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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
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`SOUND VIEW INNOVATIONS, LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`F ACEBOOK, INC.,
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`Defendant.
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`Civil Action No. 16-116-RGA
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`ORDER
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`The parties have raised a question about what happened at a prior discovery dispute
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`conference. (D.I. 188, 190). I obtained the transcript. (D.1. 193). I have read the relevant parts
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`of it, as well as the parties' letters.
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`The Rule 30(b)(6) testimony I intended to permit Sound View was for the purpose of
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`allowing Sound View to find out "how PHP works." (D.I. 193 at p.19). The idea was not that
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`Face book had to explain how PHP works in light of the prior art, but that Sound View could ask
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`questions about how PHP works with the knowledge of what the prior art was that Facebook was
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`asserting. My permitting the deposition of two witnesses was based on the understanding that
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`the same two witnesses had previously been deposed on how PHP works, but without Sound
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`View knowing the correct asserted prior art. Based on the parties' letters, one of the two
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`witnesses is Mr. Ho. Even now, I do not think I knew at the hearing who the second Facebook
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`witness was, but based on the parties' letters, it is Mr. Sereni or no one. I understand the date
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`offered for Mr. Sereni was today; thus, if Sound View wants to depose him, the parties should
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`Case 1:16-cv-00116-RGA Document 196 Filed 09/08/17 Page 2 of 2 PageID #: 3536
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`reach agreement on a different date to do that.
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`IT IS SO ORDERED this <?.day of September 2017.
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