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`UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONTROL, )
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`INC., ) No. IPR2013-00127
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` Petitioner, ) Patent 6,587,067 C1
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` Patent Owner, )
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` DEPOSITION OF PATRICK H. HAYES
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` Wednesday, December 11, 2013
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` Volume I
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`Reported by:
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`Job No. 1778691
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` Deposition of PATRICK H. HAYES, Volume I, taken
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`WITNESS EXAMINATION
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`Volume I
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` BY MR. REYNOLDS 5, 90
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` BY MR. MAIERS 87, 95
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` PATRICK H. HAYES,
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` BY MR. REYNOLDS:
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` Q Mr. Hayes, can you state your full name for
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` the record and spell it.
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` A Sure.
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` Patrick Hayn Hayes. Patrick, P-a-t-r-i-c-k,
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` Hayn, H-a-y-n, Hayes, H-a-y-e-s.
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` Q And where do you reside?
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` A Mission Viejo, California.
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` Q Have you ever been deposed before?
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` A Yes.
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` Q How many times?
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` A Five or six times.
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` Q Were any of those patent-related cases?
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` A Yes.
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` Q How many of them?
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` A Three that I recall.
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` Q Did any of those involve UEI?
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` A All three involved UEI.
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` Q Do you remember the parties?
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` A One was UEI -- or Philips versus UEI, and two
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` were both UEI versus URC.
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` Q Given that you've done this before a few
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` A Yes.
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` Q -- I'll skip all of the prefatory stuff and
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` just remind you to please wait until I finish my
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` Are you on any kind of medication today that
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` A No.
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` Q Any other reason why you wouldn't be able to
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` give me your best testimony today?
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` A No.
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` Q Did you prepare for today's deposition?
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` A Yes, I did.
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` Q Did you meet with someone?
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` A Yes, I met with Mr. Maiers.
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` Q For how long.
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` A About four hours yesterday and four hours
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` today -- I take it back, three hours today.
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` Q In the course of those meetings, did you
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` A Yes.
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` Q What documents did you review?
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` A We reviewed my declaration.
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` I reviewed some patents, the '067 and the
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` I reviewed Dr. Herr's declaration.
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` history of the '067 reexamination, the '067 patent, the
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` Q What were the Microchip press releases?
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` A It was a press release related to Microchip's
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` announcement of PIC processor, P-I-C, with an EEPROM,
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` Q Do you recall the date of that press release?
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` A It was early 1993.
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` Q What was the purpose of reviewing that
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` as prior art for the '067 patent priority date -- prior
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` Q I'm going to show you what's been marked as
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` Exhibit 2006, which a copy of your declaration.
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` Do you recognize that document?
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` A Yes, I do.
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` Q And is that your signature on page 16 of the
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` A Yes, it is.
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` Q And you executed it on September 17th, 2013?
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` THE WITNESS: Well, this particular
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` MR. MAIERS: Objection to form.
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` THE WITNESS: I'm not sure I fully understand
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` Q When was the first time that you discussed
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` A Probably three or four days before that.
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` Q So three or four days before December 17th,
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` A I think you mean to say September 17th.
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` Q I'm sorry, thank you. Yes, I did mean
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` A Yes. Yes.
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` Q On page 17 of Exhibit 2006 -- that's the last
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` A Yes. Not necessarily in that four-day period,
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` A Well, I certainly reviewed the items that
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` The Magnavox, the Herr declaration, I saw
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` And -- that's interesting, we seem to have the
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` A Where was I? Oh. I reviewed the Magnavox
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` A I believe I looked at one other patent in that
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` I can't remember the exact number at this time. I
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` Q Was it also a patent issued to Rumbolt or to
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` Q Why were you familiar with that patent?
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` A I had come across it in previous instances.
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` Q There you indicate that between the years of
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` Did any of your duties there relate to the
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` A Well, in the general sense, yes. A lot of
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` Yeah, I believe that -- that characterizes the remote
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` Q What kind of devices were used to do the
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` MR. MAIERS: Objection to form.
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` THE WITNESS: Well, that's -- that's a rather
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` A Not that I recall.
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` Q Were any of the devices that were controlled
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` MR. MAIERS: Objection to form.
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` THE WITNESS: Not that I recall.
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` Did your work there involve the design of
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` A No, that work was network system programming,
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` computer programming for network systems, operating
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` Q In paragraph 5 you indicate that between 1975
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` Did any of your work there involve the design
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` A No, that was computer networking, data
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` transmission and communication techniques, transmission
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` protocols and the like.
