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BrowseUploadSign inJoinBooksAudiobooksComicsSheet MusicWelcome to Scribd! Start your free trial and access books, documents and more.Find out more1 Jack Russo (Cal. Bar No. 96068) Christopher Sargent (Cal. Bar No. 246285) 2 Ansel Halliburton (Cal. Bar No.282906) COMPUTERLAW GROUP LLP 3 401 Florence Street Palo Alto, CA 94301 4 (650) 327-9800 (650) 618-1863 fax 5 jrusso@computerlaw.com csargent@computerlaw.com 6 ahalliburton@computerlaw.com 7 Attorneys for Plaintiff XIMPLEWARE CORP. 8 9 10 11
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U NITED S TATES D ISTRICT C OURT N ORTHERN D ISTRICT OF C ALIFORNIA
XimpleWare Corp., a California Corporation, Plaintiff; v. Versata Software, Inc., f/k/a Trilogy Software, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Trilogy Development Group, Inc., a California corporation; Ameriprise Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Aurea Software, Inc., a/k/a Aurea, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Pacific Life Insurance Company, a Nebraska corporation; United HealthCare Services, Inc., a Minnesota corporation; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a New York corporation; The Prudential Insurance Company of America, a New Jersey corporation; Wellmark, Inc., an Iowa corporation, Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation; and Aviva USA Corporation, an Iowa corporation, Defendants.
Case No. 13-5161 COMPLAINT FOR: (1) DIRECT PATENT INFRINGEMENT (2) INDUCING PATENT INFRINGEMENT (3) DECLARATORY RELIEF Jury Trial Demanded
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Plaintiff XimpleWare Corp. alleges the following against Defendants Versata Software,
2 Inc., f/k/a Trilogy Software, Inc., Trilogy Development Group, Inc., and Aurea Software, Inc. 3 a/k/a Aurea, Inc. (collectively “Versata” or the “Versata Defendants”); and against Ameriprise 4 Financial, Inc., Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., Pacific Life Insurance Company, United 5 HealthCare Services, Inc., Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, The Prudential Insurance 6 Company of America, Wellmark, Inc., Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc., and Aviva USA 7 Corporation ((collectively the “Customer Defendants”); and the Versata Defendants and the 8 Customer Defendants are collectively the “Defendants”): 9 10 1. N ATURE
OF A CTION
This action involves claims of patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271 et seq.
11 and declaratory relief.
PARTIES Plaintiff XimpleWare Corp. (“XimpleWare”) is a corporation organized under the
14 laws of, and registered to do business in, California, with its principal place of business in 15 Milpitas, California. 16 3. Plaintiff XimpleWare is the designer, developer, and distributor of advanced
17 computer software and, as an enterprise that practices its own patents, it has delivered to the 18 marketplace advanced computer software that provides enterprises, Fortune 5000 corporations, 19 firms, and other businesses with an advanced data processing solution for challenging data 20 processing problems. Plaintiff XimpleWare has a number of licensed customers including 21 Matrikon, Inc., Smith & Tinker, Inc., United Stationers Technology Services LLC, and Zoosk, 22 Inc. 23 4. Defendant Versata Software, Inc., f/k/a Trilogy Software, Inc. (“Versata”) is a
24 private corporation registered to do business in California, organized under the laws of Delaware, 25 with its principal place of business in Austin, Texas. 26 5. Defendant Trilogy Development Group, Inc. (“Trilogy”) is a corporation
27 organized under the laws of California, with its principal place of business in Austin, Texas. On 28
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1 information and belief, Trilogy acquired Defendant Versata in or about February 2006, and 2 Trilogy is now the parent company of Versata and its subsidiaries. 3 6. Defendant Aurea Software, Inc. a/k/a Aurea, Inc. (“Aurea”) is a corporation
4 registered to do business in California, organized under the laws of Delaware with its principal 5 place of business in Austin, Texas. On information and belief, Aurea merged with Trilogy and 6 Versata in October, 2013.1 7 7. Defendant Ameriprise Financial, Inc. is a corporation registered to do business in
8 California, organized under the laws of Delaware, with its principal place of business located in 9 Minneapolis, Minnesota. On information and belief, Ameriprise is a leading diversified financial 10 services provider, providing a range of financial planning products and is a customer of Versata 11 and Trilogy.
