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`EXHIBIT C
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 1
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`Case 3:11-cv-00367-O Document 570-3 Filed 04/12/13 Page 2 of 212 PageID 23934
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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
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`DALLAS DIVISION
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`( 3:11-CV-00367-O
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`DALLAS, TEXAS
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`MARCH 29, 2013
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`SUMMIT 6 LLC,
` Plaintiff,
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`VERSUS
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`RESEARCH IN MOTION CORP.,
` Defendants.
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`VOLUME 1
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`TRANSCRIPT OF TRIAL
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`BEFORE THE HONORABLE REED C. O'CONNOR
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE, and a jury
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`A P P E A R A N C E S:
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`FOR THE PLAINTIFF: THEODORE STEVENSON, III
`McKool Smith
`300 Crescent Court
`Suite 1500
`Dallas, TX 75201
`214/978-4000
`214/978-4044 FAX (fax)
`tstevenson@mckoolsmith.com
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`PHILLIP M. AURENTZ
`McKool Smith PC
`300 Crescent Court
`Suite 1500
`Dallas, TX 75201
`214/978-4206
`214/978-4044 (fax)
`paurentz@mckoolsmith.com
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`PAMELA J. WILSON, CSR/RMR/CRR
`U.S. DISTRICT COURT - 214.662.1557
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 2
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`Case 3:11-cv-00367-O Document 570-3 Filed 04/12/13 Page 3 of 212 PageID 23935
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`FOR THE PLAINTIFF:
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`ASHLEY N. MOORE
`McKool Smith PC
`300 Crescent Court
`Suite 1500
`Dallas, TX 75201
`214/978-6337
`214/978-4044 (fax)
`amoore@mckoolsmith.com
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`JOHN B. CAMPBELL
`McKool Smith
`300 W 6th St
`Suite 1700
`Austin, TX 78701
`512/692-8730
`512/692-8744 (fax)
`jcampbell@mckoolsmith.com
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`BRADLEY W. CALDWELL
`Caldwell Cassady Curry, P.C.
`1717 McKinney
`Suite 700
`Dallas, TX 75202
`214/593-7129
`214/978-4044 (fax)
`bcaldwell@caldwellcc.com
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`FOR THE DEFENDANT: JAMES R. NELSON
`DLA Piper US LLP
`1717 Main St
`Suite 4600
`Dallas, TX 75201-4605
`214/743-4512
`214/743-4545 (fax)
`jr.nelson@dlapiper.com
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`FOR THE DEFENDANT: MARK D. FOWLER
`DLA Piper LLP (US)
`2000 University Ave
`East Palo Alto, CA 94303
`650/833-2048
`650/833-2001 (fax)
`mark.fowler@dlapiper.com
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`PAMELA J. WILSON, CSR/RMR/CRR
`U.S. DISTRICT COURT - 214.662.1557
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 3
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`CLAUDIA WILSON FROST
`DLA Piper LLP
`1000 Louisiana
`Suite 2800
`Houston, TX 77002
`713/425-8450
`713/300-6050 (fax)
`claudia.frost@dlapiper.com
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`ANDREW P. VALENTINE
`DLA Piper LLP (US)
`2000 University Avenue
`East Palo Alto, CA 94303-2214
`650-833-2000
`650-833-2001 (fax)
`andrew.valentine@DLAPiper.com
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`ERIK FUEHRER
`DLA Piper US LLP
`2000 University Avenue
`East Palo Alto, CA 94303
`650/833-2045
`650/833-2001 (fax)
`erik.fuehrer@dlapiper.com
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`TODD S. PATTERSON
`DLA Piper LLP (US)
`401 Congress Ave
`Suite 2500
`Austin, TX 78701
`512/457-7000
`512/457-7001 (fax)
`todd.patterson@dlapiper.com
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`COURT REPORTER: PAMELA J. WILSON, RMR, CRR
` 1100 Commerce Street, Room 1535
` Dallas, Texas 75242
`214.662.1557
`pam_wilson@txnd.uscourts.gov
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`Proceedings reported by mechanical stenography,
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`transcript produced by computer.
