1 DARREN EASTMAN 21446 Oneda Court 2 Los Gatos, CA 95033 3 [email protected] Pro Se 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 OAKLAND 8 9 DARREN EASTMAN, Case No. 4:18-CV-05929-JST 10 Plaintiff, FOURTH AMENDED COMPLAINT 11 v. JURY TRIAL DEMANDED 12 APPLE, INC., Judge: Hon. Jon S. Tigar 13 Defendant. Courtroom: 6 14 15 Action Filed: 8/13/2018 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 i 4AC 4:18-CV-05929-JST 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Page INTRODUCTION …………………………………...…………………….................................. 1 3 4 LEGAL STANDARD 5 A. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) …………………………………………….. 2 6 C. Correction of Ownership and § 256 …………...…………………………….………... 4 7 8 FACTUAL BACKGROUND OF INVENTIONS 9 A. Phone-finding Patents …...………………………………………………………...….. 7 B. Passbook …...………………………………………………………………………… 16 10 11 CAUSES OF ACTION 12 A. PATENT NONJOINDER 13 Count 1 ‘367 Remotely Locating and Commanding a Mobile Device ……..….…...….. 22 14 Count 2 ‘310 System & Method for Remotely Initiating Lost Mode on Device ………. 32 15 Count 3 ‘896 Remotely Initiating Lost Mode on a Computing Device ……………....... 45 Count 4 ‘32 Device Locator Disable Authentication ….….…………….....…….……... 59 16 Count 5 ‘98 Bypassing Security Authentication on a Lost Device to Return to Owner .. 65 17 Count 6 ‘776 Remotely Locating and Commanding a Mobile Device ...……...……..… 71 18 Count 7 ‘530 Remotely Receiving and Communicating Commands to Mobile Device . 77 19 Count 8 ‘14 Location-Based Ticket Books ….…....…..…...…….....…………………... 92 20 Count 9 ’495 Location-Based Ticket Books ….…....…..…...…...………..…………... 108 21 Count 10 ‘513 System and Method for Providing Electronic Event Tickets …………. 114 22 Count 11 ‘530 Delivery of Push Notifications to an Inactive Computing Device …..... 117 Count 12 ‘748 Remotely Locating and Commanding a Mobile Device ……………… 121 23 Count 13 ‘7530 Remotely Receiving & Communicating Commands to Device …...... 127 24 Count 14 ‘709 Bypassing Security Authentication on a Lost Device to Return Owner 131 25 Count 15 ‘839 Device Locator Disable Authentication ….….……………...….……... 138 26 Count 16 ‘974 Remotely Locating and Commanding a Mobile Device ……………… 147 27 28 ii 4AC 4:18-CV-05929-JST 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) 2 ARGUMENT Page A. Nonjoinder Claims Are Factually Plausible ……………………….…...………...… 157 3 B. Plaintiffs’ Prior Disclosures Are Enablement ……………………….…………...… 159 4 C. Laches Don’t Apply …....……...………………………………………...…………. 163 5 D. Conception & Patent Inventorship …………………………………………………. 168 6 E. Reputational Injury Sufficient Alone for § 256 Correction .......................…………. 169 7 PRAYER FOR RELIEF ……………………….………………………………………..…… 172 8 DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL ………………………………………….……………...…… 173 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 iii 4AC 4:18-CV-05929-JST 1 TABLE OF EXHIBITS 2 Exhibit 1, Radar #6262545 detailing Find my iPhone invention dated October 1, 2008 ..…… 174 Exhibit 2, Email to Jeff Lemas discussing claims dated October 7, 2008 …………….……… 176 3 Exhibit 3, Email with Eddy Cue discussing claims dated January 27, 2009 …………………. 178 4 Exhibit 4, Email with Scott Forstall discussing claims dated February 18, 2009 ……….…..... 180 5 Exhibit 5, Email to Scott Forstall asking for patent protection dated March 8, 2009 ………… 182 6 Exhibit 6, Email to Apple PC asking for patent protection dated March 8, 2009 7 This exhibit’s under seal, as privileged communication. See ECF No. 19 8 Exhibit 7, Intellectual Property Agreement dated November 16, 2005 ………………………. 185 9 Exhibit 8, Plaintiff’s lab notebook dated August 28, 2008 ……………………..…………..… 187 Exhibit 9, Plaintiff’s lab notebook dated August 28, 2008 …………….………….………..… 189 10 Exhibit 10, Plaintiff’s lab notebook dated August 28, 2008 ………….…………….………… 191 11 Exhibit 11, Plaintiff’s lab notebook dated August 30, 2008 ……….………………….……… 193 12 Exhibit 12, Plaintiff’s lab notebook dated August 30, 2008 ……………….………….……… 195 13 Exhibit 13, Demand Letter propounded on Apple dated November 2, 2016 ………….…….... 197 14 Exhibit 14, Letter from HR Director promising investigation dated November 17, 2016 ...…. 203 15 Exhibit 15, Screenshot from plaintiff of cloud server performance dated February 5, 2008 …. 205 Exhibit 16, Plaintiff diagnosis of celebrity issue using cloud server dated February 15, 2008 . 207 16 Exhibit 17, Plaintiffs ticketing system notes written January 7, 2003 ………………...…….... 210 17 Exhibit 18, Plaintiffs ticketing system notes written January 7, 2003 ………………...…….... 212 18 Exhibit 19, Plaintiffs ticketing system notes written January 7, 2003 ………………...…….... 214 19 Exhibit 20, Plaintiffs ticketing system notes dated January 7, 2003 …………...……...…….... 216 20 Exhibit 21, Plaintiffs ticketing system notes written January 7, 2003 ………………...…….... 218 21 Exhibit 22, Milwaukee event where plaintiff lost iPhone dated August 23, 2008 ..…………... 220 22 Exhibit 23, Counsels email to GC Bruce Sewell with read receipts dated Nov. 14, 2016 …… 222 Exhibit 24, Eleven Electronic read receipts ………………………………………………..…. 225 23 Exhibit 25, Counsel email to plaintiff dated November 14, 2016 (six hours later) …………... 242 24 Exhibit 26, Plaintiffs previous Apple patent award, received a year tardy …………………… 244 25 26 27 28 iv 4AC 4:18-CV-05929-JST 1 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES 2 CASES Page 3 A.C. 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