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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`Microsoft Corporation and Microsoft Mobile, Inc.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`Global Touch Solutions, LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`IPR2015-01149
`U.S. Patent No. 7,329,970
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`SECOND DECLARATION OF MARK HORENSTEIN REGARDING
`U.S. PATENT NO. 7,329,970
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`I, Mark N. Horenstein, declare as follows:
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`1.
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`My name is Mark N. Horenstein. I am the same Mark N. Horenstein
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`who signed and submitted a declaration on May 12, 2015 in this proceeding
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`regarding U.S. Patent No. 7,329,970 (the “’970 patent”).
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`2.
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`I have reviewed the Patent Owner’s Response and related exhibits, as
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`well as the deposition transcript of Patent Owner’s expert, Dr. Robert E. Morley
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`(Ex. 1017). Nothing expressed in either of these documents changes my opinion
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`that claims 1, 3-5, 10-14, 19, 48, 49, 51, and 52 of the ’970 patent are rendered
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`obvious by Ex. 1004 (Jahagirdar) and Ex. 1005 (Schultz).
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`3.
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`Dr. Morley asserts that Jahagirdar’s display element 516 is not a
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`“luminous visible location indicator” because it does not help the user to locate the
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`phone. I disagree with this assessment and note that regardless of whether the
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`indicator is helping the user locate the phone as a whole at any particular moment,
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`the indicator will always help the user to locate a particular part of the device, such
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`as the user interface, the electronic module, or the indicator itself.
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`4.
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`Dr. Morley indicates in his Declaration and Deposition that touch
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`sensors such as those taught by Schultz would have decreased accidental actuation
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`by inanimate objects such as clothes, objects in a bag, surfaces of furniture, and so
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`forth. Ex. 1017 (Morley Tr.) at 157:20-158:23; See also Ex. 2006 (Morley Decl.)
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`at ¶82. I agree with Dr. Morley’s assessment that incorporating Schultz’s touch
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`sensor into Jahagirdar’s phone would have alleviated the problem of accidental
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`actuation by inanimate objects. I further note that, although I disagree with his
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`assessment, even if Dr. Morley is correct that Schultz’s touch sensor would have
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`increased the likelihood of accidental actuation by animate objects such as a hand,
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`one of ordinary skill still would have sought to combine Schultz and Jahagirdar in
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`order to reduce inadvertent actuation by inanimate objects.
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`5.
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`Different types of switches have different benefits and drawbacks.
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`Because different consumers might prefer the advantages of one type of switch,
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`such as a touch sensor, over another, such as a push button, it would have been
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`routine design procedure, as a commercial matter, to pursue multiple types of
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`switches for implementation into a mobile phone, depending on the needs and
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`desired operational features of the end product. Moreover, concerns about
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`inadvertent actuation of a touch sensor by an animate object could be addressed by
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`adjusting the sensitivity touch sensor, putting it at the bottom of a fingertip-sized
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`indent, or moving it to a location on the phone where inadvertent actuation would
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`have been less likely.
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`6.
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`I also understand that Dr. Morley believes that Jahagirdar’s display
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`element 516 could not be activated using keys 150, because when key 150 was
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`pressed, display element 516 had already been activated by flipping the phone
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`closed. But Dr. Morley fails to account for the sentence in Jahagirdar describing
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`the fact that while display area 130 may have displayed status information with the
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`phone flipped closed, “[a]lternatively, the status information may include little or
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`no information, where display area 130 is cleared” when the phone was closed.
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`Ex. 1004 (Jahagirdar) at col. 5, ll. 43-44 (emphasis added). For this alternative
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`configuration, when key 150 was pressed to display “new visual information”
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`relative to the cleared screen, display element 516 would then have changed from a
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`blank screen to one displaying information, and would thus have been activated (or
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`turned on) in the process.
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`7.
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`Additionally, even if Jahagirdar’s alternative embodiment is ignored,
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`because portions of display 130 changed in response to key 150, Jahagirdar
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`disclosed the activation of display element 520 at the same time that display
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`element 520 was not activated (i.e., it remained off).
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`8. With reference to either of the embodiments described above, when
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`the time of controller 504’s timed out, thereby deactivating the “new display
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`information,” display element 516 was itself deactivated, because it returned either
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`to a blank screen or to a screen having at least some of its LED segments
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`deactivated.
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`9.
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`For the reasons described above, in combination with my first
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`Declaration and deposition testimony, I maintain that 1, 3-5, 10-14, 19, 48, 49, 51,
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`and 52 of the ’970 patent are rendered obvious by Ex. 1004 (Jahagirdar) and Ex.
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`1005 (Schultz).
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`10.
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`I declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are
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`true and that all statements made on information and belief are true; and further
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`that these statements were made with the knowledge that willful false statements
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`and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under
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`section 1101 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
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`Dated:
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`June 9, 2016
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`___________________________
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`Mark N. Horenstein, Ph.D., P.E.
`Boston, Massachusetts
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