Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al

Filing 714

MOTION to Compel PRODUCTION OF SOURCE CODE FROM EBAY INC. AND AMAZON.COM, INC. by Eolas Technologies Incorporated. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Joshua Budwin, # 2 Exhibit 1, # 3 Exhibit 2, # 4 Exhibit 3, # 5 Exhibit 4, # 6 Exhibit 5, # 7 Exhibit 6, # 8 Exhibit 7, # 9 Exhibit 8, # 10 Exhibit 9, # 11 Exhibit 10, # 12 Exhibit 11, # 13 Exhibit 12, # 14 Exhibit 13, # 15 Exhibit 14, # 16 Exhibit 15, # 17 Exhibit 16, # 18 Exhibit 17, # 19 Exhibit 18, # 20 Exhibit 19, # 21 Exhibit 20, # 22 Exhibit 21, # 23 Exhibit 22, # 24 Exhibit 23, # 25 Exhibit 24, # 26 Exhibit 25, # 27 Exhibit 26, # 28 Exhibit 27, # 29 Exhibit 28, # 30 Exhibit 29, # 31 Text of Proposed Order)(McKool, Mike)

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EXHIBIT 2 MCKOOL SMITH A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION • ATTORNEYS Josh Budwin Direct Dial: (512) 692-8727 jbudwin@mckoolsmith.com 300 West 6th Street Suite 1700 Austin, Texas 78701 Telephone: (512) 692-8700 Telecopier: (512) 692-8744 September 3, 2010 VIA E-MAIL: Joseph P. Reid Fish & Richardson 12390 El Camino Real San Diego, CA 92130 858.678.4705 reid@fr.com David J. Healey Fish & Richardson PC 1221 McKinney Street, Suite 2888 Houston, TX 77010 713/654-5310 (Direct Dial) healey@fr.com Douglas E. Lumish Weil Gotshal & Manges 201 Redwood Shores Parkway Redwood City, CA 94065 650/802-3028 (Direct Dial) doug.lumish@weil.com David T. Pritikin Sidley Austin - Chicago Bank One Plaza One South Dearborn Ave Chicago, IL 60603 312/853-7359 (Direct Dial) dpritikin@sidley.com Scott Wayne Breedlove Vinson & Elkins 2001 Ross Avenue 3700 Trammel Crow Center Dallas, TX 75201 214/220-7993 (Direct Dial) sbreedlove@velaw.com Thomas L. Duston Marshall Gerstein & Borun 233 S. Wacker Drive 6300 Sears Tower Chicago, IL 60606 312/474-6300 (Direct Dial) tduston@marshallip.com Edwin R. DeYoung Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP 2200 Ross Ave. Suite 2200 Dallas, TX 75201 214/740-8500 (Direct Dial) edeyoung@lockelord.com Jeffrey K. Joyner Greenberg Taurig, LLP 2450 Colorado Ave. Suite 400E Santa Monica, CA 90404 310/586-7700 joynerj@gtlaw.com September 3, 2010 Page 2 of 7 Thomas M. Melsheimer Fish & Richardson 1717 Main Street Suite 5000 Dallas, TX 75201 214/292-4001 (Direct Dial) melsheimer@fr.com Barton E. Showalter Baker & Botts 2001 Ross Ave. Suite 600 Dallas, TX 75201 214/953-6509 (Direct Dial) bart.showalter@bakerbotts.com Scott T. Weingaertner King & Spalding, LLP 1185 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 212/556-2227 (Direct Dial) sweingaertner@kslaw.com Avelyn Marie Ross Vinson & Elkins 2801 Via Fortuna Suite 100 Austin, TX 78746 512/542-8411 (Direct Dial) aross@velaw.com Christopher M. Joe Buether Joe & Carpenter 1700 Pacific, Suite 2390 Dallas, TX 75201 214/466-1272 (Direct Dial) Chris.Joe@BJCIPLaw.com Joel Mark Freed McDermott Will & Emery 600 13th Street, NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20005-3096 202/756-8080 (Direct Dial) jfreed@mwe.com Michael Simons Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 300 W. 6th Street, Suite 2100 Austin, TX 78701 512/499-6253 (Direct Dial) msimons@akingump.com Kenneth Jurek McDermott Law Firm 227 West Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60606 312/984-7767 (Direct Dial) kjurek@mwe.com Austin 62481v1 Michael Ernest Richardson Beck Redden & Secrest 1221 McKinney Suite 4500 Houston, TX 77010 713/951-6284 (Direct Dial) mrichardson@brsfirm.com Eric Hugh Findlay Findlay Craft 6760 Old Jacksonville Highway Suite 101 Tyler, TX 75703 903/534-1100 (Main Number) efindlay@findlaycraft.com Carl R. Roth The Roth Law Firm 115 N. Wellington Suite 200 P.O. Box 876 Marshall, TX 75671 903/935-1665 (Main Number) cr@rothfirm.com September 3, 2010 Page 3 