`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`IPR 2012-00042
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`In re U.S. Patent No. 6,240,376
`Application No.:
`09/127,587
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`July 31, 1998
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`May 29, 2001
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`Alain Raynaud
`Luc M. Burgun
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`Patent Owner: Mentor Graphics
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`METHOD AND
`APPARATUS FOR GATE-
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`SYNTHESIZED
`REGISTER TRANSFER
`LEVEL DESIGNS WITH
`SOURCE-LEVEL
`DEBUGGING
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`Atty. Dkt. No.
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`007121.00004
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`Inventors:
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`For:
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`Mail Stop PATENT BOARD
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`United States Patent and Trademark Office
`P.O. Box 1450
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`PATENT OWNER’S REQUEST FOR ORAL ARGUMENT UNDER 37
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`Patent Owner’s Request for Oral Argument
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`Patent Owner Mentor Graphics Corporation hereby requests oral argument
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`under 37 C.F.R. §42.70(a). Pursuant to the Scheduling Order (Paper No. 17)
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`entered on February 22, 2013, oral argument is currently scheduled for November
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`14, 2013. The issues to be argued are specified below.
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`I. The proper construction of certain claim terms under the broadest
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`reasonable interpretation standard:
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`a. “instrumentation signal” (independent claims 1, 5 and 28);
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`b. “execution status” (independent claims 1 and 28).
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`II. The failure of Gregory (Ex. 1007) to anticipate any of the patent
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`claims at issue in this trial (claims 1-9, 11, 28 and 29).
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`III. The inadmissibility of the declaration testimony of Dr. Brad
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`Hutchings (Ex. 1013)1, as lacking competence in view of Dr.
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`Hutchings’ testimony on cross-examination, as set forth in the
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`concurrently filed Patent Owner’s Motion to Exclude (unless
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`decided before oral argument).
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`1Relied upon by Petitioner in support of its opposition (Paper No. 35) to the
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`Substitute Patent Owner’s Motion to Amend (Paper No. 31).
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`IV. The proper
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`construction, under
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`reasonable
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`interpretation standard, of proposed contingent substitute claims 34-
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`36 and 38-43 presented in the Substitute Patent Owner’s Motion to
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`Amend (Paper No. 31) and, in particular, of the claim language
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`“instrumentation logic to provide the instrumentation signal” and
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`“the
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`instrumentation
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`logic compris[es]
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`instrumentation
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`logic
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`circuitry that is additional to circuitry specified in the source code.”
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`V. The patentability of contingent substitute claims 34-36 and 38-43,
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`including the novelty of these claims over Gregory, and the non-
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`obviousness of those claims over Gregory alone and in view of
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`Petitioner’s alleged “knowledge and skill possessed by an ordinarily
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`skilled artisan.”
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`VI. The substantial identity of the contingent substitute claims to their
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`corresponding original patent claims within the meaning of 35
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`U.S.C. § 252, as addressed in the Office Patent Trial Practice Guide,
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`77 Fed. Reg. 48756, 48766 (part G) (Aug. 14, 2012).
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`VII. Whether this IPR is barred under the doctrine of assignor estoppel.
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`VIII. Whether this IPR is barred under 35 U.S.C. §315(b):
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`a. Privity based §315(b) bar; and
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`b. Real party in interest based §315(b) bar.
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`Patent Owner’s Request for Oral Argument
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`Dated: October 15, 2013
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`Respectfully submitted,
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` /Christopher L. McKee/
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`By:
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`Christopher L. McKee
`Registration No. 32,384
`Michael S. Cuviello
`Registration No. 59,255
`Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
`1100 13th Street, NW
`Suite 1200
`Washington, DC 20005
`Tel: (202) 824-3000
`Fax: (202) 824-3001
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`Attorneys for Patent Owner
`Mentor Graphics Corporation
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned certifies service on the Petitioner, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §
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`42.6(e) and agreement of the parties, by email delivery of a true copy of the
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`foregoing PATENT OWNER’S REQUEST FOR ORAL ARGUMENT UNDER
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`37 C.F.R. §42.70(a) to counsel of record for Petitioner as follows:
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`Dated: October 15, 2013
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`William H. Wright, Esq.
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`wwright@orrick.com
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`Travis Jensen, Esq.
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`tjensen@orrick.com
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`/Christopher L. McKee/
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