IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`In re Patent of: Monroe
`U.S. Patent No.: 7,365,871 Attorney Docket No.: 18768-0064IP1
`Issue Date:
`April 29, 2008
`Appl. Serial No.: 10/336,470
`Filing Date:
`January 3, 2003
`Title:
`APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING, CONVERTING AND
`TRANSMITTING A VISUAL IMAGE SIGNAL VIA A DIGI-
`TAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
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`Mail Stop Patent Board
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
`P.O. Box 1450
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`PETITION FOR INTER PARTES REVIEW OF UNITED STATES PATENT
`NO. 7,365,871 PURSUANT TO 35 U.S.C. §§ 311–319, 37 C.F.R. § 42
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I. MANDATORY NOTICES UNDER 37 C.F.R § 42.8(a)(1) ....................... 1
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`A. Real Parties-In-Interest Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.8(b)(1) ............................. 1
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`B. Related Matters Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.8(b)(2) ......................................... 1
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`C. Lead And Back-Up Counsel Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.8(b)(3) ..................... 2
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`II.
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`PAYMENT OF FEES – 37 C.F.R. § 42.103 ................................................ 3
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`III. REQUIREMENTS FOR IPR UNDER 37 C.F.R. § 42.104 ....................... 3
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`A. Grounds for Standing Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.104(a)................................. 3
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`B. Challenge Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.104(b) and Relief Requested ............... 3
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`C. Claim Construction under 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.104(b)(3) .............................. 5
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`IV. SUMMARY OF THE ’871 PATENT .......................................................... 6
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`A. Brief Description ....................................................................................... 6
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`B. Summary of the Prosecution History of the ’871 Patent .......................... 7
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`C. Invention Date of the ’871 Patent ............................................................. 8
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`V. MANNER OF APPLYING CITED PRIOR ART
`TO EVERY CLAIM FOR WHICH AN IPR IS
`REQUESTED, THUS ESTABLISHING A
`REASONABLE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE
`CHALLENGED CLAIMS ARE UNPATENTABLE .............................. 10
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`A. GROUND 1 – Nagai (Ex. 1004) and Lemelson (Ex. 1005)
`Combine to Render Obvious Claims 1-8, 12-15 .................................... 10
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`B. GROUND 2 –Lemelson (Ex. 1005) and Ohnsorge (Ex. 1006)
`Combine to Render Obvious Claims 1-3, 5-7, 12, and 14-15 ................ 22
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`C. GROUND 3: Lemelson (Ex. 1005), Ohnsorge (Ex. 1006)
`and Sasaki (Ex. 1007) Combine to Render Obvious
`Claims 4, 8 and 13 .................................................................................. 32
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`D. GROUND 4: Nagamine (Ex. 1008) Renders Obvious
`Claims 1-7, 12 and 14-15 ........................................................................ 34
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`E. GROUND 5: Nagamine (Ex. 1008) and Sasaki (Ex. 1007)
`Combine to Render Obvious Claims 4, 8 and 13 ................................... 42
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`VI. NON-REDUNDANCY OF GROUNDS PRESENTED ........................... 44
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`VII. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................ 44
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`EXHIBITS
`LG 1001 U.S. Patent No. 7,365,871 to Monroe (“the ’871 patent”)
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`LG 1002 Prosecution History of the ’871 Patent with appended physical exhibits
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`(“the Prosecution History”)
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`LG 1003 Declaration of Dr. Robert Stevenson, Ph.D.
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`LG 1004 JP Application Publication Number 09-037129 (“Nagai”)
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`LG 1005 U.S. Patent No. 4,485,400 (“Lemelson”)
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`LG 1006 U.S. Patent No. 5,485,504 (“Ohnsorge”)
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`LG 1007 U.S. Patent No. 5,018,017 (“Sasaki”)
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`LG 1008 U.S. Patent No. 6,564,070 (“Nagamine”)
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`LG 1009 Roger Cheng, The First Call from a Cell Phone Was Made 40 Years
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`Ago Today, CNET (April 13, 2013 7:13 AM PDT)
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`http://www.cnet.com/news/the-first-call-from-a-cell-phone-was-made-
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`40-years-ago-today/
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`LG 1010 BellSouth, IBM Unveil Personal Communicator Phone http://re-
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`search.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollec-
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`tion/a/pdf/press%20release%201993.pdf.
