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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
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`MEMORY INTEGRITY, LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`ASUSTEK COMPUTER, INC. AND ASUS
`COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL,
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`Defendants.
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`Civil Action No.
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`JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
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`COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT
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`Plaintiff Memory Integrity, LLC (“MI”), by way of this Complaint for Patent
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`Infringement (“Complaint”) against the above-named Defendants ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. and
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`ASUS Computer International (collectively, “ASUS” or “Defendants”), alleges as follows:
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`NATURE OF THE ACTION
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`1.
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`This is an action for patent infringement arising under the Patent Laws of the
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`United States, Title 35 of the United States Code.
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`THE PARTIES
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`2.
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`Plaintiff MI is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of
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`Delaware with a place of business at 1220 N. Market Street, Suite 806, Wilmington, Delaware
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`19801.
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`3.
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`On information and belief, Defendant ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. is a corporation
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`organized under the laws of Taiwan with its principal place of business at No. 15, Li-Te Rd.,
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`Peitou District, Taipei 112, Taiwan.
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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
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`MEMORY INTEGRITY, LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`ASUSTEK COMPUTER, INC. AND ASUS
`COMPUTER INTERNATIONAL,
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`Defendants.
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`Civil Action No.
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`JURY TRIAL DEMANDED
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`COMPLAINT FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT
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`Plaintiff Memory Integrity, LLC (“MI”), by way of this Complaint for Patent
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`Infringement (“Complaint”) against the above-named Defendants ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. and
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`ASUS Computer International (collectively, “ASUS” or “Defendants”), alleges as follows:
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`NATURE OF THE ACTION
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`1.
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`This is an action for patent infringement arising under the Patent Laws of the
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`United States, Title 35 of the United States Code.
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`THE PARTIES
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`2.
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`Plaintiff MI is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of
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`Delaware with a place of business at 1220 N. Market Street, Suite 806, Wilmington, Delaware
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`19801.
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`3.
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`On information and belief, Defendant ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. is a corporation
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`organized under the laws of Taiwan with its principal place of business at No. 15, Li-Te Rd.,
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`Peitou District, Taipei 112, Taiwan.
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`4.
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`On information and belief, Defendant ASUS Computer International is a
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`corporation organized under the laws of the State of California with its principal place of
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`business at 800 Corporate Way, Fremont, California 94539.
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`JURISDICTION AND VENUE
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`6.
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`This Court has subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1338.
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`On information and belief, Defendants are subject to the jurisdiction of this Court
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`by reason of their acts of patent infringement which have been committed in this Judicial
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`District, and by virtue of their regularly conducted and systematic business contacts in this State.
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`As such, Defendants have purposefully availed themselves of the privilege of conducting
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`business within this Judicial District; have established sufficient minimum contacts with this
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`Judicial District such that they should reasonably and fairly anticipate being haled into court in
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`this Judicial District; and at least a portion of the patent infringement claims alleged herein arise
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`out of or are related to one or more of the foregoing activities.
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`7.
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`Venue is proper in this judicial district under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1391(c) and 1400(b).
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`JOINDER
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`8.
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`Joinder is proper under 35 U.S.C. § 299. The allegations of infringement
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`contained herein are asserted against the Defendants jointly, severally, or in the alternative and
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`arise, at least in part, out of the same series of transactions or occurrences relating to Defendants’
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`manufacture, use, sale, offer for sale, and importation of the same accused products. On
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`information and belief, the Defendants are part of the same corporate family of companies, and
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`the infringement allegations arise at least in part from the Defendants’ collective activities with
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`respect to the Defendants’ accused products. Questions of fact common to the Defendants will
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`arise in the action, including questions relating to the structure and operation of the accused
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`products, Defendants’ infringing acts and, on information and belief, the validity of the patent-in-
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`suit.
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`THE PATENT-IN-SUIT
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`9.
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`On November 13, 2007, United States Patent No. 7,296,121 (the “’121 Patent”),
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`entitled “Reducing Probe Traffic in Multiprocessor Systems,” was duly and legally issued by the
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`United States Patent and Trademark Office. A true and correct copy of the ’121 Patent is
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`attached as Exhibit A to this Complaint.
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`10. MI is the assignee and owner of the right, title and interest in and to the ’121
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`Patent, including the right to assert all causes of action arising under said patent and the right to
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`any remedies for infringement of it.
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`COUNT I – INFRINGEMENT OF U.S. PATENT NO. 7,296,121
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`11.
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`The allegations set forth in the foregoing paragraphs 1 through 10 are hereby
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`realleged and incorporated herein by reference.
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`12.
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`In violation of 35 U.S.C. § 271(a), ASUS has directly infringed and continues to
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`directly infringe, both literally and under the doctrine of equivalents, the ’121 Patent by making,
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`using, offering for sale, selling, and importing products (the “Accused Instrumentalities”) and by
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`performing methods that practice the subject matter claimed in one or more claims of the ’121
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`Patent, including but not limited to claim 1, in the United States, including within this Judicial
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`District, without the authority of MI. For example, ASUS has directly infringed the ’121 Patent
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`by selling products that contain a multicore processor that utilizes a probe filtering unit to reduce
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`probe traffic in a computer system. The Accused Instrumentalities include, but are not limited to
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`the ASUS MeMO Pad Smart 10 inch.