Defendant Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. is a corporation registered to do
13 business in California, organized under the laws of Delaware, with its principal place of business 14 located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On information and belief, Defendant Ameriprise Financial 15 Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Defendant Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (together, Ameriprise 16 Financial, Inc. and Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. shall be referred to as “Ameriprise”). 17 9. Defendant Pacific Life Insurance Company (“Pacific Life”) is a Nebraska
18 corporation with its principal place of business in Newport Beach, California. On information 19 and belief, Pacific Life is a customer of Versata and Trilogy. 20 10. Defendant United HealthCare Services, Inc. (“UHS”) is a public corporation
21 registered to do business in California organized under the laws of Minnesota with its principal 22 place of business in Minnetonka, Minnesota. On information and belief, UHS is a diversified 23 managed health care company and a customer of Versata and Trilogy. 24 11. Defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”) is a public
25 corporation registered to do business in California organized under the laws of New York with its 26 principal place of business in New York, New York. On information and belief, Metlife is a 27 28
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1 global provider of insurance, annuities, and employment benefit programs and is a customer of 2 Versata and Trilogy. 3 12. Defendant The Prudential Insurance Company of America (“Prudential”) is a
4 public corporation registered to do business in California organized under the laws of New 5 Jersey with its principal place of business in Newark, New Jersey. On information and belief, 6 Prudential provides insurance and financial services and is a customer of Versata and Trilogy. 7 13. Defendant Wellmark, Inc. (“Wellmark”) is a corporation organized under the laws
8 of Iowa, operating under the fictitious names “Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa” and 9 “Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.” Wellmark has its principal place of business in Des 10 Moines, Iowa. On information and belief, Wellmark is an insurance company and a customer of 11 Versata and Trilogy.
Defendant Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. (“W&R”) is a public corporation
13 registered to do business in California, organized under the laws of Delaware with its principal 14 place of business in Overland Park, Kansas. On information and belief, W&R provides asset 15 management and financial planning services and is a customer of Versata and Trilogy. 16 15. Defendant Aviva USA Corporation (“Aviva”) is a company organized under the
17 laws of Iowa with its principal place of business in West Des Moines, Iowa. On information and 18 belief, Aviva is a subsidiary of Aviva, plc., a multinational insurance company headquartered in 19 London, United Kingdom, and is a customer of Versata and Trilogy. 20 16. Plaintiff is informed and believes and on that basis alleges (collectively
21 hereinafter “on information and belief”), that at all relevant times Trilogy was and is the 22 operating entity of, and has effective, if not actual, control over the business decisions made by 23 its subsidiaries, Versata and Aurea. 24 17. On information and belief, at all relevant times, Versata and Aurea were the mere
25 solely controlled instrumentalities of Trilogy and functioned as Trilogy’s alter egos, and all 26 undertakings by Versata and Aurea were known by, sanctioned, or done at the direction and 27 under the sole control of Trilogy, or by others serving under Trilogy’s direction and/or sole 28 control.
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On information and belief, at all relevant times, Trilogy, Versata, Aurea, and a
2 number of other entities have acted and continue to act in conspiracy to obscure Versata’s 3 liability for Patent infringement, breaches of contract, and other wrongful conduct. On 4 information and belief, those acts consist of, but are not limited to, the comingling of corporate 5 funds and assets; failure to segregate funds and assets of the separate entities; concealment and 6 misrepresentation of the identity and ownership of the corporations; disregard for formalities and 7 failure to maintain arms’ length relationships among the various entities; the use of the corporate 8 entity to procure labor, services, or merchandise for another entity; the manipulation of assets 9 and liabilities between entities so as to concentrate the assets in one and the liabilities in another; 10 contracting with one another with intent to avoid performance by use of a corporate entity as a 11 shield against liability of another entity; and the use of a corporation to transfer to it the existing
12 liability of another entity. 13 19. By reason of the foregoing, this Court should pierce the corporate veils of Versata
14 and Aurea and hold Trilogy or any other parent company or controlling persons or entities liable 15 for Versata’s monetary and other obligations as determined at trial. 16 17 20. J URISDICTION AND V ENUE This Court has exclusive subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and
18 1338(a) because Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction in patent cases, and because those 19 claims are Federal questions. 20 21. This Court has personal jurisdiction over all defendants because all Defendants do
21 substantial business in this District. 22 22. Venue is proper, under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1391(c), 1391(d), and 1400(b). This
