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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 1
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`Duty of Jury
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`Members of the Jury: Now that you have heard all of the evidence and the arguments of
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`jury room to consult during your deliberations. You must not infer from these instructions or from
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 2
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`Burden of Proof − Preponderance of the Evidence
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`affirmative defense is more probably true than not true. You should base your decision on all of
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 3
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`Burden of Proof − Clear and Convincing Evidence
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 4
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`What is Evidence
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`What is Not Evidence
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`In reaching your verdict, you may consider only the testimony and exhibits received into
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 6
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`Direct and Circumstantial Evidence
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`Evidence may be direct or circumstantial. Direct evidence is direct proof of a fact, such as
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`evidence is proof of one or more facts from which you could find another fact. You should
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 7
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`In deciding the facts in this case, you may have to decide which testimony to believe and
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`of it. Proof of a fact does not necessarily depend on the number of witnesses who testify about it.
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 8
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`Expert Opinion
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 9
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`Summary of Contentions
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`I will first give you a summary of each side’s contentions in this case. I will then tell you
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`what each side must prove to win on each of its contentions. As I previously told you, TVI seeks
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`money damages from Sony for allegedly infringing the ‘307, ‘863, ‘156 and ‘532 patents by
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`making, importing, using, selling, offering to sell, supplying, and causing to be supplied, its DVD
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`1 of the ‘156 Patent; and claims 1, 2, and 18 of the ‘307 Patent. The products that are alleged to
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`Your job is to decide whether any of the asserted claims of the ‘307, ‘863, ‘156 and ‘532
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 12
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`Interpretation of Claims
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`I have interpreted the meaning of some of the language in the patent claims involved in
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`The claim term “file” is a complete, identifiable collection of information, constituting a
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`The claim term “loading” means copying into memory.
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`The claim term “predetermined name” is any name which is determined ahead of time.
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`The claim term “application” is a program designed to assist in the performance of a
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`patents. To prove infringement of any claim, TVI must persuade you that it is more likely than
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`not that Sony has infringed that claim. You are to determine infringement based solely on whether
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`the Representative Products infringe each of the asserted claims.
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 14
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`Direct Infringement
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`A patent’s claims define what is covered by the patent. A product or method directly
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`infringes a patent if it is covered by at least one claim of the patent. Deciding whether a claim has
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`been directly infringed is a two-step process. The first step is to decide the meaning of the patent
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`claim. I have already made this decision, and I have already instructed you as to the meaning of
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`the asserted patent claims. The second step is to decide whether Sony has made, used, sold,
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`claim of TVI’s patents. You, the jury, make the decision in the second step.
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`With one exception, you must consider each of the asserted claims of TVI’s patents
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`individually, and decide whether Sony’s products infringe that claim. The one exception to
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`considering claims individually concerns dependent claims. A dependent claim includes all of the
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`requirements of a particular independent claim, plus additional requirements of its own. As a
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`result, if you find that an independent claim is not infringed, you must find that its dependent
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`claims are also not infringed. On the other hand, if you find that an independent claim has been
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`infringed, you must still separately decide whether the additional requirements of its asserted
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`dependent claims have also been infringed.
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`Whether or not Sony knew its products infringed or even knew of the patent does not
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`matter in determining direct infringement.
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`The following instructions will provide more detail on direct infringement. You should
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`note, however, that what are called “means-plus-function” requirements in a claim are subject to
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`different rules for deciding direct infringement. These separate rules apply to claim 1 of the ’156
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`Patent and claims 1 and 9 of the ’863 Patent. I will describe these separate rules shortly.
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`JURY INSTRUCTION NO. 15
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`Infringement
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`To decide whether Sony’s products infringe claim 1 of the '156 patent and claims 1 and 9
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`of the '863 patent, you must compare Sony’s products with these patent claims and determine
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`whether every requirement of the claim is included in Sony’s products. If so, Sony’s products
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`infringe those claims. If, however, Sony’s products do not have every requirement in the patent
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`claim, Sony’s products do not infringe that claim. You must decide literal infringement for each
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`asserted claim separately.
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`To decide whether Sony infringes claims 1, 2, and 18 of the '307 patent and claims 1, 9 and
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`17 of the '532 patent, you must find that Sony performed every requirement of the claim in the
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`United States. If so, Sony infringes that claim. If, however, Sony does not perform every
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`requirement in the patent claim, Sony does not infringe that claim.
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`The beginning portion, or preamble, of the asserted claims of the patents-in-suit uses the
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`word “comprising.” “Comprising” means “including” or “containing.” A claim that uses the
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`or steps that are recited in the claim, but also covers products or processes that add additional
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`elements or steps. A claim that uses "comprises" in the preamble is infringed as long as every
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`requirement in the claim is present in Sony’s products. The fact that Sony’s products also include
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`Means-Plus-Function Claims – Infringement
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`I will now describe the separate rules that apply to “means-plus-function” requirements
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`that are used in some claims. Claim 1 in the '156 patent and claims 1 and 9 in the '863 patent
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`contain “means-plus-function” requirements. A means-plus-function requirement only covers the
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`specific structure disclosed in a patent specification for performing the claimed function and the
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`equivalents of those specific structures that perform the claimed function. A means-plus-function
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`requirement does not cover all possible structures that could be used to perform the claimed
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`function.
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`As an example, the term “means for processing data” might be understood to encompass a
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`requirement, we interpret that phrase not to cover every possible means for processing data, but
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`are equivalent to it.
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`For purposes of this trial, I have interpreted each means-plus-function requirement for you
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`function requirements.
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`Specifically, I have determined that:
`1. "a host device programmed and/or configured to perform the disclosed algorithm of
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`integral part of the host device, and equivalents thereof" is the structure that performs
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`the "automatically loading an initialization file" function identified in the means-plus-
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`function requirement of claim 1 of the '156 patent and claim 1 of the '863 patent.
`2. "a host device (e.g. computer) programmed to perform the disclosed algorithm of
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`detecting insertion of a storage media through polling or use of an interrupt from a
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`insertion of a storage media into said peripheral" function identified in the means-plus-
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`4. "a host device (e.g. computer) programmed to perform the disclosed algorithms of
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`directions in a file of predetermined name to start up a process, and equivalents
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`5. "a host device (e.g. computer) programmed to perform the disclosed algorithm of
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`determining if a file is present in or accessible from the storage media, and equivalents
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`6. "a host device (e.g. computer) programmed to perform the disclosed algorithm of using
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`means-plus-function requirement of claim 9 of the '863 patent.
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`In deciding if TVI has proven that Sony's products include a structure covered by a means-
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`function requirement is not infringed.
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`structure I have identified in the specification. If they are the same or equivalent, the means-plus-
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`requirements of the claim are satisfied, the accused products infringe the claim.
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`claim 1 of the '156 patent or claim 1 or claim 9 of the '863 patent, TVI must show that a person of
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`described in claim 1 of the '156 patent or claim 1 or claim 9 of the '863 patent and the structure in
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`the accused products are not substantial. For the '156 patent, TVI must also show that the
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`structure was available on the date the '156 patent was granted of August 18, 1998. For the '862
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`patent, TVI must show that the structure was available on the date the '863 patent was granted of
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