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`PAMELA J. WILSON, CSR/RMR/CRR
`U.S. DISTRICT COURT - 214.662.1557
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 4
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`in the courtroom so we can continue the trial.
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`Of course this rule does not apply to expert witnesses
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`and it does not apply to representatives of the parties.
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`So, Ms. Wood, if you would take the stand. And if
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`everyone else would please retire to where you need them to
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`be.
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`Yes, sir.
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`MR. NELSON: That's all.
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`THE COURT: That's all, okay. Very good.
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`MR. CALDWELL: Your Honor, may we have just two or
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`three minutes to kind of get some things organized?
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`It will kind of make things move a little quicker.
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`MR. CALDWELL: Sorry about that brief delay.
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`May it please the court.
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`DIRECT EXAMINATION
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`Good morning or good afternoon.
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`Good afternoon.
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`Mrs. Wood, would you please introduce yourself to the
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`jury.
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`My name is Lisa Wood.
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`THE COURT: Go ahead and speak into that microphone
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`good and loud. Just speak so that everyone in the courtroom
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 5
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`that Friday, he prepared for the NAR demo, all moving along
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`quite smoothly. Images are scaled to Moore's specifications
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`and they seem to truly appreciate the result.
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`What is Mr. Fried reporting that's being going on in
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`October?
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`He was getting ready to prepare -- helping provide a
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`demonstration for the National Association of Realtors Show,
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`which is which NAR stands for, demonstration of the
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`pre-processing controls on the client side.
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`Q.
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`And did you-guys present a demonstration of your
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`invention at the NAR conference?
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`A.
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`Yes, we did.
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`MR. CALDWELL: May we have Plaintiff's Exhibit 43,
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`Mr. Moreno.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`And by Friday, November 6th, Mr. Fried expresses that as
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`of November 6th, '98, he had worked with Roy. Who's Roy?
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`Roy was one of the engineers that we had also hired to
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`help with the project.
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`And Mr. Fried had worked with Roy to wrap-up his work on
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`the client-side submission piece. Do you see that?
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`Yes, I do.
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`Had they built a product implementing your invention?
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`They had written the software, yes, to implement the
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`U.S. DISTRICT COURT - 214.662.1557
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 6
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`Q.
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`So when -- when Mr. Lewis and the others first met with
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`eBay, was eBay disagreeing that it could benefit from your
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`invention or were they more worried about the size and
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`stability of your company in that day and age?
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`They didn't disagree that we could help solve the
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`problem.
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`As a matter of fact, it was their number one technical
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`support complaint. Nearly all of their technical support
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`issues were related to photo uploading. And they simply just
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`felt we weren't large enough to be able to have the expertise
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`to handle it for them.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Now, do you recognize the book that I'm holding?
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`Yes, I do.
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`I realize you probably can't see it from there, at least
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`the little markings. This is the first edition of EBay for
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`Dummies, and for the record, excerpted portions of it are at
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`Plaintiff's Exhibit 335, but this is Plaintiff's Demonstrative
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`1, the original document.
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`Before we talk about what you did to help address eBay's
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`problem --
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`MR. CALDWELL: Can we have the document camera,
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`Mr. Moreno.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`I won't read through all this by any means, but what I do
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`want to do is comment on have you -- have you explained to us
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 7
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`Case 3:11-cv-00367-O Document 570-3 Filed 04/12/13 Page 109 of 212 PageID 24041
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`what the industry was observing about eBay at the time?
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`There's a section in EBay for Dummies. If you're
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`actually going to have a picture, you need to make your images
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`web-friendly. It talks about large pixels are made -- large
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`pictures are made up of all those pixels you showed us and
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`right after you take the picture you have problems, like they
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`contain more computer instructions, bigger pictures. They
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`take longer to build or appear on the buyer's screen and time
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`can be precious in an auction.
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`What are they describing, Mrs. Wood?
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`They're des-- they're describing those upload problems
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`with large images.
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`MR. NELSON: Excuse me.