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`LG 1011 Buxton Collection: Simon, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/peo-
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`ple/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/a/pdf/press%20release%201993.pdf.
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`LG 1012 Walke, The Roots of GPRS: The first System for Mobile Packet based
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`Global Internet Access. IEEE Wireless Communications, October 2013
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`LG 1013 ETSI GSM Technical Specification 7.07, Digital cellular telecommuni-
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`cations system (Phase 2+); AT command set for GSM Mobile Equipment
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`(ME), July 1996
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`LG 1014 Richards, The 30 Most Important Digital Cameras of All time, Pop-
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`Photo.com (Oct. 22, 2013), http://www.popphoto.com/gear/2013/10/30-
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`most-important-digital-cameras.
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`LG 1015 Canon Camera Museum: Canon Camera Story, 1976-1986,
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`http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/his-
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`tory/canon_story/1976_1986/1976_1986.html.
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`LG 1016 Kriss, et al., Critical technologies for electronic still imaging systems,
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`SPIE vol. 1082, pp. 157-184.
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`LG 1017 NikonWeb.com, http://www.nikonweb.com/rc760/ (last visited Dec. 08,
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`2014).
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`LG 1018 U.S. Patent 5,477,264.
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`LG 1019 Keith A. Hadley, Kodak SV9600 Still Video Transceiver, Proc. SPIE
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`1071, Optical Sensors and Electronic Photography, 238 (1989).
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`LG 1020 Japanese Patent Application H03-107891.
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`LG 1021 David Ewing, Que’s Computer User’s Dictionary 494 (5th Ed., 1994)
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`LG 1022 Bryan Pfaffenberger, Webster’s New World Computer Dictionary 361
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`(9th Ed., 2001)
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`LG 1023 U.S. Patent No. 5,977,867
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`LG 1024 Wikipedia on Point-and-Shoot Camera, http://en.wikipe-
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`dia.org/wiki/Point-and-shoot_camera.
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`LG 1025 U.S. Des. 207,491
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`LG 1026 O’Rourke et al, Robust Transmission of Compressed Images over Noisy
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`Gaussian Channels, 1995 International Conference on Acoustics,
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`Speech and Signal Processing, Vol. 4, 2319-2322 (1995)
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`LG Electronics, Inc. (“LGE”) and Microsoft Mobile OY (“MMO”) (each a
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`“Petitioner” and collectively “Petitioners”) petition for Inter Partes Review
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`(“IPR”) under 35 U.S.C. §§ 311–319 and 37 C.F.R. § 42 of claims 1-8 and 12-15
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`(“the Challenged Claims”) of U.S. Patent No. 7,365,871 (“the ’871 patent”). As
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`explained in this petition, there exists a reasonable likelihood that Petitioners will
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`prevail in demonstrating unpatentability of at least one of the Challenged Claims
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`based on the teachings set forth in the references presented in this petition.
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`I. MANDATORY NOTICES UNDER 37 C.F.R § 42.8(a)(1)
`A. Real Parties-In-Interest Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.8(b)(1)
`LG Electronics, Inc., LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc., LG Electronics
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`Mobilecomm U.S.A., Inc., Microsoft Mobile OY, Microsoft Corporation, Nokia
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`Inc., Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications (USA) Inc., Sony Mobile
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`Communications AB, Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Sharp Corporation, and
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`Sharp Electronics Corporation are the real parties-in-interest.
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`B.
