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`Paper No. 54
`Entered: July 14, 2015
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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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`FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR, LIMITED, FUJITSU
`SEMICONDUCTOR AMERICA, INC., ADVANCED MICRO
`DEVICES, INC., RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION,
`RENESAS ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC., GLOBAL
`FOUNDRIES U.S., INC., GLOBALFOUNDRIES DRESDEN
`MODULE ONE LLC & CO. KG, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
`DRESDEN MODULE TWO LLC & CO. KG, TOSHIBA
`AMERICA ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, INC., TOSHIBA
`AMERICA INC., TOSHIBA AMERICA INFORMATION
`SYSTEMS, INC., TOSHIBA CORPORATION, and THE
`GILLETTE COMPANY,
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`Petitioners,
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`ZOND, LLC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Cases IPR2014-00781; IPR 2014-00782; IPR2014-01083;
`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
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`Cases IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805
`(Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`Held: June 8, 2015
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`IPR2014-00781; IPR 2014-00782; IPR2014-01083;
`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`BEFORE: KEVIN F. TURNER, DEBRA K. STEPHENS,
`JONI Y. CHANG, SUSAN L.C. MITCHELL, and
`JENNIFER MEYER CHAGNON, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`APPEARANCES:
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`ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONER (TOSHIBA):
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`ROBINSON VU, ESQ.
`Baker Botts, L.L.P.
`One Shell Plaza
`910 Louisiana Street
`Houston, Texas 77002-4995
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`ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONER (GLOBAL FOUNDRIES):
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`DAVID M. TENNANT, ESQ.
`BRETT C. RISMILLER, ESQ.
`White & Case LLP
`701 Thirteenth Street, N.W.
`Washington, DC 20005
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`ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONER (ADVANCE MICRO
`DEVICES):
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`XIN-YI (VINCENT) ZHOU, ESQ.
`O'Melveny & Myers LLP
`400 South Hope Street
`Los Angeles, California 90071-1899
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`IPR2014-00781; IPR 2014-00782; IPR2014-01083;
`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONER (FUJITSU):
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`ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER (RENESAS):
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`DAVID L. McCOMBS, ESQ.
`Haynes and Boone, LLP
`2323 Victory Avenue, Suite 700
`Dallas, Texas 75219
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`PAVAN K. AGARWAL, ESQ.
`Foley & Lardner LLP
`3000 K Street, N.W., Suite 600
`Washington, DC 20007-5109
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`ON BEHALF OF PATENT OWNER:
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`BRUCE J. BARKER, ESQ.
`GREGORY GONSALVES, ESQ.
`Chao Hadidi Stark & Barker LLP
`176 East Main Street, Suite 6
`Westborough, Massachusetts 01581
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`The above-entitled matter came on for hearing on Monday,
`June 8, 2015, commencing at 10:00 a.m., at the U.S. Patent and
`Trademark Office, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
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`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`JUDGE CHANG: Good morning. Please be seated.
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`Good morning. Thank you for the information this morning. We
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`MR. BARKER: Oh, thank you.
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`JUDGE CHANG: At this time I would like to have the
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`MR. VU: Thank you, Your Honor. My name is
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`Robinson Vu with the law firm of Baker Botts, and I represent the
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`lead Petitioner, Toshiba.
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`MR. TENNANT: My name is David Tennant with
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`Brett Rismiller, also with White & Case.
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`MR. VU: Your Honor, I apologize, with me I have two
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`clients from Toshiba, Mr. Ishibashi and Ms. Yamanaka.
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`JUDGE CHANG: Welcome, thank you.
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`MR. McCOMBS: David McCombs for Fujitsu, with
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`MR. AGARWAL: Pavan Agarwal with Foley &
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`IPR2014-00781; IPR 2014-00782; IPR2014-01083;
`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`MR. ZHOU: Xin-Yi Zhou for Petitioner Advanced
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`Micro Devices, I'm with the law firm O'Melveny & Myers.
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`JUDGE CHANG: Thank you, very much. And for
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`Patent Owner?
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`MR. BARKER: Good morning, Your Honor, Bruce
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`Barker from Chao, Hadidi, Stark & Barker for the Patent Owner
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`Zond.
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`JUDGE CHANG: Welcome back.
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`MR. GONSALVES: My name is Greg Gonsalves also
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`JUDGE CHANG: Okay, thank you. This is an oral
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`hearing for all cases, IPR2014-00781, 782, 1083, 1086 and 1087,
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`involving patent 7,147,759 B2, as well as for the three IPRs
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`IPR2014-00800, 802, 805 involving patent 7,811,421. The
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`transcript for this consolidated oral hearing will be entered into
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`each of the proceedings, and it will be usable for all cases.
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`Consistent with our previous order for each involved patent, each
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`party has one hour to present its arguments. Petitioner bears the
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`burden of proof that the claims at issue are unpatentable;
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`therefore, Petitioner will proceed first to present its case as to the
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`challenged claims as to the first involved patent. Petitioner may
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`the Petitioners' case. After the parties' presentation for the first
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`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`involved patent, we will take a lunch break, and the hearing will
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`resume at 1:30 for the second patent.
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`So, at this time, I would like to ask that counsel, do you
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`MR. VU: Yes.
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`JUDGE CHANG: Please. Counsel for Petitioner, you
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`JUDGE STEPHENS: Yes, I can hear you.
