`U.S. Patent No. 8,217,902
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`WINTEK CORPORATION
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`TPK TOUCH SOLUTIONS INC.
`Patent Owner
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`Case IPR 2013-00568
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`PATENT OWNER MOTION TO EXCLUDE
`PURSUANT TO 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(c)
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I.
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`II.
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`INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................1
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`LEGAL STANDARD....................................................................................2
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`III. ARGUMENT..................................................................................................4
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`A.
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`B.
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`C.
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`The Board Should Exclude Wintek From Relying On New “Prior Art”
`References As Misleading, Prejudicial And Beyond The Scope Of Its
`Reply......................................................................................................4
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`The Board Should Exclude Wintek’s Arguments Relating to Digital
`Empire’s Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No.
`7,864,503 as Irrelevant and Prejudicial.................................................6
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`The Board Should Exclude Wintek from Relying on Additional Prior
`Art References Disclosed in Digital Empire’s IPR Petition as
`Irrelevant and Untimely. .......................................................................9
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`IV. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................11
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`TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
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`CASES
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`STATUTES AND RULES
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.64(c)...................................................................................................1
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.23(b) ..................................................................................................2
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`Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg. 48756, 48758 (Aug. 14, 2012)....2
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`Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg. 48756, 48767 (Aug. 14, 2012)....3
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`LIST OF EXHIBITS
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`Document Description
`G. Barrett & R. Omote, “Projected-Capacitive Touch
`Technology”
`Declaration of Joshua R. Smith
`Curriculum Vitae of Joshua R. Smith
`Walker, “Fundamentals of Touch Technologies and
`Applications”
`Hotelling et al., U.S. Patent No. 7,920,129
`Geaghan, U.S. Patent No. 8,279,187
`Crosby, “Self Capacitive Sensing Brings Touch to Large-
`Screen Products”, Zytronic
`Walker, “Part 1: Fundamentals of Projected-Capacitive Touch
`Technology”
`Deposition Transcript of Dr. Vivek Subramanian, June 11, 2014
`Decision – Institution of Inter Partes Review, Case IPR2013-
`00568 (not submitted)
`Decision – In the Matter of Certain Mobile Devices, and Related
`Software Thereof, ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-750
`Figure 2 from Japanese Published Patent Appl. No. 61-84729 to
`Honeywell (excerpt of Wintek Ex. 1007)
`Information Display Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3, March 2010
`Decision – Institution of Inter Partes Review, Case IPR2013-
`00567 (not submitted)
`Testimony of Dr. Subramanian in ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-750
`Binstead, U.S. Patent Publication No. 2012/0188201
`Declaration of Ted Tsai in Support of Patent Owner’s Response
`Daiwa Capital Markets, March 2012 market report
`Amazon Kindle Electrode Structure (Filed Under Seal)
`NPD DisplaySearch, Q1’14 Quarterly Touch Panel Market
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`TPK Exhibit
`TPK 2001
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`TPK 2002
`TPK 2003
`TPK 2004
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`TPK 2005
`TPK 2006
`TPK 2007
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`TPK 2008
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`TPK 2009
`TPK 2010
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`TPK 2011
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`TPK 2012
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`TPK 2013
`TPK 2014
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`TPK 2015
`TPK 2016
`TPK 2017
`TPK 2018
`TPK 2019
`TPK 2020
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`TPK Exhibit
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`TPK 2021
`TPK 2022
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`TPK 2023
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`TPK 2024
`TPK 2025
`TPK 2026
`TPK 2027
`TPK 2028
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`Document Description
`Analysis, April 2014
`Economic Daily News Article, February 2009
`J.P. Morgan, TPK Holding Co., Ltd. research report, October
`2012
`NPD Display Search, Touch Panel Market Analysis Q4’12
`Update, December 2012
`Stipulated Protective Order – Clean
`Stipulated Protective Order – Redlined
`Affidavit of Derek Tang
`Supplemental Affidavit of Derek Tang
`Patent Owner’s Objections to Petitioner’s Evidence, October 3,
`2014
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`I.
