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`Robison, Belaustegui, Sharp & Low
`A Professional Corporation
`71 Washington Street
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`Telephone:
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`Nicholas S. Boebel (to be admitted pro hac vice)
`Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
`1918 Eighth Avenue, Suite 3300
`Seattle, WA 98101
`Telephone: (206) 268-9320
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`Attorneys for PlaintiffApplications in Internet Time, LLC
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`DISTRICT OF NEVADA
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`APPLICATIONSIN INTERNET TIME, LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`Defendant.
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`COMPLAINT FOR PATENT
`INFRINGEMENT
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`JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
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`Plaintiff Applications in Internet Time, LLC (“AIT”) for its Complaint for Patent
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`Infringement against Defendant Salesforce.com,Inc. (“Salesforce”) hereby states andalleges as
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`JURISDICTION AND VENUE
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`1,
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`This is a civil action for patent infringementarising under the Acts of Congress
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`relating to patents, including Title 35 United States Code § 1 etseg.
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`2.
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`This Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this action pursuantto at
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`least Title 28 United States Code §§ 1331 and 1338(a).
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`3.
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`Upon information and belief, Defendant Salesforce has transacted businessin this
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`Judicial District and has committed and/or induced acts of Patent Infringementin this District.
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`Venue with respect to Defendant Salesforce is proper within this district pursuant to Title 28
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`United States Code §§ 1391(b) and (c) and 1400(b).
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`4.
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`Upon information andbelief, personal jurisdiction over Defendant Salesforce
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`comports with the United States Constitution and N.R.S. § 14.065 because the Defendant has
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`systematic and continuous contacts with the State of Nevada, has purposefully availed itself of
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`the privileges of conducting business in the State of Nevada, regularly conducts and solicits
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`business within the State of Nevada, and AIT’s causes of action arise from Defendant’s business
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`contacts and other activities in the State of Nevada.
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`Upon information and belief, Defendant Salesforce is subject to this Court's
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`specific and general jurisdiction pursuant to due process and/or N.R.S. §14.065 at least as to its
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`substantial business in this forum,includingat least a portion of the infringements alleged herein,
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`and regularly doing or soliciting business, engaging in other persistent courses of conduct, and/or
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`deriving substantial revenue from products and services provided to clients and customers in
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`Nevada.
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`THE PARTIES
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`6.
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`Plaintiff AIT isa limited liability company organized and existing underthe laws
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`of the state of Nevada with its principal place of business located at 200 South Virginia Street,
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`Suite 824, Reno, Nevada 89501.
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`7.
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`Upon information and belief, Defendant Salesforce is a corporation organized and
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`existing under the laws of the state of Delaware withits principal place of business located at
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`The Landmark @ One Market, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105. Salesforce may be
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`served through its registered agent The Corporation Trust Company of Nevada at 311 South
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`Division Street, Carson City, NV 89703.
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`BACKGROUND OF THE PATENTED TECHNOLOGY
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`8.
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`Plaintiff AIT is the owner ofU.S. Patent No. 7,356,482 (‘482 patent”’) entitled
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`“Integrated Change Management Unit.” The United States Patent and Trademark Office duly
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`andlegally issued the “482 patent on April 8, 2008. The °482 patent is assigned to AIT. A copy
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`of the ‘482 patent is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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`9.
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`Plaintiff AIT is the owner of U.S. Patent No. 8,484,111 (‘111 patent”) entitled
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`“Integrated Change ManagementUnit.” The United States Patent and Trademark Office duly
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`and legally issued the ‘111 patent on July 9, 2013. The ‘111 patent is assigned to AIT. A copy
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`of the “111 patent is attached hereto as Exhibit B.
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`10,
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`The technology described and claimed in the ‘482 and ‘111 patents was originally
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`developed in response to programming problemsresulting in application deploymentdelays.
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`Generally, the technology enables individuals with knowledgeof the business process rather than
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`only computer programmersto have responsibility for application development with a simple and
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`efficient metadata-driven application platform.
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`11,
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`Plaintiff AIT has the exclusive right to make, use, sell and offer to sell the
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`inventions of the “482 and “111 patents, and has the right to sue and to recover damagesfor past,
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`present, and future infringement ofthe claims of the ‘482 and ‘111 patents.
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`BACKGROUND OF SALESFORCE’S INFRINGEMENT OF
`THE ‘482 AND ‘111 PATENTS
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`12.
