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`PATENT OWNER’S RESPONSE TO PETITION
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`I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 1
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`II. BACKGROUND ................................................................................................. 2
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` A. Overview of the ‘130 Patent .......................................................................... 2
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` B. Prosecution History of the ‘130 Patent .......................................................... 6
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` C. Exemplary Claims .......................................................................................... 7
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`III. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ............................................................................. 10
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` A. Legal Standards ............................................................................................ 10
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` B. “premises” .................................................................................................... 11
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`IV. THE KOETHER AND CRATER REFERENCES ARE NOT PRIOR ART TO
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` 1. Claim construction ................................................................................... 16
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` 2. The March 1996 Application discloses premises control devices ........... 16
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` 3. Admissions made by Petitioner’s expert confirm a sufficient disclosure
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`V. MR. RICHARD BENNETT’S DECLARATION IS FUNDAMENTALLY
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` A. Mr. Bennett is not a POSITA ....................................................................... 25
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` B. Mr. Bennett’s Testimony Should Be Given Little or No Weight ................ 34
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` A. Background .................................................................................................. 34
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` B. The Relevant Legal Principals ..................................................................... 36
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` C. Terremark and Time Warner Cooperated with CoxCom and Engaged in the
` Strategic Planning, Preparation and Review of the present Petition ........... 37
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` 1. The present Petition is Terremark’s and Time Warner’s second “bite at the
` apple” after being time-barred ................................................................. 37
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` 2. Terremark, Time Warner and CoxCom had necessarily cooperated
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` D. The Petition Should Be Dismissed for Failing to Name All Real Parties-In
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`VII. RESPONSE TO INSTITUTED GROUNDS OF INVALIDITY ................... 44
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` A. Ground 1 is Deficient ............................................................................... 44
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` 1. Koether fails to teach a “second control device” which is “located at a
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` 2. Koether fails to render obvious the subject matter of claims 8, 12 and
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` 3. Koether fails to disclose, teach or suggest transmitting a “first signal”
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`VIII. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................. 54
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`EX2001 U.S. Patent No. 6,204,760 to Brunius
`“Preliminary Remarks” filed by Applicant on November 26, 2006
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`Patent No. 7,277,010
`“Supplement to the Remarks for the Amendment filed on October 24,
`2007” filed on November 23, 2007 during prosecution of the patent
`application that issued as related U.S. Patent No. 7,397,363
`EX2004 Declaration of Steven W. Ritcheson
`EX2005 Transcript of April 28, 2016 Deposition of Richard Bennett in the
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`EX2006 Transcript of March 3, 2016 Deposition of Richard Bennett in related
`IPR No. IPR2015-01477
`EX2007 Patent Owner’s Joint Opposition to Motions to Recognize June 23
`Filing Date of Petitions filed in related IPR No. IPR2015-01486
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`INTRODUCTION
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`Petitioner, the Board declined to institute inter partes review (Paper 8, the
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`“Decision”) of claim 15. However, the Board has instituted inter partes review of
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`claims 1, 8, 10, 12, 17, 98, 119, 124 and 145. (“Challenged Claims”) of U.S. Patent
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`No. 6,549,130 (“the ‘130 Patent”) based on the following grounds:
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`Proposed Rejections
`obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Koether
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`obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Koether
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`The instituted grounds of rejection are substantively flawed.
