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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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`SYNTEL STERLING BEST SHORES
`MAURITIUS LIMITED, and SYNTEL,
`INC.,
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`15 Civ. 00211 (LGS) (SDA)
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`THE TRIZETTO GROUP, INC.
`and COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
`SOLUTIONS CORP.,
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`Defendants-Counterclaimants.
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`I, Chuck Sanders, hereby declare as follows:
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`DECLARATION OF CHUCK SANDERS
`IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS-
`COUNTERCLAIMANTS’ OPPOSITION
`TO PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR
`PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT
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`1.
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`I am over the age of 18 years and am not a party to the above-captioned case. I live
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`in Randolph, New Jersey. Each of the facts set forth in the following declaration is true to my
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`personal knowledge.
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`2.
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`I work for TriZetto as the Vice President of Corporate Development and Alliances
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`with an office in Randolph, New Jersey.
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`3.
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`I submit this declaration in support of TriZetto Corporation (“TriZetto”) and
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`Cognizant Technology Solution Corporation’s
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`(“Cognizant”) Opposition
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`to Plaintiff-
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`Counterdefendants’ Motion for Partial Summary Judgment.
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`I.
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`FACETS & THE FACETS DATA DICTIONARY
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`4.
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`TriZetto offers numerous software products that it licenses to clients, including
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`solutions and services for health plans, benefits administrators, health systems, and healthcare
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`providers. TriZetto’s technology solutions reach over half the U.S. insured population and more
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`than 250,000 care providers.
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`5.
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`Facets is TriZetto’s core software product geared specifically to health plan
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`administration. TriZetto’s clients use Facets in adjudicating and processing healthcare claims, and
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`TriZetto has invested significant resources developing this flagship software program, which has
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`been in continuous development since at least as early as 1992.
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`6.
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`Facets is an extensive, complex, and valuable application used to administer health
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`plans for healthcare providers. It contains thousands of tables, each with many data fields that
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`store enormous amounts of information related to health plans and their members.
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`7.
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`The code base for Facets contains many files, including the Facets Data Dictionary,
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`which is an essential part of Facets.
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`8.
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`9.
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`The Facets Data Dictionary is delivered as part of the Facets install materials.
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`A true and correct copy of the “Facets® Data Dictionary Guide” for “All Releases,”
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`as produced in this litigation with the Bates numbers TZCG-00064962–5013, is attached hereto as
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`Exhibit 1. Among other things, the Facets Data Dictionary Guide states that
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` Ex. 1 at TZCG-00064965–66.
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` it
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`10.
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`A true and correct copy of the “Facets® Release 5.01 Physical Package Document,”
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`dated December 15, 2011, as produced in this litigation with the Bates numbers STROZ00037011–
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`12, is attached hereto as Exhibit 2. Among other things, it states that
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`Ex. 2 at STROZ00037012.
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`11.
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`As explained in the Facets Data Dictionary Guide, Facets Data Dictionary
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` Ex. 1 at TZCG-00064965.
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`12.
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`Numerous elements of Facets are reproduced identically in the Facets Data
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`Dictionary, including, among other things,
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`13.
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`Numerous elements of Facets are also represented in detail in the Facets Data
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`Dictionary. As explained in the Facets Data Dictionary Guide,
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` Ex. 1 at TZCG-
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`00064965. Among other things, the Facets Data Dictionary provides
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`14.
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`As another example, the Facets Data Dictionary contains
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`explained in the Facets Data Dictionary Guide, the Facets Data Dictionary
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` and
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` Ex. 1 at
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`TZCG-00064968.
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`15.
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`These and other elements of Facets that are reproduced or represented in detail in
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`the Facets Data Dictionary are the product of TriZetto’s Facets developers’ exercise of creative
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`judgment to, among other things, select, organize, and relate each of the data models, tables, and
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`fields; to establish the conventions and names for each; and to set the values that Facets is
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`programmed to use and accept.
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`16.
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`The Facets Data Dictionary is tightly related to Facets, and is regarded as the “keys
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`to the kingdom” and the “crown jewels” for Facets.
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`17.
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`Simply put, Facets is effectively unusable without the embedded Facets Data
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`Dictionary functionality.
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`II.
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`TRIZETTO’S COPYRIGHT REGISTRATIONS
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`18.
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`Information about TriZetto’s copyright registrations is publicly available on the
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`Copyright Office’s online Public Catalog of copyright
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`registrations,
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`located at
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`https://cocatalog.loc.gov/.
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`19.
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`It is a matter of public record that, as of today, TriZetto and Cognizant each own
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`numerous copyright registrations.
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`20.
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`It is a matter of public record that TriZetto has five copyright registrations for
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`Facets: (1) TXu001055382 (“Facets,” with a Registration Date of November 1, 2002); (2)
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`TX0006156312 (“Facets 4.11,” with a Registration Date of March, 23, 2005); (3) TX0007593979
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`(“Facets 5.01,” with a Registration Date of August 28, 2012); (4) TX0008097589 (“Facets 5.10,”
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`with a Registration Date of October 7, 2015); and (5) TX0008100289 (“Facets 5.20,” with a
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`Registration Date of October 12, 2015). Information about these Facets registrations is publicly
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`available on the Copyright Office’s online Public Catalog of copyright registrations.
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`21.
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`The Copyright Office granted each of these registrations before September 30,
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`2016, when TriZetto filed its operative amended counterclaims.
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`III. TRIZETTO’S COPYRIGHT REGISTRATIONS FOR FACETS COVER THE
`FACETS DATA DICTIONARY
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`22.
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`TriZetto’s copyright registrations for Facets cover the entire Facets code base,
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`which consists of many files including the Facets Data Dictionary.
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`23. When TriZetto prepared the deposit copies in support of its applications to register
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`the copyrights for Facets, it created the excerpts required by the Copyright Office for use as a
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`deposit copy using the available Facets code base that it collects for deposit with a vendor to hold
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`in escrow, which as always included the Facets Data Dictionary.
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`24.
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`From the Facets code base that TriZetto collects for its escrow deposits (which
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`again includes the Facets Data Dictionary), TriZetto creates a document that will satisfy the
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`applicable Copyright Office requirement that an application to register the copyright for a
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`computer program be supported by a deposit copy comprised of the first and last 25 pages of source
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`code. The document that TriZetto creates in this manner is what TriZetto submits to the Copyright
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`Office as the deposit copy supporting the Facets copyright registration.
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`25.
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`The many files that comprise the Facets code base have no precise beginning,
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`middle, or end. When TriZetto’s developers created a Facets deposit copy, they referred to the
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`files collected for the Facets escrow deposit, used their judgment to select a sufficient number of
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`Facets files, and concatenated them in a single document until, from beginning to end, they reached
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`25 pages of code. They then did the same with a different set of files until, from the end to the
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`beginning, they reached 25 pages of code. The document created in this fashion satisfied the
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`Copyright Office’s deposit copy requirements, and was deposited with the Copyright Office in
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`support of the Facets copyright application.
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`I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the
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`foregoing is true and correct.
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`Executed on this 9th day of August, 2019 at Randolph, NJ.
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`Chuck Sanders
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`EXHIBIT 1
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`ENTIRETY
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`EXHIBIT 2
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`ENTIRETY
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