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`Defendant Salesforce is one of the leading providers of multi-tenant platform and
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`application enterprise software as a service in a cloud computing environment. Salesforce states
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`in its 2013 Annual Report that “Wedeliver our service as a highly scalable, multi-tenant app....
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`Wehaveoptimized our service to run on specific databases and operating systems using the tools
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`and platformsbest suited to serve our customers rather than providing software that must be
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`written to different hardware, operating system and database platforms, or that depends upon a
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`customer’s unique system environment.... Our service treats all customers as logically separate
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`tenants in central applications, databases and other resources.... Because of our multi-tenant and
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`logically separated architecture, we are able to provideall of our customers with a solution based
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`on a single version of our apps.”
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`13.
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`Salesforce’s Force.com platform is the development environmentfor enterprise
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`applications and is designed for developing and deploying cloud computing applications via
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`configuration-driven development. The Force.com platform has a metadata-driven architecture
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`and relies on metadata describing base functionality of applications as well as metadata
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`corresponding to application customizations. Changes in metadata are detected by the platform
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`and enable Salesforce’s clients, customers, third parties, and Salesforce itself to customize,
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`update, and change user applications from the cloud.
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`14.
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`On information and belief, Salesforce relies on the Force.com platform as the
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`backbonefor its software as a service offerings, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and
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`Marketing Cloud. Salesforce states on its developerforce.com site that “Force.com is the proven
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`cloud application development platform that powers many popular salesforce.com cloud
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`applications. ...” http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Multi_Tenant_Architecture. Likewise,
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`“Force.com, the world’s leading cloud platform for business apps, offers the infrastructure upon
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`which both Sales Cloud and Service Cloud are built...” http://blog.cloudsherpas.com/cloud-
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`strategy-2/the-force-com-sweet-spot/.
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`15.
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` Salesforce’s manufacture, use, sale, and/or offer for sale of the Force.com
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`platform constitutes a direct infringement of one or more claims of the ‘482 and “111 patents.
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`16.
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`Salesforce’s provision of the Force.com platform and documentation instructing,
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`encouraging, and directingits clients, customers, and third parties on the use of the Force.com
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`platform to create and customize multi-tenant applications constitutes an inducement of
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`infringementof one or more claimsof the “482 and ‘111 patents. For example, Salesforce states
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`in its 2013 Annual Report that “Through our platform and other developer tools, we also
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`encourage thirdparties to develop additionalfunctionality and new apps that run on our
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`| platform, whichare sold separately from, or in conjunction with, our service.” In addition to
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`Salesforce’s specific acknowledgement, acts and documentation demonstrating Salesforce’s
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`inducementof infringement include Salesforce’s maintenance of websites at http://force.com,
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`http://developer.force.com, http://wiki.developerforce.com, and http://www.forceprepare.com/,
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`as well as its distribution of at least the following documentation:
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`Force.com: A Comprehensive Look at the World's Premier Cloud-computing
`Platform
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`(http://www.developerforce.com/media/Forcedotcom_Whitepaper/WP_Forcedote
`om-InDepth_ 040709 _WEB.pdf)
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`Development Lifecycle Guide, May 17, 2013
`(http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/dev_lifecycle/salesforce_developm
`ent_lifecycle.pdf)
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`Introduction to Force.com
`(http://events.developerforce.com/conferences/dreamforce?session=21241)
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`An Introduction to the Force.com IDE
`(http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/An Introduction to Force IDE)
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`Force.com Migration Tool Guide
`(http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/daas/salesforce_migration_guide.p
`df)
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`An Introduction to Environments
`(http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/An Introduction _to_ Environments)
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`Deploy Force.com Applications to Production Faster
`(http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Deploy_Force.com Applications Faster).
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`17.
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`Salesforce’s clients, customers, and third parties who use the Force.com platform
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`to create and customize multi-tenant applications as instructed, encouraged, and directed by
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`Salesforce directly infringe the ‘482 and ‘111 patents.
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`18.
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`Salesforce has actual knowledge of the ‘482 and ‘111 patents as well as AIT’s
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`allegations of infringement through at least service of this complaint. Despite this knowledge,
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`Salesforce continues with its infringing activities. Thus, upon information andbelief, Salesforce
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`has intended and continues to intend to induce patent infringementbyits clients, customers, and
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`third parties, and has had knowledgethat the inducing acts would cause infringementor has been
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`willfully blind to the possibility that its inducing acts would cause infringement.