of 7 Re: Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Adobe Systems, Inc., et. al; Civil Action No. 6:09-CV-00446-LED; United District Court of Texas; Eastern District Counsel: We are concerned about the state of the defendants’ source code production in this case. As you are aware, the defendants were required to produce or make available for inspection source code for the accused products by September 1, 2010. See dkt. 381. We have endeavored to set forth herein what we presently believe the state of the source code production is for each defendant. To the extent that our understanding is incorrect, please provide us with prompt clarification. Additionally, we request that each defendant provide us with an index listing the source code that they have made (or will make) available for inspection. Eolas provided an index of this nature in its source code production letter dated August 12, 2010. Receiving an index listing the source code that each defendant has produced will allow us to ascertain, in advance of our inperson source code inspection, whether the code produced by each defendant is adequate. Finally, even if the accused products for a given defendant comprise no more than websites, source code may still need to be produced. It is not necessarily true that the source code for websites is publically-available. For example, Eolas requires access to the source code for past versions of the accused websites during the damages period which precedes Eolas’ filing of this case. Please see my letter of July 28, 2010 regarding representative products — this may help lessen the burden of producing past versions of the accused websites and/or updating your code production as changes and updates are made to the accused websites. As another example, for certain claims, our infringement contentions may reference activities which take place on the server. This server-side code needs to be produced. Moreover, to the extent that the clientfacing website code has been compressed, obfuscated, had comments removed, etc., we still need the original, non-altered form of the source code for the website to be produced. If you are amenable to our proposal regarding representative products and/or you contend that the sum total of the source code for your accused websites is publicly-available in its original non-obfuscated, non-compressed, non-altered and with comments form, please provide us with written confirmation of this on an accused website by accused website basis. Adobe: In letter correspondence dated August 25, 2010 identified “code for major releases of Flash Player 6 forward, Acrobat 6 forward, Director 10 forward (includes Shockwave), and code for the Adobe websites identified in the contentions” as being available for inspection. Thank you for this correspondence. On September 2, 2010, Eolas sent letter correspondence requesting clarification of the code Adobe has made available, including an index listing the code made available for inspection. Amazon: Has produced no source code. Please provide a prompt identification of the source code Amazon will make available for inspection. Please pay careful attention to the source code for the accused Amazon web applications (e.g. search suggest, product previewer, related product slider, etc.). Austin 62481v1 September 3, 2010 Page 4 of 7 Apple: Correspondence dated August 25, 2010 stated “Apple’s source code will be available for inspection in Sidley’s Palo Alto office starting 9/1.” Thank you for your correspondence. On September 2, 2010, Eolas sent e-mail correspondence and requested that Apple provide an index identifying the source code it has made available for inspection. Blockbuster: Has produced no source code. Please provide a prompt identification of the source code Blockbuster will make available for