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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`APPLE INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`SMARTFLASH LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case CBM2015-00018
`Patent 7,942,317 B2
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`PATENT OWNER’S OBJECTIONS TO ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE
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`Smartflash - Exhibit 2102
`Apple v. Smartflash
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.64, Patent Owner hereby objects to the admissibility of certain
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`evidence submitted with Petitioner’s petition (“the Petition”). Patent Owner’s objections are
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`based on the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Board Rules and are set forth with particularity
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`below.
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`Exhibit 1202 (Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint)
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`Patent Owner objects to the admissibility of Exhibit 1202 on grounds that it is cumulative
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`evidence and irrelevant. The Petition cites to Exhibit 1202 for the sole purpose of showing
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`Patent Owner’s characterization of the ‘317 Patent as covering “a portable data carrier for storing
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`data and managing access to the data via payment information and/or use status rules” and
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`covering “a computer network …that serves data and manages access to data by, for example,
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`validating payment information.” Petition at 13 (citing Ex. 1202 ¶ 17). Petitioner’s expert,
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`Anthony J. Wechselberger’s Declaration, Exhibit 1217, (“Wechselberger Declaration”) does not
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`cite to Exhibit 1202. Petitioner does not need to cite to Exhibit 1202 to characterize what the
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`‘317 Patent relates to when Exhibit 1201, the actual ‘317 Patent, is in evidence. Under Fed. R.
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`Evid. 1004, other evidence of the content of a writing (here the ‘317 Patent) is admissible if the
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`original is lost, cannot be obtained, has not been produced, or the writing is not closely related to
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`a controlling issue. None of those apply given that the ‘317 Patent is in evidence and is the
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`subject of the trial. The PTAB should also exclude Exhibit 1202 under Fed. R. Evid. 403 as
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`cumulative of Exhibit 1201.
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`Moreover, Patent Owner’s characterization of the ‘317 Patent in its First Amended
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`Complaint is not relevant to any of the issues here. Being irrelevant evidence, Exhibit 1202 is
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`not admissible. Fed. R. Evid. 402.
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`Exhibit 1203 (U.S. Patent No. 5,940,805)(“Kopp”)
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`Exhibit 1204 (U.S. Patent No. 4,999,806)(“Chernow”)
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`Exhibit 1205 (U.S. Patent No. 5,675,734)(“Hair”)
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`Exhibit 1206 (U.S. Patent No. 4,337,483)(“Guillou”)
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`Exhibit 1209 (U.S. Patent No. 5,103,392)(“Mori”)
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`Exhibit 1210 (U.S. Patent No. 5,530,235)(“Stefik ‘235”)
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`Exhibit 1211 (U.S. Patent No. 5,629,980)(“Stefik ‘980”)
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`Exhibit 1212 (U.S. Patent No. 5,915,019)(“Ginter”)
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`Exhibit 1213 (European Patent Application, Publication No. EP0809221A2)(“Poggio”)
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`Exhibit 1214 (PCT Application Publication No. WO 99/43136)(“Rydbeck”)
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`Exhibit 1215 (JP Publication No. H11-164058A (translation))(“Sato”)
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`Exhibit 1216 (Eberhard von Faber, Robert Hammelrath, and Franz-Peter Heider, “The
`Secure Distribution of Digital Contents,” IEEE (1997))(“von Faber”)
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`Exhibit 1219 (U.S. Patent No. 4,878,245)(“Bradley”)
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`Exhibit 1221 (U.S. Patent No. 5,925,127)(“Ahmad”)
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`Patent Owner objects to Exhibits 1203, 1204, 1205, 1206, 1209, 1210, 1211, 1212, 1213,
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`1214, 1215, 1216, 1219, and 1221 (“the Non-asserted Reference Exhibits”) on relevance grounds
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`because the Petitioner did not assert these references as alleged invalidating prior art in its
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`Petition in this case. Moreover, the PTAB’s April 10, 2015 Decision – Institution of Covered
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`Business Method Patent Review 37 C.F.R. § 42.208 (“PTAB Decision”) instituted covered
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`business method review only on the ground that claim 18 is patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. §
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`101, a purely legal issue. As such, the Non-asserted Reference Exhibits fail the test for relevant
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`evidence because nothing in the Non-asserted Reference Exhibits makes a fact of consequence in
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`determining this action more or less probable than it would be without the Non-asserted
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`Reference Exhibits. Fed. R. Evid. 401(b). Being irrelevant evidence, the Non-asserted
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`Reference Exhibits are not admissible. Fed. R. Evid. 402.
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`Exhibit 1217 (Declaration of Anthony J. Wechselberger In Support of Apple Inc.’s Petition
`for Covered Business Method Patent Review)
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`Patent Owner objects to Exhibit 1217, the Wechselberger Declaration, in its entirety
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`under Fed. R. Evid. 401 because the trial as instituted is limited to patentability under 35 U.S.C.
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`§ 101. As such, paragraphs 27-59 (and any other portion of the Wechselberger Declaration that
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`is directed to patentability under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102/103) are not relevant to the instituted
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`proceeding. Fed. R. Evid. 401. Being irrelevant evidence, those paragraphs are not admissible.
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`Fed. R. Evid. 402.
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`Furthermore, paragraphs 60-89 are objected to because they deal with the strictly legal
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`issue of statutory subject matter for which Mr. Wechselberger is not an expert. Thus, those
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`portions of the Wechselberger Declaration are objected to under Fed. R. Evid. 401 as not
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`relevant, under Fed. R. Evid. 602 as lacking foundation, and under Fed. R. Evid. 701 and 702 as
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`providing legal opinions on which the lay witness is not competent to testify. Being irrelevant
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`evidence, those paragraphs are not admissible. Fed. R. Evid. 402.
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`In addition, the Patent Owner objects to Exhibit 1217 under 37 CFR § 42.65 in its
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`entirety as it does not set forth the relative evidentiary weight (e.g., substantial evidence versus
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`preponderance of the evidence) Mr. Wechselberger used in arriving at his conclusions.
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`The Wechselberger Declaration is further objected to in all instances where any
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`paragraph relies upon an exhibit that specifically is objected to herein for the reasons set forth in
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`those specific objections. Further, any paragraph in the Wechselberger Declaration that relies
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`upon any exhibit not relied upon by the PTAB to institute this proceeding is further objected to
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`(under Fed. R. Evid. 401) as not being relevant and therefore being inadmissible (under Fed. R.
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` Michael R. Casey /
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`Michael R. Casey
`Registration No. 40,294
`Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey, LLP
`8300 Greensboro Drive
`Suite 500
`McLean, VA 22102
`Telephone: (571) 765-7705
`Fax: (571) 765-7200
`Email: mcasey@dbjg.com
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`Evid. 402).
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`Dated: April 24, 2015
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that this PATENT OWNER’S OBJECTIONS TO
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`ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE in CBM2015-00018 was served today, April 24, 2015, by
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`agreement of the parties by emailing a copy to counsel for the Petitioner as follows:
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`J. Steven Baughman (steven.baughman@ropesgray.com)
`Ching-Lee Fukuda (ching-lee.fukuda@ropesgray.com)
`Megan Raymond (megan.raymond@ropesgray.com)
`ApplePTABService-SmartFlash@ropesgray.com
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` Michael R. Casey /
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`Michael R. Casey
`Registration No. 40,294
`Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey, LLP
`8300 Greensboro Drive
`Suite 500
`McLean, VA 22102
`Telephone: (571) 765-7705
`Fax: (571) 765-7200
`Email: mcasey@dbjg.com
`Attorney for Patent Owner
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`Dated: April 24, 2015
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