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`Covered Business Method Patent Review
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`United States Patent No. 7,334,720
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`Attorney Docket No.:
`1046'/7—5008—817
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`Customer No. 28120
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`Petitioner: Apple Inc.
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`Inventor: Racz et a1.
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`United States Patent No.: 7,334,720
`Formerly Application No; 11 /336,758
`Issue Date: February 26, 2008
`Filing Date: January 19, 2006
`Former Group Art Unit: 2876
`Former Hxaminer: Steven S. Pail-;
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`Q.’}'_‘3E§1f§iE&_".I1.?"-2’/"’JE§’:
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`For: Data Storage and Access Systems
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`MAI] 1 STOP I-”A'l‘EN’1‘ BOARD
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`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`United States Patent and Trademark Office
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`Post Office Box 1450
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`Alexandiia, Virginia 2231 3~1450
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`DECLARATION OF MEGAN RAYMOND IN SUPPORT OF PETITION
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`FOR COVERED BUSINESS METHOD PATENT REVIEW OF
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`UNITED STATES PATENT NO. 7,334,720
`PURSUANT TO 35 U.S.C. § 321, 37 C.F.R. § 42.304
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`1, Megan 1*". Raymond, make the following Declaration pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §
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`I am an attorney at the law firm of Ropes 8: Gray L] ,1’.
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`I provide this Declaration in connection with the above-identified
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`Covered Business Method Patent Review proceeding that is being requested at the
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`United States Patent and Trademark Office by Apple Inc. under 35 U.S.C. § 321, 37
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`C.F.R. § 42.304. Unless otherwise stated, the facts stated in this Declaration are based
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`on my personal knowledge.
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`Apple Exhibit 1222 Page 00001
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`Apple Exhibit 1222 Page 00001
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`3.
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`Exhibit 1203 hereto is a true and correct copy of United States Patent
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`No. 5,925,127 to Arshad Ahmad, which was downloaded on October 27, 2014 from
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`the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USl’T()”) Patent Application
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`Information Removal (“PAIR”) website at my request and which is a record of the
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`USPTO to which all parties have access. An exhibit label on the first page and pages
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`numbers on all pages have been added to the bottom of this document but no other
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`alterations have been made.
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`4.
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`lixhibit 1204 hereto is a true and correct copy of United States Patent
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`No. 5,940,805 to Dieter Kopp, which was downloaded on October 26, 2014 from the
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`USPTO "PAIR website at my request and which is a record of the USl~"l‘O to which all
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`parties have access. An exhibit label on the first page and pages numbers on all pages
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`have been added to the bottom of this document but no other alterations have been
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`made.
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`5.
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`Exhibit 1205 hereto is a true and correct copy of an article by Russell
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`I--lousley and Jan Dolphin, entitled “Metering: A Pre—pay Technique,” Storage and
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`Retrieval for Image and Video Databases V, Conference Volume 3022, 527 Oanuary
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`15, 1997) from the SPII-I Digital Library at my request. An exhibit label on the first
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`page and pages numbers on all pages have been added to the bottom of this
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`document but no other alterations have been made.
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`6.
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`l_"xhibit 1218 hereto is a true and co.r.r.ect copy of an article by Eberhard
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`V011 Faber, Robert Hammelrath, and Franz—Peter Heider, entitled “The Secure
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`Distribution of Digital Contents,” from the 13th Annual Computer Security
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`Applications Conference held on December 8—l2, 1997, published by The lnstitute of
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`Electrical and l_“.lectronics lingineers, Inc, which was retrieved from the Linda Hall
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`Library of Science, Engineering and Technology, Document Services at my request.
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`An exhibit label on the first page and pages numbers on all pages have been added to
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`the bottom of this document but no other alterations have been made.
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`7.
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`lixhibit 1223 hereto is a true and correct copy of the Claim Construction
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`Opinion (“Claim Construction Opinion”) from 5mazj!7%z.rfr LLC, .92‘ al :2. Apple Im:., at
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`.52./., Civil Action No. 6:l3—cV—447, before the District Court of the Eastern District of
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`Texas, which was downloaded on October 29, 2014 from the Public Access to Court
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`Electronic Records (“PAC]_iR”) website at my request and is a record of the
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`aforementioned District Court (Dkt. No. 229) to which all parties have access. The
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`Claim Construction Opinion contains markings at the top of each page indicating the
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`PACER filing information. An exhibit label on the first page and pages numbers on
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`all pages have been added to the bottom of this document but no other alterations
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`have been made.
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`8.
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`Exhibit 1224 hereto is a true and correct copy of the file history for
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`United States Patent No. 8,061,598 to Patrick Racz and Hermenward I-lulst, which was
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`downloaded on October 29, 2014 at my request and which is a record of the USPTO
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`to which all parties have access. An exhibit label on the first page and pages numbers
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`on all pages have been added to the bottom of this document but no other alterations
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`have been made.
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`9.
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`Exhibit 1225 hereto is a true and correct copy of United States "Patent
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`No. 4,337,483 to Louis C. Guillou, which was downloaded on October 29, 2014 from
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`the USPTO PAIR website at my request and which is a record of the USPTO to
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`which all parties have access. An exhibit label on the first page and pages numbers on
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`all pages have been added to the bottom of this document but no other alterations
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`have been made.
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`10.
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`Exhibit 1226 hereto is a true and correct copy of United States Patent
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`No. 7,725,375 to lan Kenneth Shepherd, which was downloaded on October 29, 2014
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`from the USPTO PAIR website at my request and which is a record of the USPTO to
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`which all parties have access. An exhibit label on the first page and pages numbers on
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`all pages have been added to the bottom of this document but no other alterations
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`have been made.
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`11.
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`Exhibit 1227 hereto is
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`a true and correct copy of International
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`Publication No. WO 95/34857, filed onjune 14, 1995 by Srr1ith,James P. and Smith,
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`Edward A., and published on December 21, 1995, which was downloaded on
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`October 26, 2014 from the liuropean Patent Off1ce’s lispacenet search page to which
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`Page 00004
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`all parties have access at my request. An exhibit label on the first page and pages
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`numbers on all pages have been added to the bottom of this document but no other
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`alterations have been made.
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`12.
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`Exhibit 1228 hereto is a true and correct copy of the Japanese Patent
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`Application Publication No. H10—269289 filed on March 26, 1997 by Sony
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`Corporation, and published on October 9, 1998, which I downloaded on March 11,
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`2014 from the European Patent Office’s Espacenet search page to which all parties
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`have access, and which is accompanied by a true and correct copy of a translation of
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`the text of that document and a declaration of accuracy regarding that translation
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`provided by l\/Iultiliing Corporation. An exhibit label on the first page and pages
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`numbers on all pages have been added to the bottom of this document but no other
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`alterations have been made.
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`13.
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`lixliibit 1236 hereto is a true and correct copy of United States Patent
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`No. 5,646,992 to Ronald J. Subler, which was downloaded on November 16, 2014
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`from the USPTO PAIR website at my request and which is a record of the USP'l'O to
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`which all parties have access. An exhibit label on the first page and pages numbers on
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`all pages have been added to the bottom of this document but no other alterations
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`have been made.
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`14.
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`I make this declaration of my own personal knowledge.
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`If called to
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`testify as to the truth of the matters stated herein,
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`1 could and would testify
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`competently.
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`I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
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`Executed this 17"‘ day of November, 2014, at \5C/’ash’1ngt()n, D.C.
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