23 action raises federal questions (patent infringement); substantial part of the events giving rise to 24 this action occurred in this District; the creation, infringement, and sale of software at issue 25 involved corporations registered to do business in California with California subsidiaries, 26 branches, and partners found in and doing business in this district; and at least one act of 27 infringement took place in this District. 28
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B ACKGROUND FACTS XML Parsing A parser is a piece of software that reads certain electronic files and makes the
4 information from those files available to applications and programming languages, acting as a 5 go-between as underlying code which can be written in any number of programming languages 6 and what a user sees when the program runs. 7 24. Extensible Markup Language (known as XML) is a set of rules for encoding
8 documents electronically. Known as a metalanguage, XML allows one to design a markup 9 language which is in turn used for the easy interchange of documents on the World Wide Web. 10 XML is itself a subset of a standard called SGML, and can be used to design a tagging scheme 11 that allows elements of a document to be marked according to their content rather than their
12 format. 13 25. Information stored in XML documents can be used more effectively when
14 parsed—read line by line or node by node to fetch pieces of information for the program to read 15 and translate. In essence, parsing is the act of analyzing a set of characters or data and then 16 determining, recognizing, deciphering, or acquiring the significant data and commands from a 17 sequence of programming code, and translating the code which allows the program to do the job 18 for which it was designed. 19 20 26. Formation of XimpleWare In October 2002, Zhengyu “Jimmy” Zhang founded XimpleWare (the
21 “Company”) with a since-departed co-founder Hui Tian. Mr. Ying Shum (who has since passed 22 away) was an advisor to the Company during its early stages. Using experience gained from 23 fifteen years in the software engineering field, Mr. Zhang started XimpleWare with the goal of 24 achieving maximum efficiency for XML processing by using dedicated integrated circuits as a 25 system on a chip (SOC). Mr. Tian left the venture in 2003, and since then Mr. Zhang has handled 26 all creative and managerial responsibilities at XimpleWare. 27 27. Mr. Zhang chose the name “XimpleWare” for his new venture to evoke the
28 efficiency, speed, and simplicity with which his innovative source code parses XML. The name
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1 also included the letters X-M-L, further identifying XimpleWare’s goal and product in the 2 marketplace. 3 28. Mr. Zhang began writing the XimpleWare Source code (the “Source Code”) in
4 2004, and has since put in over 10,000 work hours of computer programming into developing 5 and improving the XimpleWare product. 6 29. In its nascent stages, XimpleWare was funded entirely by seed money from
7 friends and family of the original founders, mostly from Mr. Zhang and his parents. Mr. Tian still 8 holds a minority stake in the company, but apart from Mr. Zhang, Mr. Tian, and Ying Shum, 9 there are no other owners, venture capital groups, angel investors, or parties with an interest in 10 XimpleWare. 11
Open Source Software 30. Open source software is software whose source code is available free of charge
13 for the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute. While some developers choose to 14 provide their product entirely free of charge, many developers and companies—including large 15 public companies like Oracle and IBM—make use of open source licensing and its collaborative 16 nature to create or incorporate code into products that can be licensed for profit outside the open 17 source community. 18 31. By licensing one’s source code as part of the open source community, or making
19 modifications to someone else’s source code under an open source license, the creator is granted 20 certain protections, depending on the permissiveness of the particular license, from improper use 21 of his or her intellectual property. To that end, most, if not all, open source licenses apply certain 22 requirements and restrictions for the method and manner in which code extracted from an open 23 source repository can be used, and attaches conditions on any such use. 24 32. There are many commonly used open source licenses, including the GNU General
25 Public License, the BSD License, and the Apache License. 26 33. XimpleWare made the business decision to license its Source Code under the
27 GNU General Public License version 2 (“GPL”). A copy of the GPL is attached to this 28 Complaint as Exhibit 1. Due to the fundamental properties of XML technology, XML parsing
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1 innovations are very hard to sell. A parser is not an end-user product, i.e., it must be integrated 2 into another existing product. 3 34. The GPL requires, among other things, (1) that any changes made to the code
4 carry notices stating that the files were changed, and the date of all changes; (2) any code created 5 or derived from GPL-protected code must also be licensed under the GPL; (3) copyright notices 6 must print or display when the code is run; and (4) that when distributed, the program must be 7 accompanied by the complete machine-readable source code. 8 35. XimpleWare chose the GPL approach because it is one of the most restrictive
9 open source licenses available, requiring that any derivative code incorporating GPL-protected 10 code must be returned to the open source community in its entirety. This concept is often referred 11 to as “copyleft.”
