I/P Engine, Inc. v. AOL, Inc. et al
Filing
247
MOTION for Leave to File and Memorandum In Support of Motion For Leave To File Supplemental Brief In Opposition To Plaintiffs Motion For Discovery Sanctions and Declaration Of Joshua L. Sohn In Support Of Defendants Supplemental Brief In Opposition To Plaintiffs Motion For Discovery Sanctions by AOL Inc., Gannett Company, Inc., Google Inc., IAC Search & Media, Inc., Target Corporation. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2)(Noona, Stephen)
Exhibit 2
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
NORFOLK DIVISION
I/P ENGINE, INC.
Plaintiff,
v.
Civil Action No. 2:11-cv-512
AOL, INC., et al.,
Defendants.
DECLARATION OF JOSHUA L. SOHN IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS’
SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR
DISCOVERY SANCTIONS
I, Joshua L. Sohn, declare as follows:
1.
I am an attorney in the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP and am
counsel for Defendant Google Inc. (“Google”) in the above-captioned case. I provide this
declaration upon personal knowledge and, if called upon as a witness, would testify competently
as to the matters recited herein.
2.
On August 14, Plaintiff in this case served document subpoenas on Ruben Ortega (co-
inventor of the Bowman reference) and Gary Culliss (inventor of the Culliss reference). Mssrs.
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Ortega and Culliss produced documents responsive to these subpoenas on August 22 and
September 4, respectively.
3.
On August 31, Plaintiff served deposition subpoenas to Mssrs. Culliss and Ortega for
September 4 – the very next business day and the last day of fact discovery under the Court’s
Scheduling Order.
4.
Starting on September 3, Mr. Ortega’s counsel offered several dates for Mr. Ortega’s
deposition, and on September 6, counsel suggested a preferred date of September 25.
Meanwhile, Defendants offered to make Mr. Culliss available for deposition on September 27.
Plaintiff has not yet accepted the September 25 date for Mr. Ortega’s deposition or the
September 27 date for Mr. Culliss’ deposition.
5.
On August 29, Plaintiff’s expert (Dr. Jaime Carbonell) submitted his Rebuttal Expert
Report Regarding Validity in this case. Dr. Carbonell’s report addressed Bowman, Culliss, and
Ryan at length, contending that none of these references invalidate the Asserted Patents. At no
point did Dr. Carbonell state that he was hindered or prejudiced in his ability to analyze these
references for purposes of forming his validity opinions.
6.
Dr. Carbonell is scheduled to be deposed on September 21. Likewise, Dr. Lyle Ungar
(Defendants’ invalidity and non-infringement expert) is scheduled to be deposed on September
22 and 23 for twelve total hours.
7.
Plaintiff submitted a supplemental expert infringement report on September 4 – one week
after Defendants’ rebuttal non-infringement report and just 36 hours before the deposition of
Plaintiff’s infringement expert, Dr. Ophir Frieder. This report disclosed new theories and
purported to address depositions occurring as early as 5 weeks earlier. At Dr. Frieder’s
deposition, Plaintiff argued that Defendants suffered no prejudice from the supplemental report
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because “we gave you the report in time for you to present questions to Dr. Frieder. And, in fact,
you did that, so I think the record will reflect that.”
I declare under penalty of perjury of the laws of the United States that the foregoing is
true and correct.
Dated: September 14, 2012
Joshua L. Sohn
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DATED: September 14, 2012
/s/ Stephen E. Noona
Stephen E. Noona
Virginia State Bar No. 25367
KAUFMAN & CANOLES, P.C.
150 West Main Street, Suite 2100
Norfolk, VA 23510
Telephone: (757) 624.3000
Facsimile: (757) 624.3169
senoona@kaufcan.com
David Bilsker
David A. Perlson
QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART &
SULLIVAN, LLP
50 California Street, 22nd Floor
San Francisco, California 94111
Telephone: (415) 875-6600
Facsimile: (415) 875-6700
davidbilsker@quinnemanuel.com
davidperlson@quinnemanuel.com
Counsel for Google Inc., Target Corporation,
IAC Search & Media, Inc., and
Gannett Co., Inc.
By: /s/ Stephen E. Noona
Stephen E. Noona
Virginia State Bar No. 25367
KAUFMAN & CANOLES, P.C.
150 W. Main Street, Suite 2100
Norfolk, VA 23510
Telephone: (757) 624-3000
Facsimile: (757) 624-3169
Robert L. Burns
FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT &
DUNNER, LLP
Two Freedom Square
11955 Freedom Drive
Reston, VA 20190
Telephone: (571) 203-2700
Facsimile: (202) 408-4400
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Cortney S. Alexander
FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT &
DUNNER, LLP
3500 SunTrust Plaza
303 Peachtree Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 94111
Telephone: (404) 653-6400
Facsimile: (415) 653-6444
Counsel for Defendant AOL, Inc.
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that on September 14, 2012, I will electronically file the foregoing with
the Clerk of Court using the CM/ECF system, which will send a notification of such filing (NEF)
to the following:
Jeffrey K. Sherwood
Kenneth W. Brothers
DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP
1825 Eye Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
Telephone: (202) 420-2200
Facsimile: (202) 420-2201
sherwoodj@dicksteinshapiro.com
brothersk@dicksteinshapiro.com
Donald C. Schultz
W. Ryan Snow
Steven Stancliff
CRENSHAW, WARE & MARTIN, P.L.C.
150 West Main Street, Suite 1500
Norfolk, VA 23510
Telephone: (757) 623-3000
Facsimile: (757) 623-5735
dschultz@cwm-law.cm
wrsnow@cwm-law.com
sstancliff@cwm-law.com
Counsel for Plaintiff, I/P Engine, Inc.
01980.51928/4962070.1
/s/ Stephen E. Noona
Stephen E. Noona
Virginia State Bar No. 25367
KAUFMAN & CANOLES, P.C.
150 West Main Street, Suite 2100
Norfolk, VA 23510
Telephone: (757) 624.3000
Facsimile: (757) 624.3169
senoona@kaufcan.com
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