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`13.
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`ASUS has had actual knowledge of the ’121 Patent and its infringement of that
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`patent since at least the date of service of this Complaint.
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`14.
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`ASUS is also inducing infringement of the ’121 Patent under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b),
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`since at least the date of service of this Complaint, by actively aiding and abetting others
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`(including its direct and indirect customers) whose sale, offer for sale, importation, and use of the
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`Accused Instrumentalities constitutes direct infringement. ASUS has engaged in these actions
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`with either the specific intent to cause infringement or with willful blindness to the infringement
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`that it is causing. For example, ASUS’s actions that actively induce its customers to directly
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`infringe at least claim 25 of the ’121 Patent include selling the Accused Instrumentalities,
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`providing user manuals regarding use of the Accused Instrumentalities, and providing technical
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`support regarding the use of the Accused Instrumentalities, where the use of the Accused
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`Instrumentalities during normal operation by ASUS’s customers infringes at least claim 25 of the
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`’121 Patent. The use of the Accused Instrumentalities identified above during normal operation
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`directly infringes claim 25 of the ’121 Patent in at least the following manner:
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`(a)
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`The Accused Instrumentalities comprise a plurality of processing nodes
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`because they contain multicore processors. The cores are connected in a point-to-point
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`architecture and each core has an associated L1 cache memory;
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`(b)
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`One of the processor cores requests access to a memory line by
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`transmitting a probe to the Snoop Control Unit (the probe filtering unit);
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`(c)
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`The Snoop Control Unit evaluates the probe using a copy of the L1 data
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`cache tag RAMs which is representative of the states associated with selected L1 caches
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`to determine whether a valid copy of the memory line is in any of the L1 caches;
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`(d)
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`The Snoop Control Unit transmits the probe only to selected ones of the
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`cores identified in the evaluating step;
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`(e)
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`The Snoop Control Unit accumulates responses from the selected cores;
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`(f)
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`The Snoop Control Unit responds to the original request from the first
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`and
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`core.
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`15.
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` ASUS is also committing contributory infringement of the ’121 Patent under 35
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`U.S.C. § 271(c) since at least the date of service of this Complaint by importing and selling the
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`Accused Instrumentalities to others, including but not limited to its customers, knowing and/or
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`being willfully blind to the fact that these products constitute a material part of the invention,
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`were especially made or especially adapted for use in an infringement of the ’121 Patent, and
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`have no substantial non-infringing uses. For example, the Accused Instrumentalities constitute a
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`material part of the claimed invention at least because they contain all of the components that
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`perform the method of reducing probe traffic in a computer system as claimed in claim 25 of the
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`’121 Patent. The Accused Instrumentalities were made or especially adapted for use in an
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`infringement of the ’121 Patent and have no substantial non-infringing uses at least because they
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`contain components whose only purpose is to reduce probe traffic in a computer system as
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`claimed in claim 25 of the ’121 Patent. The use of the Accused Instrumentalities identified
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`above by ASUS’s customers during normal operation directly infringes claim 25 of the ’121
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`Patent in at least the following manner:
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`(a)
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`The Accused Instrumentalities comprise a plurality of processing nodes
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`because they contain multicore processors. The cores are connected in a point-to-point
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`architecture and each core has an associated L1 cache memory;
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`(b)
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`One of the processor cores requests access to a memory line by
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`transmitting a probe to the Snoop Control Unit (the probe filtering unit);
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`(c)
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`The Snoop Control Unit evaluates the probe using a copy of the L1 data
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`cache tag RAMs which is representative of the states associated with selected L1 caches
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`to determine whether a valid copy of the memory line is in any of the L1 caches;
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`(d)
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`The Snoop Control Unit transmits the probe only to selected ones of the
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`cores identified in the evaluating step;
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`(e)
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`The Snoop Control Unit accumulates responses from the selected cores;
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`and
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`core.
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`(f)
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`The Snoop Control Unit responds to the original request from the first
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`16. MI has been harmed by ASUS’s infringing activities.
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`JURY DEMAND
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`MI demands a jury trial on all issues and claims so triable.
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`PRAYER FOR RELIEF
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`WHEREFORE, MI prays for judgment as follows:
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`a.
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`b.
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`An adjudication that ASUS has infringed the ’121 patent;
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`An award of damages to be paid by ASUS adequate to compensate MI for
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`past infringement of the ’121 Patent, and any continuing or future infringement through the date
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`such judgment is entered, including prejudgment and post-judgment interest, costs, expenses and
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`an accounting of all infringing acts including but not limited to those acts not presented at trial;
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`c.
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`An order that ASUS pay an ongoing royalty in an amount to be
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`determined for any continued infringement after the date judgment is entered; and
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`d.
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`Such further relief at law and in equity as the Court may deem just and
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`proper.
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`Dated: November 1, 2013
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`STAMOULIS & WEINBLATT LLC
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`/s/ Richard C. Weinblatt
`Stamatios Stamoulis #4606
`stamoulis@swdelaw.com
`Richard C. Weinblatt #5080
`weinblatt@swdelaw.com
`Two Fox Point Centre
`6 Denny Road, Suite 307
`Wilmington, DE 19809
`Telephone: (302) 999-1540
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`Attorneys for Plaintiff
`Memory Integrity, LLC
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