Snapkeys, LTD v. Google LLC

I. BACKGROUND

23 A. The Parties 24 Snapkeys is a “software development company that specializes in creating smartphone and 25 smartwatch keyboard technology.” TAC ¶ 7. Snapkeys is a foreign limited liability company 26 based in Israel. Id. ¶ 1. Google is a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware with its 27 principal place of business in Mountain View, California. Id. ¶ 2. B. Google’s Smartwatch Keyboard Application The instant case stems from discussions between the parties regarding the promotion of Snapkeys’ keyboard application, which runs on Google’s Android Wear smartwatches. Id. ¶ 9. Prior to the parties’ engagement with each other, several Google engineers began to develop Google’s own keyboard application for Android Wear smartwatches, whose code was based on code from Google’s pre-existing keyboard application for Android phones. Wright Decl. ¶ 21; Blume Decl. ¶ 3; Renouf Decl. ¶¶ 5–6; Ouyang Decl. ¶ 7; Ou Decl. ¶¶ 5, 8. In September 2014, Arthur Blume, who was an engineering manager at Google, came up with the idea of scaling Google’s already existing keyboard to a smartwatch. Blume Decl. ¶ 3. Blume…