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`Objection, Your Honor. I know this document is in, but
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`what they are describing, her interpretation of the document,
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`is inappropriate.
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`THE COURT: Why should she -- if that's in, why --
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`why is she qualified to talk about this?
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`MR. CALDWELL: Because Mrs. Wood and her company met
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`with eBay and ultimately became the host for eBay that
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`addressed all these problems that consumers had.
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`So they understood the problems that eBay was -- was
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`facing and they went out and specifically addressed 'em and --
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`and ultimately installed eBay's new image --
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`THE COURT: So you're wanting her to read this for
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 8
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`what purpose?
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`To show the problems that -- to show what they could do?
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`MR. CALDWELL: Yes, Your Honor. It's to show what
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`problems that eBay had, the problems that she solved. And
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`also it goes to value because it shows how the industry was
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`needing a solution like they had to offer.
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`THE COURT: Okay.
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`I will overrule the objection.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`Okay. Now, Mrs. Wood, again, I'll say we won't belabor
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`this, but the instructions it's telling you suggest too big of
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`an image takes too long to build. And what is that -- what is
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`that getting at?
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`Well, for eBay they want auction items to sell so that
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`they can receive a part of the revenue from that. So if the
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`pictures take too long to load they're not able to quickly
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`display the auction pages and people won't stay to bid on the
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`auction items. So it's -- it's basically a bad-for-business
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`deal.
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`Q.
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`Now, on the white board that we had, on the far right you
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`were writing some of the image criteria that websites might
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`have like a resolution and a file format. There could be
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`other criteria beyond just those two; is that fair?
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`Yes.
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`Okay. And we won't belabor all of it, but the eBay for
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 9
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`Case 3:11-cv-00367-O Document 570-3 Filed 04/12/13 Page 111 of 212 PageID 24043
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`Dummies book tells you try to get the resolution at 72 dots
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`per inch, try and make it a 4 inch square, crop unnecessary
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`areas or change the contrast, when you're done save it as a
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`jpg and then check the total size and see if it's around 40
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`kilobytes.
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`Based on your experience at that point in the industry
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`with users who are trying to manipulate images, how did this
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`sort of challenge come across to users, your average consumer?
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`MR. NELSON: Objection, Your Honor, that's pure
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`speculation.
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`THE COURT: Sustained.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`Mrs. Wood, did you believe you needed to address the
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`complexity issues that not only this book but the industry was
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`recognizing about eBay?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Absolutely.
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`Now, did you in fact, after going to eBay and learning
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`that they thought you-guys and your company was too small, did
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`you just throw your hands up in the air and say we're done,
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`never mind, we'll never land eBay, let's just give up on
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`them?
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`Q.
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`No, we didn't.
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`Okay. What did you do?
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`Well, we took that well-show-them attitude and we built
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 10
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`auctions.
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`Q.
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`Okay. What did you call your website?
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`To be a little sassy we named it pBay, a close
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`approximation to the word "eBay" and used some -- some of the
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`similar look and feel of the site, just to get the attention
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`of the industry. And we offered free picture uploading
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`services for all auction websites.
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`Did eBay take notice?
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`Yes, they did.
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`Did the industry take notice?
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`Absolutely.
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`So as of the first edition of EBay for Dummies there's a
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`reference to using a third party image hosting website. And
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`who's the one listed right there?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Pbay, the unrelated twin of eBay.
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`Was that your company?
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`Yes, it is.
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`Now, I understand that eBay had originally blown you off,
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`but how did they react to the fact that users started using
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`your website that you were running independently of -- of eBay
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`and users were uploading pictures to your website?
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`Well, they certainly -- they contacted us, certainly.
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`What came next in terms of a formal relationship between
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`you-guys and eBay?
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`Well, by that time our website that we launched, pBay, we
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 11
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`were the number one hosting site for auction items in the
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`industry, so eBay took note and decided obviously customers
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`were needing the solution so they put out an open bid request
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`to software providers to try and solve that problem for them.
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`And we were invited to participate.
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`Q.
