UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
|
STARBUCKS
CORPORATION, a Washington
corporation; and STARBUCKS U.S.
BRANDS, INC., a California corporation, Plaintiffs, v. WOLFE'S
BOROUGH COFFEE, INC., a New Hampshire
corporation d/b/a BLACK BEAR MICRO
ROASTERY, Defendant. |
No.
Ol-CV-5981 (LTS)(THK) |
PLAINTIFFS'
FIRST REQUEST TO DEFENDANT
FOR
THE PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS
Plaintiffs Starbucks Corporation and Starbucks U.S. Brands Corporation
(named herein as "Starbucks U.S. Brands, Inc.")
("Plaintiffs"), by their attorneys, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue,
hereby request, pursuant to Rules 26 and 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure and Rules 26-37 of the Local Civil Rules of the United States District
Court for the Southern District of New York, that Defendant Wolfe's Borough
Coffee, Inc., d/b/a Black Bear Micro Roastery ("Black Bear"), within
thirty (30) days of the date of service hereof, produce for inspection and
copying the documents described below. The documents are to be produced by
arrangement with and at the offices of Defendants' counsel, Jones, Day, Reavis
& Pogue, 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022.
The following definitions and instructions shall apply to each and every
part of this Request for Production of Documents (the "Request"), as
if fully set forth therein:
DEFINITIONS
1.
"Plaintiffs" shall mean Starbucks Corporation and Starbucks
U.S. Brands Corporation and any of their officers, directors, employees, agents
and representatives and all persons acting or purporting to act on their behalf.
2.
"Starbucks" shall mean Starbucks Corporation and any of its
officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives and all persons
acting or purporting to act on its behalf.
3.
"U.S. Brands" shall mean Starbucks U.S. Brands Corporation and
any of its officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives and all
persons acting or purporting to act on its behalf.
4.
"Black Bear" shall mean Wolfe's Borough Coffee, Inc. d/b/a
Black Bear Micro Roastery and any of its officers, directors, employees, agents
and representatives and all persons acting or purporting to act on its behalf.
5.
"You" and "your" shall mean Black Bear and any of its
officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives and all persons
acting or purporting to act on its behalf.
6.
The "Starbucks Mark" shall mean the name and trademark
"Starbucks."
7.
"Complaint" shall mean the Complaint in this action dated July
2, 2001.
8.
"Communication" shall mean the
transmittal of information (in the form of facts, ideas, inquiries or
otherwise).
9.
"Document" and "documents" are used in the broadest
permissible sense under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and shall include,
without limitation, tangible things and all written, typewritten, recorded
(including audio or videotape or both), graphic, photographic (including
negatives), facsimile transmissions, or computerized materials in whatever form,
including copies, drafts, and reproductions thereof to which you have or have
had access and every copy of such document which contains any commentary or
notation not appearing in the original.
10.
"Person" shall mean any natural person or any business, legal
or governmental entity or association.
11.
"Entity" shall mean any company, corporation, partnership,
union, joint venture, sole proprietorship, association, government agency,
organization or any other similar type of group through which business is
conducted, or any director, officer, employee or agent thereof.
12.
"Concerning" shall mean relating to, referring to, describing,
evidencing or constituting.
13.
"Relate to" and "relating to" shall mean and include
any information concerning, comprising, identifying, summarizing, evidencing,
containing, discussing, mentioning, describing, reflecting, comparing,
analyzing, memorializing or pertaining in any way to the subject matter of the
discovery request in which such term is used.
14.
"All" and "each" shall be construed as all and each.
15.
"And" and "or" shall be construed either
disjunctively or conjunctively as necessary to bring within the scope of the
discovery request all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside
of its scope.
16.
Singular forms of any noun or pronoun shall embrace and be read to
include the plural as the context may make appropriate.
17.
Masculine forms of any noun or pronoun shall embrace and be read to
include the feminine or neuter, as the context may make appropriate.
INSTRUCTIONS
1.
Whenever a request calls for information which is not available to Black
Bear in the form requested, but is available in another form or can be obtained,
at least in part, from other data in Black Bear's possession, so state and
either supply the information requested in the form in which it is available or
supply the data from which the information requested can be obtained.
2.
This Request is continuing in nature. Black Bear shall supplement its
responses to this Request, as and when additional responsive documents become
known or available to Black Bear, or when so requested by Plaintiffs prior to
trial.
3.
Black Bear shall produce all documents in its possession, custody or
control, including documents in the possession, custody or control of Black Bear
and its organizers and owners, their subsidiaries and affiliates, and their
officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, successors, assigns and
attorneys and all persons acting or purporting to act on behalf of Black Bear or
who are in possession of or who may have obtained information for or on behalf
of Black Bear in regard to the subject matter of this case.
4.
Black Bear shall produce responsive documents as they are kept in the
usual course of business, or organize and label them to correspond with the
categories in this Request, pursuant to Rule 34(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure. Documents shall be produced in a manner that permits the source of
the documents to be easily ascertained.
5.
