Yockey
Yockey v. Salesforce, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 PATRICK YOCKEY, et al., Case No. 22-cv-09067-JST
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
v. DENYING IN PART MOTION TO
DISMISS
SALESFORCE, INC., Re: ECF No. 23 Defendant.
12 Before the Court is Defendant Salesforce, Inc.’s motion to dismiss. ECF No. 23. The Court will grant the motion in part and deny it in part. I. BACKGROUND Salesforce is a software-as-a-service provider that offers a service called Chat. ECF No. 22 ¶¶ 6, 11. Chat is an application programming interface (“API”), id. ¶ 12, which is “a tool that ‘allow[s] programmers to use . . . prewritten code to build certain functions into their own programs, rather than write their own code to perform those functions from scratch,” Google LLC v. Oracle Am., Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1183, 1191 (2021) (quoting Oracle Am., Inc. v. Google, Inc., 750 F.3d 1339, 1349 (2014)). “An API divides and organizes the world of computing tasks in a particular way.” Id. at 1192. Id. Chat…