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`COUNT I: INFRINGEMENTOFU.S. PATENTNO.7,356,482
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`19.
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`Theallegations in all the paragraphs above are incorporated by reference into
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`Plaintiff's CountI as if fully set forth herein.
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`20.|Upon information and belief, DefendantSalesforce is directly infringing and/or
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`has directly infringed one or more claimsofthe ‘482 patent as a result of, amongotheractivities,
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`the making,using, selling, offering for sale, and providing products and/or services that embody
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`or utilize the systems and methodsofthe “482 patent, including the Force.com platform,in
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`violation of 35 U.S.C. § 271 (a).
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`21.
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`Upon information and belief, Defendant Salesforce is inducing and/or has induced
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`infringement of one or more claimsof the ‘482 patentas a result of, among other activities,
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`instructing, encouraging, and directing its clients, customers, and third parties on the use of the
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`Force.com platform in an infringing manneras described in the paragraphs above,in violation of
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`35 U.S.C. § 271(b).
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`22.
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`Upon information andbelief, Defendant Salesforce infringes, continues to
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`infringe, and/or has infringed one or more claims of the ‘482 patent either directly and/or by
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`inducement and eitherliterally or under the doctrine of equivalents in violation of 35 U.S.C, §
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`271(a-b).
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`COUNT I: INFRINGEMENTOFU.S. PATENT NO.8,484,111
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`23,
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`Theallegations in all the paragraphs above are incorporated by reference into
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`Plaintiff's CountI as if fully set forth herein.
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`24.
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`Uponinformation and belief, Defendant Salesforce is directly infringing and/or
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`has directly infringed one or more claims of the ‘111 patent as a result of, among otheractivities,
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`the making, using,selling, offering for sale, and providing products and/or services that embody
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`or utilize the systems and methodsof the ‘111 patent, including the Force.com platform, in
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`violation of 35 U.S.C. § 271(a).
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`infringement of one or more claimsof the ‘111 patent as a result of, amongotheractivities,
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`instructing, encouraging, and directingits clients, customers, and third parties on the use of the
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`Force.com platform in an infringing manner as described in the paragraphs above,in violation of
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`35 U.S.C. § 271(b).
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`26.|Upon information andbelief, Defendant Salesforce infringes, continues to
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`infringe, and/or has infringed one or moreclaims of the ‘111 patent either directly and/or by
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`inducementandeitherliterally or under the doctrine of equivalents in violation of 35 U.S.C. §
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`PRAYER FOR RELIEF
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`WHEREFORE,Plaintiff AIT prays forrelief as follows:
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`A,
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`For judgmentin favor of Plaintiff that, either literally or under the doctrine of
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`equivalents, the Defendant, directly, jointly, and/or indirectly by way of inducing and/or
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`contributing to infringement, has infringed one or more claimsof the “482 and ‘111 patents;
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`B.
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`For an award of damages, requiring Defendant Salesforce to pay Plaintiff its
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`damages adequate to compensateit for the infringement of the ‘482 and ‘111 patents together
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`with costs, expenses and prejudgmentand post-judgmentinterest, for Defendant’s infringement
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`of the ‘482 and “111 patents as provided under 35 U.S.C. § 284;
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`C.
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`For a post-judgment equitable accounting of damagesto be ordered for the period
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`of infringementof the ‘482 and ‘111 patents following the period of damages established by
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`Plaintiff at trial;
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`D.
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`For a judgment and Order granting Plaintiff its reasonable attorneys’ fees under 35
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`U.S.C. § 285 to the extent that this Court finds this case exceptional; and
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`E.
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`For such other and further relief to which Plaintiff may showitself to be entitled
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`and which this Court deemsjust and equitable.
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`Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 38, Plaintiff AIT demandsa trial by jury on
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`JURY DEMAND
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`all triable issues.
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`Dated: November8, 2013
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`ROBISON, BELAUSTEGUI, SHARP & LOW
`A Professional Corporation (Resident Counsel)
`71 Washington Street
`Reno, Nevada 89503
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`By:
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`KEEGANG, LOW
`BARRY L. BRESLOW
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`Steve W. Berman (to be admitted pro hac vice)
`Nicholas S. Boebel (to be admitted pro hac vice)
`Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP
`1918 Eighth Avenue, Suite 3300
`Seattle, WA 98101
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`Christopher D. Banys(to be admitted pro hacvice)
`Richard C. Lin (to be admitted pro hac vice)
`Banys, P.C.