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`As an initial matter, Joao Control & Monitoring Systems, LLC (“JCMS” or
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`dismissed for failing to name all real parties-in-interest and for being time-barred,
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`Also, as will be discussed infra, JCMS maintains that the ‘130 Patent is
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`prior art with respect to all the challenged claims, and Grounds 1 and 2 fail on this
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`In addition, even if, arguendo, the ‘130 Patent is not entitled to a priority
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`date of March 27, 1996 (which JCMS maintains is not the case), Koether and
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`Crater fail to teach important properly construed claim limitations, as will be
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`Further, as will be discussed infra, Petitioner’s expert, Mr. Richard Bennett,
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`(“POSITA”) in the field of the ‘130 Patent. Thus, he does not qualify as an expert
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`in the field of the ‘130 Patent, based on his own definition of a POSITA. Thus, the
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`II. BACKGROUND
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`A. Overview of the ‘130 Patent
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`The ‘130 patent is directed to a novel and unconventional system for, inter
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`premises. EX1001 at 23. The Challenged Claims are directed to a specially
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`assembled and programmed apparatus for controlling a premises system from a
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`At the time of the claimed invention, existing premises monitoring, control
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`such systems generally utilized various sensors located at the premises (e.g., door
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`For example, U.S. Patent No. 6,204,760 to Brunius (“Brunius”) discloses a
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`sensors placed throughout the surveillance area may
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`for motion, temperature sensors, and the like . . . [w]hen
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`a change in condition is sensed, the transmitter associated
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`controller. When the resident opens a door that is
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`door has been opened . . . [i]f the security system is not
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`main controller . . . may sound an alarm. Also, the main
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`alarm condition.” (emphasis added). EX2001 at 1:15-36.
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`basement or utility closet). Further, the main controller could, optionally, send a
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`notification signal to a security agency or police in response to an alarm condition.
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`claimed invention is the ability of an owner or occupant of the premises, as
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`opposed to a monitoring entity such as a security agency or police, to remotely
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`control the premises security system or monitor conditions at the premises. Indeed,
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`this is one of the problems addressed by the ‘130 patent, which utilizes a unique
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`and unconventional system made up of special purpose devices that enable owners
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`exert control over devices located at the vehicle or premises. As indicated in the
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`“While anti-theft and/or security systems exist for
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`residential and/or commercial premises, such systems fail
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`functions would prove to be invaluable in allowing
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`security functions over these premises, from a remote
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`The patent application that issued as the ‘130 patent was filed on March 29,
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`7,277,010 (hereinafter “the ‘363 Patent” and “the ‘010 Patent,” respectively), the
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`inter alia, the terms “control device,” “remote,” “premises” and “located at” in
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`Claims 1, 98 and 145 are the only independent claims for which inter partes
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`A control apparatus, comprising:
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`generates and transmits a first signal for at least one of activating, de-activating,
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`disabling, and re-enabling, at least one of a premises system, a premises device, a
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`premises equipment, a premises equipment system, and a premises appliance, of a
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`premises, wherein the first control device is located at the premises,
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`wherein the second signal is at least one of generated by and transmitted from a
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`second control device, wherein the second control device is located at a location
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`which is remote from the premises, wherein the second signal is transmitted from
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`the second control device to the first control device, and further wherein the second
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`wherein the second control device is responsive to a third signal,
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`wherein the third signal is at least one of generated by and transmitted from a third
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`control device, wherein the third control device is located at a location which is
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`remote from the premises and remote from the second control device, wherein the
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`98. A control apparatus, comprising:
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`plurality of at least one of a premises system, a premises device, a premises
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`equipment, a premises equipment system, and a premises appliance, of a premises,
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`wherein the first control device at least one of generates and transmits a first signal
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`which is remote from the premises, wherein the second signal is transmitted from
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`wherein the third signal is at least one of generated by and transmitted from a third
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`control device, wherein the third control device is located at a location which is
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`transmitting a second signal from the second control device to a third
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`control device, wherein the third control device is located at the premises, and
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`further wherein the second control device is located at a location remote from the
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`device, and further wherein the third control device is capable of at least one of
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`activating, de-activating, disabling, and re-enabling, one or more of a plurality of at
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`least one of a premises system, a premises device, a premises equipment, a
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`or parcel of land associated with the building or the structure, or a building or
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`portion, room, or office, of or in the building or structure, or a home, mobile
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`office, commercial building, commercial office, structure, equipment, facility,
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`machine, rig, assembly line, or edifice.” Decision at 6-7.
