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LUMENTUM HOLDINGS, INC., LUMENTUM, INC.,
`LUMENTUM OPERATIONS LLC, CORIANT OPERATIONS, INC.,
`CORIANT (USA) INC., CIENA CORPORATION,
`CISCO SYSTEMS, INC., and
`FUJITSU NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
`
`v.
`
`CAPELLA PHOTONICS INC.
`____________
`
`1 2
`
`IPR2015-00731 (Patent No. RE42,368)
`IPR2015-00739 (Patent No. RE42,678)
`
`1
`
`May 24, 2016
`
`Case IPR2015-01969 has been joined to this proceeding.
`
`Case IPR2015-01971 has been joined to this proceeding.
`
`1 2
`
`0001
`
`

`
`Instituted Grounds
`
`Patent
`
`’368
`
`’678
`
`Instituted
`Ground
`2
`4
`
`Claims
`1-6, 9-11, 13, 15-22
`12
`
`References
`Bouevitch, Sparks, Lin
`Bouevitch, Sparks, Lin, Dueck
`
`2
`
`4
`
`1-4, 9, 10, 13, 19-23, 27,
`44-46, 61-65
`17, 29, 53
`
`Bouevitch, Sparks, Lin
`
`Bouevitch, Sparks, Lin, Dueck
`
`2
`
`0002
`
`

`
`Outline
`
`I.
`
`Petitioners’ Proposed Combination
`
`II. No Motivation to Combine
`Teaching Away
`•
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`•
`Hindsight
`•
`
`III. Ports
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`•
`Disavowal / Disclaimer
`•
`The ’217 Provisional
`•
`
`3
`
`0003
`
`

`
`Petitioners’ Proposed Combination
`
`Lumentum
`
`’731 Reply, p. 2; ’739 Reply, p. 2
`
`4
`
`0004
`
`

`
`Petitioners’ Proposed Combination
`
`Bouevitch, FIG. 11; ’731 POR, p. 16; ’739 POR, p. 16
`
`5
`
`0005
`
`

`
`Outline
`
`I.
`
`Petitioners’ Proposed Combination
`
`II. No Motivation to Combine
`Teaching Away
`•
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`•
`Hindsight
`•
`
`III. Ports
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`•
`Disavowal / Disclaimer
`•
`The ’217 Provisional
`•
`
`6
`
`0006
`
`

`
`Teaching Away
`
`Legal Requirement
`
`Evidence Shows
`
`“A reference may be said to
`teach away when a [POSA],
`upon reading the reference,
`would be discouraged from
`following the path set out in
`the reference, or would be
`led in a direction divergent
`from the path that was taken
`by the applicant.”
`
`In re Gurley, 27 F.3d 551, 553 (Fed. Cir. 1994)
`
`(1) Sparks Uses Misalignment
`to Control Power
`
`(2) Bouevitch Unequivocally
`Discourages Misalignment
`
`’731 POR, pp. 23-27; ’739 POR, pp. 24-28
`
`7
`
`0007
`
`

`
`Sparks Uses Misalignment to Control Power
`
`Sparks
`
`Sparks, 5:4-11; ’731 POR, p. 23; ’739 POR, p. 24
`
`Sparks, FIG. 2b;
`’731 POR, p. 24; ’739 POR, p. 24
`
`8
`
`0008
`
`

`
`Bouevitch Discourages Misalignment
`
`Bouevitch
`
`Bouevitch, 2:1-7; ’731 POR, p. 24; ’739 POR, p. 25
`
`9
`
`0009
`
`

`
`Bouevitch Discourages Misalignment
`
`Bouevitch
`
`Bouevitch, 7:60-63; ’731 POR, p. 24; ’739 POR, p. 25
`
`10
`
`0010
`
`

`
`Bouevitch Attenuates Power at a Modifying Means
`
`Bouevitch, FIG. 9; ’731 POR, pp. 27-28; ’739 POR, p. 28
`
`11
`
`0011
`
`

`
`Bouevitch Attenuates Power at a Modifying Means
`
`Bouevitch, 12:59-67; ’731 POR, pp. 27-28; ’739 POR, p. 28
`
`12
`
`0012
`
`

`
`Bouevitch Attenuates Power at a Modifying Means
`
`Bouevitch, 11:28-35; ’731 POR, pp. 27-28; ’739 POR, p. 28
`
`13
`
`0013
`
`