12 13 36.
The XimpleWare Product The complete XimpleWare software product, known as “VTD-XML” or “VTD-
14 XML Extended” (collectively, the “Product”), is made up of a number of constituent parts, each 15 with individual functions, and is written in several different programming languages. Most of the 16 code, however, is written in Java, which is one of the most popular programming languages in 17 use today. 18 37. XML is ubiquitous in today’s business world. For example, since 2007, the file
19 formats for Microsoft Office are based on XML,2 and many modern web pages are coded in 20 XML.3 21 38. The XimpleWare Source Code and Product reads and parses XML at a rate
22 estimated to be five to ten times faster than other current XML parsing programs, effecting 23 greater efficiency and speed. It also provides indexing and incremental capabilities that are 24 25 Tom Ngo, “Office Open XML Overview”, Ecma International, http://www.ecmainternational.org/news/TC45_current_work/OpenXML%20White%20Paper.pdf (last accessed 26 Sep. 10, 2013) (archived at http://perma.cc/0fyzpuJ6Vzg). 3 27 Murray Altheim and Shane McCarron, eds., XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML - Second Edition, W3C Recommendation, World Wide Web Consortium, Nov. 23, 2010, 28 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/ (last accessed Sep. 10, 2013) (archived at http://perma.cc/05zB2mzwJW8).
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1 crucial to many high performance XML applications and are not available in any other XML 2 parsing libraries. Efficiency and speed are critical in many applications of XML, especially in 3 large scale enterprise data interchange applications where entire server computers are dedicated 4 to handling streams of XML data. If XML data can be processed faster, then fewer servers are 5 needed, less leased space in data centers is needed for those servers, and less energy is required 6 to power those servers—altogether greatly reducing computing needs and costs. 7 39. The Product is an enabler for any program that uses XML in its applications, but
8 to see the upside in the parsing speed, customers have to try it. 9 40. XimpleWare has had interest and licensing discussions with several industry
10 leaders, and has established its vtd-xml software as a leading technology in XML parsing. 11
The XimpleWare Source Code 41. Over the course of over ten years, Mr. Zhang updated and improved the Source
13 Code and Product (and still does), checking out sections of code to work on and then checking it 14 back in to an open source database called SourceForge. SourceForge is a community-based 15 website where software developers can publish source code to a global audience, and can join 16 and collaborate on open source projects.4 17 42. One of the principal tools SourceForge provides is version control systems. A
18 version control system is a computer program that manages a set of source code. Programmers 19 use version control systems by “checking out” a copy of the source code to their own computer, 20 making changes, and then submitting those changes back into the version control system in a 21 process called “checking in.” Each check-in is documented in the version control system with 22 time, date, and contributor information, as well as comments from the programmer describing his 23 or her changes. With a version control system, it is possible to review all changes to a set of 24 source code and to know who made those changes. 25 43. SourceForge also provides a system where programmers not affiliated with a
26 project may submit suggested changes to members of the project. The members may then choose 27 SourceForge “About” page, http://sourceforge.net/about (last accessed Sep. 10, 2013) (noting 28 SourceForge has “3.4 million developers [who] create powerful software in over 324,000 projects”) (archived at http://perma.cc/0fwQ1xw51i1)..
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1 to check those changes in to the version control system, or to reject them. As with any other 2 check-in, time, date, contributor, and other information are logged in the version control system. 3 44. One version control system offered by SourceForge is the Concurrent Versions
4 System, commonly known as “CVS”. Like other version control systems, CVS tracks who made 5 which changes to the managed source code, and CVS keeps a log of those revisions. 6 45. XimpleWare placed its Source Code on SourceForge, and managed that Source
7 Code in SourceForge’s CVS system. 8 9 46. The XimpleWare Issued Patents XimpleWare applied for, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office
10 issued, three patents (the “Patents”): 11
12 13 14 15 47.