`Patent Owner is asserting the ’871 Patent and U.S. Pat. No. 7,643,168 (“the
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` Related Matters Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.8(b)(2)
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`’168 Patent”) against Petitioners in an on-going patent infringement lawsuit in E-
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`WATCH, INC. et al. v. LG ELECTRONICS, INC. et al., 2:13-cv-01064 and E-
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`WATCH, INC. et al. v. Nokia, Inc. et al., 2:13-cv-01075 filed in the Eastern Dis-
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`trict of Texas on Dec. 9, 2013 and Dec. 10, 2013 respectively. Patent Owner is
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`also asserting these patents against other entities in 8 other lawsuits. To date, two
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`other petitions for IPR have been filed against the ’871 patent (IPR 2014-00987 by
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`HTC Corporation and HTC America, Inc. (collectively “HTC”) and IPR2014-
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`00439 by Iron Dome LLC) and are currently pending. In addition, HTC filed a
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`separate petition for IPR of the ’168 patent (IPR2014-00989). Petitioners are also
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`pursuing a separate IPR of the ’168 patent. Petitioners also understand that one or
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`more of Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications (USA) Inc., Sony Mo-
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`bile Communications AB, and Sony Mobile Communications, Inc. may be filing
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`separate petitions for IPR for the ’168 and ’871 patent and which reference the
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`prior art addressed herein.
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`C. Lead And Back-Up Counsel Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.8(b)(3)
`Petitioners designate Timothy W. Riffe, Reg. No. 43,881, as Lead Counsel
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`and Brian J. Livedalen, Reg. No. 67,450, as Backup Counsel, both available at
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`3200 RBC Plaza, 60 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402; Tel: 202-783-
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`5070; Fax: 202-783-2331. Please address all correspondence and service to coun-
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`sel at the address provided above. Petitioners also consent to electronic service by
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`email at IPR18768-0064IP1@fr.com.
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`PAYMENT OF FEES – 37 C.F.R. § 42.103
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`II.
`Petitioners authorize the Patent and Trademark Office to charge Deposit Ac-
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`count No. 06-1050 for the fee set in 37 C.F.R. § 42.15(a) for this Petition and fur-
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`ther authorizes payment for any additional fees to be charged to this Deposit Ac-
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`count.
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`III. REQUIREMENTS FOR IPR UNDER 37 C.F.R. § 42.104
`A. Grounds for Standing Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.104(a)
`Petitioners each certify that the ’871 patent is available for IPR. The petition
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`is being filed within one year of service of each of the complaints against Petition-
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`ers. None of the Petitioners is barred or estopped from requesting this IPR on the
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`below-identified grounds.
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`B. Challenge Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.104(b) and Relief Re-
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`quested
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`Petitioners request IPR of the Challenged Claims on the grounds set forth in
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`the table shown below, and requests that each of the Challenged Claims be found
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`unpatentable. An explanation of unpatentability under the statutory grounds identi-
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`fied below is provided in the form of detailed description and claim charts that fol-
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`low, indicating where each element can be found in the cited prior art, and the rele-
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`vance of that prior art. Additional explanation and support for each ground of re-
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`jection is set forth in Exhibit 1003, the Declaration of Dr. Robert Stevenson, Ph.D.,
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`referenced throughout this Petition.
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`‘871 Patent Claims
`Ground
`Ground 1 1-8, 12-15
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`Ground 2 1-3, 5-7, 12, 14-15
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`Ground 3 4, 8, 13
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`Ground 4 1-7, 12-15
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`Ground 5 4, 8, 13
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`Basis for Rejection
`Obvious under § 103(a) over Nagai (JP
`Application Publication Number H09-
`037129) and Lemelson (U.S. Patent No.
`4,485,400)
`Obvious under § 103(a) over Lemelson
`(U.S. Patent No. 4,485,400) and
`Ohnsorge (U.S. Patent No. 5,485,504)
`Obvious under § 103(a) over Lemelson
`(U.S. Patent No. 4,485,400) and
`Ohnsorge (U.S. Patent No. 5,485,504)
`and further in view of Sasaki (U.S. Pa-
`tent No. 5,018,017)
`Obvious under § 103 by Nagamine (U.S.
`Patent No. 6,564,070)
`Obvious under § 103(a) over by
`Nagamine (U.S. Patent No. 6,564,070)
`in view of Sasaki (U.S. Patent No.
`5,018,017)
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`The ’871 patent issued from the divisional patent application of a parent ap-
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`plication filed on January 12, 1998. As a consequence, the priority date for the
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`’871 patent is no earlier than January 12, 1998. See infra Section IV.C.