`1032 Elwell Court, Suite 100
`Palo Alto, CA 94303
`Telephone: (650) 308-8505
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`EXHIBIT A
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`EXHIBIT A
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`(12)
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`United States Patent
`Frankland et al.
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`US 7,356,482 B2
`(10) Patent No.:
`Apr.8, 2008
`(45) Date of Patent;
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`US007356482B2
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`(4)
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`INTEGRATED CHANGE MANAGEMENT
`UNIT
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`(75)
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`Inventors:
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`Richard Frankland, San Jose, CA
`(US); Christopher M. Mitchell, El
`Granada, CA (US); Joseph D.
`Ferguson, Santa Clara, CA (US),
`Anthony T. Sziklai, Half Moon Bay,
`CA (US), Ashish K. Verma, Foster
`City, CA (US); Judith E. Popowski,
`Half Moon Bay, CA (US); Douglas H.
`Sturgeon, San Mateo, CA (US)
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`(73)
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`Assignee:
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`Alternative Systems, Inc., Half Moon
`Bay, CA (US)
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`(*)
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`Notice:
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`Subject to any disclaimer, the term ofthis
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by 1064 days.
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`(21)
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`Appl. No.: 09/797,488
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`(22)
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`Filed:
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`Mar. I, 2001
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`(65)
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`(51)
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`(52)
`(58)
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`(56)
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`Prior Publication Data
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`US 2002/0026339 Al
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`Feb. 28, 2002
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`Int. Cl.
`(2006,01)
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`Field of Classification Search .............. 705/7-11,
`705/28-29; 707/102, 200, 202-203, 205;
`588/1, 16; 700/266; 713/151-152; 719/328-3429
`See application file for complete search history.
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`ABSTRACT
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`An integrated system for managing changes in regulatory
`and non-regulatory requirements for businessactivities at an
`industrial or commercial facility. Application ofthis system
`to environmental, health and safety activities, and to food,
`drug, cosmetic, and medical treatment and device activities,
`are discussed as examples. The system: provides one or
`more databases that contain information on operations and
`requirements concerning an aclivity or area of business;
`receives
`information on regulatory and non-regulatory
`changes that affect operations of the business; convertsthese
`changes into changes in data entry forms, data processing
`and analysis procedures, and presentation (by printing, elec-
`tronic display and/or distribution) of data processing and
`analysis results to selected recipients, without requiring the
`services of one or more programmers to re-key and/or
`reformat the items aflected by the change; and implements
`receipt of change information and dissemination of data
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`FIELD OF THE INVENTION
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`This invention relates to the integrated management of
`information affected by regulatory changes, such as changes
`in environmental, health and safety laws, and non-regulatory
`changes.
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`Control ofindusirial and commercialactivities by means
`of federal, state and local
`laws, statutes, ordinances and
`regulations (“regulations” herein) is endemic in the United
`States. Examples of activities that are regulated by such
`regulations
`include;
`environmental health and
`safety
`(“EH&S”; Titles 7, 10, 29, 30, 40, 42 and 49 of the Code of
`Federal Regulations and related state and local codes);
`administrative procedures applicable to government person-
`nel (Title 5); agricultural activities (litles 7 and 9); creation,
`use, treatment and disposal of nuclear materials (Title 10);
`conversion and distribution ofusable forms of energy, power
`and water (Titles 10 and 18); banking, financial and secu-
`rities activities and foreign trade Titles 12, 15, 16, 19 and
`22), space and aeronautical activities (Tile 14); commercial
`trade practices (Title 16); food, drugs, cosmetics, medical
`treatments and devices (“FDCMTD”; Title 21); transporta-
`tion of persons and cargo (Titles 23 and 49); housing and
`urban development(Title 24); firearms production and trade
`(Title 27); workers compensation (Title 29); mining and
`related activities (Title 30); national defense activities (Titles
`15 and 32); navigation and navigable waters (Title 33);
`education (Title 34); activities in and on parks, forests,
`public lands and other public property (‘Titles 36 and 43);
`intellectual property activities (Title 37); veterans’ pensions
`and relief (Title 38); postal service activities (Title 39),
`public contracts and public property management(Titles 41
`and 48); public health (Tithe 42), emergency management
`and assistance (Title (44); grant of public welfare and
`assistance (Title 45);
`telecommunications (Title 47), and
`wildlife and fisheries activities (Title 50). Some of the most
`pervasive regulations concern FH&S and FOCMTD acuvi-
`hes,
`Generation and use ofhazardous substances in the United
`States has grown steadily in the last 53 years and is now
`estimated to be over 300 million metric tons per year.
