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`By: Heath Briggs, Reg. No. 54,919
`Greenberg Traurig, LLP
`1200 17* Street
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`Denver, CO 80202
`BriggsH@gtlaw.com
`(303) 572-6500
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`Kia Motors America, Inc.
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`Petitioner,
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`Signal IP, Inc.
`Patent Owner.
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`Inter Partes Review No. 2016-00115
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`Patent No. 6,012,007
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`AFFIDAVIT OF RONALD PABIS
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`IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR PRO HAC VICE ADMISSION
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`Mail Stop “PATENT BOARD”
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`U.S. Patent and Trademark Office P.O. Box 1450
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`Alexandria, VA 223 13-1450
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`KMA-1007
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`KMA-1007
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`Kia Exhibit 1007
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`IPR2016-00115
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`AFFIDAVIT OF RONALD PABIS
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`I, Ronald Pabis, am more than twenty-one years of age, am competent
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`to present this affidavit, and have personal knowledge of the facts below.
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`This affidavit supports Kia’s motion for pro hac vice admission.
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`I am a shareholder at the law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
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`I have been a litigating attorney for more than twenty-one years.
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`have been litigating patent cases for more than fourteen years.
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`I am a member in good standing in the bars of Florida, the District of
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`Columbia, numerous U.S. District Courts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
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`Federal Circuit.
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`I have never been suspended or disbarred from practice before
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`any court or administrative body.
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`6.
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`No court or administrative body has ever denied my application for
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`admission to practice before it.
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`No court or administrative body has ever imposed sanctions or
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`contempt citations on me.
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`I have read and will comply with the Office Patent Trial Practice
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`Guide and the Board’s Rules of Practice for Trials set forth in part 42 of the C.F.R.
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`9.
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`I
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`agree to be
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`subject
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`to the USPTO Code of Professional
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`Responsibility set forth in 37 C.F.R. §§ 10.20 et seq. and disciplinary jurisdiction
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`under 37 C.F.R. § l1.l9(a).
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`Kia Exhibit 1007
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`IPR20l6-00115
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`AFFIDAVIT OF RONALD PABIS
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`10.
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`I am currently seeking pro hac vice admission in the Petitioner’s inter
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`partes challenges to U.S. Patent Nos. 5,915,210 and 5,659,891. These proceedings
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`have been designated IPR2015-01724,
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`IPR2015-01725,
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`IPR2015-01726, and
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`IPR2015-01727.
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`I have been granted pro hac vice admission to represent
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`petitioner Amkor Technology, Inc. in an unrelated matter for case IPR2013-00242
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`(paper 62). Otherwise, I have not applied to appear pro hac vice in any other
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`proceedings before the Office in the last three (3) years.
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`11.
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`I am petitioner’s co—lead trial counsel in the district court litigation
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`(Signal IP, Inc. v. Kia Motors America, Inc., Case No. 2:14-cv-02457 (C.D. Cal.)),
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`which involves the same patent at
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`issue in this proceeding. As counsel for
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`petitioner in that matter, I have been actively involved in all aspects of petitioner’s
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`litigation, including petitioner’s factual investigation and development of its non-
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`infringement and invalidity positions regarding the claims of the ’007 patent being
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`challenged in this proceeding.
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`12.
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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 believed to be true;
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`and further that these statements were made with the knowledge that willful false
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`statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both,
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`under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
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`Kia Exhibit 1007
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`IPR2016-00115
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`AFFIDAVIT OF RONALD PABIS
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`I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
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`Date:
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