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`INTRODUCTION
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`TPK Touch Solutions Inc. (“Patent Owner”) submits this Motion to Exclude
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`pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(c) seeking exclusion of certain documents, Exhibits,
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`and/or portions thereof, submitted in connection with Petitioner’s Reply to the
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`Patent Owner Response, namely: 1) Petitioner’s Reply to the Patent Owner
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`Response (Paper 45), 2) Exhibits 1022-1024,
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`3) Exhibits 1028-1031 and 4)
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`Exhibits 1032-1039. Petitioner provided each of these submissions, for the first
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`time, along with its Reply on September 26, 2014. Patent Owner timely objected
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`to Petitioner’s reply and related evidence on October 3, 2014.
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`Wintek filed its Reply on September 26, 2014.
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`(See Paper No. 45.)
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`In its
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`Reply, Wintek attached 22 new exhibits, including multiple new patents and patent
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`applications not previously identified in its Petition.
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`(Paper No. 46.) Wintek’s
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`Reply contained no declaration or other
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`testimony from its expert, Dr.
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`Subramanian.
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`Instead, Wintek relied heavily on the testimony of an entirely
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`different expert, Dr. George Gerpheide, submitted in connection with a different
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`petition for inter partes review of an unrelated patent.
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`On October 3, 2014, TPK timely served Wintek with objections to the
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`evidence presented in Wintek’s Reply. (Ex. 2028.) TPK specifically objected to
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`each of the materials identified above and set forth the bases for its exceptions.
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`(Id.) Wintek provided no response to TPK’s objections, either before or after the
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`deadline of October 17, 2014. TPK has met and conferred with Wintek, but the
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`parties have been unable to reach agreement regarding any of TPK’s objections.
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`Accordingly, TPK respectfully requests that
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`the Board grant
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`its Motion and
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`exclude the evidence identified herein from consideration.
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`LEGAL STANDARD
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`“Admissibility of evidence is generally governed by the Federal Rules of
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`Evidence.” Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg. 48756, 48758 (Aug.
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`14, 2012). Rule 403 of the Federal Rules of Evidence explains that relevant
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`evidence may be excluded “if its probative value is substantially outweighed by a
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`danger of one or more of the following: unfair prejudice, confusing the issues,
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`misleading the [Board], undue delay, wasting time, or needlessly presenting
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`cumulative evidence.”
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`Moreover, the scope of permissible evidence raised in a party’s reply is
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`limited by 37 C.F.R. § 42.23(b), which states that “[a]ll arguments for the relief
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`requested in a motion must be made in the motion. A reply may only respond to
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`arguments raised in the corresponding opposition or patent owner response.” The
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`Patent Office Trial Practice Guide further states:
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`A reply may only respond to arguments raised in the
`corresponding opposition. § 42.23. While replies can
`help crystalize issues for decision, a reply that raises a
`new issue or belatedly presents evidence will not be
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`considered and may be returned. The Board will not
`attempt to sort proper from improper portions of the
`reply. Examples of indications that a new issue has been
`raised in a reply include new evidence necessary to make
`a prima facie case
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`the patentability or
`unpatentability of an original or proposed substitute
`claim, and new evidence that could have been presented
`in a prior filing.
`Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg. 48756, 48767 (Aug. 14,
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`2012).
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`A motion to exclude evidence must explain why the cited evidence is not
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`admissible and must: (a) identify where in the record the objection originally was
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`made; (b) identify where in the record the evidence sought to be excluded was
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`relied upon by an opponent; (c) address objections to Exhibits in numerical order;
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`and (d) explain each objection. Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg.
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`48756, 48767 (Aug. 14, 2012).
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`As set forth above, each objection set forth in the present Motion pertains to
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`Wintek’s Reply and the Exhibits cited therein. TPK timely identified and served
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`its objections on Wintek within five days of receiving Wintek’s Reply.
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`(See Ex.
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`2028.)
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`III. ARGUMENT
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`A.
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`The Board Should Exclude Wintek From Relying On New “Prior
`Art” References As Misleading, Prejudicial And Beyond The
`Scope Of Its Reply.
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`Despite having filed three separate IPR petitions on the ’902 patent,
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`Wintek’s petitions have failed to identify a single prior art reference that allegedly
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`anticipates the claims of the ’902 patent that explicitly require the use of mutual
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`capacitance to detect a position of touch (i.e., claims 17-19, 21, 22, 25-27, 29, 35,
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`44, and 68).
