Paramount Pictures Corporation v. ReplayTV, Inc., Joint Stipulation ...

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728III.IV.C. Defendants’ Contentions Regarding The Requests At Issue:The Discovery Rules Cannot Support An Order CommandingDefendants To Develop and Install In Their Customers’Devices A Software Program To Create New Data WhichDoes Not Now And Has Never Existed. ............................................. 441. Defendants Do Not Presently Have The DataPlaintiffs Request To Be Produced. .......................................... 452. The New Software Plaintiffs Are RequestingWould Require Four Months To Develop And CostHundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars.......................................... 473. Rule 34 Neither Requires Nor Authorizes An OrderTo Create Records That Do Not Exist. ..................................... 484. Defendants Could Collect Limited InformationReported Through The MyReplayTV Service.......................... 515. The Information Plaintiffs Have Requested WouldInvade Consumer’ s Legitimate Rights Of Privacy. .................. 526. Plaintiffs Have Shown No Need For Discovery OfThe Recordings Made By Defendants’ EmployeesIn Product Development............................................................ 57Discovery Relating to ReplayTV 4000 Customers........................................59A. The Requests at Issue........................................................................... 59B. Plaintiffs’ Contentions Regarding the Requests at Issue..................... 62C. Defendants’ Contentions Regarding the Requests At Issue................ 65Discovery Relating To Financial Benefits From, and CommunicationsWith Potential Licensees And Investors About, the ReplayTV 4000and Similar Devices .......................................................................................67A. The Requests At Issue ......................................................................... 67B. Plaintiffs’ Contentions Regarding The Requests At Issue .................. 721. Documents and Information About Advertising byDefendants Delivered Through the ReplayTV 4000. ............... 742. Documents and Information about Licensing byDefendants................................................................................. 763. Information and Documents about Efforts to ObtainFunding Based on the ReplayTV 4000. .................................... 77C. Defendants’ Contentions Regarding the Requests At Issue................ 78ii