and
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
Plaintiffs,
v.
ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC., ET AL.,
Defendants.

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CIVIL ACTION NO. 6:09-CV-446 (LED)

DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED THE COURT’S
STANDING ORDER FOR DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS AND EXTEND THE
DEADLINES REGARDING DEFENDANTS’ DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS
Defendants Adobe Systems, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., CDW LLC, Citigroup Inc., The Go
Daddy Group, Inc., Google, Inc., J.C. Penney Corp., Inc., Staples, Inc., Yahoo! Inc., and
YouTube LLC (collectively “Defendants”) respectfully move for leave to exceed the Court’s
standing order limitation for deposition designations and to extend the deadline for Plaintiffs’
objections and counter-designations, and state as follows:
The parties have conferred regarding the number of deposition designations. Based upon
these discussions, the Defendants respectfully request that the Court allow the ten Defendants,
collectively, to designate an amount not to exceed twenty-five (25) hours so long as no
individual Defendant designates more than ten (10) hours.
The Defendants also respectfully request that the Court extend the deadline for Plaintiffs’
submission of their objections and counter-designations until Wednesday, January 25, 2012.
Defendants also request an extension of the deadline to submit their rebuttals to Plaintiffs’
objections and counter-designations until Monday, January 30, 2012.
DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED THE COURT’S STANDING ORDER FOR
DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS AND EXTEND THE DEADLINES – Page 1

The parties have met and conferred and this Motion is unopposed. This Motion is not
made for delay and should not impact any other deadline applicable to this case. Accordingly,
the Defendants respectfully move the Court for an Order allowing Defendants to exceed the
Court’s standing order limitation on deposition designations, as described above, and extending
the deadline for Plaintiffs’ objections and counter-designations to January 25, 2012 and the
deadline for Defendants’ rebuttals until January 30, 2012.
Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Joshua R. Thane
Jennifer H. Doan (TX Bar No. 08809050)
Joshua R. Thane (TX Bar No. 24060713)
HALTOM & DOAN
6500 Summerhill Road, Suite 100
Texarkana, TX 75503
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Email: [e-mail]
Edward R. Reines
Jared B. Bobrow
Sonal N. Mehta
Aaron Y. Huang
Andrew L. Perito
WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP
201 Redwood Shores Parkway
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Email: [e-mail]
Email: [e-mail]
Email: [e-mail]
Email: [e-mail]
Doug W. McClellan
WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP
700 Louisiana, Suite 1600
Houston, TX 77002

DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED THE COURT’S STANDING ORDER FOR
DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS AND EXTEND THE DEADLINES – Page 2

Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Otis Carroll (TX Bar No. 3895700)
Deborah Race (TX Bar No. 11648700)
IRELAND, CARROLL & KELLEY, P.C.
6101 South Broadway, Suite 500
Tyler, Texas 75703
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT
AMAZON.COM, INC. AND
YAHOO! INC.

/s/ Thomas L. Duston (with permission)
Thomas L. Duston
[e-mail]
Anthony S. Gabrielson
[e-mail]
Scott A. Sanderson
[e-mail]
MARSHALL, GERSTEIN & BORUN LLP
6300 Willis Tower
233 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606-6357
[phone]
Brian Craft
[e-mail]
Eric H. Findlay
[e-mail]
FINDLAY CRAFT, LLP
6760 Old Jacksonville Highway, Suite 101
Tyler, TX 75703
[phone]
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT
CDW LLC

DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED THE COURT’S STANDING ORDER FOR
DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS AND EXTEND THE DEADLINES – Page 3

/s/ Christopher M. Joe (with permission)
Christopher M. Joe
[e-mail]
Eric W. Buether
[e-mail]
Niky Bukovcan
[e-mail]
1700 Pacific, Suite 2390
Dallas, Texas 75201
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT
J.C. PENNEY CORPORATION, INC.

