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`BEFORE JUDGES EASTHOM, SIU, TIERNEY
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`Date: January 16, 2014
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`Case: RPX CORPORATION v. VIRNEXT, INC. AND SCIENCE
`APPLICATION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
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`Court Reporting I Videography I Videoconferencing I Interpretation I Transcription
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`RPX Corporation Exhibit 1077
`RPX Corporation v. VirnetX, Inc. et al.
`Case IPR2014-00171
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OF F ICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRI AL AND AP PEAL BOARD
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`RPX CORPORATION,
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`Pe titioner,
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`Case IP R
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`2014 -0 0171
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`VIRNETX,
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`INC . AND SC IENCE APPLICATION
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`Patent
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`I NTERNATIONAL CORPORAT I ON,
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`6 , 502,135
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`Pa tent Owner
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`CONFIDENT I AL - PURSUANT TO PROTECT I VE ORDER
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`Te lephon ic Confer ence Call
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`Held Before Judge s Eastham, Siu, Tier ney
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`Job No.: 51086
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`A P PEA RAN C E S
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`ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER RPX:
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`OLIVER R. ASHE, JR., ESQUIRE
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`ASHE, PC
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`11440 Isaac Newton Square North
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`Reston, Virginia 20190
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`(703) 467-9001
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`GREGORY M. HOWISON, ESQUIRE
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`HOWISON & ARNOTT, LLP
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`Lincoln Centre II
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`5420 LBJ Freeway
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`Suite 660
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`Dallas, Texas 75240
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`(972) 479-0462
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`ON BE HA LF OF RESPONDENT VIRNETX:
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`JOSEP H E. PALYS , ESQUIRE
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`FINNEGAN , HENDERSON, FARABOW , GARRETT &
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`Two Fr eedom Square
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`11955 Freedom Dr i ve
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`Reston , Vi r gin i a 20190
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`(5 71) 203 - 2700
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`NAVEEN MODI , ESQUIRE
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`F I NNEGAN , HENDERSON , FARABOW , GARRETT &
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`ON BEHALF OF RESPONDENT APPLE:
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`JOSEPH A. MICALLEF, ESQUI RE
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`REMARKS BY :
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`RUL I NG ISSUED :
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`FURTHE R REMARKS BY:
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`_____ .TELEPHONIC CONFERENCE CA LL HELD BEfORE JUDGES EASTHOM. SIU. TIERNEY
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`PRO C E E DIN G S
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`JUDGE TIERN EY: Due to the issues tha t were
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`I ' m going to begin the cal l by
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`ask ing is eve ryone o n t he line at this point in time
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`subject to the prot e ct ive order .
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`If not , please speak
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`I note n o o ne objected to or po inted out
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`t hat they we r e not sub j ect t o the protect i ve orde r .
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`Accordingly, eve r yo ne on the line today is subject to
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`the boards d e f au l t protect i ve order.
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`If th ere ' s a ny
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`questions about t hat please speak up now or we 'l l
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`b egin. Heari ng no objection, we 'll begin today.
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`Vir net X,
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`I bel ie ve we le ft off wi t h some
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`ques t ions a nd concerns possi b ly about a discovery t ha t
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`was occurring in d i str i ct co urt, and we wanted to have
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`a few more d e t a ils, so I'd like you to beg i.n toda y by
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`giving us a littl e backgro und on th e dist r ict cou rt
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`action and ju st a brie f ove rview of the n atu re a nd
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`scope of t he di scove ry t o da te in th ose cases as it ma y
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`p erta i n to this p r oceed ing today .
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`MR . PALYS :
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`Su r e , Your Hon o r. Yeah , as we
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`lef t off th e bo ard ask ed us to look into what d i scovery
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`was bei ng sought i n the district cou r t li tigat io n .
