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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
OVERTURE SERVICES, INC., a
Delaware Corporation,
Plaintiff,
vs.
GOOGLE INC., a California Corporation,
Defendant.
No. C02-01991 CRB
JOINT REPORT, CASE MANAGEMENT
STATEMENT, AND [PROPOSED]
ORDER
Plaintiff Overture Services, Inc. (“Overture”) and defendant Google Inc.
(“Google”) jointly submit this combined Report, Case Management Statement, and
[Proposed] Order and request that the Court adopt it as its Case Management Order in
this case.
I.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CASE
A.
Underlying Events
Overture is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Pasadena, California that
describes itself as offering pay-per-click search engines and advertising services for
computer networks, including the Internet. Overture is the owner of a number of patents
that cover technologies, devices, and systems for pay-per-click searching and
Case 3:02-cv-01991-JSW Document 23 Filed 08/19/2002 Page 1 of 7
Overture Services, Inc. v. Google Inc.
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JOINT REPORT, CASE MANAGEMENT
STATEMENT, AND [PROPOSED] ORDER
advertising. One of those patents is at issue here: United States Patent No. 5,269,361
(“the ’361 patent”), entitled “System and Method for Influencing a Position on a Search
Result List Generated by a Computer Network Search Engine.”
Google is a California corporation headquartered in Mountain View, California
that describes itself as offering search engines and advertising services for computer
networks, including the Internet.
B.
Disputed Factual and Legal Issues
The parties do not intend any description in this Joint Case Management
Statement of any issue of law, or fact, or both, to constitute an admission or to be
otherwise probative of any mat