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`from, or at a distance from or distant from, or not located in.” Id.
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`For purposes of its Decision, the Board adopted the express definition of
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`the ‘363 Patent and ‘010 Patent, which is “situated at, situated in or situated on.”
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`JCMS respectfully submits that this construction should be adopted for the
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`infra at Section IV. Accordingly, the term “control device” should be construed as
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`“a device or a computer, or that part of a device or a computer, which
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`term “control device” in the First Remarks, and is also supported by and is
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`Petitioner has argued that claims 1, 8, 12, 15, 17, 98 and 145 would have
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`obvious over the combination of Koether and Crater. Petition at 13-60. Koether
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`1996. Petition at 39; EX1009. The ‘130 Patent claims priority to U.S. Patent
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`Application”). EX1001. Nevertheless, Petitioner argues that the challenged claims
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`at a “premises” was added to the specification as part of a continuation-in-part
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`application (U.S. Patent Application No. 08/683,828) filed on July 18, 1996 (the
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`“July 1996 Application”). Id. Patent Owner has not previously addressed this
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`issue, and thus addresses this issue for the first time herein.
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`The Relevant Legal Principals
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`Title 35 U.S.C. § 112 requires that a “specification shall contain a written
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`description of the invention … .” To comply with the written description
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`requirement, each claim limitation must be expressly, implicitly, or inherently
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`supported in the originally filed disclosure. See, e.g., MPEP 2163, II.A.3; In re
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`Robertson, 169 F.3d 743, 745 (Fed. Cir. 1999) (“To establish inherency, the
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`extrinsic evidence ‘must make clear that the missing descriptive matter is
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`necessarily present in the thing described in the reference, and that it would be so
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`recognized by persons of ordinary skill.’”) (Citations omitted).
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`It has been stated that “the ‘essential goal’ of the description of the invention
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`requirement is to clearly convey the information that an applicant has invented the
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`subject matter which is claimed.” In re Barker, 559 F.2d 588, 592 n.4 (CCPA
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`1977). To satisfy the written description requirement, a patent specification must
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`describe the claimed invention in sufficient detail that one skilled in the art can
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`See, e.g., Moba, B.V. v. Diamond Automation, Inc., 325 F.3d 1306, 1319 (Fed.
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`Cir. 2003). If a skilled artisan would have understood the inventor to be in
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`possession of the claimed invention at the time of filing, even if every nuance of
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`the claims is not explicitly described in the specification, then the adequate
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`description requirement is met. See, e.g., Vas-Cath, Inc. v. Mahurkar, 935 F.2d
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`1555, 1563 (Fed. Cir. 1991); Martin v. Johnson, 454 F.2d 746, 751 (CCPA 1972)
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`(stating “the description need not be in ipsis verbis [i.e., “in the same words”] to be
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`sufficient”). Compliance with the written description requirement is a question of
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`fact which must be resolved on a case-by-case basis. Vas-Cath, 935 F.2d at 1563
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`(Fed. Cir. 1991).
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`In sum, the fundamental factual inquiry is whether the specification conveys
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`with reasonable clarity to those skilled in the art that, as of the filing date sought,
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`applicant was in possession of the invention as now claimed. See, e.g., Vas-Cath,
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`935 F.2d at 1563-64.
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`The ‘130 Patent is Entitled to a Priority Date of March 27, 1996
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`Petitioner’s
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`fundamental premise,
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`processing/control device located at a “premises” was added to the specification as
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`part of the July 1996 Application, is demonstrably incorrect. The July 1996
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`Application is a continuation-in-part of the March 1996 Application. Patent Owner
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`submits that the claimed premises control device is expressly, or at least inherently,
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`disclosed in the March 1996 Application.
