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`Bernina Exhibit 2013-1
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`Handi Quilter and Tacony v. Bernina
`IPR2013-00364
`Bernina Exhibit 2013-1
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`Maria Shetler
`23539 Forest Hill Drive
`Ramona, CA 92065
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`To Whom It may Concern:
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`April 7, 2009
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`This is to confirm that I attended a Ramona quilting class in 2002 where Dorothy
`Koerner expressed that her husband was developing a device to make smooth
`quilting easy and that he needed a junk sewing machine to experiment with. I told
`her then that I had an old Singer machine that had problems. I had obtained repair
`estimates, but they were much too high for such an old machine. I told Dorothy that
`Mister Koerner could have my old Singer.
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`A short time later I arranged to meet Mister Koerner in the parking lot of the
`Episcopal church on San Vicente Blvd, to give him the machine. The meeting was on
`a Wednesday in July of 2002. I am not sure of which Wednesday, but I do remember
`that it was after a meeting of the "Prayers and Squares" quilting group that met at
`the church on Wednesdays.
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`Sincerely yours,.
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`Maria Shetler
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`Handi Quilter and Tacony v. Bernina
`IPR2013-00364
`Bernina Exhibit 2013-2
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`I Steve Koerner state as follows:
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`I hold a Bachelors degree in physics and a masters degree in electronic
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`engineering.
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`I have worked as an electronic engineer for over 33 years, most recently
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`specializing in digital signal processing equipment.
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`I currently own and manage an engineering consulting firm called Mesa
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`lnventure.
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`I am the eldest son of Dorothy and Ralph Koerner.
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`I attended a family party at my parents home in Ramona California in mid(cid:173)
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`September 2002 to celebrate my father's 73rdbirthday on September 19, 2002.
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`After the party my father demonstrated and described his latest invention. It was
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`an improvement for a conventional sewing machine that would allow sewers,
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`particularly quilters, to move fabric around freely in any direction and at any
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`speed under the sewing machine needle and yet obtain uniform stitches. He
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`showed us a working model of a device incorporating the electronic and optical
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`design that he intended to use for controlling the stitch rate of a sewing machine.
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`It was a small rectangular plastic box with a small window in its upper surface
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`and a separate circuit board with some electronics and a relay. He explained
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`that the reddish light emerging from the window was from an especially modified
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`optical mouse he used to detect fabric movement.
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`Several of us at the party took turns sliding fabric across the upper surface of the
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`box. When the fabric was moved, the relay clicked on and off at a rate that was
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`related to the speed of motion of the fabric. The relay appeared to actuate
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`smoothly in proportion to the speed of fabric motion regardless of the direction of
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`Handi Quilter and Tacony v. Bernina
`IPR2013-00364
`Bernina Exhibit 2013-3
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`fabric movement, including in straight lines, arcs, and circles. The relay buzzed
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`when the fabric was moved fast and clicked slowly when the fabric was moved
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`slowly. My father explained that the circuitry of the model included a preset
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`threshold for recognizing a fixed increment of fabric motion, so that the relay
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`would actuate once for each such increment of fabric movement . He explained
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`that his intention was to cause the sewing machine to make a stitch with each
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`actuation of the relay.
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`I recall that my father and I discussed possible modes of operation of his sewing
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`machine. My first reaction was that he would need to convert the signal driving
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`the relay to a rate signal that he could use to servo the sewing machine motor's
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`speed. He said he had considered building a rate based machine, but initially he
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`intended to demonstrate his invention with a sewing machine that caused
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`stitches to be executed, one-by-one, with each preset increment of fabric
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`movement, i.e. each relay contact closure. He said he thought that the stitch(cid:173)
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`per-threshold mode might sew more accurately, but that in any case, it would be
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`the easiest to implement in the sewing machine he intended to adapt for his initial
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`demonstration.
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`Steve Koerner
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`Date
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`Handi Quilter and Tacony v. Bernina
`IPR2013-00364
`Bernina Exhibit 2013-3
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`Mike Koerner
`4023 Exulant Drive
`Rancho Palos verdes, Ca 90275
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`To whom it may concern,
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`April30, 2009
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`This letter is to confirm that in mid-September of 2002 I attended a family party
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`celebrating my father's 73rd birthday on September 19. Dated digital
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`photographs I took indicate that the party took place on the weekend of
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`September 21/22, of 2002.
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`At the party my father described his latest invention, a free motion sewing
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`machine that would permit quitters to accomplish manually guided sewing in any
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`direction and at any speed while maintaining constant stitch length. He
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`demonstrated and described a model of the control portion of his free motion
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`machine. He said the model was intended to test the circuitry and optical
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`equipment that would eventually be used in a prototype free motion sewing
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`machine that he intended to build. The model he demonstrated consisted of a
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`small plastic box housing an optical mouse and a separate, but connected, circuit
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`board with a relay. The optical mouse was arranged to "look up" through the
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`box's upper surface. When we moved fabric across the upper surface of the box,
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`the relay actuated at approximately the rate of fabric movement. It did so
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`regardless of the direction of fabric movement. It clicked fast when the fabric
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`was moved fast and it clicked slowly when the fabric was moved slowly. My
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`father explained that he intended to use the contacts of the relay to control the
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`motor of a sewing machine, thus controlling the rate of stitching.
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`Sincerely yours,
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`Mike Koerner
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`Handi Quilter and Tacony v. Bernina
`IPR2013-00364
`Bernina Exhibit 2013-4
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`Handi Quilter and Tacony v. Bernina
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`Bernina Exhibit 2013-5
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`Handi Quilter and Tacony v. Bernina
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`Bernina Exhibit 2013-6
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