inspection. CDW: Has produced no source code. Please provide a prompt identification of the source code CDW will make available for inspection. Please pay careful attention to the source code for the accused CDW web applications (e.g. AutoComplete, etc.). CitiGroup: Has produced no source code. Please provide a prompt identification of the source code Citi will make available for inspection. Please pay careful attention to the source code for the accused Citi banking system. eBay: Has produced no source code. Please provide a prompt identification of the source code eBay will make available for inspection. Please pay careful attention to the source code for the accused eBay web applications (e.g. AutoFill, etc.). Frio-Lay/J.C. Penney/Rent-a-Center: Correspondence dated September 1, 2010 stated source code was available for inspection in Greenberg’s Dallas office. Thank you for your correspondence. Please provide us an index identifying the source code made available for inspection for each of Frito-Lay, J.C. Penney and Rent-a-Center. The Go Daddy Group: Has produced no source code. Please provide a prompt identification of the source code GoDaddy will make available for inspection. Google/YouTube: In letter correspondence dated September 2, 2010, Eolas requested that Google provide an index “listing all of the source code you have produced to us to-date, labeled as ‘open source’ and/or made available for inspection.” This same correspondence also requested that Google produce source code for the accused web applications (e.g. Google Search Suggest, Google Maps, Google Gmail, video.google.com, etc.) in their original non-obfuscated and non-compressed form. J.P.Morgan: In letter correspondence dated September 2, 2010, stated that “JP Morgan will produce representative versions of the accused websites code in lieu of producing evidence of each and every change to its websites over the applicable time frame.” Thank you for correspondence. In email correspondence dated September 3, 2010, Eolas requested that J.P.Morgan “provide us with an index listing the source code that JPMorgan is making available for inspection.” We also reminded J.P.Morgan that Eolas’ infringement contentions extend to “JPMorgan’s banking systems, in addition to its websites.” Austin 62481v1 September 3, 2010 Page 5 of 7 New Frontier Media: In letter correspondence dated August 29, 2010 stated that “website source code is available for inspection” in Austin, Texas. Thank you for your correspondence. Please provide us an index identifying the source code made available for inspection. Office Depot: Has produced no source code. Please provide a prompt identification of the source code Office Depot will make available for inspection. Please pay careful attention to the source code for the accused Office Depot web applications (e.g. search suggest, etc.). Perot Systems: In letter correspondence dated September 1, 2010 stated that it “makes its source code available for inspection” in Dallas, Texas. Thank you for your correspondence. Please provide us an index identifying the source code made available for inspection. Playboy Enterprises: In letter correspondence dated September 1, 2010 stated that “server-side source code” is available for inspection in Austin, Texas and that “client-side code” is available for access over the internet (with the Playboy-supplied password). Thank you for correspondence. Please provide us an index identifying the source code made available for inspection. Staples: Has produced no source code. Please provide a prompt identification of the source code Staples will make available for inspection. Please pay careful attention to the source code for the accused Staples web applications (e.g. search suggest, etc.). Oracle America (f/k/a Sun Microsystems): In letter correspondence