Each of the types of data that Plaintiffs are requesting to be produced by Qualcomm, the sole Defendant in this litigation, are clearly relevant.
This information will also be relevant to evaluating economies of scale in chipset production (which could be relevant 1 The reasons for Plaintiffs submitting this as a separate statement are set forth in the accompanying separate statement in support of Plaintiffs’ Motion to Compel Production of Qualcomm Financial Planning and Analysis Materials, at 1 n.1, concurrently filed herewith.
4 See May 2, 2018 letter from Rio Pierce to Yonatan Even, Exhibit A. 5 See, e.g., In re Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge Antitrust Litig., No. 07-489, 2009 WL 3443563, at *4 (D.D.C. Oct. 23, 2009) (compelling production of transaction-level data by defendants to evaluate product market boundaries); In re Namenda Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litig., No. 15-civ-7488, 2017 WL 4700367, at *2-*3 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 19, 2017) (dismissing arguments of third party subpoena target on burden as “unpersuasive” because “[w]hile the money and time that will be spent on the production is not trifling, it is small in comparison with the potential damages in this case”).
to determining exclusionary effects on rivals) and to evaluating Qualcomm's claims about how it invests in R&D and how it tries to recover those costs.
Courts in this District recognize that “[t]he Federal Rules of Civil Procedure clearly contemplate the production of information from dynamic databases ... [because] Rule 34(a)(1) (A) allows a party to request ‘any designated documents or electronically stored information ... stored in any medium from which information can be obtained.’”6 For example, in Apple v. Samsung, Judge Grewal recognized that “[c]ourts regularly require parties to produce reports from dynamic databases, holding that the ‘technical burden ... of creating a new dataset for the instant litigation does not excuse production.’”7 In that case, Judge Grewal was “dubious” of Apple’s “generalized claims of burden in complying with discovery obligations” such as the assertion that Apple “would engage ‘multiple financial groups’ in what is ‘likely to be several months of coordinated effort’” in response to Samsung’s motion to compel data production.8 Judge Grewal rejected Samsung’s motion to compel because Samsung had already submitted the expert reports that would use the data.9 But here the situation is the reverse – Plaintiffs are seeking this material precisely for use in expert reports that have not yet been submitted.