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`Instead, to challenge these claims, Wintek has relied only on the
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`argument that it would have been obvious to combine references disclosing the use
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`mutual capacitance with other references disclosing an electrode structure where
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`all conductors are located on a single layer—i.e, in the present proceeding, the
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`combination of Miller with Fujitsu. Nevertheless, in its Reply, Wintek identifies
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`for the first time several new patents and patent applications (Exs. 1022, 1023 and
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`1024), which it asserts disclose these claimed elements of the ’902 patent (Paper
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`No. 45, Reply at 14-15.) Wintek’s arguments regarding these new references are
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`irrelevant, untimely, misleading and prejudicial, and should be excluded.
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`Exs. 1022 and 1023. Wintek argues for the first time in its Reply that U.S.
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`Patent No. 6,188,391 (Ex. 1022) discloses a “prior art mutual-capacitance touch
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`panel with sensors on the same side of a substrate.” (Paper No. 45, Reply at 14-
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`15.) However, Wintek’s characterization of this reference is highly misleading, as
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`in fact each passage cited by Wintek explicitly describes a “two-layer” capacitive
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`structure. (See, e.g., Ex. 1022 at 1:61-63 (“The subject patent application relates to
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`a capacitive touchpad using a two-layer printed circuit board . . . .”), 8:8-10 (“A
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`method of fabricating two-layer touchpad for use in a system . . .”).) Nor is
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`Wintek’s position supported by its citation (again, for the first time) to U.S. Patent
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`No. 5,543,590 (Ex. 1023), which it argues is incorporated by reference in U.S.
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`Patent No. 6,188,391.
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`(Paper No. 45, Reply at 15.) Wintek cites to this patent
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`only for its disclosure of the use of mutual capacitance. (See id.)
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`Accordingly, to the extent that Wintek has submitted Exhibits 1022 and
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`1023 in an attempt to refute TPK’s argument that that objective considerations
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`demonstrate non-obviousness because other parties failed to develop a single-layer
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`mutual-capacitance touch panel prior to the ’902 patent, Wintek’s arguments are at
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`best nonresponsive, and therefore irrelevant—and at worst grossly misleading, and
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`therefore prejudicial. Moreover, to the extent that Wintek relies on Exhibits 1022
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`and 1023 in an attempt to bolster its arguments that the ’902 patent is anticipated
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`by the prior art, Wintek’s arguments are untimely. Wintek did not cite either
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`reference in its Petition, and TPK and its expert have not had the opportunity to
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`analyze and respond to Wintek’s characterizations of these references. Therefore,
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`the Board should exclude both references, as well as the corresponding statements
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`and arguments in Wintek’s Reply regarding these references.
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`Exhibit 1024. Wintek also argues for the first time in its Reply that “Apple
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`came up with the concept of a single-layer mutual-capacitance touch sensor in
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`2007.” (Paper No. 45, Reply at 14.) In support of this new argument, Wintek cites
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`U.S. Patent App. No. 2008/0309625 (Ex. 1024). However, Wintek’s reliance on
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`this newly-raised reference also is irrelevant because Apple’s patent application
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`was not filed until June 13, 2007, after the April 2007 priority date of the ’902
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`Patent. (Id.) In other words, because Apple’s patent application postdates the ’902
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`patent, it is not responsive either to TPK’s arguments regarding the state of the art
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`at the time of the ’902 patent, or to Wintek’s arguments regarding anticipation.
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`Any attempt by Wintek to suggest otherwise is misleading and prejudicial.
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`For these reasons, the Board should exclude Exhibits 1022, 1023 and 1024
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`as nonresponsive, as well as Wintek’s misleading and inaccurate characterizations
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`of these references in the second paragraph on page 14 of its Reply.
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`B.
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`The Board Should Exclude Wintek’s Arguments Relating to
`Digital Empire’s Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent
`No. 7,864,503 as Irrelevant and Prejudicial.
`Exs. 1028-1031. In its Reply, Wintek offered no testimony from its expert,
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`Dr. Vivek Subramanian, to rebut or otherwise reply to TPK’s Patent Owner’s
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`Response and the testimony of TPK’s expert, Dr. Joshua Smith.
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`(See Paper No.
