Case 1:23-cv-01236-GBW Document 27 Filed 05/30/24 Page 1 of 2 PageID #: 2274
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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
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`C.A. No. 23-1236 (GBW)
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`DEFENDANTS’ LETTER TO THE HONORABLE GREGORY B. WILLIAMS
`IN RESPONSE TO THE COURT’S MAY 16, 2024 ORDER (D.I. 26)
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`NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY,
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`Plaintiff,
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`AMAZON.COM, INC.,
`AMAZON.COM SERVICES, LLC and
`TWITCH INTERACTIVE, INC.,
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`Defendants.
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`MORRIS, NICHOLS, ARSHT & TUNNELL LLP
`Jack B. Blumenfeld (#1014)
`Jeremy A. Tigan (#5239)
`1201 North Market Street
`P.O. Box 1347
`Wilmington, DE 19899
`(302) 658-9200
`jblumenfeld@morrisnichols.com
`jtigan@morrisnichols.com
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`Attorneys for Defendants Amazon.com, Inc.,
`Amazon.com Services, LLC and
`Twitch Interactive, Inc.
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`OF COUNSEL:
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`J. David Hadden
`Saina S. Shamilov
`Ravi R. Ranganath
`Allen Wang
`Vigen Salmastlian
`FENWICK & WEST LLP
`801 California Street
`Mountain View, CA 94041
`(650) 988-8500
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`Todd R. Gregorian
`Ethan M. Thomas
`FENWICK & WEST LLP
`555 California Street
`San Francisco, CA 94104
`(415) 875-2300
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`May 30, 2024
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`Case 1:23-cv-01236-GBW Document 27 Filed 05/30/24 Page 2 of 2 PageID #: 2275
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`Dear Judge Williams:
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`In response to the Court’s May 16, 2024 Oral Order (D.I. 26), defendants Amazon.com,
`Inc., Amazon.com Services, LLC, and Twitch Interactive, Inc. (collectively, “Amazon”) identify
`the following Federal Circuit cases most similar to the patents challenged in Amazon’s pending
`motion to dismiss under § 101 (D.I. 17):
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`U.S Patent Nos. 6,950,469; 7,280,599; 8,036,273 (“Pixel Averages Patents”): In
`RecogniCorp, LLC v. Nintendo Co., 855 F.3d 1322, 1326 (Fed. Cir. 2017), the Federal Circuit
`invalidated claims reciting “a method whereby a user displays images on a first display, assigns
`image codes to the images through an interface using a mathematical formula, and then reproduces
`the image based on the codes.” Id. at 1326. The Federal Circuit concluded the claims were directed
`to the abstract idea of “encoding and decoding image data.” Id. The panel reasoned that “[a]dding
`one abstract idea (math) to another abstract idea (encoding and decoding) [did] not render the claim
`non-abstract.” Id. at 1327. The Pixel Average Patents similarly claim a basic means of encoding
`and decoding video using a math formula—i.e., weighted averages and sums.
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`U.S. Patent Nos. 6,968,005; 8,144,764 (“Sequence Indicator Patents”): In Intell.
`Ventures I LLC v. Erie Indem. Co., 850 F.3d 1315, 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2017), the Federal Circuit
`invalidated claims reciting the use of XML tags to “identify, organize, and locate [a] desired
`resource.” Id. at 1327. The panel concluded that the claims were directed to the abstract idea of
`“creating an index and using that index to search for and retrieve data.” Id. at 1327. The panel
`noted that the use of identifiers (e.g., a tag) for “organizing and accessing records through the
`creation of an index-searchable database” amounted to “longstanding conduct that existed well
`before the advent of computers and the Internet.” Id. The Sequence Indicator Patents similarly
`require a numbering scheme, applying sequential identifiers to frames in a video stream.
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,724,818 (“The Parameter Set Patent”): In In re TLI Commc’ns LLC
`Pat. Litig., 823 F.3d 607, 612 (Fed. Cir. 2016), the Federal Circuit invalidated claims related to
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`“classification information,” and storing them based on the “classification information” as abstract
`and ineligible. Id. at 610. The Federal Circuit held the claims directed to the abstract idea of
`“classifying an image and storing the image based on its classification.” Id. at 611. The court held
`that “attaching classification data . . . to images for the purpose of storing those images in an
`organized manner” was “a well-established ‘basic concept’ sufficient to fall under Alice step 1.”
`Id. at 613. The Parameter Set Patent similarly claims the idea of defining and using image
`parameters for classifying images.
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`Respectfully,
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`/s/ Jeremy A. Tigan
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`Jeremy A. Tigan (#5239)
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`Clerk of the Court (via hand delivery)
`All Counsel of Record (via CM/ECF and e-mail)
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