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`Your software that had become the number one hosting
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`site, was it using the patented invention with the
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`pre-processing of images?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Yes, it was.
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`Now, at that point you had filed your -- I don't even
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`issued by the United States Government yet in 1998/99; is that
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`fair?
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`Q.
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`That is fair.
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`Okay. So if eBay said, okay, we've taken notice and we
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`think we may need to do this, did they still have concerns
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`about hiring your company, PictureWorks, to run their imaging
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`based on the size of eBay versus the size of PictureWorks?
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`MR. NELSON: Two objections.
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`One is speculation.
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`Two is he's continually leading the witness.
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`THE COURT: All right.
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`Do you know if eBay -- do you know, did eBay still -- do
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`you know, did eBay still have concerns about hiring your
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 12
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`THE WITNESS: I do know.
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`THE COURT: And how do you know that?
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`THE WITNESS: I was at the meeting.
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`THE COURT: They communicated that --
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`THE WITNESS: Or series of meetings where we were
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`discussing these topics.
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`THE COURT: All right.
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`Overruled. Both objections are overruled.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`So previously eBay had expressed a concern. Were they
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`handle their image load?
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`It was still a question for them but they weren't as
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`Internet.
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`Were you permitted to put in a bid for the eBay business?
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`Yes, we were.
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`And did eBay ever implement your invention as its own
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`photo uploaded solution?
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`Yes, they did.
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`Okay. Tell us how that came about.
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`Well, at the time we were bidding against other companies
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 13
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`acquisition process while the bid process was going on.
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`Q.
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`So eBay is taking bids from a few companies and you're --
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`were you the smallest of the companies they were taking bids
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`Q.
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`I believe so.
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`And one of the larger companies that was having to
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`compete against you in the bid process acquired you at about
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`the same time eBay was doing the evaluation; is that what you
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`Yes, it is.
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`What was the name of that company that acquired you?
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`Well, the company that acquired us was iPIX.
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`Now -- now, as your name changed from PictureWorks into
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`iPIX did eBay implement your photo solution as their uploader?
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`Yes, they did.
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`So by the time of second edition of eBay for Dummies,
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`Exhibit 937, what does it -- what does this mean, Mrs. Wood,
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`I won't read through all of it. But what is that expressing?
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`MR. NELSON: Objection. Your Honor, he's asking her
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`what someone else wrote.
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`THE COURT: Well, just describe what you what you
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`THE WITNESS: I was in charge of the implementation
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Do you recognize the screen shot that is described in the
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`second edition of EBay for Dummies?
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`Yes, I do.
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`What is it?
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`The screen shot of an embodiment of our invention for
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`image uploading within the eBay website.
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`Did you-guys actually run this service for eBay?
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`Yes, we did.
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`Now, do you agree with the statement that using eBay's
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`picture services couldn't be easier, here's the upload page
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`used prior to the Sell Your Item page?
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`MR. NELSON: Objection, Your Honor. It's
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`speculation. And I think we're getting a bit afield from
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`relevance with this testimony as well.
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`THE COURT: Overruled.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Do you agree with that, Mrs. Wood?
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`Can you repeat the question?
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`Do you agree that once you had implemented the solution
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 15
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`use of eBay's photo upload service couldn't be easier?
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`A.
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`I would agree.
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`What did it do for your company to sign up eBay as a
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`customer?
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`A.
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`Well, it certainly put us on the map.
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`I mean, in the day there wasn't a bigger vendor in the
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`industry. And it was quite a feather in our cap to provide
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`this very high volume, 24 hour service hosting millions of
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`images for eBay.
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`And did you have an understanding of how it benefited
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`eBay, based on the relationship that you had with them?
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`A.
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`Yes, I did have an understanding of that.
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`And what's your understanding?
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`Well, my understanding is that the picture services
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`enabled -- enabled eBay to grow significantly, both in revenue
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`and volume of users.
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`I want to catch that point you mentioned earlier that one
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`of the competitors, iPIX, acquired PictureWorks around the
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`time of the bidding.