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` Q In paragraph 6 you indicate that between the
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` Did any of your work there involve the design
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` A No. That work involved digital telephony
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` systems, ISDN systems -- it's ISDN, acronym -- data
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` communications, digital communications, transmission
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` schemes and the like.
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` Q And in paragraph 7 you indicate that between
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` 1992 and 2013 you worked for UEI.
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` I think, earlier on, you indicate that you
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` recently retired from full-time employment from UEI; is
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` A That's correct.
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` Q When did that occur?
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` A February of this year.
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` Q Do you currently have any other full-time
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` A No.
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` Q So is your only employment currently the
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` A Correct.
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` Q Since February of 2013 and you retired, how
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` THE WITNESS: I couldn't really answer that
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` Q I'd like to go back to paragraph 7 of your
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` briefly describe for me what your primary duties were
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` for each of the various positions that you list here.
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` So let's start with director of software
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` development.
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` A Okay. Well, as director of software
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` development, I was responsible for all -- all firmware,
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` embedded firmware that went into remote control
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` products as well as all of the support systems on PCs,
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` and the like, that had to do with developing that
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` firmware and with maint- -- capturing and maintaining
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` the library of codes and data that were programmed into
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` those remote controls.
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` And that included both, as I indicated,
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` Q Were you finished with your answer?
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` A Yes.
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` Q Okay. And do you recall, roughly, when you
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` held the title of director of software development?
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` A It was from 1992 until -- and I'm really
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` Q Let's move to vice president of technology
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` development. Let's start first with the years.
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` Do you recall roughly what years you held that
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` A That was '95 through probably 2000 -- 2000 --
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` again, I'm not really 100 percent certain of dates.
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` Q And what were your major responsibilities in
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` that role?
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` THE WITNESS: They were similar to the
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` previous role except that this -- the focus of this
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` position was on future new technologies and new
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` Q The next position listed is vice president of
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` core technology.
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` Do you recall what years you held that title?
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` A That was from roughly the end of the previous
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` one, so around about the 2000 time frame through about
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` 2007, maybe.
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` Q And what were your primary responsibilities in
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` that role?
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` A That was maintenance or development of
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` technology and maintenance of the core database of
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` infrared codes of the major product lines, the
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` day-to-day embedded firmware that went into UEI's
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` remote control products and also -- and I should have
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` mentioned, in the previous position, as well -- an
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` additional responsibility was the identification of
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` intellectual property and the interfacing with our
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` patent -- outside patent counsel, both of this position
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` and the immediately previous position.
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` Q When you say "the identification of
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` intellectual property," do you mean of UEI's or of
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` outside companies?
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` Q So did you regularly monitor outside
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` A I did from time to time, yes -- competitors'
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` intellectual property.
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` Q What companies were considered to be
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` competitors?
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` A Philips, Ruwido, that's R-u-w-i-d-o, SMK,
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` Alps, that's A-l-p-s, Alps, Universal Remote Control,
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` of course, and probably a few others that escape my
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` recollection right now.
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` Q The last position listed there is of vice
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` president of intellectual property.
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` During approximately what years did you hold
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` that title?
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` A That was from the end of the previous -- oh,
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` again, roughly -- very roughly 2007-ish time frame
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` through my retirement.
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` Q And what were your primary responsibilities in
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` that role?
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` A Focused primarily on, once again,
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` identification of intellectual property, prosecution of
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` patents for UEI, monitoring of competitors'
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` intellectual property, and management of the -- of the
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` UEI patent portfolio, which had grown quite large by
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` Q How large was the portfolio at that time?
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` A I'd say a hundred to 200 patents -- issued and
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` pending, I should say.
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` Q Did you have any patent committees at UEI?
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` A Yes.
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` MR. MAIERS: Objection to form.
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` BY MR. REYNOLDS:
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` Q Were you a part of any of those patent
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` committees?
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` A Yes. I chaired the patent committee.
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` Q There was just one?
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` A There was one patent committee, yes.
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` I should mention, I also chaired the patent
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` me and refreshed my recollection, between 1985 -- 1975
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` and 1987.
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` Q In paragraph 8 of your declaration you
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` indicate that you are named inventor on over 60 granted
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` and pending U.S. patents and patent applications.
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` Were all of those filed while you were an
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` employee of UEI?
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` A I believe that is correct.
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` Q Because you also indicate that "the majority
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` of which relate to universal remote control
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` Were there some that did not relate to
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` universal remote control technology?
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` A There might have been some that are
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` applicable, generally applicable, and weren't specific
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` to universal remote control technology.