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`Nagai, Japanese Patent Application H09-037129, qualifies as prior art under
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`35 U.S.C. § 102(a). Specifically, Nagai (Ex. 1004) published on February 7, 1997,
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`and therefore predates the earliest priority date of the ’871 patent.
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`Lemelson, U.S. Patent No. 4,485,400, qualifies as prior art under 35 U.S.C.
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`§ 102(b). Specifically, Lemelson (Ex. 1005) issued on November 27, 1984, and
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`therefore predates the earliest priority date of the ’871 patent by more than a year.
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`Ohnsorge, U.S. Patent No. 5,485,504, qualifies as prior art under 35 U.S.C.
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`§ 102(b). Specifically, Ohnsorge (Ex. 1006) issued on January 16, 1996, and
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`therefore predates the earliest priority date of the ’871 patent by more than a year.
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`Sasaki, U.S. Patent No. 5,018,017, qualifies as prior art under 35 U.S.C. §
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`102(b). Specifically, Sasaki (Ex. 1007) issued on May 21, 1991, and therefore pre-
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`dates the earliest priority date of the ’871 patent by more than a year.
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`Nagamine, U.S. Patent No. 6,564,070, qualifies as prior art under 35 U.S.C.
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`§ 102(e). Specifically, Nagamine (Ex. 1008) was filed on September 22, 1997, and
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`therefor predates the earliest priority date of the ’871 patent.
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`C. Claim Construction under 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.104(b)(3)
`A claim subject to IPR is given its “broadest reasonable construction in light
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`of the specification of the patent in which it appears.” 37 C.F.R. § 42.100(b).
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`Selectively Displaying (claims 1, 6, 9, 12)
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`Based on the broadest reasonable interpretation standard and the description
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`in the ’871 patent, the term “selectively displaying” should be construed as “choos-
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`ing from one or more for display.” See, e.g., ’871 patent at 5:6-10, 6:37-45. Nei-
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`ther the claim language nor the specification requires that the selection must take
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`place among more than a single image. Thus, the broadest reasonable interpreta-
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`tion should be “choosing from one or more for display.”
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`Selectively Transmitting (claims 1, 6, 9, 12)
`(ii)
`Based on the broadest reasonable interpretation standard and the description
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`in the ’871 patent, the term “selectively transmitting” should be construed as
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`“choosing from one or more for transmission.” See, e.g., ’871 patent at 5:6-10,
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`6:37-45. Neither the claim language nor the specification requires that the selec-
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`tion must take place among more than a single image. Thus, the broadest reasona-
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`ble interpretation should be “choosing from one or more for transmission.”
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`IV. SUMMARY OF THE ’871 PATENT
`A. Brief Description
`The ’871 patent is purportedly directed to an integrated image capturing sys-
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`tem which is capable of transmitting captured image data using wired and wireless
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`communication means. The ’871 patent includes 15 claims, of which claims 1, 6,
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`9, and 12 are independent.
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`The ’871 patent describes a system including a camera and a communication
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`device. See Ex. 1001 at 1:64-2:7. According to the ’871 patent, the system can be
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`integrated into a portable system comprising a cellular telephone, id. at 1:64-67, a
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`desk system utilizing a standard landline telephone, id. at 2:1-4, or other transmis-
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`sion methods such as “hardwired networks, radio and satellite transmissions,” id. at
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`2:4-7. Additionally, the system includes memory to store captured image data, id.
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`at 6:33-49, which can be accessed for preview on a display screen, id. at 8:39-48.
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`The ’871 patent states that the system would be “useful for applications
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`where immediate transmission of visual images of scenes, people and objects is de-
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`sirable,” id. at 1:56-58, such as in “law enforcement and emergency vehicles,” id.
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`at 1:61. As such, the ’871 patent describes portability of the system as a focus of
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`an embodiment. Id. at 2:55-58.
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`B.
`The ’871 patent was filed on January 3, 2003 as U.S. Patent Application No.