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`We've had t ime to do t hat and we've obt ained copies o f
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`the discovery reques t, and I 'll be happy t o discuss
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`them with you and ge t in to any detail s th a t you wa nt
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`l ike t o r a ise a coupl e of poin t s
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`be f o r e I do that because I
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`th is t ype of di scovery . The fi rst poin t , Your Ho nor ,
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`is that dis covery that ' s sought in that distr i ct court
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`from RPX is for purposes of that litigation. Now , as
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`MR . HOWISON : This is Greg Howison .
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`JUDGE TIERNEY : Thank you for joining, and
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`ju s t con fir min g you ' re sub jec t
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`t o the protective order?
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`MR . HOWISON : Yes , s ub ject to the protective
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`order, yes .
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`JUDGE TIERNEY : Thank you. Mr . Palys ,
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`please continue .
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`MR . PALYS : Thank you , sir. Now , you ' re
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`going to see there is some ove r l ap with the type of
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`in formati o n that ' s sough t in t he distri ct co urt and
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`with the r eal party of inte res t issues that we ' r e
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`discussing in these proceedings, but that overlap in
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`the discovery itself is for purposes of that
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`litigation.
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`The second point, Your Honor, is that
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`currently RPX in that district court proceeding is
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`refusing to provide any discovery in that litigation
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`and, in fact, RPX had objected to that discovery before
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`Mr. Ashe even raised this issue on the call last week.
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Mr. Palys, could you please
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`MR. PALYS: Sure.
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`I'm sorry, sir.
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`Corporation, and that's 613CD-351. There's actually
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`t o mention, Your Honor .
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`I th ink they 're the same
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`action, ju st different action numbers. Tha t ' s
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`612CD-855, and in t hese - -
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`J UDGE TIERNEY:
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`MR. PALYS : Sure .
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`So back to t hat second
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`MR. AS HE: Your Hono r, just since we ' re
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`not a party to a ny of t h e s uits that were described .
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`JUDGE TIERNE Y: That's righ t . That was
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`clear f r om the capt i on at this po int . Le t' s l et Mr .
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`Pa l ys h ave the floor a nd go over t he det ai l s and then
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`you wi l l have an oppo rtu n i ty to chime in, bu t let ' s
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`MR. PALY S : Thank you, sir. Cont inuing on
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`with what I wa s say ing, basical ly the point he r e is
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`that to th e extent RPX may be forced to give that
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`discovery i n t hose l i tigations ,
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`And l ast l y , r eally, Your Honor ,
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`if RPX i s fo r c e d by co ur t order or ot herw ise to give
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`t h e d i s cove ry th a t ' s be ing sought in t he re i t ' s co vered
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`by a protec t ive orde r , a nd we raised th i s I belie v e
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`last week if th a t' s so .
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`t he di s c overy i s ava i lable in th e
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`l it iga t ion fO r . p urposes of th a t
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`i t he r e in t hese p r o c eed i ngs, and I be li eve there is
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`where t he boa r d h as b a s i cally l eft i ssues of t h e
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`addr ess th e r e al par t y o f
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`I'm h a ppy to go in t o th e di sc overy that' s b e ing
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`sought and any de t a i l s that t he board may wan t to .
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`J UDGE TI ERNEY : Well , we 're t a lking i n
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`I t ha s been ment ione d a t
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`pa r ty . Please e xp lain , firs t o f a ll , why the discovery
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`wou l d be sough t agai ns t a nonp a r t y h e r e or a third
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`p arty, an d wh at is th e scop e of the d iscover y that is
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`be ing s ou ght . You mentione d there was a overlap .
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`Could you give a few more details?
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`Sur e .
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`So t he categories of
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`i nforma t ion sought in the RPX s ubpoenas , Your Ho n o r ,
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`re l a te s to -- th e RPX ' s corpo r ate structure ,
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`or ganiz ation, what it does , it s int erests ,
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`r elationship , communications with var io u s companies
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`i ncluding Apple , Microsoft , Cisco, New Bay , et cetera ,
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`and tha t' s
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`There ' s also ano t he r cat egory t hat relates
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`r e al pa r t y in interest , and p rior ar t rela t ed to
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`VirnetX's patents .
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`JUDGE TIERNEY : Ok ay .
