Game Show Network, LLC and
`Worldwinner.com, Inc.
` v. John H. Stephenson
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`IPR2013-00289
`
`Counsel for Patent Owner
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`Merchant & Gould
`July 10, 2014
`
`Stephenson Ex. 2011
`Game Show Network et al. v. Stephenson
`Trial IPR2013-00289
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`Claim Construction
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`– MPEP§2111.01: “Plain Meaning”
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`• Heading I: “The words of the claim must be given
`their ‘plain meaning’ unless such meaning is
`inconsistent with the specification.” (emphasis
`added).
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`“Playing a Game… Between a Single Player
`and the Host Computer”
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`• “Between” defined as “by the common
`action of: jointly engaging”
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`– Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 109 (10th
`ed. 1993), Ex 2009 at 109.
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`“Playing a Game… Between a Single Player
`and the Host Computer”
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`Q: Dr. Whitehead, in your review of the
`Stephenson patent, from the perspective of one of
`ordinary skill in the art, at the time of the invention,
`would -- would you agree that the Stephenson
`patent uses play between and play against a
`host computer interchangeably?
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`A: Yes, I would agree.
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`– Whitehead Depo., Ex. 2008 at 224:20-225:4
`(emphasis added).
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`“Playing a Game… Between a Single Player
`and the Host Computer”
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`• “Against” defined as “in competition with”
`or “in opposition or hostility to.”
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`– Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 21 (10th ed.
`1993), Ex 2009 at 21.
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`“In the qualifying round, a player
`competes against a host computer.”
`’237 patent, Abstract (emphasis added).
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`“…the qualifying round is played between a
`single player and a host computer.”
`’237 patent, col. 2:2-3 (emphasis added).
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`“If a player obtains a result that qualifies him…,
`he would be eligible to play the game of skill
`against the host computer in the playoff
`round.”
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`’237 patent, col. 2:38-42 (emphasis added).
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`“Playing a Game… Between a Single Player
`and the Host Computer”
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`• Proper Construction:
`– “Playing a game of skill in a qualifying round
`where a single human player plays against a
`host computer opponent”
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`“Playing a Game… Between a Single Player
`and the Host Computer”
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`Board’s preliminary construction:
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`“playing a game of skill in a qualifying round,
`where the game includes only one human
`player and is at least administered by a host
`computer.”
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`Paper 8, Decision at 9.
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`“Playing a Game… Between a Single Player
`and the Host Computer”
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`“A person of ordinary skill in the art would have understood
`solitaire to be a single-player game with no head-to-head
`competition, or second player, involved.”
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`“Playing solitaire between a single player and the host
`computer cannot mean that there is head-to-head
`competition between a single player and the
`computer.”
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`Paper 8, Decision at 7 (emphasis added).
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`Chapter 21: “Solitaire and Patience
`Games”
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`“Any solitaire may be played as a
`competitive game among two or more
`persons.”
`Scarne’s Encyclopedia of Card Games, John Scarne, 419
`(Harper & Row, 1983), Exhibit 2010 at 419.
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`“The game of skill tournament first begins
`with at least one player playing a game of
`skill against the host computer in the
`qualifying round 20 as shown in box
`22….Examples of games of skill
`include…solitaire.”
`’237 patent, col. 3:26-43(emphasis added).
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`Walker Lacks “Playing a Game… Between
`a Single Player and the Host Computer”
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`• Petitioners do not dispute that Walker fails
`to disclose a single human player playing
`against a host computer opponent.
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`• None of the claims are anticipated by
`Walker
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