`BEFORE JUDGES EASTHOM, SIU, TIERNEY
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`Date: January 10, 2014
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`Case: RPX CORPORATION v. VIRNETX, INC. ET AL.
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`Court Reporting I Videography I Videoconferencing I Interpretation I Transcription
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`RPX Corporation Exhibit 1086
`RPX Corporation v. VirnetX, Inc. et al.
`Case IPR2014-00176
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`UN ITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFF I CE
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`BEFORE THE PATE NT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`RPX CORPORATI ON ,
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`VIRNETX ,
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`INC. AND SCIENCE APPL ICATION
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`INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION ,
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`Patent Owner
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`Te l e phonic Conference Call
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`Held Before J udges Eastham, Siu, Tierney
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`Friday, Januar y 10, 201 3
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`2 :00 p.m.
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`Job No .:
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`Pages:
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`Reported b y : Bonnie Panek
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`A P P EA RAN C E S
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`ON BEHALF OF PETI TIONER RPX:
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`OLIVER R . ASHE , JR., ESQUIRE
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`ASHE , PC
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`114 40 I saac Newto n Square Nor t h
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`Res t on, Virg i n i a
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`( 703) 467 - 900 1
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`GREGORY M. HOWI SON, ESQUIRE
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`HOWISON & ARNOTT, LLP
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`Lin coln Centre I I
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`54 20 LBJ Freeway
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`Dal l as, Texas 752 40
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`JOSEPH E. PALYS , ESQUIRE
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`EL LI OT C. COOK , ESQU IRE
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`FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW , GARRET T &
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`JEFFREY P . KUSHAN, ESQUIRE
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`J OSEPH A. MICALLEF, ESQUIRE
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`REMARKS BY :
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`MR. ASHE: Well,
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`go. We have the court reporter on the line, and I'd
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`if we can just get confirmation of that.
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`JUDGE TIERNEY:
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`If anyone is on the line who
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`please so announce. Okay. At this point I heard no
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`one object, so Mr. Ashe, there appears to be everyone
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`MR. ASHE: Okay. Thank you, Your Honor. On
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`the latter part of Wednesday's call we were discussing
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`the issue of real party in interest, and at the very
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`end of the call VirnetX made a comment referring to
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`metadata that was associated with the RPX petitions and
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`said that the metadata contained the name of Apple's
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`I didn't do that before the call.
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`Sidley Austin's name appears in the metadata on the
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`PDFs that were submitted t o the patent office, and
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`Sidley is identified in this -- in these cases as
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`However , there ' s -- VirnetX has a
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`misapprehension of the facts, and RPX believes t hat
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`i mportant t o promptly c l a r i f y th i s p oi n t on the
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`reco r d , and basically here ' s the story. Sid l ey
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`petitions because Sidley , at the time those were filed ,
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`So the bottom line is that VirnetX's
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`metadata from Apple's counsel, I believe was based on a
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`VirnetX at the time, and RPX just didn't want to leave
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`and we felt that it was very important to clarify it at
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Okay. Thank you, Mr. Ashe.
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`I'm going to turn it over to Apple for comment, and
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`MR. KUSHAN: No, Your Honor,
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`MR. PALYS: Thank you, Your Honor.
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`I mean, yo u kn ow, RPX is now r:epr-esen Ll ny --
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`and this is a new fact . This is a new fact t hat wasn ' t
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`It su r e appears now that RPX i s getting th e
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`VirnetX ' s pos it io n.
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`A co uple o f othe r poin ts. Now we have this
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`He s a i d he was App le' s counse l, and whe n t he
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`was no need f or him to do th at if he's RPX' s cou ns e l
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`because the in formation that was confide n tial is RPX ' s .
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`They had the oppor tunit y to p r e sen t th is informat i on
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`A couple o f ti mes th e board e v en asked even
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`a d d i t i ona l informa t i on t hat t he pa rties need to
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`present . They r ema i ned s i l ent. The fact th a t App l e ' s
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`It s eems t o me if Sidley Austin represe nts
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`anothe r . The t ria l practice gu i de again, it ma kes
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`clear without a r ea l party of interest i t may be th e
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`that RPX has f i l ed the IPR upon Apple ' s belief , and the
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`record shows that.
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`In re Guan aga in says, Your Honor ,
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`t here 's three factors , or thre e thin gs that RPX in this
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`case cannot do, anyone of these.
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`If RPX does anyone
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`of these they canno t be ident ified as the only r ea l
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`party in interest, and this is on page eight of the
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`decision , Your Honor.
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`One, they can ' t accept payment from ano t her
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`party reexam and then have itself sol ely named as rea l
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`part y in interest.
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`JUDGE TIERNEY : And let' s stop th ere s ince
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`you ' re walking through the factors. We walked through
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`the s ta tement on page three of the petit ion , and th ey
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`con f irmed o nce again t hat it was f i led. RPX was the
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`sole discretion of file , and they had sole discretion
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`MR. PALYS, Than k you, Your Honor.
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`Wednesday?
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`apo l ogize.
