Kaufman

I. Background

Kaufman, an inventor and assignee of U.S. Patent No. 7,885,981 and U.S. Patent No. 10,025,801, alleges that three of Salesforce’s online products, “Sales Cloud,” “Service Cloud,” and “Marketing Cloud,” employ a method of generating user interfaces that infringes on his patents. Dkt. 1 (“Complaint”) ¶¶ 1, 9-16; Dkt. 37 (“Kaufman Declaration”) ¶ 2. The locations of the various parties in this case and their potential witnesses are relevant for this Court’s review of Judge Netburn’s Order transferring venue. Kaufman resides in the Southern District of New York and Micah Philip Silverman, the co-inventor of the patents, lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Kaufman Declaration ¶¶ 3, 7. Meanwhile, Salesforce and its current and former employees who are likely to have relevant knowledge of the accused products are largely based on the West Coast, especially in the Northern District of California. In support of its motion to transfer venue, Salesforce submitted a declaration from Guy Jenkins, its Senior Vice President for Platform User Experience, who described those West Coast connections. See Dkt. (“Jenkins Declaration”). Incorporated in Delaware,…