dated September 1, 2010 provided an index listing the source code made available for inspection. Thank you for your correspondence. Does Oracle plan to make source code available for the accused websites? If so, can you please provide us with an index of that code as well? Texas Instruments: Has produced no source code. Please provide a prompt identification of the source code Texas Instruments will make available for inspection. Sincerely, Josh Budwin cc: All other counsel of record Defendant Adobe Systems Incorporated Amazon.com Inc. Austin 62481v1 Counsel Joseph P. Reid E-mail reid@fr.com Jason W. Wolff Matthew Powers Jared B. Bobrow Joseph H. Lee Christian Hurt wolff@fr.com Amazon-Eolas@weil.com September 3, 2010 Page 6 of 7 Defendant Apple, Inc. CDW Corporation Citigroup Inc. eBay Inc. Frito-Lay, Inc. and Rent-A-Center, Inc. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. Google Inc. and YouTube J.C. Penney Company, Inc. Austin 62481v1 E-mail apple-eolas@sidley.com Chris Joe Brian Carpenter Eric W. Buether Neil J. McNabnay Chris.Joe@BJCIPLaw.com Brian.Carpenter@BJCIPLaw.com Eric.Buether@BJCIPLaw.com mcnabnay@fr.com J. Nicholas Bunch Proshanto Mukherji Robert F. Perry Mark H. Francis Christopher C. Carnaval Michael E. Jones Allen F. Gardner Brian Carpenter bunch@fr.com mukherji@fr.com Google-Eolas@kslaw.com Eric W. Buether Blockbuster Inc. Counsel Richard A. Cederoth Shubham Mukherjee Duy D. Nguyen Teague I. Donahey Theodore Whitley Chandler Eric Albritton Matthew Clay Harris David Kent Wooten Deron R. Dacus Shannon Marie Dacus Juliane Hartzell Scott A. Sanderson Anthony S. Gabrielson Eric Hugh Findlay Brian Craft Roger Brian Cowie Galyn Dwight Gafford Michael Scott Fuller Roy William Hardin Jason E. Mueller Eric L. Sophir Alexas D. Skucas Matthew Douglas Powers Christian J. Hurt Jared B. Bobrow Joseph H. Lee Jeffrey F. Yee Eric.Buether@BJCIPLaw.com apple@emafirm.com Blockbuster-Eolas@velaw.com derond@rameyflock.com shannond@rameyflock.com eolas@marshallip.com efindlay@findlaycraft.com bcraft@findlaycraft.com Citibank.Eolas@lockelord.com esophir@kslaw.com askucas@kslaw.com eBay-Eolas@weil.com Frito-JCP-RAC-Eolas@gtlaw.com mikejones@potterminton.com allengardner@potterminton.com Brian.Carpenter@BJCIPLaw.com September 3, 2010 Page 7 of 7 Defendant New Frontier Media, Inc. Office Depot Perot Systems Corp. Playboy Enterprises International Staples, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Texas Instruments, Inc. Yahoo! Inc. Austin 62481v1 E-mail Frito-JCP-RAC-Eolas@gtlaw.com David Crump J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Counsel Jeffrey Joyner Jeffrey Yee Debra Elaine Gunter dcrump@mwe.com Steve Shahida Herbert A. Yarbrough, III Anthony T. Pierce sshahida@mwe.com trey@yw-lawfirm.com eolaslitigation@akingump.com David M. Stein Suzanne M. Wallman Brett E. Bachtell J. Thad Heartfield Douglas Mark Kubehl David O. Taylor Vernon E. Evans Roger J. Fulghum Paula D. Heyman Kevin J. Meek Scott Partridge Deron R. Dacus Shannon Marie Dacus Gentry C. McLean David B. Weaver John A. Fedock Alexandra McTague Donald R. Steinberg Mark Matuschak Daniel V. Williams Kate Hutchins Mark D. Fowler Kathryn B. Riley Amanda Aline Abraham Brendan Clay Roth Matthew Douglas Powers Christian J. Hurt Jared B. Bobrow Joseph H. Lee Deborah J. Race Otis W. Carroll, Jr. dstein@mwe.com swallman@mwe.com bbachtell@mwe.com thad@jth-law.com DLEolasTeam@bakerbotts.com debby@yw-lawfirm.com ddacus@rameyflock.com shannond@rameyflock.com Playboy-Eolas@velaw.com alexandra.mctague@wilmerhale.com don.steinberg@wilmerhale.com mark.matuschak@wilmerhale.com daniel.williams@wilmerhale.com kate.hutchins@wilmerhale.com Oracle-Eolas@dlapiper.com aa@rothfirm.com br@rothfirm.com Yahoo-Eolas@weil.com drace@icklaw.com fedserv@icklaw.com

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