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`When did that acquisition take place?
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`That acquisition happened around the end of March or the
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`beginning of 2000.
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`How much did iPIX pay to buy PictureWorks in March 2000
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`while competing for the eBay business?
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`They paid 175 million dollars of stock.
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 16
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`Case 3:11-cv-00367-O Document 570-3 Filed 04/12/13 Page 118 of 212 PageID 24050
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`For the company you had founded?
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`A.
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`Yes, I do.
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`And what is that?
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`MR. NELSON: Objection. Foundation, Your Honor. He
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`said does she have "an understanding," but I don't know what
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`THE COURT: I will sustain that objection.
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`MR. CALDWELL: Your Honor, I'm -- I'm hoping to ask
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`her, since she told her company to another company, she had to
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`certainly agree to the deal. I --
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`THE COURT: She -- she testified to how much she
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`sold it for.
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`His objection is does she wanted to the source of the
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`valuation method. And so you need to -- you need to lay a
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`foundation as to whether she does, how she -- what it is and
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`how she knows what the source of that is, as opposed to what
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`someone else -- what -- what method someone else may have used
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`The figure is in evidence.
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`MR. CALDWELL: True.
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`THE COURT: But how they -- how they came about it,
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`she needs to explain how she knows that.
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 17
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`MR. CALDWELL: Fair enough.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`And let me -- let me just make clear.
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`You don't have to tell me how -- you don't have to speak
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`as to how iPIX valued it, necessarily. Let me just ask you
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`about yourself.
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`When you and the other managers at your company were
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`selling to eBay, what did you perceive as your chief asset
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`driving the value of your company?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`The chief asset driving the value was our invention.
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`Mrs. Wood, if you were employee number one at
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`PictureWorks and iPIX later acquired PictureWorks for $175
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`million, did you personally make a big style -- big stack of
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`cash off of that deal?
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`Q.
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`A.
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`No, I didn't.
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`Why not?
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`Well, the stock that was offered during that transaction
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`was called restricted stock. So the stock had a certain
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`number of rules and constraints on it before I could sell it.
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`By the time I was able to sell it we had had 9/11 and the
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`technology crash and my stock was financially worthless.
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`Q.
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`Now, we understand that your patents later issued in '05
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`and then the one that's in this trial issued in 2010.
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`Were those patents that you've got there before you, were
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`they later assigned to the company, Summit 6 that is the
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 18
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`just has to fit anywhere on the ammunition and it fires. And
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`it was analogous to you don't need this precise expertise to
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`Q.
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`Now, after the realtor convention did PictureWorks have
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`some early customers for the Rimfire product?
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`A.
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`Yes, we did.
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`Who were they?
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`Well, by August of that year we had signed some
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`significant customers, Clairol, Homestore, and also the
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`Polaroid Corporation.
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`Q.
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`How did Polaroid use the Rimfire product in the early
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`days after Rimfire was built?
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`They used it two ways. They had a camera called the
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`Izone camera that was targeted at teenagers and they created a
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`website called the Izone, which was a social media sharing
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`site where people could upload pictures and then share them,
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`and also a site that was targeted at an older audience, called
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`mypolaroid.com.
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`Q.
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`And how about Clairol, how were they using the Rimfire
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`invention?
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`A.
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`Well, Clairol used it, which was part of Proctor and
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`Gamble for uploading your own image, really good, high
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`resolution photo of yourself, processed the right way, so that
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`you could try on different hairstyles, different hair colors,
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`different makeup products before you bought those products,
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 19
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`the idea being you would try them, see they how looked on you
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`and you would in turn buy them.
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`Q.
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`Finally, you mentioned another customer called Homestore.
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`They were they using Rimfire?
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`A.
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`Well, Homestore was the official website of the National
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`Association of Realtors. And their process that they had at
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`the time was that realtors would take pictures, a lot of them
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`on film or Polaroid cameras, and then they would write what
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`department. The scanning department would put all those in
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`they implemented our product into their website so that the
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`realtors could in real time use digital media to upload those
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`images, which increased the traffic of the content on their
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`site, the speed of the content and then would drive more
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`visitors to their site looking for homes.
