IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN

THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, INC.,

a Michigan corporation,

Plaintiff,

Case No. 2:09-CV-10756

vs. Hon. Marianne O. Battani

NAVIGATION CATALYST SYSTEMS, INC.,

a Delaware corporation; BASIC FUSION, INC.,

a Delaware corporation; CONNEXUS CORP.,

a Delaware corporation; and FIRSTLOOK, INC.,

a Delaware corporation,

Defendants.

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Enrico Schaefer (P43506)

Brian A. Hall (P70865)

TRAVERSE LEGAL, PLC

810 Cottageview Drive, Unit G-20

Traverse City, MI 49686

231-932-0411

enrico.schaefer@traverselegal.com

brianhall@traverselegal.com

Lead Attorneys for Plaintiff

Anthony P. Patti (P43729)

HOOPER HATHAWAY, PC

126 South Main Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

734-662-4426

apatti@hooperhathaway.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

William A. Delgado (pro hac vice)

WILLENKEN WILSON LOH & LIEB LLP

707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 3850

Los Angeles, CA 90017

(213) 955-9240

williamdelgado@willenken.com

Lead Counsel for Defendants

Nicholas J. Stasevich (P41896)

Benjamin K. Steffans (P69712)

BUTZEL LONG, P.C.

150 West Jefferson, Suite 100

Detroit, MI 48226

(313) 225-7000

stasevich@butzel.com

steffans@butzel.com

Local Counsel for Defendants

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DECLARATION OF WILLIAM A. DELGADO
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I, William A. Delgado, declare as follows:

1. I am an attorney duly licensed to practice in the State of California and have been

admitted to this Court for purposes of this case. I make this declaration in support of Defendant

Navigation Catalyst Systems, Inc.’s Motion for Protective Order. Except where otherwise

indicated, I have personal knowledge of the facts stated herein and, if called as a witness, I could

competently testify hereto.

2. I attended the scheduling conference in this matter on January 11, 2010. There,

Plaintiff took the position that third party discovery is required because one of the statutory

factors that can be evidence of “bad faith” for purposes of the ACPA is the registration of

multiple domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to the mark of others, citing 15

U.S.C. § 1125(d)(1)(B)(i)(VIII).

3. At the time, I disagreed with the application of the Statutory Factors in a case

such as this one where the domain name registration was the result of an automated computer

system.

4. Notwithstanding Defendant’s position as to the non-applicability of the Statutory

Factors, on January 14, 2010, I reached out to Plaintiff’s counsel, Enrico Schaefer, to offer a plan

by which Defendant could provide the information Plaintiff sought for purposes of Statutory

Factor 8 (either because it was in NCS’s possession, custody, and/or control or easily stipulated

to) without having Plaintiff send out a set of burdensome subpoenas to third parties. A true and

correct copy of my letter to Mr. Schaefer is attached as Exhibit A. I received no reply

whatsoever.
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5. On February 1, 2010, Plaintiff served Defendant with a Notice of Intent to Serve

Subpoena for six different companies: Facebook, Yahoo! (Flickr), Netflix, Google (Orkut),

Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), and YouTube. True and correct copies of each Notice of

Intent to Serve Subpoena are attached as Exhibits B-G, respectively.

6. After receiving the Notices of Intent to Serve Subpoena, I informed Mr. Schaefer

that Defendant would bring a motion for protective order. A true and correct copy of my e-mail

to Mr. Schaefer is attached as Exhibit H. Mr. Schaefer and I met and conferred regarding the

motion on February 3, 2010, but no agreement was reached.

7. The United States Patent and Trademark Office contains a publicly accessible

database of trademarks that have been applied for and registered called TESS (Trademark

Electronic Search System) which can be accessed from the Office’s website at

http://www.uspto.gov.

8. Plaintiff’s Request for Production No. 46 in its First Set of Requests for

Production reads: “Produce all Documents reflecting authorization or permission from a third

party trademark orservice mark owner to NCS register a domain name incorporating the third

party trademark or service mark, or anything confusingly similar thereto.”

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the

foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on this 8th day of February 2010 at Los Angeles, California.

/s/William A. Delgado .

William A. Delgado
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I hereby certify that on February 8, 2010, I electronically filed the foregoing paper

with the Court using the ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the

following:

Enrico Schaefer (P43506)

Brian A. Hall (P70865)

TRAVERSE LEGAL, PLC

810 Cottageview Drive, Unit G-20

Traverse City, MI 49686

231-932-0411

enrico.schaefer@traverselegal.com

brianhall@traverselegal.com

Lead Attorneys for Plaintiff

Anthony P. Patti (P43729)

HOOPER HATHAWAY, PC

126 South Main Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

734-662-4426

apatti@hooperhathaway.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Nicholas J. Stasevich (P41896)

Benjamin K. Steffans (P69712)

BUTZEL LONG, P.C.

150 West Jefferson, Suite 100

Detroit, MI 48226

(313) 225-7000

stasevich@butzel.com

steffans@butzel.com

Local Counsel for Defendants

William A. Delgado (admitted pro hac vice)

WILLENKEN WILSON LOH & LIEB LLP

707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 3850

Los Angeles, CA 90017

(213) 955-9240

williamdelgado@willenken.com

Lead Counsel for Defendants

/s/William A. Delgado

William A. Delgado (admitted pro hac vice)

WILLENKEN WILSON LOH & LIEB, LLP

707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 3850

Los Angeles, CA 90017

(213) 955-9240

williamdelgado@willenken.com

Lead Counsel for Defendants