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`I didn ' t mean to rehash old arguments , but
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`we th in k the additional info rma tion is we c an ge t
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`some of th e details about t he metadat a th at Mr. Ashe
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`I believe he was repr ese nt ing that it
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`was just -- a nd I don ' t want to -- Oliver ,
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`I just don ' t k now the
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`But I be l ieve what t he y were say i ng is t he y
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`were j ust cop i es of the origi nal d ocumen t s tha t were
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`already file d . Well , we have reason to believe that
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`that's not accurate , Your Ho nor, and the metadata ca n
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`I n f ac t , Your Honor, I don ' t know i f you ' re
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`If you ' ve g o t the
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`th~t 's ava ilable there .
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`Just to l et you know ,
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`I have pul l ed up the wor king file. Do you wi sh me
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`MR . PALYS: Yeah ,
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`PDF -- you said 171?
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: That was the one I had,
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`MR, PALYS:
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`JUDGE TIERNEY:
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`number, the first one in the petition?
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`MR, PALYS: The corrected petition, Your
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`Honor, paper number four,
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Thank you,
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`It is now open
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`MR, PALYS: Thank you, sir,
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`,JUDGE TIERNEY:
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`MR, PALYS: Properties,
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`JUDGE TIERNEY:
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`MR, PALYS: Right, and you see the author,
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`Michael E, -- Scott Border?
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Yes.
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`MR . PALYS : That is one o f App l e ' s
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`JUDGE TIERNEY :
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`MR . PALYS : You can see a number of types o f
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`document . One , you can see that t he r e ' s an E- mail
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`sub j ect, and i t says -- and this is i nforma tion that ' s
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`Thomas Broughan. He ' s fro m Sidley.
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`J UDG E TI ERNEY : Can we clarify , you said it
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`shows h e fil ed for App l e?
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`MR . PALYS: No , no, no.
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`I mis -- I was just telling y ou who Thomas
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`J UDGE TIERNEY : Oh , thank you . Than k you .
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`MR . PI\LYS : No , no ,
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`I was just showing --
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`t he ve r s i on document, this i s version five , right .
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`t hat was prov i ded by Thomas Broughan, but it ' s a Wor d
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`Your Hono r .
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`rea l party of interest and p r ivi ty i ssues.
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`JUDGE TIE RNEY : Thi s is Judge Ti erney .
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`MR . PALYS : Yes .
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`JUDGE TIERNEY :
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`MR. PALYS: Uh -huh .
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`MR. PALYS: Thank you, Your Honor. With the
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Please do so.
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`MR. PALYS: Thank you, sir.
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`(There was a brief pause in the
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`MR. PALYS: Hello, Your Honor. Thank you
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`So what VirnetX would like is
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`this issue on real party of interest now before the
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`be ing pr esented on' th e phone call, and I think i t ' s
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`i n wri ting as to wh at t he parties
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`specifical l y are requesting for addi tio nal discovery .
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`MR . PALYS : Thank you, Your Honor .
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`mak e it more clear fo r opposing counse l to cons ider the
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`I ' m happy to go over some of th e topics ,
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`we're obviously p r epared to go over th e m, but I think
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: And again, for informat ion
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`RPX to respo nd a nd t e ll me wha t
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`MR. PALYS :
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`J UDGE TIERNEY : No,
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`jus t again, I want to
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`MR . PALYS : Your Hono r?
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`JUDGE TIERNEY : Go ahead.
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`MR. PALYS :
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`I ' m sor ry .
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`I hat e to ask for
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`I belie ve they 'r e g o i ng to be a ll
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`I thi nk that's whe re I ' m going
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`I ju s t want to make sur e that we ' re on
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`J UDGE TIERNEY:
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`MR. PALYS : Thank you, sir .
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`MR. PALYS: Your Honor, yeah, we think they
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Understood. Thank you. All
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`MR. PALYS: Not at this time, Your Honor.
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Okay.
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`made a case fol." r eguesLln y In[uLHld Ll ull [ U!' duulL l uIldl
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`discovery in the RPX cases .
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`With t hat as backdrop, Apple , would you care
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`MR . KUSHAN : Sure . Than k you, Your Ho nor .
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`A coupl e of in itial poi nt s . First I wil l
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`I h ave, I -- Sidl ey Austin is representi ng Apple in
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`represent ation as Mr. Palys seemed to be appl y ing .
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`then fina l ly I want to reiter ate a conce r n, a priv ilege
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`give n the f ac t th a t the information of e xi stence of
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`Sidley be i ng retained by RPX.
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`It doesn' t ch an ge a ny
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`variable that was I think relevant to your
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`determination a couple of days ago.
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`You know, we had provided you with case
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`citations, or mentioned, made reference to an
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`observation in our last call about the fact that
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`sharing counsel doesn't establish that two parties have
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`established privity between the parties. There are
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`already a couple of decisions in the panels in these
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`IPR proceedings reinforcing that point.
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`One was in IPR 2013, 178, paper number 22.
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`Another one was IPR 2013, 236, paper number 10.
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`of interest determination.
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`JUDGE TIERNEY: Let's step back here. Even
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`if we were to agree with you that the propositions you
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`announced are correct, would it not be best to have
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`that in the record in a request in a motion for
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`additional discovery where we would actually take those
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`MR. KUSHAN: Of course we're going to follow
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