`571-272-7822
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`Paper No. 33
`Entered: July 23, 2015
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`RECORD OF ORAL HEARING
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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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`EASTMAN KODAK CO., AGFA CORP.,
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`ESKO SOFTWARE BVBA, and HEIDELBERG, USA,
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`Petitioner,
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`CTP INNOVATIONS, LLC,
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`Patent Owner.
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`Cases IPR2014-00788 and -00789
`Patent 6,738,155
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`Cases IPR2014-00790 and -00791
`Patent 6,611,349
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`Technology Center 2600
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`Oral Hearing Held on Tuesday, June 30, 2015
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`Before: HOWARD B. BLANKENSHIP, BENJAMIN D. M. WOOD,
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`The above-entitled matter came on for hearing on Tuesday, June 30,
`2015, at 1:00 p.m., in Hearing Room D, taken at the U.S. Patent and
`Trademark Office, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
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`Cases IPR2014-00788 and -00789 (Patent 6,738,155)
`Cases IPR2014-00790 and -00791 (Patent 6,611,349)
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`APPEARANCES:
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`ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONER:
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`SCOTT A. McKEOWN, ESQ.
`CHRISTOPHER RICCIUTI, ESQ.
`Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP
`1940 Duke Street
`Alexandria, Virginia 22314
`703-413-3000
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`ON BEHALF OF THE PATENT OWNER:
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`W. EDWARD RAMAGE, ESQ.
`Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz, PC
`Baker Donelson Center, Suite 800
`211 Commerce Street
`Nashville, Tennessee 37201
`615-726-5771
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`P R O C E E D I N G S
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Please be seated. Good
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`afternoon , ever yo ne. This is the co nsolid ated hearing in
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`IPR2014 -00788 and 789 . Those two involve U.S. Pa tent
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`6 ,738 ,155 . And cases IPR2014 -00790 and 791 . And thos e
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`involve Patent 6 , 611 ,349 .
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`Let me ask counsel to pl ease begin by introducing
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`the mselves. We will start with the Patent Own er, pl eas e.
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`MR. RAMAGE: Edward Ra mage with Baker
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`Donelson . I r ep resent the Patent Owner.
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`MR. Mc KEOWN: Scott Mc Keown and Chris
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`Ricciut i for Petition ers, Kodak, AGFA, ESKO and Heidelberg.
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Thank you very much.
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`Welco me to the Patent Trial and App eal Board.
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`Today each side will have 90 minu tes of total
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`argu ment t ime. And we will begin with the Petition er b ecause
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`he has the burden to present his c ase, so he will present his
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`case with respect to the challenged claims on the bas is on
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`which we instituted trial. After that the Patent Owner will
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`argue i ts opposition to the Petitioner's case.
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`The Patent Owner also has, I think, presented some
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`motions to exclude. And since the bu rden of persuas ion is on
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`the Patent Owner there, as to i ts m o tions , he will argue thos e
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`The Petition er may then use any t ime i t reserved to
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`rebut the Patent Owne r's opposition and oppos e the motion s to
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`exclude. And we will conclude with the Patent Own er's
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`rebuttal to the opposition to the motions t o exclude.
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`One other thing as a preli minar y matter, I note that
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`neither side has filed any de monstratives in this case, so none
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`will be pe r mitted at this hearing.
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`If a party does display a docu ment or a part of a
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`docu ment that is of record , the part y m ust identif y where in
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`the pleadings, the pleadin g and the page nu mber , that
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`displayed docu me nt is cited, otherwise you will be asked to
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`remove any docu ments displa yed.
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`Is ever ybod y ready to proceed? Okay.
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`We will begin with the Petitioner. And would you
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`l ike me to alert you as to any t ime?
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`MR. Mc KEOWN: I don't think that's necessar y,
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`Your Honor, but thank you.
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`Good afternoon , Your Honors. As you mentioned,
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`this is a consolidated hearing ac ross four different
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`proceedings , two of which are directe d to each patent. I' m
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`unlikely to take the full 90 minute s but I will reserv e whatever
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`I don't use in this brief introduction as rebuttal so I will
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`probably go about 15 or 20 minutes here.
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`I know the Board has read the briefs, and judgin g
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`from the insti tutio n order understand s the issues well so I will
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`get right to the i mportant issu es. Both the '349 and '155
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`patents are directed to pre -press work flow. And as the Board
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`is aware, what that is, is ever ything that happens up unti l
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`press, which is up unti l printing .