A. U.S. Patent No. 7,133,857, issued Nov. 7, 2006, titled “Processing structured data” (the “’857 Patent”) B. U.S. Patent No. 7,620,652, issued Nov. 17, 2009, titled “Processing structured data” (the “’652 Patent”) C. U.S. Patent No. 7,761,459, issued July 20, 2010, titled “Processing structured data” (the “’459 Patent”) All of the Patents received a term extension to February 2024 under 35 U.S.C.
16 § 154(b). The named inventors on all of the Patents are Jimmy Zhang and Hui Tian, and all right, 17 title, and interest are assigned to XimpleWare. 18 48. The first patent (the ’857 Patent), filed in 2002 and issued in 2006, is titled
19 “Processing Structured Data,” and contains 43 claims (including 7 independent claims) covering 20 methods, apparatuses, and program storage devices for “efficiently processing a structured data 21 file” or “efficiently processing structured data”—including XML. The ‘857 Patent has been cited 22 by five other issued U.S. patents—including patents issued to IBM, HP, and Canon—and by 23 three published U.S. patent applications. 24 49. The ‘652 Patent, filed in 2006 and issued in 2009, contains 35 claims (including 8
25 independent claims) for methods, apparatuses, and program storage devices, and focuses on 26 efficiently processing structured data like XML. The ‘652 Patent has been cited by two issued 27 U.S. patents by IBM and Canon and by one published U.S. patent application. 28
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The ‘459 Patent, filed in 2006 and issued in 2010, contains 24 claims (including 4
2 independent claims) for methods, apparatuses, hardware devices, and program storage devices, 3 and again focuses on efficiently processing structured data like XML. The ‘459 Patent has been 4 cited by two issued U.S. patents and one published U.S. patent application. 5 51. There has been no challenge to any of the XimpleWare Patents or any other
6 XimpleWare intellectual property rights. 7 8 52. 53. The XimpleWare Source Code and Product practice the XimpleWare Patents. XimpleWare owned the three XimpleWare Patents throughout the period of the
9 Defendants’ infringing acts, and still owns the patents. XimpleWare uses the patent numbers on 10 its Product and in its documentation to give actual and constructive notice of the existence of the 11 XimpleWare patents.
12 13 54.
Defendants Copy XimpleWare’s Patented Source Code In the summer of 2013, XimpleWare learned of a Texas lawsuit between
14 Defendants Versata and Ameriprise over a contract dispute. 15 55. According to documents filed in that case, Versata licensed its DCM software to
16 Ameriprise until Ameriprise attempted to write its own software using programmers in India to 17 replace the Versata product. Versata then sued for breach of contract, among other claims. 18 56. During the prosecution of that lawsuit, Ameriprise informed XimpleWare that it
19 had discovered portions of XimpleWare’s GPL-licensed Source Code in the source code of 20 Versata’s DCM product. 21 57. XimpleWare has never granted Versata any commercial license, permission, or
22 authorization to use and redistribute any XimpleWare Product or Source Code. 23 58. XimpleWare has never granted Ameriprise or any other Defendant in this case any
24 commercial license, permission, or authorization to use and redistribute any XimpleWare Product 25 or Source Code. 26 59. On information and belief, Versata has distributed thousands of unauthorized
27 copies of the Product or the Source Code to a number of customers like the Customer 28 Defendants, and Versata has illegally collected revenues on the sale and distribution of the
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1 derivative DCM product incorporating XimpleWare’s Source Code, in violation of 2 XimpleWare’s Patents. XimpleWare estimates Versata’s total sales of the infringing DCM 3 product to exceed $300,000,000. 4 60. Defendants have infringed, and are still infringing on the XimpleWare’s
5 intellectual property rights by making, selling, and using the DCM product that practices the 6 XimpleWare Patents, and the Defendants will continue to do so unless this Court enjoins them. 7 8 9 10 11 full.