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`Summary of the Prosecution History of the ’871 Patent
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`10/336,470 (“the ‘470 application”), and issued on April 29, 2008. The ’470 appli-
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`cation was a divisional application originating from its parent, U.S. Patent Applica-
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`tion No. 09/006,073 (“the ’073 application”), which was filed on January 12, 1998.
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`See 1002.
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`Amendments to the ’871 patent claims in the late stages of the prosecution
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`are helpful in understanding the feature that led to allowance. In particular, the
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`Applicant gained allowance by amending the claims to require “a user interface for
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`enabling a user to select the image data signal for viewing and transmission.” Ex.
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`1002 at 513 (underline in original). The Applicant argued that the cited prior art
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`references fail to teach “the ability to display stored images on the device display,”
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`id. at 516 (emphasis in original). Therefore, it was the ability to selectively display
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`and transmit image data which allegedly distinguished the ’871 patent over the
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`cited prior art references. The cited references in this Petition, however, were not
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`before the Office during the original examination. Therefore, the ’871 Patent was
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`granted based on an incomplete record of relevant prior art.
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`Invention Date of the ’871 Patent
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`C.
`In order to overcome several prior art references cited during the prosecution
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`of the ’871 patent, the Applicant submitted an Affidavit by David Monroe under
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`37 CFR 1.131 to claim a priority date of March 18, 1993. The Affidavit fails for
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`the following reasons.
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`First, “it has long been the case that an inventor's allegations of earlier in-
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`vention alone are insufficient—an alleged date of invention must be corroborated.”
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`In re NTP, Inc., 654 F.3d 1279, 1291 (Fed. Cir. 2011). The Affidavit by Mr. Mon-
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`roe simply fails to corroborate that the invention as claimed in the ’871 patent—a
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`portable device having both phone and camera functionalities and also equipped
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`with an image display monitor—was indeed invented by the alleged date. Instead,
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`the Affidavit shows either a non-portable device capable of performing some of the
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`claimed functionalities, see e.g., Ex. 1002 at 193-272, or a portable device lacking
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`the claimed image display monitor, id. at 273-301.1 The Affidavit also fails to ad-
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`dress many other claimed features of the ’871 patent, most notably the feature to
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`selectively display and transmit image data that led to allowance. See supra Sec-
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`tion IV.B. Thus, there is no objective evidence corroborating the conception of,
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`for example, “a memory associated with the processor for receiving and storing the
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`digitized framed image, accessible for selectively displaying in the display window
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`and accessible for selectively transmitting over the wireless telephone network the
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`digitized framed image” as required by claim 1.
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`Second, the declaration fails to adequately show continuous exercise of rea-
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`sonable diligence. See e.g., In re McIntosh, 230 F.2d 615, 619 (CCPA 1956)
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`(holding that an earlier invention date can only be awarded “by showing the con-
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`tinuous exercise of reasonable diligence”). To the contrary, the Affidavit shows
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`large gaps during which no activity has been demonstrated. For example, the Af-
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`fidavit does not explain whether any efforts were made to reduce the invention to
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`practice between 1992 (the first comprehensive circuit for a handheld Remote Im-
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`age Transceiver (“R.I.T.”)) and November 1995 (a concept proposal of a handheld
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`R.I.T. using secure radio transmission). Considering that diligence can be denied
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`for unaccounted time periods as short as a few days, see e.g., In re Mulder, 716
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`F.2d 1542, 1542-46 (Fed. Cir. 1983) (a two-day hiatus was sufficient to defeat a
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`claim of diligence); Rieser v. Williams, 255 F.2d 419, 424 (CCPA 1958) (a time
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`period of less than a month, during which no record of diligence exists, denied the
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`claim of reasonable diligence), the gaps in the Affidavit spanning several years cer-
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`tainly cannot meet the required diligence to claim the invention date in 1993.
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`At least for the above reasons, the ’871 patent should not be given an inven-
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`tion date any earlier than the January 12, 1998 filing date of its parent application.