`According to one definition, a “hazardous substance”is any
`substance or mixture of substances that may cause substan-
`lial personal
`injury or substantial
`illness during or as a
`proximate result of any customary or reasonably foresceable
`handling or use, including reasonably foreseeable ingestion
`by children, if the substance: (1) is a toxic agent or repro-
`ductive toxin; (2) is corrosive, (3) 1s an irritant; (4) is a
`strong seusitizer; (5) is flammable, combustible or explo-
`sive; (6) is pyrophoric; (7) is a carcinogen, hepatotoxin,
`nephrotoxin or neurotoxin; (8) is an agent that acts on the
`hematopoietic system; (9) is an agent
`that damages the
`lungs, skin, eyes or mucous membranes; (10) is a com-
`pressed gas; (11) is an organic peroxide; (12) is an oxidizer;
`(13) is unstable, reactive or water-reactive; (14) generates
`pressure through decomposition, heat or other means; (15) is
`sufficiently radioactive to require labeling as such; (16) 1s a
`toy or other article intended for use by children and presents
`an electrical, mechanical or thermal hazard; or (17) is
`specially listed as a hazardous substance bya state or federal
`agency having jurisdiction over such substances,
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`At (he federal level, special purpose hazardous substance
`laws and regulations, focusing on a particular hazardous
`substance or narrow class of such materials, have been
`applied for more than a century. In 1866, a federal law
`regulating transportation and storage of explosive and fam-
`mable materials was promulgated. This was followed in
`1899, 1910, 1938, 1944 and 1947 by passage of the Refuse
`Act, the first Insecticide Act, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic
`Act,
`the Safe Drinking Water Act. and the Insecticide,
`Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, respectively. In 1955 and
`1966, the Clean Air Act and the Federal Hazardous Sub-
`slances Act appeared, respectively. Since 1969, the pace of
`introduction of new laws regulating hazardous substances
`has increased, and approximately 15 new major federal laws
`and yoluminous regulations have been introduced in this
`area. These laws often have overlapping jurisdiction andare
`not always consistent with one another. Several states, such
`as Calrfornia, have passed their own hazardous substance
`laws before the corresponding federal hazardous substance
`laws were adopted. These laws still apply in those states and
`in many cases supersede their Federal counterparts, These
`laws statutes, ordinances, regulations and related constraints
`are constantly changing and require corresponding changes
`in data entry, data analysis and presentation of the results.
`The Safe Drinking Water Act
`(“SDWA”), originally
`passed in 1944 and amended several times since then, covers
`all drinking water supplies in all states. Primary standards,
`to prevent adverse effects on human health, and secondary
`standards and covering certain aesthetic effects such as odor
`and turbidity of processed drinking water, are set down. in
`terms of maximum permissible concentrations of specified
`contaminants in water delivered to any public drinking water
`system. From a regulatory standpoint, SDWAfalls under the
`broader mandate of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), whose
`ultimate goal is maintenance ofthe “chemical, physical, and
`biological integnty of ihe nation’s waters.”
`CWA,with its most recent amendment, the Water Quality
`Act (“WQA”) of 1987, establishes mandatory effluent limi-
`tation guidelines forall facilities which discharge waste into
`water bodies, or allow waste to enter and potentially con-
`taminate subsurface water sources, like aquifers. CWA cre-
`ated the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
`(“NPDES”)
`to regulate effluents,
`influents (waterborne
`wastes received by a treatment facility) and sludge. The
`primary enforcement mechanism of NPDESis the NPDES
`permit. CWA directs control authorities at the federal and
`state level
`to administer and enforce permit compliance.
`NPDES permits include terms and conditions ranging from
`required monitoring ofpoint source discharges to the imple-
`mentation of control technologies to minimize outtall.
`The Clean Air Act (“CAA”), passed in 1955 and amended
`seVeral timessince that time (mostrecently, in 1990), covers
`emission ofpollutants into the ambient air and atmosphere.
`This may include hazardous wastes that are liquid or gas-
`eous when discharge occurs. National Amb