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`So t hey were s eeking
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`discovery in the district cour t s pec i fic to the IPRs?
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`MR. PALYS:
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`That ' s ri ght.
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`J UDGE TIERNEY: Okay . And how does that
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Let me stop there. Do you
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`MR. PALYS: Yes, Your Honor.
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Okay.
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`MR. PALYS: Yes, Your Honor.
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Okay. Thank you.
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`MR. PALYS: Yes, Your Honor.
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`So my point
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`J UDGE TIERNEY : Let ' s s top toddy .
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`MR . PALY S : Well, my unders ta ndin g i s t hat
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`JUDGE TIERNEY : Anything else be for e I
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`is t here anyth i ng furthe r from Vir ne tX?
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`MR. PALY S : No , You r Honor.
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`JUDGE TI ERNEY : Okay. RPX ,
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`MR . ASHE : Okay . Thank you, Your Honor .
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`Firs t wi th regard t o th e characteriz at ion of t h e
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`I d isagr ee wit h the
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`JUD GE EASTHOM: No,
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`I don' t h a ve a ny
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`J UDGE SI U: No ques t io ns .
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`MR. KUSHAN: Thank you , You r Hon or . We ll,
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`MR. PALYS: No, Your Honor. Unless you have
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`JUDGE TIERNEY:
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`Judge Siu, are you back on line?
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`JUDGE SIU: Yes, I'm back on line.
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`JUDGE EASTHOM: Yes, I am.
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Thank you.
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`MR. PALYS: Yes, Your Honor.
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`MR. ASHE: Yes, Oliver Ashe.
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`MR. KUSHAN: And Jeff Kushan.
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Good. The panel has
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`MR. PALYS: Yes, Your Honor. Of course
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`MR. MODI : Your Honor, obviou sly we have n't,
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`J UDG E TIERNEY :
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`I' ll e xe r c i se discretion
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`I will give the sev en pages abse n t an objection
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`I d o not hear an objec t ion fro m my
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`I wi ll go a head and we will as a panel
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`t hen g i ve seven pages . Again , we want this kept
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`foc us ed g i ven the amount o f di scu ss i on we ' ve already
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`I thi nk the ques t ion the n becomes fo r
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`part i c ul ar ly t here ' s the App le c a ses and t here ' s a l so
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`the RPX cases . How do we h and le t hose as a procedura l
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`Let ' s back up .
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`I s Vi r ne tX seeki ng the
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`ndditional di.scovery in t h e Apple case s , or is it
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`discovery?
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`MR . PALYS : Well , Your Honor ,
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`I 'm g lad you
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`asked t hat ques ti on because I did have a quest i on for
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`t he boa r d on this. To answer you r ques ti on , we ' re
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`seeking d iscove r y i n the RPX ma t te r s, but because Appl e
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`i s invo l ved wi t h t hese RPI issues we're actual l y goi ng
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`to ask the board ' s gu i dance on this.
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`We und e r sta nd that your orde r -- co rr ect me
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`if I'm wrong, sir -- re l a t e s to seeking addi tio nal
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`d i scovery f rom RPX , but we we r e wonderi ng what the
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`p r oce d ur es or what gui d a n ce the bo ar d ca n g i ve us for
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`s eek in g di scove r y f rom App l e o n the se issues , and
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`probabl y -- I th i nk we s ho u ld be in t he RP X matter , so
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`I think that might be under 4252 .
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`I'm no t qu i te s u re .
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`I just want e d t o see k t he board 's gui dan ce on t his .
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Well , this is an inter e s ting
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`case b e c au se t here are d i ffe rent p atents invo l ved ,
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`separate families . However , if you are -- a nd I wasn ' t
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`c l e ar.
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`If you are seek in g in f o rmat ion fro m Ap ple woul d
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`i t be appr op ri a t e
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`t he n to just have t he s ame motion
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`filed in both sets of case s but being cl e a r as to who
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`you're seeking wh ich inf ormati on from?
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`If you' re s eek i ng particular in forma t io n
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`f rom RPX y ou can i d e nti