`
`Bouevitch Attenuates Power at a Modifying Means
`
`Bouevitch, 7:37-44; ’731 POR, p. 26; ’739 POR, p. 27
`
`Bouevitch, 7:45-49; ’731 POR, pp. 26-27; ’739 POR, p. 27
`
`14
`
`0014
`
`

`
`Outline
`
`I.
`
`Petitioners’ Proposed Combination
`
`II. No Motivation to Combine
`Teaching Away
`•
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`•
`Hindsight
`•
`
`III. Ports
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`•
`Disavowal / Disclaimer
`•
`The ’217 Provisional
`•
`
`15
`
`0015
`
`

`
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`
`Lumentum
`
`Dr. Sergienko
`
`’731 Petition, pp. 21-22; ’739 Petition, pp. 20-21
`
`’731 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 134; ’739 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 134; ’731 POR, pp. 20, 21; ’739 POR, p. 21
`
`16
`
`0016
`
`

`
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`
`Dr. Sergienko
`
`’731 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 135; ’739 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 135;
`’731 POR, p. 21; ’739 POR, p. 21
`
`17
`
`0017
`
`

`
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`
`Lumentum
`
`Dr. Sergienko
`
`’731 Petition, pp. 22-23; ’739 Petition, pp. 21-22
`
`’731 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 136; ’739 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 136; ’731 POR, p. 22; ’739 POR, p. 22
`
`18
`
`0018
`
`

`
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`
`Dr. Sergienko
`
`’731 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 136; ’739 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 136;
`’731 POR, p. 22; ’739 POR, p. 22
`
`19
`
`0019
`
`

`
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`
`Lumentum
`
`’731 Petition, p. 24; ’739 Petition, p. 23
`
`20
`
`0020
`
`

`
`Bouevitch Already Allegedly Equalizes Power
`
`Bouevitch, Title
`
`Bouevitch, Abstract
`
`21
`
`0021
`
`

`
`Outline
`
`I.
`
`Petitioners’ Proposed Combination
`
`II. No Motivation to Combine
`Teaching Away
`•
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`•
`Hindsight
`•
`
`III. Ports
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`•
`Disavowal / Disclaimer
`•
`The ’217 Provisional
`•
`
`22
`
`0022
`
`

`
`Hindsight: Rationale Comes from the Capella Patent
`
`Lumentum
`
`’731 Petition, p. 24; ’739 Petition, p. 23
`
`23
`
`0023
`
`

`
`Hindsight: Rationale Comes from the Capella Patent
`
`Ex. 1001, 3:20-21, 3:27-31
`
`24
`
`0024
`
`

`
`Hindsight: Rationale Comes from the Capella Patent
`
`Ex. 1001, 2:57-64
`
`Ex. 1001, 3:14-19
`
`25
`
`0025
`
`

`
`Hindsight: Mr. McLaughlin’s 2007 Patent
`
`Ex. 2033, 2:3-18; ’731 POR, pp. 24, 27; ’739 POR, pp. 24, 27
`
`26
`
`0026
`
`

`
`Hindsight: Mr. McLaughlin’s 2007 Patent
`
`Dr. Sergienko
`
`’731 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 150;
`’731 POR, pp. 24, 27; ’739 POR, pp. 24, 27
`
`27
`
`0027
`
`

`
`Hindsight: Dr. Marom “Invented” a WSS After Capella
`
`Capella
`
`Dr. Marom
`
`Ex. 1001, FIG. 1A; ’731 POR, p. 6; ’739 POR, p. 6
`
`Ex. 2014, FIG. 6; ’731 POR, p. 58; ’739 POR, p. 59
`
`28
`
`0028
`
`

`
`Outline
`
`I.
`
`Petitioners’ Proposed Combination
`
`II. No Motivation to Combine
`Teaching Away
`•
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`•
`Hindsight
`•
`
`III. Ports
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`•
`Disavowal / Disclaimer
`•
`The ’217 Provisional
`•
`
`29
`
`0029
`
`

`
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`
`’368 Patent
`
`’678 Patent
`
`30
`
`0030
`
`

`
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`
`Ex. 1001, FIG. 1D; ’731 POR, p. 11; ’739 POR, p. 11
`
`Ex. 1001, 8:41-43; ’731 POR, p. 11; ’739 POR, p. 11
`
`31
`
`0031
`
`