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`V. MANNER OF APPLYING CITED PRIOR ART TO EVERY
`CLAIM FOR WHICH AN IPR IS REQUESTED, THUS ESTABLISHING A
`REASONABLE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE CHALLENGED CLAIMS ARE
`UNPATENTABLE
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`As noted above in section IV, the Office allowed the claims of the ’871 pa-
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`tent based on the selective nature of displaying and transmitting image data, which
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`is found in prior art references such as Nagai, Lemelson, and Nagamine. Through
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`the disclosures and combinations that immediately follow, Nagai, Lemelson, and
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`Nagamine, as well as other references are used in combinations to demonstrate a
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`complete lack of patentability of the Challenged Claims.
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`A. GROUND 1 – Nagai (Ex. 1004) and Lemelson (Ex. 1005)
`Combine to Render Obvious Claims 1-8, 12-15
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`As shown in greater detail in the following claim chart, Nagai in combina-
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`tion with Lemelson discloses and renders obvious each and every limitation of
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`claims 1-8, 12-15. Accordingly, these claims are unpatentable as obvious under 35
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`U.S.C. § 103(a). Specifically, Nagai discloses a cellular phone equipped with a
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`CCD camera that captures and transmits images over the cellular network. See
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`e.g., Ex. 1004 at [0013], Figs. 3, 4. Nagai discloses internal and removable storage
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`devices, selectively accessible in accordance to user command for retrieving stored
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`data for display and transmission. Id. at [0013]-[0016]. While Nagai does not ex-
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`plicitly disclose a power supply, one of ordinary skill in the art would understand
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`that the portable telephone disclosed in Nagai would include a power supply. Ex.
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`1003 at ¶ 36. For example, Nagai is specifically directed to “equipping the mobile
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`telephone function on the electronic still camera, in a situation such as when the
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`electronic still camera is used to shoot a commemorative photo on a vacation or the
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`like.” Ex. 1004 at [0010]; Ex. 1003 at ¶ 36. At the time of the invention, it was
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`common for mobile devices such as mobile phones and digital cameras to include
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`internal power supplies such as a battery. Ex. 1003 at ¶ 36. Additionally, although
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`the device taught in Nagai utilizes a touch panel, Nagai acknowledges that physical
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`keys can also be used. Ex. 1004 at [0008]; Ex. 1003 at ¶ 46.
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`Moreover, the features that Nagai does not explicitly teach were readily
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`available and widely known well before the time of filing of the application that
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`led to ’871 patent as evidenced by the disclosure of Lemelson. Ex. 1003 at ¶ 50.
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`For example, integrating a power supply in the portable telephone of Nagai as
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`taught by Lemelson would allow for greater portability (one of the goals of Nagai).
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`Ex. 1003 at ¶ 36. Similarly, incorporating a physical keyboard (as taught by
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`Lemelson) rather than a touch panel would result in greater tactile feedback to the
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`user. Ex. 1003 at ¶ 47. As a result, one of ordinary skill in the art would have
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`been motivated and would have had multiple reasons to combine Nagai with
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`Lemelson to incorporate these features. Id.
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`[1pre] A handheld self-con-
`tained cellular telephone and
`integrated image processing
`system for both sending and
`receiving telephonic audio
`signals and for capturing a
`visual image and transmit-
`ting it to a compatible remote
`receiving station of a wire-
`less telephone network, the
`system comprising:
`[1a] a manually portable
`housing;
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`[1b] an integral image cap-
`ture device comprising an
`electronic camera contained
`within the portable housing;
`[1c] a display for displaying
`an image framed by the cam-
`era, the display being sup-
`ported by the housing, the
`display and the electronic
`camera being commonly
`movable in the housing when
`the housing is moved by
`hand;
`[1d] a processor in the hous-
`ing for generating an image
`data signal representing the
`image framed by the camera;
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`Nagai illustrates in Fig. 3 an “electronic still cam-
`era” in the shape of a portable cellular phone. See
`Ex. 1004 at Fig. 3. More specifically, Nagai dis-
`closes an “imaging device such as a CCD” and
`components that make up a cellular telephone
`such as a microphone 15, a speaker 17, a TDMA
`processing circuit 19, a two-way wireless commu-
`nication circuit 20, and an antenna 21 for sending
`and receiving telephonic audio signals and for
`capturing and transmitting a visual image. Id. at
`Fig. 4, [0013]-[0014]; Ex. 1003 at ¶ 38.
