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`IN RE: U.S. PATENT NO. 6,240,376 : Trial No.:
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`Application No.: 09/127,587 : IPR 2012-00042
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` Filed: July 31, 1998 :
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` Issued: May 29, 2001 : Att. Dkt. No.:
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`Inventors: Alain Raynaud :
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`before Patent Judges Howard B. Blankenship, Sally C.
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`Medley, and Jennifer S. Bisk, recorded
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`stenographically by Elizabeth Mingione, Registered
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`A P P E A R A N C E S O F C O U N S E L:
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`ON BEHALF OF PATENT OWNER MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION:
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` BY: CHRISTOPHER L. McKEE, ESQUIRE
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` Argument on Behalf of Petitioner, By .. 11
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: Good afternoon. This is
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`Judge Medley. I have with me Judge Bisk, and I
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`believe I have on the phone Judge Blankenship.
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` JUDGE BLANKENSHIP: Yes.
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: Great. And can I please
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` MR. WILLIAMS: William Wright, of Orrick,
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`Herrington & Sutcliffe for petitioner Synopsys. On
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: Okay, great. Good
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` MR. McKEE: Yes, Judge. You have got
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: Okay. That's great. Thank
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`you for letting us know that. So we'll begin.
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`conference call for IPR 2012-00042. The parties --
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`have the parties had an opportunity to discuss
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`settling this proceeding yet?
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` MR. WILLIAMS: Your Honor, this is William
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`settlement in a global sense of all the disputes but
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`not a settlement discussion with respect to this
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`Okay. So that unfortunately is not the case here, so
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`motion, so I assume that at this point the petitioner
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` MR. WRIGHT: That's correct, Your Honor.
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: Okay. So we will proceed to
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`appears as if the patent owner's position is that,
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`hey, we want to wait and see what happens with our
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`request for rehearing before we concretely say one way
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`or another we are going to tile these motions for
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`discovery. But I just want to direct the parties to
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`rehearing request in the mix, and we are going to go
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` So with that in mind, patent owner, could
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` MR. McKEE: Sure, Your Honor. Our position
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`some issues were raised there by the Board. And so we
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`further that the Board may need in that regard.
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` So what we've asked for in that connection
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`is discovery on the privity relationship and also
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`going to when that privity arose. And we've got a
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`very concrete basis of course as set forth in our
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`request for rehearing for pursuing this.
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` What we've got is a situation where the
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`petitioner Synopsys has acquired EVE, which was served
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`patent in 2006. And that was an acquisition which I
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`believe was consummated October 4, 2012, based on an
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`agreement to acquire executed on September 27.
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`the Board made its decision to institute the trial,
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`petition was effectively filed, as we've laid out.
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`And then also we'd like an opportunity to discover
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`information that may show privity as far back as when
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`the complaint was served on EVE in 2006. That is our
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`first motion for discovery.
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` Our second motion for discovery would be,
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`this issue of real party in interest. And EVE is now
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`on that basis the proceedings should not go forward.
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`That's all part of Number 1.
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` Lastly, Number 3, we are just leaving open
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`the -- our right, reserving our right to move to amend
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`the claims. And as we indicated, a decision to amend
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: Okay. Just a few questions
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`I have for you, just one on that last proposed motion.
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` MR. McKEE: Yes absolutely. And we would
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` MR. McKEE: Yes. I think we would be.
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: Okay. Great. All right.
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`So we'll hear from petitioner now.
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`counsel for petitioner. Your Honor, we don't think
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` MR. McKEE: I would just add that on the
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: Okay. So I just want to
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` MR. McKEE: Is that directed to the patent
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`We don't believe that the motions are appropriate
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` MR. WILLIAMS: I, Your Honor, I only have
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: 42.101.
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` MR. WILLIAMS: I believe that's -- sorry.
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: But there's nothing in that
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`we've discussed and conferred, and this is what we've
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`additional discovery that you seek that's -- and the
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: Is this is the patent owner
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` MR. McKEE: Yes, I am sorry. Christopher
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` JUDGE MEDLEY: So we are looking at -- can
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