I/P Engine, Inc. v. AOL, Inc. et al

Filing 117

MOTION to Compel Plaintiff I/P Engine's Motion to Compel Defendant Google, Inc.'s Custodial Document Production by I/P Engine, Inc.. (Sherwood, Jeffrey)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
NORFOLK DIVISION
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Plaintiff,
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AOL, INC. et al.,
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Defendants.
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I/P ENGINE, INC.,

Civ. Action No. 2:11-cv-512

PLAINTIFF I/P ENGINE’S MOTION TO COMPEL
DEFENDANT GOOGLE INC.’S CUSTODIAL DOCUMENT PRODUCTION

Plaintiff I/P Engine, Inc. (“I/P Engine”) moves to compel Google to produce its custodial
document production responsive to I/P Engine’s pending discovery requests.
More than six months ago, on November 7, 2011, I/P Engine, Inc. (“I/P Engine”) served
on its initial document requests upon Defendant Google Inc. (“Google”). Those document
requests were served pursuant to a stipulated agreement between the parties, whereby I/P Engine
agreed to early disclosure of its infringement contentions, and Defendants agreed to engage in
early document discovery. I/P Engine kept its part of the agreement. Six months later, however,
Google has not produced a single custodial document, even though it acknowledges that it has
collected those documents. I/P Engine repeatedly has been requesting Google for these
documents, but without success. On April 9, 2012, Google for the first time identified a target
date for the production of those documents: June 15, 2012 – more than eight months after

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service of I/P Engine’s document requests, and only a month before I/P Engine’s expert reports
are due.
For the reasons set forth in the accompanying Memorandum of Law, I/P Engine asks this
Court to compel Google to produce all relevant, non-privileged documents relating to I/P
Engine’s pending document requests including its custodial documents by no later than
April 30, 2012.

Dated: April 11, 2012

By: /s/ Jeffrey K. Sherwood
Donald C. Schultz (Virginia Bar No. 30531)
W. Ryan Snow (Virginia Bar No. 47423)
CRENSHAW, WARE & MARTIN PLC
150 West Main Street
Norfolk, VA 23510
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Jeffrey K. Sherwood (Virginia Bar No. 19222)
Frank C. Cimino, Jr.
Kenneth W. Brothers
DeAnna Allen
DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP
1825 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: [phone]
Counsel for Plaintiff I/P Engine, Inc.

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CERTIFICATE OF GOOD FAITH

In accordance with Local Rule 37(E), I certify that counsel conferred in good faith to
resolve this dispute prior to the filing of the present Motion. Counsel’s meet-and-confer efforts
are set forth in the Factual Background section of I/P Engine’s accompanying memorandum, and
included multiple correspondence and telephonic meet-and-confers.

/s/Kenneth W. Brothers
Kenneth W. Brothers

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on this 11th day of April, 2012, the foregoing PLAINTIFF I/P
ENGINE’S MOTION TO COMPEL DEFENDANT GOOGLE INC.’S CUSTODIAL
DOCUMENT PRODUCTION, was served via the Court’s CM/ECF system, on the following:

Stephen Edward Noona
Kaufman & Canoles, P.C.
150 W Main St
Suite 2100
Norfolk, VA 23510
[e-mail]
David Bilsker
David Perlson
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
50 California Street, 22nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
Robert L. Burns
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Two Freedom Square
11955 Freedom Drive
Reston, VA 20190
[e-mail]
Cortney S. Alexander
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
3500 SunTrust Plaza
303 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 94111
[e-mail]
/s/ Jeffrey K. Sherwood

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