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`So i t is color correction . It is proo fing. It is all of
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`the thing s that you would do and position OPI to a docu ment
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`in order to get i t ready to be printed.
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`The '155 and the ' 349 patent, what they present as
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`the inventio n is the sort of au to ma ting of what are essenti ally
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`all well -known p re -press processes, whether i t is t yp esetting,
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`et ceter a. So what we are talking a bout here is an as se mbl y of
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`known processes that are interconnected via net work .
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`Specificall y claims 10 throug h 20 of the '155 are
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`directed towards accessing images at a server , that aspect of a
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`pre-press process . There is some c o rrespondin g apparatus
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`claims that prese nt si milar features but in a pre -pre ss
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`architecture.
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`'349 si milarl y has method and apparatus claims
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`where the method claims are generall y talking about image
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`manipulation , whereas apparatus claims 1 through 3 get to the
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`architecture.
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`So we have two main grounds in both of these
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`patents, references common to both of these patents, and that's
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`the Jebens plus the Apogee reference, and the Dorf man plus
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`Apogee, and there are a couple other r eferences that are mixed
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`in there for some of the dependent clai ms , but these get two
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`features, such as imposition and OPI which are, frankl y,
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`ad mitted in the specification as well kno wn.
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`So I' m going to talk pri ma ril y about Jebens and
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`Apogee and Dorfman and Apog ee as that's sort of the focus of
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`the briefing to date.
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`The pri ma r y a rgument from Patentee as to Do rf man
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`is the concept that Dorf man, while a pre -press work flow, is
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`so mehow l i mit ed in appli cation to the type of press that the
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`output goes to or what happens at the end.
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`And the argu ment is, well, because Dorf man has
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`this te mplate -based pre -press , i t is p robabl y better suited to
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`s maller print jobs and, the refore , to at tach a plate at the end
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`and have sort of a high volu me outpu t is so mehow a teachin g
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`away from what is in the Dorf man refere nc e where i t changes
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`the operatin g principle.
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`And what we've said in the petition and what the
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`Board said in the institution was, w ell, Dorf man is a front end
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`and i t talks about printin g in large qu antities. It tal ks about
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`using conv entional printing technolog y.
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`So what happens once you get throug h the
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`pre-press and how you appl y i t doesn 't change the operatin g
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`principle, doesn 't c hange an ything. The s yste m still works
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`exactl y the way that i t is designed to work. You just print out
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`either small volume or large volume .
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`So that argu ment has si mpl y been reiterated in the
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`briefing . The Pat ent Owner's respo nse doesn't mention the
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`institution order, doesn't rebut i t . The declaration mention s
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`that the declarant read the institution order. He doesn't
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`an ywhe re refe ren ce i t .
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`So there has been no rebuttal of what the Board has
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`held, which is Dorf man discloses a p re -press work flow and
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`that conventional printin g technol og y that's on the back end is
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`whatever you want i t to be, and then that's exactl y what
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`Dorf man teaches is, well, you can use, whether i t is offset
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`printin g or digital printing , that's up to you, but here is the
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`So that hasn't changed and there is no reason to
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`disturb what is essentially the record as to Dorf man.
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`The next pri mar y argu ment as to Jebens gets into
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`OPI, which is described in all of these patents as kn own , they
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`mention many di f ferent soft war e packages that do OPI but,
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`nevertheless, they argue that Jebens doesn't in i ts work order
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`flow show or call out the word replace.
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`And that's not responsive to the petitio n because
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`we didn 't cite to the work flow for that aspect of OPI. We
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`cited to figure 4 - C which shows OPI right there in the flow
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`chart. And then there is discussion later of how that work
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`flow a ctuall y uses that OPI.
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`But instead of focusing or rebuttin g any of that,
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`what the Patentee focuses on is a long explanation about how
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`work o rders are processed in Jebens . So that doesn't reall y get
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`to what the petitio n cited and i t 's reall y non -r esponsive to
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`these grounds . We relied on figure 4 -C and i ts ac comp an ying
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`description in the specification .
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`So, again , that's another aspect of the record that's
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`just si mpl y igno r ed. We didn't rely on the work flow. We
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`relied on figure 4 -C.
