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Netbula LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc.

In a 2009 case called "Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc.", defendant Chordiant Software Inc. filed a motion to compel Plaintiff Netbula to remove the robots.txt file that has been in place since "[s]everal years ago." A person from Internet Archive filed a declaration stating that it could not produce the web pages "without considerable burden, expense and disruption to its operations." Netbula objected on the ground that defendants' motion was not a motion to compel but the motion to alter record, similar to an injunction. Plaintiff also contends that it has exclusive property rights to its copyrighted web content[15], which could be affected by the Field v. Google case. Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd in the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, rejected these arguments and ordered that "Plaintiffs shall, within three days from the entry of this order, disable the robot.txt file from its website and promptly advise defense counsel
when that has been accomplished." [16] See also, Jenkins-Laporte Doctrine.