Where a claim of privilege is asserted in objecting to any document
request or subpart thereof. Black Bear shall comply with Rule 26.2 of the Local
Civil Rules of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New
York, and assert the privilege in the following manner:
(a)
The attorney asserting the privilege shall, in the objection to the
document demand, or subpart thereof, identify the nature of the privilege
(including work product) which is being claimed or defense governed by state
law, indicate the state's privilege rule being invoked; and
(b)
The following information shall be provided in the objection, unless
divulgence of such information would cause disclosure of the allegedly
privileged information:
(i)
the type of document;
(ii)
general subject matter of the document;
(iii)
date of the document;
(iv)
such other information as is sufficient to identify the document for a
subpoena duces tecum. including, where appropriate, the author of the document,
the addressee of the document, and, where not apparent, the relationship of the
author and addressee to each other.
6.
Each document request, and each subpart thereof, shall be separately set
forth and accorded a separate answer. Each response shall first set forth
verbatim the document request to which it is responsive, followed by Black
Bear's response.
7.
No part of a document request shall be left unanswered merely because an
objection is interposed to another part of the document request.
8.If
Black Bear objects to any document request or subpart thereof, the objection
shall state with specificity all grounds. Any ground not stated shall be waived.
9.If
Black Bear is unable to answer any document request, the reasons for Black
Bear's inability to answer shall be separately stated in detail for each
document request.
10.
Failure to provide information in response to these document requests
will be deemed a waiver of Black Bear's right to produce such evidence at trial.
Plaintiffs reserve the right to move to preclude the introduction of any
evidence not produced in response to this Request.
11.
In the event that Black Bear is not in possession of any document
requested. Black Bear shall take all appropriate steps to aid in the recovery of
the document from other sources, including but not limited to providing
identifying information and providing authorizations, waivers or releases, where
required.
REQUESTS
FOR PRODUCTION
1.
All documents mentioned in Black Bear's responses to Plaintiffs First Set
of Interrogatories to Defendant.
2.
All documents requested or required to be identified by Black Bear in
response to Plaintiffs First Set of Interrogatories to Defendant.
3.
Documents sufficient to establish Black Bear's date and state of
incorporation.
4.
All documents that mention, discuss, evidence, refer to or relate to the
date(s) of Black Bear's use of the "Charbucks" name, including, but
not limited to, on or in connection with Black Bear's manufacture and sale of
coffee products under the "Charbucks" name.
5.
All documents that mention, discuss,
describe, refer to or relate to Black Bear's decision to use the
"Charbucks" name.
6.
All documents that mention, discuss or
constitute advertisements or promotional materials, in any medium, in which
Black Bear has used the "Charbucks" name.
7.
One exemplar of every item, including, but not limited to, stationery,
envelopes, labels, tags, stickers, containers, packages or products ever used or
sold by Black Bear, that bears the "Charbucks" name.
8.
All documents that mention, discuss, refer to or relate to Black Bear's
marketing, promotion, advertising, and offering of goods and services under the
"Charbucks" name, including, but not limited to, marketing plans,
advertising plans, strategic business plans, and market research.
9.
All documents that mention, discuss, constitute, refer to or relate to
any trademark searches or investigations concerning the term
"Starbucks" conducted by or on behalf of Black Bear at any time.
10.
All documents that mention, discuss, constitute, refer to or relate to
any research, reports, surveys or studies conducted by or on behalf of Black
Bear relating to consumer or customer perception of any mark or name that
includes the term "Starbucks."
11.
All documents that mention, discuss, refer to or relate to actual
consumer confusion or the likelihood of confusion stemming from Black Bear's use
of the "Charbucks" name.
12.
All documents that mention, discuss, constitute, refer to or relate to
any agreement(s) between Black Bear and third parties concerning use of the
"Charbucks" name, including, but not limited to, license agreements,
consent agreements, coexistence agreements, and settlement agreements.
13.
All documents that mention, discuss,
refer to or relate to Starbucks.
14.
All documents that mention, discuss,
refer to or relate to the Starbucks Mark.
15.
All documents that mention, discuss,
describe, refer to or relate to the circumstances under which Black Bear first
learned of the existence of Starbucks.
16.
All documents that mention, discuss,
describe, refer to or relate to the circumstances under which Black Bear first
learned of the existence of the Starbucks Mark.
17.
All documents that mention, discuss,
constitute refer to or relate to any comments, inquiries, questions,
correspondence, or statements from any person regarding Starbucks, the Starbucks
Mark, or any of Starbucks' goods or services.
Dated: New
York, New York
January , 2002
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CERTIFICATE
OF SERVICE
BONNIE
L. HEMENWAY, declares, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1746, as follows:
1. I am an attorney in the
firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, counsel for Plaintiffs Starbucks
Corporation and Starbucks U.S. Brands Corporation (named herein as
"Starbucks U.S. Brands, Inc.").
2. On February 1, 2002,1 caused
service of true copies of the within Plaintiffs' First Set of Interrogatories to
Defendant to be made, by first-class mail, upon:
Michael K.
Terry, Esq.
Konowitz
& Greenberg
110 Cedar
Street, Suite 250
Wellesley
Hills, Massachusetts 02481-9527
Mark S.
Kaufman, Esq.
The Law
Offices of Mark S. Kaufman
36 West 44th
Street, Suite 900
New York, New
York 10036
Attorneys for
Defendant Wolfe's
Borough
Coffee, Inc., d/b/a Black
Bear Micro
Roastery
3.
I declare under penalty of perjury that
the foregoing is true and correct.
Dated: New York, New York
February 1, 2002