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`Q.
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`Mrs. Pate, am I correct that you were not one of the
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`inventors on the patents?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Correct.
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`Have you done anything just related to the work with the
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`patent office or prosecution of the patents?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`No.
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`Okay. Have you done anything at all in connection with
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 20
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`Case 3:11-cv-00367-O Document 570-3 Filed 04/12/13 Page 158 of 212 PageID 24090
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`offer at whatever the appropriate time is, Your Honor.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`Okay. So let's pick right back where we were.
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`Who is Jeff Jordan at eBay?
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`He's the senior vice president of eBay USA.
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`Now, where was this presentation given?
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`I believe it was Los Angeles and given at the eBay
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`Q.
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`A.
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`community event.
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`Q.
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`We won't trudge through every page of this by any means.
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`MR. CALDWELL: But can we flip to page 8,
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`Mr. Moreno?
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`What did you come to understand to be key challenges for
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`eBay's businesses -- business with respect to images?
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`A.
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`Well, eBay told us it was their number one service issue
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`and it was a cost -- it was creating a lot of cost for them
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`and a lot of frustration. And they told us the reason that
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`they -- would value is we needed to solve that.
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`And what it became is it became so much easier for
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`sellers to be able to post images that the sellers increased,
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`it you was more seamless for buyers to be able to see what
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`they were buying so buyer volume increased and then it
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`generate -- generated its own direct revenue stream.
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`MR. CALDWELL: And, Mr. Moreno, can we just flip to
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 21
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`Case 3:11-cv-00367-O Document 570-3 Filed 04/12/13 Page 159 of 212 PageID 24091
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`So here on page 9 of Plaintiff's Exhibit 187, what is
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`Mr. Jordan saying about the benefit provided by your iPIX
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`Rimfire software?
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`MR. NELSON: Objection, Your Honor. The document
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`has been admitted but again he's asking what another person is
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`saying. It requires the witness to speculate.
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`THE COURT: She can identify what the document says,
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`MR. CALDWELL: Certainly.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`And I -- I believe I -- I'm just asking what does the
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`document say about -- about eBay's perception of iPIX or what
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`iPIX had?
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`Well, what eBay is saying is what happened before they
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`implemented our product into their picture services. And so
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`they're saying that it's complicated. They're saying you have
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`that you have to know -- and have it hosted and know what the
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`URL or address of it is, and then it seems to be -- well, I
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`engineering degree to be able to accomplish all this.
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`In the time before your solution?
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`Correct. This is before our solution.
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 22
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`MR. CALDWELL: Thank you, Mr. Moreno.
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`BY MR. CALDWELL:
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`Q.
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`A.
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`How did having eBay as a customer impact your business?
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`Two major ways.
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`One, we grew very rapidly in the fact that it was
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`generating new revenue for the company.
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`But, two, we grew incredibly fast and we had to keep up.
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`We had to learn how to scale and how to provide security and
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`how to grow incredibly fast to keep up with the eBay volume.
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`Q.
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`How much revenue did eBay generate for your company
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`during the time it was a customer?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`52, 53 million dollars.
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`And how -- how was that roughly 52 million dollars for
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`your company generated through eBay?
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`A.
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`Well, we provided the picture services for them under
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`contract, the contract you have seen. And that amounted to
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`about 44 million dollars.
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`And then at the end of the -- our agreement, when they
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`an eight million dollar license.
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`Were you with PictureWorks around the same time the eBay
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`deal was done and at the same time that the larger competitor,
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`iPIX, bought your company for $175 million?
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`Q.
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`Yes, I was.
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`Did you stay with iPIX after it purchased PictureWorks
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`Exhibit 2009, Page 23
`Apple Inc. and Twitter, Inc. v. Summit 6 LLC
`IPR2015-00688, Summit 6 LLC
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`Case 3:11-cv-00367-O Document 570-3 Filed 04/12/13 Page 161 of 212 PageID 2409