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`The vast ma jorit y of the argu ments relating to
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`requi re a central server do X, or the PDF has to be c reated at
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`this location , but none of those locations are in the clai ms .
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`And we pointed all of this out in the briefing so I
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`am not goin g into detail. I know that you read i t . The claims
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`are quite broad . They don't requi re any specific compon ent, at
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`least for what has been a rgued here to do these things .
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`For exa mple , in the '349 , claims 1 and 3 don't call
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`out OPI. Claim 2 does. And we cited to, again , figure 4 -C for
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`OPI. So all of these argu ments ab out , you know, the central
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`server has to do certai n steps, i t is just not in the clai ms.
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`And the absence of that is particularl y relevant
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`because the specificatio n even e mp h asizes that any of these
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`ele ments can do any of these functions , so when you don't call
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`the claim that way be cause i t is not in the claim and the
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`specification makes clear that any of these points can do any
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`of these processe s.
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`So what i t comes down to on all of these grounds ,
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`Jebens and Apog ee, is the argu ment s that w e have seen from
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`the Patentee are s tories that, althoug h interesting , are not
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`responsiv e to the institution order. They are not res ponsiv e to
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`the petition . So I don't have a lot to rebut here tod ay.
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`The one thing that has been new since the
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`preli minar y respons e is the decla ration of the video expert that
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`the Patent Owner has hired. And what we see from the
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`Stevenson declaration is largel y a cut -and-paste from the
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`Patentee a rgu ments. It is the same exact language. It is very
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`concluso ry.
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`Again , i t ac knowledges that the institution order
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`was read. No wh e re is any finding of the institutio n order
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`rebutted. It is just this sort of pick ing an aspect of the
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`specification to try to tell a differ en t stor y that we haven't
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`relied upon .
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`If you look at the te chni cal backgr oun d of Mr.
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`Stevenson , he is an i maging and video expert. When he was
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`depos ed, he had never worked for a printer, never design ed a
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`pre-press work flow, didn't und erstand i mposition, had to
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`Google terms in the specification . So he is clearl y not one of
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`skill in the art.
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`Furth er mo re, he is a District Court expert. When
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`he was asked why his declaratio n was directed to validit y he
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`confir med that he applied a presu mption of validit y and that
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`was the anal ysis that he did.
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`So when you consid er that and you look at some of
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`the conclusor y s t ate ments about the claim scope, well, the
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`claim means X b ecause i t is in the sp ecification , he was
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`clearl y appl ying a Phillips construction there and there is no
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`explanation whatsoever an ywher e in the declarat ion of a BRI
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`anal ysis or an yth i ng.
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`from the Patentee respons e. So we thin k his declara tio n is
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`MR. Mc NAM AR A: Couns el, there are just two
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`concepts there that you sort of put tog ether, and I und erstand
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`that the claim const ruction concept we appli ed broadest
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`reasonable versu s District Court Phillips, but you also talked
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`about presu mption of validit y.
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`But isn't the burden of proof in our proceeding on
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`the Petitioner?
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`MR. Mc KEOWN: Tha t's correct . There is a
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`presu mption of p atentabilit y here, but that presu mpt ion is not
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: All right . I just wanted to
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`make sure I und erstood what you were getting at, oka y, all
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`right, because clear and convincing standard does not appl y.
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`MR. Mc KEOWN: Sure, there is a presu mptio n
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`here as there is a presu mption in Dist rict Court but they are
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Okay.
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`MR. Mc KEOWN: So that's sort of where we are on
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`the pri mar y refe rences. As the Board is aware as to Apogee ,
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`which is the second ar y reference , or one of the seco ndar y
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`refere nces, I sho uld say, in the vast ma jorit y of the grounds ,
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`we were served with objections under 42 .64 (b)(1 ) .
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`Not su rprisingl y, under 42 .64 (b)(2 ) we served
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`supplemental ev idence. There is nothing nefarious or sneak y
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`about that. In fac t, that's entirel y p redictable. So I don't quit e
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`understand this Trojan Horse argument that we see in the
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`motions to exclude.
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`When you obje ct you t ypi c all y get supplemental
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`evidence. That 's just how the s yste m works . But, again , much
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`l ike the grounds in this case, the P atentee has igno red that
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`evidence as well and sort of r efused to even ackno wledg e i ts
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`existence in the record. They have not deposed a ny of these
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`witnesses. They just ignored i t .