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`45.) In particular, Wintek provided no testimony from Dr. Subramanian disputing
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`Dr. Smith’s observation that Dr. Subramanian had advanced and agreed with
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`TPK’s own proposed claim construction positions. (Id.; see also Ex. 2002, Decl.
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`of J. Smith ¶ 80.) Instead, Wintek submitted a declaration provided by Dr. George
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`Gerpheide (Ex. 1029) in an entirely different IPR petition (Ex. 1028)—the petition
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`of Digital Empire Ltd. seeking inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 7,864,503
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`(Ex. 1030), a patent not at issue in the present proceeding. (Paper No. 45, Reply at
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`5-6.) Wintek further submitted the Board’s decision to institute review of U.S.
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`Patent No. 7,864,503 (Ex. 1031) as evidence of the credibility of Dr. Gerpheide’s
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`declaration. (Paper No. 45, Reply at 6.) Because Digital Empire’s briefing in its
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`petition for review of U.S. Patent No. 7,864,503 is not relevant to the present
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`proceeding and its inclusion in the record is highly prejudicial to TPK, the Board
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`should not permit Wintek to avoid providing Dr. Subramanian for additional cross-
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`examination by submitting arguments made in an unrelated proceeding as its own.
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`The Board should exclude the arguments in Wintek’s Reply relating to Digital
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`Empire’s IPR petition, as well as the corresponding Exhibits 1028-1031 from the
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`record.
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`In its Reply, Wintek submitted Digital Empire’s petition for inter partes
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`review of U.S. Patent No. 7,864,503 to support its argument that the Binstead
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`reference discloses the “conductor cells” and “conduction lines” required by each
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`challenged claim of the ’902 patent. (Paper No. 45, Reply at 5-6.) However, the
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`opinions of Digital Empire and its expert regarding the unrelated U.S. Patent No.
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`7,864,503 have no relevance to the current IPR proceeding. Digital Empire’s
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`petition and Dr. Gerpheide’s corresponding declaration make no reference to
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`TPK’s ’902 patent or any of its claims. Accordingly, the arguments in its petition
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`are not probative of Wintek’s argument that Binstead discloses any of the claimed
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`elements of the ’902 patent. To the contrary, Wintek’s reliance on different claim
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`terms in U.S. Patent No. 7,864,503 (e.g., “bridging lines”) misleadingly conflates
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`two different patents. Wintek offers no support for the position that the terms of
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,864,503 are to be construed as having the same meanings as the
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`terms of TPK’s ’902 patent.
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`Moreover, Wintek’s attempts to attribute Dr. Gerpheide’s opinions regarding
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,864,503 to TPK are inaccurate and highly prejudicial. Wintek’s
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`repeated references to Dr. Gerpheide as “TPK’s other expert” (Paper No. 45, Reply
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`at 5) because of his past involvement in the prosecution of the ’902 patent
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`misleadingly suggest
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`that Dr. Gerpheide presently serves as TPK’s expert.
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`Wintek’s attempts to manufacture a connection between Digital Empire’s petition
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`and the current IPR proceeding should be rejected.
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`Accordingly, the Board should exclude section II.b of Wintek’s Reply,
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`which is based solely on the inapplicable arguments of Digital Empire and its
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`expert in an irrelevant IPR petition of an unrelated patent. For the same reasons,
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`the Board should exclude from the record the corresponding underlying exhibits:
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`(i) Exhibit 1028 (Digital Empire’s IPR petition), (ii) Exhibit 1029 (Dr. Gerpheide’s
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`declaration in support of Digital Empire’s petition), (iii) Exhibit 1030 (U.S. Patent
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`No. 7,864,503), and (iv) Exhibit 1031 (the Board’s decision instituting review of
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,864,503).
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`C.
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`The Board Should Exclude Wintek from Relying on Additional
`Prior Art References Disclosed in Digital Empire’s IPR Petition
`as Irrelevant and Untimely.
`Exs. 1032-1039.