`In Fig. 3, Nagai illustrates a cellular phone hous-
`ing which provides structural support for the com-
`ponents contained therein. See Ex. 1004 at Fig. 4;
`Ex. 1003 at ¶ 39.
`Nagai discloses an electronic still camera having a
`lens 1 and an “imaging device such as a CCD” 2
`contained in the housing. Ex. 1004 at [0013]-
`[0014], Fig. 4; Ex. 1003 at ¶ 40.
`Nagai discloses a liquid crystal monitor 14 sup-
`ported by the housing. Ex. 1004 at [0013], Fig. 4.
`The monitor 14 displays images framed by the
`camera. Id. at [0014], Figs. 6-9. The monitor 14
`and the camera (lens1 and CCD 2) are held within
`the same housing, see id. at Fig. 4, and commonly
`movable in the housing when the housing is
`moved by hand. Ex. 1003 at ¶ 41.
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`Nagai discloses a microcomputer 10 which “per-
`forms system management of the entire electronic
`still camera,” a signal processing circuit 4, and an
`A/D converter 3. Ex. 1004 at [0013]. The pro-
`cessing circuit 4 receives image signals from the
`A/D converter 3 and outputs image data which
`represents the images framed by the camera (lens
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`1 and CCD 2). Id. at [0013], Fig. 4; Ex. 1003 at ¶
`42-43.
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`In addition, with respect to claim element [1d], although Nagai describes the
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`A/D converter 3 and the processing circuit 4 separately from the microcomputer
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`10, one of ordinary skill in the art would understand that the microcomputer 10 can
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`be integrated with and perform the functionalities of the A/D converter 3 and the
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`processing circuit 4. Ex. 1003 at ¶ 43. Indeed, one of skill in the art would have
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`readily integrated these components in order to reduce cost, achieve greater pro-
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`grammability, and to reduce the size of the circuitry. Id.
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`[1e] a memory associated
`with the processor for receiv-
`ing and storing the digitized
`framed image, accessible for
`selectively displaying in the
`display window and accessi-
`ble for selectively transmit-
`ting over the wireless tele-
`phone network the digitized
`framed image;
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`Nagai discloses an image memory 6 which stores
`the digitized image data, as well as an attribute
`memory 7 which stores attribute information of
`images stored in the memory 6. Ex. 1004 at
`[0013], Fig. 4. Nagai also discloses a common
`memory 23 and an attribute memory 24, which
`act as removable equivalents of memories 6 and
`7, respectively. Id. The image data stored in the
`memories is accessible for selective display on
`the monitor 14 in the playback state shown in
`Figs. 7 and 8. Id. at [0015], Figs. 7-8. Specifi-
`cally, image data is read out from the memory 23
`according to a command from the microcomputer
`10 which operates according to user input. Id.
`The image data is also accessible for selective
`transmission over the wireless transmission net-
`work via the image codec circuit 18, TDMA pro-
`cessing circuit 19, the wireless communication
`circuit 20, and the antenna 21. Id. at [0016].
`Specifically, “the user selects an image to be sent
`by commanding the microcomputer.” Id.; Ex.
`1003 at ¶ 44.
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`[1f] a user interface for ena-
`bling a user to select the im-
`age data signal for viewing
`and transmission;
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`[1g] a telephonic system in
`the housing for sending and
`receiving digitized audio sig-
`nals and for sending the im-
`age data signal;
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`[1h] alphanumeric input keys
`in the housing for permitting
`manually input digitized al-
`phanumeric signals to be in-
`put to the processor, the tele-
`phonic system further used
`for sending the digitized al-
`phanumeric signals;
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`Nagai discloses a touch panel interface 11 that, in
`combination with a touch panel 12A, enables a
`user to “perform[] operation of the entire elec-
`tronic still camera device,” Ex. 1004 at [0013],
`including selection of image data signals for
`viewing, id. at [0015], Figs. 7-9, and transmis-
`sion, id. at [0016]. See also Ex. 1003 at ¶ 41.
