`Filed: May 24, 2017
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`IBG LLC;
`INTERACTIVE BROKERS LLC;
`TRADESTATION GROUP, INC.; and
`TRADESTATION SECURITIES, INC.,
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`Petitioners,
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`v.
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`TRADING TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
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`Patent Owner.
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`Case CBM2016-0054
`U.S. Patent 7,693,768
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`PATENT OWNER’S MOTION TO EXCLUDE
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I.
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`INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 1
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`II.
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`STANDARD .................................................................................................... 1
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`III. TSE SHOULD BE EXCLUDED .................................................................... 1
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`A.
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`TT Timely Objected .............................................................................. 1
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`B.
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`TSE Has Not Been Authenticated under FRE 901 ............................... 2
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`2.
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`The 2005 Kawashima deposition testimony is
`hearsay......................................................................................... 2
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`Even if the 2005 Kawashima deposition testimony
`were admissible, the deposition testimony raises
`more doubt than it resolves. ........................................................ 3
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`C.
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`Petitioners’ TSE Translation Copies From TT’s
`Translation But Omits Translator Notes ............................................... 5
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`IV. CONCLUSION ................................................................................................ 6
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`INTRODUCTION
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.64(c) and 42.61(a) and the Federal Rules of
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`Evidence, Patent Owner Trading Technologies International, Inc. (“TT”)
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`respectfully moves to exclude TSE (Ex. 1016) and the associated translation (Ex.
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`1017) because Petitioners have failed to meet the authentication requirements of
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`FRE 901 and because the only purportedly authenticating evidence (Ex. 1019, the
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`transcript of a 2005 deposition of Atshushi Kawashima) is hearsay under FRE 801.
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`Further, the translation (Ex. 1017) should be excluded because it is incomplete,
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`misleading, and inadmissible under FRE 106 & 403.
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`II.
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`STANDARD
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`A Motion to Exclude must (a) identify where in the record the objection was
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`made, (b) identify where in the record the evidence sought to be excluded was
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`relied upon by an opponent, (c) address objections to exhibits in numerical order,
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`and (d) explain the objection. Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg.
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`48,756, 48,767 (Aug. 14, 2012).
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`III. TSE SHOULD BE EXCLUDED
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`A. TT Timely Objected
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`Petitioner introduced TSE Exhibits 1016 and 1017 in its Petition, contending
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`that TSE is a printed publication and relying on TSE for all instituted prior art
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`grounds. Petition, Paper 4 at, e.g., 11-13, 31-71. Patent Owner timely objected to
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`the TSE exhibits on November 1, 2016 as unauthenticated, failing to comply with
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`FRE. 602 and 37 C.F.R. § 42.63(b), being inadmissible hearsay evidence, and
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`being incomplete, misleading, and inadmissible under FRE 106 & 403. Paper 15.
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`B.
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`TSE Has Not Been Authenticated under FRE 901
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`The Federal Rules of Evidence apply to the current proceedings. 37 C.F.R. §
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`42.62. Fed. R. Evid. 901 requires parties to authenticate documents. To satisfy the
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`requirement of authenticating or identifying an item of evidence, the proponent
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`must produce evidence sufficient to support a finding that the item is what the
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`proponent claims it is. Fed. R. Evid. 901(a).
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`Petitioners can cite to no evidence sufficiently authenticating TSE. To the
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`extent Petitioners rely on a transcript of a 2005 deposition of Atshushi Kawashima
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`(Ex. 1019), this transcript is insufficient in multiple respects.
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`1.
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`The 2005 Kawashima deposition testimony is hearsay
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`The 2005 deposition of Atshushi Kawashima (Ex. 1019), insufficiently
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`authenticates TSE because this deposition was conducted in a district court case,
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`not any of the CBM proceedings. Ex. 1019 at 1. As a result, the 2005 Kawashima
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`deposition is, by definition, hearsay.
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`FRE 801 defines hearsay as “a statement that: (1) the declarant does not
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`make while testifying at the current trial or hearing; and (2) a party offers in
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`evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted in the statement.” Since
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`testimony by Mr. Kawashima in the district court case was not made “while
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`testifying at the current trial or hearing,” to the extent such testimony is used to
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`prove the authenticity of TSE, it must be considered hearsay.
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`2.
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`Even if the 2005 Kawashima deposition testimony were
`admissible, the deposition testimony raises more doubt than
`it resolves.
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`Rather than supporting a finding under FRE 901(a) that TSE is what
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`Petitioners claim it is, the 2005 Kawashima deposition transcript ultimately raises
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`additional doubts as to the authenticity of the document.