/s/ Mark Matuschak (with permission)
Joe W. Redden, Jr.
Michael Ernest Richardson
BECK REDDEN & SECREST
1221 McKinney
Suite 4500
Houston, TX 77010
713.951.6284
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
Mark G. Matuschak
Donald R. Steinberg
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE
AND DORR LLP
60 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
617.526.5000
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
Kate Hutchins
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE
AND DORR LLP
399 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
212.230.8800
[e-mail]

DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED THE COURT’S STANDING ORDER FOR
DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS AND EXTEND THE DEADLINES – Page 4

Daniel V. Williams
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE
AND DORR LLP
1875 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
202.663.6012
[e-mail]
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT
STAPLES, INC.

/s/ Neil J. McNabnay (with permission)
Thomas M. Melsheimer ([e-mail])
Texas Bar No. 13922550
Neil J. McNabnay ([e-mail])
Texas Bar No. 24002583
FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.
1717 Main Street, Suite 5000
Dallas, TX 75201
[phone] (Telephone)
[phone] (Facsimile)
Proshanto Mukherji
E-mail: [e-mail]
FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.
One Marina Park Drive
Boston, MA 02110-1878
617-542-5070 (Telephone)
617-542-8906 (Facsimile)
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT
THE GO DADDY GROUP, INC.

/s/ M. Scott Fuller (with permission)
Edwin R. DeYoung
Texas Bar No. 05673000
Roy W. Hardin
Texas Bar No. 08968300
Roger Brian Cowie
Texas Bar No. 00783886
M. Scott Fuller
Texas Bar No. 24036607
Galyn Gafford

DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED THE COURT’S STANDING ORDER FOR
DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS AND EXTEND THE DEADLINES – Page 5

Texas Bar No. 24040938
LOCKE LORD LLP
2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 2200
Dallas, Texas 75201-6776
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT
CITIGROUP INC.

/s/ David J. Healey (with permission)
David J. Healey
E-mail: [e-mail]
FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.
1 Houston Center
1221 McKinney Street, Suite 2800
Houston, TX 77010
713-654-5300 (Telephone)
713-652-0109 (Facsimile)
OF COUNSEL:
Frank E. Scherkenbach
E-mail: [e-mail]
FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.
225 Franklin Street
Boston, MA 02110-2804
617-542-5070 (Telephone)
617-542-8906 (Facsimile)
Joseph P. Reid
E-mail: [e-mail]
Jason W. Wolff
E-mail: [e-mail]
FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.
12390 El Camino Real
San Diego, CA 92130
858-678-5070 (Telephone)
858-678-5099 (Facsimile)
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT
ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED

DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED THE COURT’S STANDING ORDER FOR
DEPOSITION DESIGNATIONS AND EXTEND THE DEADLINES – Page 6

/s/ Doug E. Lumish (with permission)
Douglas E. Lumish (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Jeffrey G. Homrig (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Jonathan K. Waldrop (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Joseph H. Lee (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Parker C. Ankrum (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
KASOWITZ, BENSON, TORRES &
FRIEDMAN, LLP
1360 Peachtree St., N.E., Suite 1150
Atlanta, GA 30309
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
James R. Batchelder (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Sasha G. Rao (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Mark D. Rowland
[e-mail]
Brandon Stroy (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Lauren Robinson (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Rebecca R. Hermes (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
Han Xu (pro hac vice)
[e-mail]
ROPES & GRAY LLP
1900 University Avenue, 6th Floor
East Palo Alto, California 94303-2284
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Michael E. Jones (Bar No. 10929400)
[e-mail]
Allen F. Gardner (Bar No. 24043679)
[e-mail]
POTTER MINTON
A Professional Corporation
110 N. College, Suite 500
Tyler, TX 75702

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Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANTS
GOOGLE, INC. AND YOUTUBE, LLC

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
The undersigned certifies that the foregoing document was filed electronically in
compliance with Local Rule CV-5(a). All other counsel of record not deemed to have consented
to electronic service were served with a true and correct copy of the foregoing by certified mail,
return receipt requested, on this the 18th day of January, 2012.

/s/ Joshua R. Thane
Joshua R. Thane

DEFENDANTS’ UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO EXCEED THE COURT’S STANDING ORDER FOR
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