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IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`In the Inter Partes Review of:
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`Trial Number: To Be Assigned
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`U.S. Patent No. 6,978,346
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`Filed:
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`December 29, 2000
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`Issued: December 20, 2005
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`Inventor(s): Sung-Hoon Baek, Joon-
`Bae Kim, Yong-Youn Kim
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`Assignee: Electronics and
`Telecommunications Research Institute
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`Title: Apparatus For Redundant
`Interconnection Between Multiple Hosts
`And RAID
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`Mail Stop Inter Partes Review
`Commissions for Patents
`P.O. Box 1450
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`Panel: To Be Assigned
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`DECLARATION OF TODD M. FRIEDMAN
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`IBM-Oracle 1003
`Page 1 of 3
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`I, Todd M. Friedman, do hereby declare as follows:
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`I am an attorney at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 601 Lexington
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`Avenue, New York, New York 10022, and serve as counsel for Petitioners
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`International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM") and Oracle America,
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`Inc. ("Oracle"). I submit this declaration in support of IBM and Oracle’s
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`Petition for Inter Partes Review Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.100 of U.S. Patent
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`No. 6,978,346 ("Petition"). I am over twenty-one years of age and not under
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`any legal disability. I have personal knowledge of the following facts and, if
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`called as a witness, could and would testify competently thereto.
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`Attached hereto as Exhibit 1004 is a true and correct copy of U.S. Pat. No.
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`6,978,346 ("the ’346 Patent").
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`Attached hereto as Exhibit 1005 is a true and correct copy of U.S. Pat. No.
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`6,070,251 to Chong ("Chong US").
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`Attached hereto as Exhibit 1006 is a true and correct copy of Japanese Pat.
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`No. JPH11120092A to Chong ("Chong JP").
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`Attached hereto as Exhibit 1007 is a true and correct copy of a certified
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`translation of Chong JP.
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`Attached hereto as Exhibit 1008 is a true a correct copy of selected excerpts
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`from the Prosecution History of the ’346 patent, U.S. Appl. No. 09/753,245.
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`IBM-Oracle 1003
`Page 2 of 3
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`7.
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`I hereby declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States
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`of America that the foregoing is true and correct, and that all statements
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`made of my own knowledge are true and that all statements made on
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`information and belief are believed to be true. I understand that willful false
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`statements are punishable by fine or imprisonment or both.
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`See 18 U.S.C.
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`§ 1001.
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`Date: June 18,
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`2014
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/s/Todd M. Friedman
`Todd M. Friedman
`Reg. No. 42,559
`todd.friedman@kirkland.com
`Kirkland & Ellis LLP
`601 Lexington Avenue
`New York, NY 10022
`Telephone: (212) 446-4800
`Facsimile: (212) 446-4900
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`Attorneys for Petitioners International
`Business Machines Corporation and
`Oracle America, Inc.
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`IBM-Oracle 1003
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