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`In its Reply, Wintek also submitted no less than eight
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`additional references cited in the declaration of Dr. Gerpheide to support its
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`arguments regarding the combination of Fujitsu and Miller, concluding that
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`“TPK’s prosecution expert had no issue with combining Fujitsu with multiple-
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`layer type touch panel systems to support an obviousness position.” (Paper No. 45,
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`Reply at 12; Exhibits 1032-1039.) For the reasons set forth above, Wintek’s
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`reliance on the arguments made by Digital Empire in its petition for inter partes
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`review of U.S. Patent No. 7,864,503, along with its repeated references to Dr.
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`Gerpheide as “TPK’s expert,” is improper. Moreover, Wintek’s reliance on the
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`combinations of references asserted by Digital Empire against U.S. Patent No.
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`7,864,503 is irrelevant and untimely.
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`First, the purported combinations of Fujitsu and other references identified
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`by Digital Empire are not relevant to Wintek’s argument that it would be obvious
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`to combine Fujitsu and Miller to arrive at the challenged claims of the ’902 Patent.
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`Wintek offered no explanation how any such purported combination would relate
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`to the challenged claims of the ’902 Patent.
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`In particular, although Wintek cited
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`these combinations to respond to TPK’s argument that a person of ordinary skill
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`would not have found it obvious to combine Fujitsu with the mutual-capacitance
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`detection system disclosed in Miller, Wintek argued only that Dr. Gerpheide “had
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`no issue with combining Fujitsu with multiple-layer type touch panel systems”
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`(Paper No. 45, Reply at 12) and said nothing about whether the references in fact
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`disclosed mutual-capacitance touch detection.
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`Indeed, in its Reply, Wintek simply
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`pointed to each additional reference in its entirety and failed to provide any
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`specific citations at all to any reference. (Id.)
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`Moreover, to the extent that Wintek attempted to rely on these additional
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`combinations to suggest that other combinations of Fujitsu exist that would render
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`obvious the challenged claims of the ’902 patent, such arguments are improper and
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`untimely. Wintek did not raise these purported combinations in its petition for
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`inter partes review, and TPK and its expert have not had the opportunity to opine
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`on the potential combination of Fujitsu and any reference identified for the first
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`time in Wintek’s Reply.
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`Accordingly, the Board should exclude Exhibits 1032-1039, as well as the
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`portion of Wintek’s Reply relying on these references to support its obviousness
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`arguments (Paper No. 45, Reply at 12) as irrelevant and untimely.
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`IV. CONCLUSION
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`For the foregoing reasons, Patent Owner respectfully requests that its Motion
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`to Exclude be granted.
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`Date: October 31, 2014
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`By: /Joseph J. Richetti, Reg. No. 47024/
`Joseph J. Richetti, Reg. No. 47,024
`BRYAN CAVE LLP
`1290 Avenue of the Americas
`New York, NY 10104
`General Tel: (212) 541-2000
`Direct Tel: (212) 541-1092
`Fax: (212) 541-4630
`Email: joe.richetti@bryancave.com
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`David Bilsker, Reg. No. 39,611
`QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART &
`SULLIVAN, LLP
`50 California Street, 22nd Floor
`San Francisco, CA 94111
`General Tel: (415) 875-6600
`Direct Tel: (415) 875-6432
`Fax: (415) 875-6700
`Email: davidbilsker@quinnemanuel.com
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`Attorneys for Patent Owner –
`TPK Touch Solutions Inc.
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that the foregoing PATENT OWNER
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`MOTION TO EXCLUDE PURSUANT TO 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(c) was served
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`electronically via e-mail on October 31, 2014, in its entirety on the following:
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`Joseph E. Palys
`PAUL HASTINGS LLP
`875 15th Street, N.W.
`Washington, DC 20005
`josephpalys@paulhastings.com
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`Naveen Modi
`PAUL HASTINGS LLP
`875 15th Street, N.W.
`Washington, DC 20005
`naveen.modi@paulhastings.com
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`By: /Joseph J. Richetti, Reg. No. 47024/
`Joseph J. Richetti
`Lead Attorney for Patent Owner
`Reg. No. 47,024
`BRYAN CAVE LLP
`1290 Avenue of the Americas
`New York, NY 10104
`General Tel: (212) 541-2000
`Direct Tel: (212) 541-1092
`Fax: (212) 541-4630
`Email: joe.richetti@bryancave.com
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`Attorney for Patent Owner –
`TPK Touch Solutions Inc.
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`Date: October 31, 2014
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