`
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`
`Ex. 1001, FIGS. 1A, 2A, 2B, 3
`
`32
`
`0032
`
`

`
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`
`Background
`
`Ex. 1001, 1:59-63; ’731 POR, pp. 8-9; ’739 POR, pp. 8-9
`
`33
`
`0033
`
`

`
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`
`Background
`
`Ex. 1001, 2:45-57; ’731 POR, pp. 36-37; ’739 POR, p. 38
`
`34
`
`0034
`
`

`
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`
`Ex. 1001, FIG. 1D; ’731 POR, p. 11; ’739 POR, p. 11
`
`See Bouevitch, FIG. 11; ’731 POR, pp. 19, 43; ’739 POR, pp. 19, 44
`
`35
`
`0035
`
`

`
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`
`Port = Collimator
`
`’731 POR, pp. 33-34; ’739 POR, p. 35
`
`36
`
`0036
`
`

`
`Outline
`
`I.
`
`Petitioners’ Proposed Combination
`
`II. No Motivation to Combine
`Teaching Away
`•
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`•
`Hindsight
`•
`
`III. Ports
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`•
`Disavowal / Disclaimer
`•
`The ’217 Provisional
`•
`
`37
`
`0037
`
`

`
`Disavowal / Disclaimer
`
`Legal Requirement
`
`Evidence Shows
`
`“[The Federal Circuit has]
`found disavowal or disclaimer
`based on . . . ‘the present
`invention includes . . .’ or ‘the
`present invention is . . . .’”
`
`Pacing Techs., LLC v. Garmin Int’l, Inc.,
`778 F.3d 1021, 1024 (Fed. Cir. 2015)
`(internal citations omitted)
`
`“The present invention
`provides a wavelength-
`separating-routing (WSR)
`apparatus and method which
`employ an array of fiber
`collimators serving as an input
`port and a plurality of output
`ports . . . .”
`
`Ex. 1001, 3:54-58 (emphasis added);
`’731 POR, p. 33; ’739 POR, p. 34
`
`38
`
`0038
`
`

`
`Disavowal / Disclaimer
`
`Ex. 1001, 3:54-58; ’731 POR, p. 33; ’739 POR, p. 34
`
`39
`
`0039
`
`

`
`Outline
`
`I.
`
`Petitioners’ Proposed Combination
`
`II. No Motivation to Combine
`Teaching Away
`•
`The Proposed Motivations to Combine Fail
`•
`Hindsight
`•
`
`III. Ports
`Collimator Ports vs. Circulators
`•
`Disavowal / Disclaimer
`•
`The ’217 Provisional
`•
`
`40
`
`0040
`
`

`
`The ’217 Provisional
`
`Dr. Sergienko
`
`Dr. McLaughlin
`
`’731 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 192; ’739 Sergienko Dec., ¶ 192
`
`Did Not Consider the ’217 Provisional For Claim Construction
`
`’731 McLaughlin Dec., ¶ 4; ’739 McLaughlin Dec., ¶ 4
`
`41
`
`0041
`
`

`
`The ’217 Provisional
`
`Ex. 1008, FIG. 9; ’731 POR, p. 41; ’739 POR, p. 42
`
`Ex. 1008, *4; ’731 POR, p. 41; ’739 POR, p. 42
`
`42
`
`0042
`
`

`
`The ’217 Provisional
`
`Ex. 1008, FIG. 9; ’731 POR, p. 41; ’739 POR, p. 42
`
`Ex. 1008, *4; ’731 POR, p. 41; ’739 POR, p. 42
`
`43
`
`0043
`
`

`
`44
`
`0044
`
`

`
`’368 Patent: Claim 1
`
`45
`
`0045
`
`

`
`’368 Patent: Claim 15
`
`46
`
`0046
`
`

`
`’368 Patent: Claim 16
`
`47
`
`0047
`
`

`
`’368 Patent: Claim 17
`
`48
`
`0048
`
`

`
`’678 Patent: Claim 1
`
`49
`
`0049
`
`

`
`’678 Patent: Claim 21
`
`50
`
`0050
`
`

`
`’678 Patent: Claim 44
`
`51
`
`0051
`
`

`
`’678 Patent: Claim 61
`
`52
`
`0052

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