I/P Engine, Inc. v. AOL, Inc. et al
Filing
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Reply to Motion re 117 MOTION to Compel Plaintiff I/P Engine's Motion to Compel Defendant Google, Inc.'s Custodial Document Production filed 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
REPLY IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF I/P ENGINE’S MOTION TO COMPEL
GOOGLE’S CUSTODIAL DOCUMENT PRODUCTION
Google’s document production responsive to I/P Engine’s document requests, which
were served November 7, 2011, was due 30 days after the request, therefore, it is 138 days late.
The only question is how long Google should be permitted to drag out its production of
documents. Google admits in its Opposition (at 7, 8, and 11) that, several weeks ago, it collected
115,000 documents relating to its nine employees that are the agreed-upon custodians. This
averages approximately 12,750 documents per custodian. Google states that it has 55 attorneys
reviewing these documents. Opposition at 11. If each member of Google’s document team
looked at 230 documents in a day, then that team could complete the review for a single
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custodian in a single day.1 Google’s team could have completed its review of the 115,000
documents in 9 days – well before Google filed its opposition brief.2
Dated: April 23, 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: (757) 623-3000
Facsimile: (757) 623-5735
Jeffrey K. Sherwood (Virginia Bar No. 19222)
Frank C. Cimino, Jr.
Kenneth W. Brothers
DeAnna Allen
Charles J. Monterio, Jr.
DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP
1825 Eye Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Telephone: (202) 420-2200
Facsimile: (202) 420-2201
Counsel for Plaintiff I/P Engine, Inc.
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Google says the average length of each document is 2.5 pages. Opposition at 12. A typical
document reviewer can look at about 50 documents per hour. Each member of Google’s
document review team only needs less than 5 hours to review 230 documents.
2
Google admitted (at 8) that it had all 115,000 of the documents ready for review by no later
than April 6. Of course, it has known that the files of the nine custodians would be searched for
relevant documents since January 2012, when the parties agreed upon the nine custodians.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on this 23rd day of April, 2012, the foregoing REPLY IN
SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF I/P ENGINE’S MOTION TO COMPEL GOOGLE’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
senoona@kaufcan.com
David Bilsker
David Perlson
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
50 California Street, 22nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
davidbilsker@quinnemanuel.com
davidperlson@quinnemanuel.com
Robert L. Burns
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Two Freedom Square
11955 Freedom Drive
Reston, VA 20190
robert.burns@finnegan.com
Cortney S. Alexander
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
3500 SunTrust Plaza
303 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 94111
cortney.alexander@finnegan.com
/s/ Jeffrey K. Sherwood
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