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` Q So as a result of your experience, do you
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` consider yourself to be an expert in the design of
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` universal remote controls?
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` A I do.
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` Q Have you had experience on the hardware side
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` of designing universal remote controls?
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` A Indirectly, yes.
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` Q What do you mean when you say "indirectly"?
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` A Well, while I've never managed a group of
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` hardware engineers, in developing embedded firmware,
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` the relationship between the firmware and the hardware
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` is extremely close so the people working at that level
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` have to have a very thorough knowledge of the hardware
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` functioning of the device that their firmware is
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` targeted to.
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` So, of necessity, anybody working in that --
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` in that particular area would have a fairly good
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` understanding of the nature of the hardware inside of
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` the universal remote control.
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` Q So when you were working on the firmware, as
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` of that firmware or did you manage people that did the
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` A I largely managed people that did the design
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` of it, although I certainly contributed to some of the
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` design definitions and some of the algorithms, if you
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` like.
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` Q In your various positions at UEI, were you
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` ever directly responsible for the design of software?
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` MR. MAIERS: Objection to form.
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` THE WITNESS: I'm not sure I quite understand
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` that question, it's very broad.
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` Design of software as opposed to coding of
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` software?
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` Q That's a fair clarification. Let me break it
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` down.
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` During your time at UEI, did you ever actually
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` write any software code?
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` A Not any significant amount, no.
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` Q Did you manage others that wrote software
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` code --
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` A Yes.
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` Q -- while at UEI?
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` Q Were you involved in setting design parameters
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` for software while at UEI?
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` A Yes.
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` MR. MAIERS: Objection to form.
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` BY MR. REYNOLDS:
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` Q And is that something that you did yourself or
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` you managed others that did it?
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` A Both. I did that myself and I managed others
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` who did that.
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` Q Let me show you what has previously been
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` marked as Exhibit 2003. That's a copy of the Darbee
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` at the end. I'm not sure why.
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` Are you familiar with that patent?
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` A Yes.
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` Q You were not a named inventor on that patent,
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` correct?
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` A No.
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` Q How many times have you read the Darbee '067
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` patent?
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` A I'd really have to speculate. Probably half a
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` dozen times over the years.
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` Q I'm sorry, what was the last part?
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` A I said, "over the years."
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` When was the last such time that you read the
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` A In connection with preparing my declaration, I
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` with it by this time, but I certainly did read the
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` significant parts of it.
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` Q Why were you already quite familiar with it?
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` A Because it was a key part of Universal
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` Electronics' intellectual property portfolio, it had
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` been the subject of various other legal actions, I
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` believe, it was part of the current lawsuit against
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` URC, I believe it had been -- possibly been licensed --
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` I don't recall specifically whether it was licensed,
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` but I had certainly -- I was very familiar with it.
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` Q Were you involved in licensing activities
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` while you were at UEI?
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` A Yes.
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` Q What was your involvement in those activities?
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` A I would participate in the license
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` negotiations with parties who wished to license UEI's
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` intellectual property.
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` Q So you don't recall the Darbee '067 patent
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` being involved in any of those licensing negotiations
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` MR. MAIERS: Objection to form.
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` THE WITNESS: I participated in several
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` BY MR. REYNOLDS:
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` Q So I asked about negotiations, but does that
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` mean that you are also not aware of any licenses
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` specifically granted to the Darbee '067 patent?
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` MR. MAIERS: Same objection.
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` THE WITNESS: I can't say if they are or not,
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` I would need to look at the various license agreements.
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` BY MR. REYNOLDS:
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` Q Have you read the file history for the Darbee
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` A Parts of it, yes.
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` Q I think you indicated before that you had read
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` some parts related to the reexamination of that patent.
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` Are there other parts that you recall reading?
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` A I think from time to time over the years I've
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` referenced it on several occasions. I think I looked
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` at it -- parts of it again in connection with this
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` declaration, as I testified earlier, I think.
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` A I know I looked at the claim.
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` I think I looked at some parts that are
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` appeals board decision, but I would have to look at
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` I know I looked at Figure 11, I believe that
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` was referenced in the appeals board decision.
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` Q Just so we're clear, my question was directed
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` to what parts of the file history you recall --
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` A Oh --
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` Q -- reviewing.
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` A -- I'm sorry. I think I looked at the reasons
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` for allowance, I know I have at some point in the past,
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` I can't remember if that was specifically this time or
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` not.
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` So in connection with this matter, you read
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` Dr. Herr's declaration; is that correct?
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` A That's correct.
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` Q Did you also read the transcript of his
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