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`The re maining argu ments, again, get to sort of the
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`location processin g in the clai ms, which is unrecited. There is
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`argu ments as to Dorf man being l i mi ted to all of the printin g
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`and central server being in one room and, therefor e, that figure
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`should be l imited to that.
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`And we've got testi mon y from our expert sa ying,
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`well, one of skill in the art could recogni ze that you could
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`move those wher ever you want. They are network
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`co mponents . And, again , there is no rebutt al of that . There is
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`So we are just sort of left with two sides of the
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`story, one of which is atto rne y a rgu ment and one of which is
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`There is an argu ment about Jebens which, to be
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`honest, I don't q uite und erstand about Jebens so mehow sets up
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`different net works because there is a log -in to the server.
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`Their specification has the same log -in at column 14 . So I' m
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`not reall y sure what that is all about .
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`They have an Internet e mbodi ment in th e
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`specification . Of course there is di fferent conn ection s going
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`on. They are all i nternetworked. Th at's how the s yst e m
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`works. That's how they describe i t .
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`Apog ee is what is relied upon for the plate - ready
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`They argue that Apog ee is l imited to creating that file at the
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`with these r efer ences. And i t is pre tty cle ar, no t only in these
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Okay. Co uns el, thank you.
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`MR. Mc KEOWN: Okay.
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`MR. RAMAGE: Well, hopefull y you won't need to
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Do you want me to alert
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`MR. RAMAGE: I don't think that I will be needing
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: All right . Thank you.
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`MR. RAMAGE: Edward Ra mage for the P atent
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`I think i t is clear from the record with regard to,
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: What is the objection?
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`MR. RAMAGE: There are actuall y two ob jections ,
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`Would you -- I can start with one or the other .
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Motion s to exclude are
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`MR. RAMAGE: With regard to the Apogee , we
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Okay. But not prior art and
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`MR. RAMAGE: Other than relevance, Your
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Here is the issue, and i t is
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`MR. RAMAGE: There has been no end run, Your
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`Owne r's respons es in full in each of those.
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Okay.
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`MR. RAMAGE: It was in cluded wi thin the Patent
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Can you cite to me where in
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`MR. RAMAGE: Yes, Your Honor. And you want
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Yes, i f you could. I just
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`MR. RAMAGE: Certain l y.
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: A page range or so mething
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`MR. RAMAGE: I can tell you the exact page
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Okay. Gre at.
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`MR. RAMAGE: For the 788 i t is page 53 . For the
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`789 i t begins on page 46 . For the 790 i t begin s on page 53 .
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`Your Honor, you will find that the argu ment s
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: All right . And that's in the
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`MR. RAMAGE: Yes. So they are, in fact, in the
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Okay.
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`MR. RAMAG E: With regard to Suetens, what we
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`We have sub mitted that depositio n testi mon y, and I
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: All right . Because, as I
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`MR. RAMAGE: Correct .
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: So Suetens' testimon y is
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`MR. RAMAGE: In fact, i t turns out when
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: I see. Okay.
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`MR. RAMAGE: With regard to the supple mental
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Okay. Let me ask you
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`anoth er question about that. And, again, this to some extent
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`You didn't take a deposition, a second depositi on
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`MR. RAMAGE: No, Your Honor, we did not.
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Okay. All right . The trial
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`Why wouldn't that have been the appropriat e
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`MR. RAMAGE: This is supple me ntal infor mation,
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`Your Honor. This i sn't supplement al evidence. If, in fact,
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`evidence then, yes, we probabl y woul d have taken their
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Then distinguish for me in
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`MR. RAMAGE: I can quot e you.
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Sure. Wh atever you want
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`MR. RAMAGE: I will quot e this Board from i ts
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: What is that IPR nu mb er?
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`MR. RAMAGE: I PR2013 -00364 . This is Paper 30
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`The Board stated: " We explained that we agree
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`They should not be able or per mitte d to do so and
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`JUDGE Mc NAMAR A: Thank you.
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`MR. RAMAGE: Turning now to the merits on the
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`With regard to Jebens, our position is that i t
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`With regard to the ma jorit y of the claims at issu e in all four --
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`JUDGE WOOD: So what does the printer do when
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`MR. RAMAGE: Well, J ebens is silent as to that.
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