F IRST C LAIM F OR R ELIEF DIRECT PATENT INFRINGEMENT (AGAINST ALL DEFENDANTS) 61. XimpleWare incorporates the allegations in paragraphs 1–60 as if set forth here in
XimpleWare designs and licenses software designed to more effectively and more
13 efficiently parse XML in an almost limitless range of products and applications. 14 63. XimpleWare has made substantial investments of time and money, as well as great
15 efforts over a period of ten or more years developing a faster, more efficient way to parse XML. 16 These investments in research and development have, over the years, yielded many innovations, 17 including the innovations disclosed and claimed in the Patents. 18 64. The ‘857, ‘652, and ‘459 were duly and legally issued to XimpleWare, as assignee
19 of the inventors named therein, for an invention entitled “Processing Structured Data.” True and 20 correct copies of the Patents are attached as Exhibits 2, 3, and 4, respectively. 21 22 65. 66. The Patents are valid and enforceable. At all material times since the original issue dates, XimpleWare has been the
23 owner of the entire right, title, and interest in the Patents. 24 67. XimpleWare’s Product as well as its Source Code practices each of the
25 independent claims of the Patents. 26 68. On information and belief, Defendants have infringed and continue to infringe
27 XimpleWare’s Patents and each of them by making, using, selling, and/or offering for sale in the 28
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1 United States a number of products that practice the claims contained in the Patent, and will 2 continue to do so unless enjoined by this Court. 3 69. The Versata Defendants incorporated the XimpleWare Product and/or Source
4 Code into a number of their own products (the “Versata Products”), including but not limited to 5 the Versata DCM product. Therefore, the Versata Products necessarily practice at least 6 independent Claims 1 and 7 the ‘857 Patent, independent Claims 1 and 9 of the ‘652 Patent, and 7 independent Claim 1 of the ‘459 Patent. 8 70. The Versata Products and each of them literally infringe because every element of
9 each of those Claims is included in DCM, and are necessarily included in any other product into 10 which Defendants incorporated the XimpleWare Source Code or Product. The Versata 11 Defendants used and sold its infringing products in the United States, and did so willfully.
On information and belief, without any license or other authorization of Plaintiff,
13 the Customer Defendants purchased the Versata Products from the Versata Defendants. The 14 Customer Defendants infringed and continue to willfully infringe the Patents by using the 15 infringing Versata Products, incorporated into the Customer Defendants’ internal software 16 systems which the Customer Defendants used and continue to use in their daily course of 17 business. 18 72. Defendants’ conduct constitutes direct infringement of XimpleWare’s patent
19 rights under 35 U.S.C. § 271(a). 20 73. Defendants’ direct infringement of XimpleWare’s exclusive patent rights has
21 damaged, and/or will damage XimpleWare’s business, causing irreparable harm for which there 22 is no adequate remedy at law, unless Defendants are enjoined by this Court pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 23 § 283. 24 74. Defendants’ direct infringement of XimpleWare’s Patents is the direct and
25 proximate cause of damages to XimpleWare, and XimpleWare is entitled to compensatory 26 damages in an amount to be determined at trial. 27 75. Defendants’ direct infringement of the Patents entitles XimpleWare to preliminary
28 and permanent injunctive relief pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 283, an award of all damages sustained
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1 by XimpleWare as a result of Defendants’ infringement, and enhanced damages adequate to 2 compensate for Defendants’ collective and willful infringement of XimpleWare’s patent rights 3 together with attorneys’ fees and costs, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §§ 284 and 285. 4 5 6 7 8 full. 9 77. The Versata Defendants have infringed and induced infringement of the ‘857, 76. S ECOND C LAIM F OR R ELIEF I NDUCING PATENT I NFRINGEMENT (A GAINST V ERSATA D EFENDANTS ) XimpleWare incorporates the allegations in paragraphs 1–60 as if set forth here in
10 ‘652, and ‘459 Patents. 11
The Versata Defendants deliberately downloaded the XimpleWare Source Code
12 from the SourceForge open source repository and incorporated it into DCM and a number of 13 other products. On information and belief, the Versata Defendants then sold those products to a 14 number of customers including, but not necessarily limited to, the Customer Defendants who 15 incorporated those products into their own internal systems, which the Customer Defendants 16 used and continue to use in the daily course of business. 17 79. The Versata Defendants, in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 271(b), have knowingly