`Nagai discloses a cellular telephonic system in
`the housing comprising a microphone 15, a
`speaker 17, a TDMA processing circuit 19, a
`two-way wireless communication circuit 20, and
`an antenna 21. Ex. 1004 at Fig. 4, [0013]-[0014].
`This telephonic system transmits and receives
`data, including digitized audio signals using the
`voice codec circuit 17 and image data signal us-
`ing the video codec circuit 18. Id. at [0013]; Ex.
`1003 at ¶ 45.
`Nagai discloses a touch panel 12A which enables
`a user to “perform[] operation of the entire elec-
`tronic still camera device.” Ex. 1004 at [1003],
`Fig. 10. Nagai also discloses operation switches
`12B as an alternative form of input means. Id. at
`[0008], Figs. 1-2. Nagai describes a “phone
`number input standby state,” id. at [0014], in
`which the touch panel 12A displays alphanumeric
`input keys for telephone number input. Id.; Ex.
`1003 at ¶ 46.
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`Lemelson discloses alphanumeric input keys in
`the housing (digitally encoded keyboard 76) for
`permitting manually input digitized alphanumeric
`signals to be input to the processor, Ex. 1005 at
`6:11-22, 7:49-60, 9:23-37, 14:55-15:6. The tele-
`phone system is used to send the digitized alpha-
`numeric signals. Id.; Ex. 1003 at ¶ 47.
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`With respect to claim element [1h], one of ordinary skill in the art would un-
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`derstand that, because the microcomputer 10 “performs the system management of
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`the entire electronic still camera,” Ex. 1004 at [0013], the microcomputer 10 would
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`also receive the manually input alphanumeric signals from the input keys and pro-
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`cess them for transmission. Ex. 1003 at ¶ 42, 46. Moreover, one of skill in the art
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`would understand that the use of soft keys or hard keys is a matter of design choice
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`and that incorporating a physical keyboard (as taught by Lemelson) rather than a
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`touch panel would result in greater tactile feedback to the user. Id. at ¶ 47.
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`[1i] a wireless communica-
`tions device adapted for
`transmitting any of the digit-
`ized signals to the compati-
`ble remote receiving station;
`and
`[1j] a power supply for pow-
`ering the system.
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`Nagai discloses a two-way wireless communica-
`tion circuit 20. Ex. 1004 at [0013], Fig. 4. The
`communication circuit 20 transmits and receives
`digitized signals to and from a compatible remote
`receiving station. Id. at [0013], [0014], [0016];
`Ex. 1003 at ¶ 45.
`Lemelson discloses a power supply for powering
`the system. Ex. 1005 at 6:36-40; Ex. 1003 at ¶ 50.
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`With respect to claim element [1j], one of ordinary skill in the art would un-
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`derstand that portable electronic devices such as the electronic still camera dis-
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`closed in Nagai require an integrated power supply for powering the system. Ex.
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`1003 at ¶ 49. To the extent Nagai is found not to explicitly disclose this claim lim-
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`itation [1j], Lemelson can be combined with Nagai to meet this limitation and one
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`of skill in the art would have readily incorporated a power supply in order to allow
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`for greater portability. Id. at ¶ 50.
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`[2] The self-contained cellu-
`lar telephone and integrated
`image processing system
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`Nagai discloses a through-screen display state in
`which the monitor 14 is operable to display
`framed images for viewing prior to storing in the
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`of claim 1, wherein the dis-
`play for framing the image to
`be captured by the image
`capture device is operable to
`display the image at the sys-
`tem whereby the image can
`be viewed and framed prior
`to capture in the memory.
`[3] The self-contained cellu-
`lar telephone and integrated
`image processing system of
`claim 1, wherein the display
`is operable to display for
`viewing alphanumeric mes-
`sages input at the alphanu-
`meric keys.
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`memory 23. See Ex. 1004 at [0014], Fig. 7; Ex.
`1003 at ¶ 52.
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`Nagai describes a “phone number inpu