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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
`a Delaware limited liability company,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`SIERRA WIRELESS AMERICA, INC., a
`Delaware corporation, and SIERRA
`WIRELESS, INC., a Canadian corporation,
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`Defendants.
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
`a Delaware limited liability company,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`CINTERION WIRELESS MODULES GMBH,
`a German limited liability company,
`CINTERION WIRELESS MODULES NAFT A
`LLC, a Delaware limited liability company,
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`Defendants.
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
`a Delaware limited liability company,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`ENFORA, INC., a Delaware corporation,
`NOV ATEL WIRELESS SOLUTIONS,
`INC., a Delaware corporation, and
`NOV ATEL WIRELESS, INC, a
`Delaware corporation,
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`Defendants.
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`C.A. No. 12-030-RGA
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`C.A. No. 12-031-RGA
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`C.A. No. 12-032-RGA
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
`a Delaware limited liability company,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC., a Delaware
`corporation, TELIT COMMUNICATIONS PLC,
`a United Kingdom public limited company, and
`TELIT WIRELESS SOLUTIONS INC., a
`Delaware corporation,
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`Defendants.
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
`a Delaware limited liability company,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`SIMCOM WIRELESS SOLUTIONS CO.,
`LTD., a Chinese limited company, SIM
`TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD, a Bermuda
`limited company, MICRON ELECTRONICS
`L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company,
`and KOWATEC CORPORATION, a California
`corporation,
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`Defendants.
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`C.A. No. 12-033-RGA
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`C.A. No. 12-034-RGA
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`CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER
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`After having considered the submissions of the parties and hearing oral argument
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`on the matter, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and DECREED that, as used in the
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`asserted claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,094,010 ("'010 patent"):
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`1. The term "permitted caller" is construed to mean "a telephone number or IP
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`address on a list of numbers that are designated to cause the programmable
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`communicator to accept an incoming call received from that number."
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`2. The term "coded number" is construed to mean "a designated, unique sequence of
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`characters."
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`3. The term "a programmable interface" is construed to mean "an interface that is
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`able to be directly programmed."
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`4. The term "processing module" is construed to mean "components or units of a
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`computer program."
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`5. The term "monitoring device" is construed to mean "a device configured to
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`remotely monitor a programmable communicator device and/or a monitored
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`technical device."
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`6. The term "wireless communications circuit for communicating through an
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`antenna" is construed to mean "a complete wireless circuit that transmits and
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`receives data and includes an antenna."
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`7. The term "monitored technical device" is construed to mean "a device that
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`provides information to the remote monitoring device through the programmable
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`communicator device."
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`8. Pursuant to the parties' agreement, as used in claims 92 and 94, the term "a
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`programmable communicator device ... configured to be incorporated into the at
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`least one monitored technical device such that it becomes an integrated part of the
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`monitored technical device" should be construed to mean "a programmable
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`communicator device configured to be physically embedded within a monitored
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`technical device so as to form a single device."
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`Case 1:12-cv-00030-RGA Document 111 Filed 01/24/14 Page 1 of 5 PageID #: 3104
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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`SIERRA WIRELESS AMERICA, INC. and
`SIERRA WIRELESS, INC.,
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`Defendants.
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`CINTERION WIRELESS MODULES
`GMBH and CINTERION WIRELESS
`MODULES NAFTA LLC,
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`Defendants.
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`ENFORA, INC., NOV ATEL WIRELESS
`SOLUTIONS, INC., and NOV ATEL
`WIRELESS, INC.,
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`Defendants.
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`Civil Action No. 12-30-RGA
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`Civil Action No. 12-31-RGA
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`Civil Action No. 12-32-RGA
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC., TELIT
`COMMUNICATIONS PLC, and TELIT
`WIRELESS SOLUTIONS INC.,
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`Defendants.
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`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
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`Plaintiff,
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`v.
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`SIMCOM WIRELESS SOLUTIONS CO.,
`LTD., SIM TECHNOLOGY GROUP LTD.,
`MICRON ELECTRONICS L.L.C., and
`KOWATEC CORPORATION,
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`Defendants.
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`Civil Action No. 12-33-RGA
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`Civil Action No. 12-34-RGA
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`ORDER
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`On November 25, 2013, M2M ("Plaintiff') filed a motion seeking clarification and
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`reconsideration of two terms, "permitted caller" and "wireless communications circuit for
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`communicating through an antenna," that were construed in the Court's Memorandum Opinion
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`issued on November 12, 2013. (D.I. 92). Having reviewed PlaintiffM2M Solution LLC's
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`Motion for Partial Clarification and Reconsideration of the Court's Memorandum Opinion on
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`Claim Construction (D.I. 1 05) and related briefing (D.I. 1 06), it is ORDERED that Plaintiffs
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`Motion (D.I. 105) is GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART for the reasons that follow:
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`1. Plaintiffs request to clarify the Court's construction of "permitted caller" is
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`DENIED.