18 aided, abetted, and actively induced the Customer Defendants and others to infringe 19 XimpleWare’s Patents. 20 80. The Versata Defendants have committed contributory infringement of
21 XimpleWare’s exclusive rights has damaged and will continue to damage XimpleWare’s 22 business, causing irreparable harm for which there is no adequate remedy at law, unless it is 23 enjoined by this Court pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 283. 24 81. The Versata Defendants’ infringement of XimpleWare’s exclusive patent rights
25 has damaged, and/or will damage XimpleWare’s business, causing irreparable harm for which 26 there is no adequate remedy at law, unless Defendants are enjoined by this Court pursuant to 35 27 U.S.C. § 283. 28
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The Versata Defendants’ willful contributory infringement of XimpleWare’s
2 Patents is the direct and proximate cause of damages to XimpleWare, and XimpleWare is entitled 3 to compensatory damages in an amount to be determined at trial. 4 83. The Versata Defendants’ infringement of the Patents entitles XimpleWare to
5 preliminary and permanent injunctive relief pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 283, an award of all 6 damages sustained by XimpleWare as a result of Defendants’ infringement, and enhanced 7 damages adequate to compensate for Defendants’ collective and willful infringement of 8 XimpleWare’s patent rights together with attorneys’ fees and costs, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §§ 284 9 and 285. 10 11
T HIRD C LAIM F OR D ECLARATORY R ELIEF (A GAINST A LL D EFENDANTS ) 84. XimpleWare incorporates the allegations in paragraphs 1–60 as if set forth here in
12 13 full. 14 15
XimpleWare owns each and every of the three issued Patents. XimpleWare has the superior, and indeed only, right to continue to use, make, sell,
16 or offer for sale its Source Code, subject to the GPL, as the lawful owner of the Patents. 17 87. XimpleWare requests that this Court declare that United States Patents Nos.
18 7133857, 7620652, and 7761459 and each of them are valid and enforceable. 19 88. The requested declaration is necessary and appropriate at this time to affirm
20 XimpleWare’s rights to exclusive use and sale of its protected intellectual property rights under 21 federal patent law. 22 23 24 89. Plaintiff has no adequate remedy at law. P RAYER FOR R ELIEF XimpleWare prays for judgment against all Defendants, and each of them, and those
25 persons in control of or acting in concert with them as follows: 26 A. On the First Claim for Relief, for preliminary and permanent injunctive relief
27 enjoining the manufacture, production, marketing, or sale by Defendants, or any of them, of any 28 product practicing the ‘857, ‘652, and/ or ‘459 Patents; for all damages sustained by XimpleWare
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1 as a result of Defendants’ infringement; and for an award to XimpleWare of enhanced damages 2 adequate to compensate for Defendants’ collective infringement, up to and including trebling of 3 XimpleWare’s damages for the Versata Defendants’ willful infringement. 4 B. On the Second Claim for Relief, for preliminary and permanent injunctive relief
5 enjoining the Versata Defendants or any of them from contributing to the manufacture, 6 production, marketing, or sale of any product practicing the ‘857, ‘652, and/ or ‘459 Patents; for 7 all damages sustained by XimpleWare as a result of the Versata Defendants’ infringement; and 8 for an award to XimpleWare of enhanced damages adequate to compensate for the Versata 9 Defendants’ collective and willful infringement, up to and including trebling of XimpleWare’s 10 damages for the Versata Defendants’ willful infringement. 11
On the Third Claim for Relief, for a declaration that: 1. 2. 3. XimpleWare is the sole owner of the XimpleWare Patents; The XimpleWare Patents are valid and enforceable; and As such, XimpleWare has the exclusive right to make sell, offer for sale
15 and copy the XimpleWare Product and Source Code. 16 D. On all Claims for Relief, for a constructive trust of all benefits Defendants gained,
17 and disgorgement of all revenues and profits associated with Defendants’ licensing or sale of 18 products containing the XimpleWare Source Code. 19 E. For costs of suit including any applicable interest and reasonably attorneys’ fees
20 as allowed by law. 21 22 23 F. For such other, further, and different relief as the Court deems just and proper. JURY TRIAL DEMAND Plaintiff hereby demands a trial by jury on each and every cause of action which is triable
24 by or which may otherwise be tried by jury in this action. 25 // 26 // 27 // 28 //
Complaint 15 Case No. 13-5161
COMPUTERLAW GROUP LLP Dated: November 5, 2013 By: /s/ Jack Russo Jack Russo Christopher Sargent Ansel Halliburton Attorneys for Plaintiff XIMPLEWARE CORP.
Complaint 16 Case No. 13-5161
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