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`For example, in the deposition, Mr. Kawashima draws a conclusion about
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`the authenticity of TSE, a document of hundreds of pages, based on the perceived
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`absence of a mark in “looking briefly through” the document. Specifically, he
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`testified:
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`Q Is this entire document, this document identified as Defendant’s
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`Exhibit 179, from August 24 of 1998?
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`A Yes.
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`Q How do you know?
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`A Because when we replace sections there is a mark indicating a
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`correction at the bottom of the page. And just looking briefly through
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`this document, I didn’t see that mark and therefore I thought that was
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`the original date.
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`Ex. 1019, pp. 97-98.
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`Further, when asked how one would know if a distributed manual were the
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`same as a particular copy, Mr. Kawashima merely makes the conclusory assertion
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`that a comparison would reveal whether a distributed copy was the same, without
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`any detail as to how such a comparison would be carried out how what level of
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`scrutiny might be required. Specifically, he testified:
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`Q Is there any way to tell that the manual that was distributed is the
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`same as Defendant's Exhibit 179?
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`A If you were to compare this with the distributed manual you would
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`be able to tell.
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`Ex. 1019, p. 99.
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`Finally, Mr. Kawashima’s testimony cannot be relied upon as to
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`authentication because he is not a disinterested witness. Kawashima’s employer,
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`the Tokyo Stock Exchange, challenged TT’s Japanese counterpart to U.S. Patent
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`No. 6,766,304, which was asserted in the litigation in which Kawashima
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`previously testified. CBM2015-00179, Paper No. 77 at 40-41. Moreover, at his
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`deposition in connection with co-pending proceedings,
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`CBM2015-00179, -00181, -00182, when Mr. Kawashima was asked if he was
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`attending voluntarily, he answered that he was present at the direction of the Tokyo
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`Stock Exchange. Exhibit 1045, p. 9. Further, he acknowledged that he “did a
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`practice run or went through anticipated questions that might come out” with
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`Petitioners’ counsel Lori Gordon and Natalie Morgan. Id. at pp 11-12.
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`The 2016 Kawashima deposition does not resolve the deficiencies of the
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`2005 deposition. Instead, it suggests that Mr. Kawashima could not have examined
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`the document in a way that would have differentiated it from any other version. Ex.
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`1045 at 45-46. Thus, the 2016 transcript also proves Mr. Kawashima’s bias. This
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`bias establishes that his testimony should be given no weight. And as such, TSE
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`stands unauthenticated.
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`In view of the above, Petitioners have not produced evidence sufficient to
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`support a finding that TSE is what Petitioners claim it is. TSE should thus be
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`excluded.
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`C.
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`Petitioners’ TSE Translation Copies From TT’s Translation But
`Omits Translator Notes
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`The Board should also exclude Exhibit 1017 because it is incomplete,
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`misleading, and inadmissible under Fed. R. Evid. 106 & 403. Petitioners’ Exhibit
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`1017 substitutes nearly verbatim Patent Owner’s own translation of the TSE’s
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`Chapter 7 for an inaccurate translation previously provided by Petitioners’ counsel.
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`Compare Ex. 1017, 91-120 with Ex. 2178, pp. 15-44. Despite having copied
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`Patent Owner’s translation into Exhibit 1017, on pages 7-25 and 7-26 (Exhibit
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`1017, 115-116), Petitioners omit two translator’s notes from Patent Owner’s
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`original translation (Ex. 2178, 39-40). Exhibit 1017 is therefore incomplete,
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`misleading, and inadmissible under Fed. R. Evid. 106 & 403.
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`IV. CONCLUSION
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`For these reasons, the Board should grant Patent Owner’s Motion to Exclude
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`Dated: May 24, 2017
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`By:
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/Cole B. Richter/
`Cole B. Richter,
`Counsel for Patent Owner
`Reg. No. 65,398
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that a copy of the foregoing Patent
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`Owner’s Motion to Exclude was served on May 24, 2017, via email directed to
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`counsel of record for the Petitioners at the following:
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`Robert E. Sokohl
`rsokohl-PTAB@skgf.com
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`Lori A. Gordon
`lgordon-PTAB@skgf.com
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`Richard M. Bemben
`rbemben-PTAB@skgf.com
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`John C. Phillips
`CBM41919-0013CP1@fr.com
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`PTAB@skgf.com
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`/Cole B. Richter/
`Cole B. Richter,
`Counsel for Patent Owner,
`Reg. No. 65,398
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`Dated: May 24, 2017
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`By:
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