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`JUDGE TURNER: I can hear you, Judge Chang, I can
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`their demonstrative slides, that's also helpful, thank you.
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`JUDGE CHANG: Okay, that would be great. I don't
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`think I can hear Judge Stephens. Can you speak and see if we can
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`JUDGE STEPHENS: Yes, can you hear me now?
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`IPR2014-00781; IPR 2014-00782; IPR2014-01083;
`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`JUDGE CHANG: Oh, yeah, great, thank you very
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`JUDGE STEPHENS: Thank you.
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`JUDGE CHANG: Just speak up any time if you can't
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`JUDGE STEPHENS: Yes. Thank you.
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`JUDGE CHANG: Sorry for the interruption.
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`today and we're going to start with an overview of the '421 patent,
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`the grounds instituted, the overview of the prior art, primarily the
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`Wang reference that we're all familiar with, and then we'll discuss
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`the actual disputes between the parties as to the independent
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`claims and then the dependent claims. And, Your Honor, we
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`MR. VU: So, we have the '421 patent, issued in 2010,
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`highlighted some of the various hardware features, and we will
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`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`to go through it quickly, as a preview for the rest of the
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`presentation. So, claim 1 recites: (a) sputtering source
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`assembly that creates a weakly-ionized plasma, but then a
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`sputtering chamber on the left of the '421 patent, Figure 4, and
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`Figure 1 of the Wang reference. We point out the anode in both
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`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`34 and 46 through 48. This is slide 9. The first dispute is
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`whether Wang discloses a voltage pulse for creating
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`were construed by the Board and they're not in dispute,
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`"weakly-ionized plasma" and "strongly-ionized plasma." Two
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`other terms are in dispute as a result of the briefing. The first is
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`"creates a weakly-ionized plasma and then a strongly-ionized
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`MR. VU: Correct, thank you. So, I'm on slide 11 now,
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`construction disputes. Slide 11 will go into the details of the first
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`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`dispute, wherein the Patent Owner is trying to construe a voltage
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`pulse that creates a weakly-ionized plasma and then a
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`strongly-ionized plasma without an occurrence of arcing. Patent
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`Owner is asking the Board to construe that to require that it
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`submit, Your Honor, that that construction is improper. Primarily
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`column 16 of the '421 patent, and we're familiar, Your Honors,
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`I'm going to skip ahead, I apologize, to slide 15, just to show the
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`wave form disclosed in the '421 patent, on the right side of slide
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`And we see the weakly-ionized plasma is generated
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`applied, the high-powered pulse generates a strongly-ionized
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`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`maintains the pre-ionization condition in the plasma while the
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`So we have, of course, the '421 patent, Your Honor, is it
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`illustrates a single pulse, and it discusses that that pulse can be
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`proposed construction to create only related to the initial addition
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`As for pulse, the Patent Owner disputes that Wang
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`what "pulse" means. We've supplied a construction of our view
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`of "pulse" and we believe, Your Honor, that it's consistent with
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`the way it's used in the '421 patent.
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`I deposed Patent Owner's expert on this issue,
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`Dr. Hartsough, and I asked him, I tried to get at his understanding
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`of what a pulse is, in the context of the '421 patent, and clearly,
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`"Answer: I don't think I can give you a definition of it.
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`IPR2014-01086; IPR2014-01087 (Patent 7,147,759 B2)
`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`"Answer: In the context of these patents, it's pretty
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`"Question: If it's clear, Dr. Hartsough, I would like you
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`disclosed in the Wang reference. They're simply identical wave
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`forms, identical voltage pulses, and there's no distinction between
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`whether Wang discloses a voltage pulse for creating a
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`We've repeated on slide 17 Figure 7 from the Wang
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`reference that illustrates the power supply in Wang, and in no
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`uncertain terms, the Specification of Wang states "the pulse DC
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`IPR2014-00800; IPR2014-00802; IPR2014-00805 (Patent 7,811,421 B2)
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`power supply 80 produces a train of negative voltage pulses."
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`Wang produces voltage pulses.
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`Slide 18, slide 18 is an excerpt from Wang where he
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`Whether you choose it or not, if it does what's claimed, it's
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`Slide 27, again, we have the power supply of Wang. He
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`JUDGE CHANG: But, counsel?
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`MR. VU: Yes, Your Honor?
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`JUDGE CHANG: Doesn't the Patent Owner distinguish
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`JUDGE CHANG: Okay.
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`though, is he chooses to graph power. He discloses applying
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`MR. VU: That's a voltage pulse and it goes through a
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`MR. VU: Yes, yes, and it goes through a low-pass filter
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`MR. VU: And he's illustrating power.
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`JUDGE CHANG: So, let me ask again, where is the
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`JUDGE CHANG: Okay.
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`MR. VU: Again on slide 30, the wave form in Figure 6
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`lower portion PB, the rise time would be the time that it takes to
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`JUDGE CHANG: So, it's almost like zero, then?
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`MR. VU: In the idealized form, it would be zero.
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`JUDGE CHANG: Be zero, okay.
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`MR. VU: In real life it's never zero.
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`MR. VU: Sure. Yes, Your Honor.
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`JUDGE CHANG: Sorry.
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`MR. VU: Slide 32?
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`JUDGE CHANG: Yes, um-hmm. Here, what Wang is
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