Oracle v. Google: Food Fight in Discovery Already – Hearing Feb. 9 – Updated 2Xs

“Believe it or not, there is already a discovery dispute in
Oracle v. Google. And I’m really glad, because that’s the only way
we can find out what has been going in discovery. What we find out
now is that both parties have served the other with
interrogatories, and neither is happy with the other’s answers, so
both are writing letters to the judge, calling them motions to
compel. We get to see Google’s answers to Oracle’s interrogatories,
and that really fleshes out Google’s position for me.

“Oracle, though, feels that there’s not enough flesh on the
bones, not enough for them to prepare for depositions, so Oracle
filed a motion to compel [PDF] in the form of a letter to Judge
William Alsup, the presiding judge, on February 1, seeking to force
Google to supplement its responses to interrogatories. But Google
feels that it can’t do any better until Oracle provides more
specificity, so it then sent a couple of letters to the judge also,
one responding [PDF] to the issues raised by Oracle’s motion to
compel and a second a motion to compel [PDF], telling the judge
that Oracle has failed to fulfill its obligations in discovery and
that “the parties have reached an impasse regarding the adequacy of
Oracle’s Patent Local Rule 3-1 disclosures, and we request the
Court’s assistance in resolving the issues about which the parties
disagree.”

“There will be a hearing February 9th at 11 AM at the US
District Court for the Northern District of California, Courtroom
9, 19th Floor, at the courthouse at 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San
Francisco, CA, to resolve all the discovery issues. The lawyers
have to show up at 8 AM at a meet and confer, and if it’s not
settled by 11 AM, which I doubt it will be, the hearing begins and
the judge will settle it”

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