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`a. To grant Plaintiffs motion, the Court must find, in its discretion, that Plaintiff
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`demonstrated one of the following: a change in the controlling law, a need to correct a clear error
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`of law or fact or to prevent manifest injustice, or availability of new evidence not available when
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`the judgment was granted. "Motions for reargument or reconsideration may not be used as a
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`means to argue new facts or issues that inexcusably were not presented to the court in the matter
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`previously decided." Apeldyn Corp. v. AU Optronics Corp., 831 F. Supp. 2d 837, 840 (D. Del.
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`2011) (internal quotations omitted).
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`b. Plaintiff does not allege a change in the controlling law or the availability of
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`new evidence. The only ground for reconsideration is the identification of a clear error of law.
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`Plaintiff contends that the "Court has inadvertently allowed for a misreading of its construction
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`as being narrowly limited to one single type of transmission (i.e., a circuit-switched 'call') that
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`could only possibly originate from a telephone number and never from an IP address." (D.I. 105
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`at 4 (emphasis in original)). The Defendants respond by noting, "IP addresses are not simply
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`addresses, rather they are a series ofnumbers known specifically as an 'IP address."' (D.I. 106
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`at 3). The Court agrees with the Defendants that both telephone numbers and IP addresses are
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`included within the term "numbers," as used in the Court's construction. 1
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`c. Plaintiff also seeks to change "incoming call" to "incoming transmission"
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`because "'transmission' is broader and more technically accurate than 'call,' and would
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`1 The Court also notes that a construction "allowing for a misreading" falls far short of establishing "a clear error of
`law."
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`encompass all of the relevant types of incoming transmissions sent by 'permitted caller'
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`telephone numbers or IP addresses including circuit-switched calls, SMS data messages, and
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`packet-switched data messages." (D.I. 105 at 5-6). Plaintiffs concern appears to be overstated
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`in light of the Court's rejection of portions of the Defendants' overly narrow construction on the
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`grounds that several disclosed embodiments "are based on data messages." (D.I. 92 at 8). The
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`Court's construction does not read those disclosed embodiments, or their accompanying data
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`messages, out of the patent. The Court is also wary that "[b]roadening the term 'call' to
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`'transmission' would capture return transmissions that are parts of calls or communication
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`sessions initiated by another party," thereby including both the caller and callee device within the
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`claim term's scope. (D.I. 106 at 4 (emphasis in original)). This construction is contrary to the
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`plain and ordinary meaning of"caller" that the Court believes to be controlling. (D.I. 92 at 7).
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`2. Plaintiffs request to reconsider the Court's construction of"wireless communications
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`circuit for communicating through an antenna" is GRANTED IN PART.
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`a. Plaintiff does not allege a change in the controlling law or the availability of
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`new evidence. The only possible ground for reconsideration is the identification of a clear error
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`of law.
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`b. Plaintiff alleges, among other arguments, that the plain and ordinary meaning
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`of "for communicating through an antenna" requires the Court to revisit its construction.
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`Specifically, Plaintiff contends that "[t]he fact that the '01 0 claim language expressly describes
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`the wireless communications circuit as 'communicating through an antenna' over a
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`communications network plainly conveys that the antenna is something different from-and not
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`a structural component of-the wireless communications circuit." (D.I. 105 at 8 (emphasis in
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`original)). The Defendants object, noting that all of the Plaintiffs arguments were either
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`previously rejected by the Court or are positions now being heard for the first time.2 (D.I. 106 at
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`7-9).
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`The Court will make one modification to its earlier construction. The claim language
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`itself requires the circuit to communicate "through an antenna." The plain meaning of "through
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`an antenna" is "through an antenna," and this should not be read out of the claim. The
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`construction is revised to read: "a complete wireless circuit that transmits and receives data
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`through an antenna."3
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`The Court's claim construction opinion (D.I. 92) is amended accordingly. Within five
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`days the parties shall submit a proposed order, suitable for submission to the jury, reflecting this
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`alteration.
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`Entered this~ of January, 2014.
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`2 The new argument is that "for communicating through an antenna" is a functional limitation, and that so long as
`the wireless communications circuit has the capability of communicating through an antenna, it need not have an
`antenna. The authorities cited for this proposition are new. The one cited Federal Circuit case, DePuy Spine, Inc. v.
`Medtronic Sofamor Danek, Inc., 469 F.3d 1005 (Fed. Cir. 2006), does not offer as much support for Plaintiffs
`position as Plaintiff argues. Depuy Spine found "for inserting said screw" to be a functional limitation "when read
`in view ofthe specification." /d. at 1021. In my opinion, both the language ofthe patent claim and the specification
`(to wit, the abstract) require an antenna. The only way the wireless communications circuit has of communicating
`through an antenna is if it has an antenna.
`3 The Court notes Plaintiffs earlier construction of the term at the Markman hearing was "circuitry that enables the
`sending and receiving of wireless transmissions through an antenna." (D.I. 54 at 61 (emphasis added)).
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