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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
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`C.A. No. 16-453 (RGA)
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`C.A. No. 16-454 (RGA)
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`C.A. No. 16-455 (RGA)
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`ACCELERATION BAY LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`ACTIVISION BLIZZARD, INC.,
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`Defendant.
`ACCELERATION BAY LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.,
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`Defendant.
`ACCELERATION BAY LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE,
`INC., ROCKSTAR GAMES, INC., and 2K
`SPORTS, INC.,
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`Defendants.
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`[PROPOSED] ORDER
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`WHEREAS, the Court, having considered Plaintiff Acceleration Bay LLC’s Motion for
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`Summary Judgment of Infringement and Validity, its Motion to Exclude the Expert Testimony of
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`Catharine M. Lawton (both filed February 2, 2018), and the related briefing and all arguments
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`thereto;
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`IT IS HEREBY ORDERED this ____ day of ____________, 2018, that:
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`Case 1:16-cv-00454-RGA Document 388-1 Filed 02/02/18 Page 2 of 3 PageID #: 24794
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`Acceleration Bay LLC’s Motion for Summary Judgment of Infringement is hereby
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`GRANTED. Final judgment of infringement of United States Patent 6,701,344 is entered in
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`favor of Acceleration Bay LLC and against Activision Blizzard, Inc.
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`Acceleration Bay LLC’s Motion for Summary Judgment of Validity is hereby
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`GRANTED. Final judgment of validity of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,701,344, 6,714,966, 6,910,069,
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`6,732,147, 6,829,634, and 6,920,497 is entered in favor of Acceleration Bay LLC and against
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`Activision Blizzard, Inc. as follows:1
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`Asserted
`Patents:
`‘344 &
`‘966
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`Asserted Claims:
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`Valid Over:
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`Claim 12
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`Alagar2
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`Alagar and Age of Empires3
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`Alagar and DirectPlay4
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`DirectPlay
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`Shoubridge5
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`‘344 Claim 13, 14, 15
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`Alagar and Age of Empires
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`‘966 Claim 13
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`Alagar and DirectPlay
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`‘069
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`Claims 1 and 11
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`Obraczka Thesis6, Shoubridge and Denes
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`1 For purposes of defining the alleged prior art at issue in this proposed order, Acceleration Bay
`uses Defendants’ descriptions of the references. This is not an admission that Defendants have
`established that the references were publicly available by any specific date.
`2 S. Alagar, et al., Reliable Broadcast in Mobile Wireless Networks, Military Communications
`Conference, 1 IEEE MILCOM ’95 CONF. REC., 236-40 (San Diego, Cal., 1995)
`(BENNETT_000591-622).
`3 Age of Empires I video game, developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft for
`Windows 95 or NT operating systems. (DEFS-I0025545)
`4 Bradly Bargen & Peter Donnelly, Inside DirectX (Microsoft Press 1998) (“Inside DirectX”) &
`CD accompanying Inside DirectX (“Inside DirectX CD”), which includes the SDK for DirectX
`5.2, sample games (e.g., Duel, Space Brouhaha, Chatter), and source code (DEFS-I0025548)
`5 Peter J. Shoubridge & Arek Dadej, “Hybrid Routing in Dynamic Networks”, IEEE
`International Conference on Communications, Montreal, 1997. (BENNETT_000001-05)
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`2
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`Case 1:16-cv-00454-RGA Document 388-1 Filed 02/02/18 Page 3 of 3 PageID #: 24795
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`Asserted
`Patents:
`‘147
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`Asserted Claims:
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`Valid Over:
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`Claims 1, 11, 15 and 16
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`Shoubridge, Denes7 and Rufino8
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`‘634
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`‘497
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`Claims 19 and 22
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`Claims 9 and 16
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`DirectPlay, Shoubridge, Obraczka9 and Obraczka Thesis
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`Kegel10 and Naugle11
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`ActiveNet12 and Naugle
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`Acceleration Bay LLC’s Motion to Exclude the Expert Testimony of Catharine M.
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`Lawton is hereby GRANTED. Catharine M. Lawton is prohibited from testifying at trial about
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`her opinion regarding the reasonable royalty owed to Acceleration Bay LLC for Activision
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`Blizzard, Inc.’s infringement, any purported non-infringing alternatives not addressed by
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`Activision’s technical experts in their reports, and any secondary considerations of non-
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`obviousness concerning the asserted patents.
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`____________________________________
`Honorable Richard G. Andrews
`United States District Court Judge
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`6 Katia Obraczka, “Massively Replicating Services In Wide Area Internetworks” (Ph.D. Thesis,
`University of Southern California, December 1994) (BENNETT_000048-187)
`7 English Language Translation of: Tamás Dénes, “’Evolution’ by Vertex of Even-order Regular
`Graphs,” MATEMATICKAI LAPOK, 1979, pp.365-377 (BENNETT_000232-40 (original);
`BENNETT_000244-66 (translation))
`8 Jose Rufino: Jose Rufino, et al., “A Study on the Inaccessibility Characteristics of ISO 8802/4
`Token Bus LANs”, IEEE INFOCOM ’92: The Conference on Computer Communications;
`Eleventh Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (1992).
`(BENNETT_000193-209)
`9 Katia Obraczka et al., “A Tool for Massively Replicating Internet Archives: Design,
`Implementation, and Experience”, IEEE Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
`Distributed Computing Systems, May 1996. (BENNETT_000016-31)
`10 Dan Kegel, “NAT and Peer-to-Peer Networking,” http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~dank/peer-
`nat.html (last updated July 17, 1999) (BENNETT_000226-29)
`11 Matthew Naugle, “Network Protocol Handbook” (Mc-Graw-Hill in 1994)
`(BENNETT_000293-408)
`12 ActiveNet archives DEFS-I0025493 and DEFS-I0028725
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`3
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