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`Claim construction
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`As discussed supra at Section III.E., the term “control device” was defined
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`by the Patentee during prosecution of the ‘363 Patent. See EX2003. Although the
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`Board has not adopted this definition, Patent Owner respectfully submits that the
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`definition offered by the Patentee is helpful in determining the nature and extent of
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`the Patentee’s inventions. In this regard, the Patentee defined the term “control
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`device” to mean, inter alia, “a device or computer … .” Id.
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`In addition, the term “premises” has been defined in these proceedings as
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`including, inter alia, “a building or a structure and the grounds or parcel of land
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`associated with the building or structure … or office, of or in the building or
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`structure, or a home, mobile home, mobile building, mobile structure … office,
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`commercial building … [or] commercial office ...” Decision at 7.
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`The March 1996 Application discloses premises control
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`Petitioner correctly asserts that “[e]ach of the Challenged Claims requires
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`some processing device located at a premises.” Petition at 13. Petitioner then
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`incorrectly asserts that the March 1996 Application: (a) “does not disclose a
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`processing device located at a premises;” (b) “never mentions a premise [sic];” and
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`(c) “a premises is not a vehicle and a vehicle is not a premises.” Id.
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`The March 1996 Application does, in fact, disclose control/processing
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`devices at multiple premises. For example, Figure 11B of the March 1996
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`Application is reproduced below, with red ovals added by Patent Owner to
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`FIG. 11B
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`Figure 11B discloses at least a server computer 952 located at a premises,
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`identified as an “On-Line Service And/Or Internet Processing Site,” (for example,
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`an “office” or “commercial office,” which are explicitly listed in the definition of
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`“premises”) and computer 970 at a premises, identified as a “Central Security
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`Office,” (for example, an “office” or “commercial office,” which are explicitly
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`listed in the definition of “premises”), each of which provide control/processing
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`device functionality. In fact, the specification discloses that “server 952 will
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`process the data received by the server receiver 952 and perform the same
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`processing functions and/or computing functions as the computer 970, the CPU
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`4, and/or the computer 150.” EX1004 at 94 (emphasis added).
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`Additionally, computer 970 is described as being “capable of recognizing all
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`of the possible access code(s) and command codes which are recognized by the
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`apparatus 1 for a particular vehicle” and will “identify the vehicle which is stolen
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`and/or which has been accessed.” Id. at 89-90. (emphasis added). Thus, the
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`specification of
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`control/processing devices at multiple premises that combine to form parts of a
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`distributed control and monitoring apparatus. Further the March 1996 Application
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`further discloses that the computer 970 is capable of controlling position data
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`receiver 960, transmitter 965, output device 985, and display device 980 and the
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`Central Security Office.
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`Although an embodiment of the March 1996 Application discloses a final
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`control/processing device which is located at a vehicle, it cannot be disputed that
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`the majority of the claimed apparatus is located at premises that are remote from
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`the vehicle. See, e.g., EX1004 at 11-13. This point can be clearly seen in multiple
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`portions of the specification such as:
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`The user may transmit data, via the home and/or personal
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`computer 150, directly to the apparatus 1, to the
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`apparatus 950 and/or to the server 952. By using the
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`computer 150
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`communications medium, the authorized user or operator
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`may access the server 952 via the on-line service and/or
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`via the associated Web site 954, or in any other
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`appropriate manner, so as to provide control over, and/or
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`obtain any and all of the above-described data and/or
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`information about, his or her vehicle over the on-line
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`server and/or on, or over, the Internet and/or the World
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`Finally, and perhaps most significantly, the Patentee expressly disclosed use
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`of the entire apparatus to control premises systems. Specifically, the Patentee
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`expressly disclosed:
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`It is also envisioned that the apparatus and method of
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`the present invention may find applications in areas
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`other than in vehicle anti-theft and/or vehicle recovery.
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`For example, the present invention may also find
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`application in home, boat and/or other security systems,
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`and the like, wherein a long-range remote-controlled
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`interactive system may be