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IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`___________________________
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
`___________________________
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`WTS Paradigm, LLC,
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`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`EdgeAQ, LLC,
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`Patent Owner.
`___________________________
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`Case IPR2016-00199
`Patent 7,805,461
`___________________________
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`EDGEAQ, LLC’S PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO PETITION
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`Filed on behalf of EdgeAQ, LLC
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`By:
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`W. Edward Ramage (Lead Counsel)
`Reg. No. 50,810
`BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN,
`CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, P.C.
`Baker Donelson Center
`211 Commerce Street, Suite 800
`Nashville, Tennessee 37201
`Telephone: (615) 726-5771
`Facsimile: (615) 744-5771
`Email: eramage@bakerdonelson.com
`
`
`Samuel F. Miller (Back-up Counsel)
`(pending pro hac vice admission)
`BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN,
`CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, P.C.
`Baker Donelson Center
`211 Commerce Street, Suite 800
`Nashville, Tennessee 37201
`Telephone: (615) 726-5594
`Facsimile: (615) 744-5594
`Email: smiller@bakerdonelson.com
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 1
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`II. APPLICABLE LEGAL STANDARDS ............................................................ 2
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`A.
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`Institution of Inter Partes Review.......................................................... 2
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`B. Obviousness under § 103(a). ................................................................. 3
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`III. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ............................................................................. 5
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`IV. ARGUMENT ..................................................................................................... 6
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`A.
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`Petitioner Fails to Demonstrate a Reasonable Likelihood of
`Prevailing. .............................................................................................. 6
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`1.
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`2.
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`The Petition Fails to Establish A Reasonable Likelihood
`That Claims 1-11 Of The ‘461 Patent Would Have Been
`Obvious Based on Greef, Bader and Weida. .............................. 6
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`The Petition Fails to Establish A Reasonable Likelihood
`That Claims 1-11 Of The ‘461 Patent Would Have Been
`Obvious Based on Greef, Bader, Weida and Altman. .............. 12
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`V. CONCLUSION .................................................................................................. 14
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`CASES
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`TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
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`Page(s)
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`CCS Fitness, Inc. v. Brunswick Corp.,
`288 F.3d 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2002) .........................................................................................3
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`Graham v. John Deere Co.,
`383 U.S. 1 (1966) ..................................................................................................................3
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`In re Kahn,
`441 F.3d 977 (Fed. Cir. 2006)............................................................................................4
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`Inline Connection Corp. v. Earthlink, Inc.,
`684 F. Supp. 2d 496 (D. Del. 2010) .................................................................................4
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`KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc.,
`550 U.S. 398 (2007) .........................................................................................................3, 4
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`Ortho-McNeil Pharm., Inc. v. Mylan Labs., Inc.,
`520 F.3d 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2008) .........................................................................................4
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`Oxford Gene Tech., Ltd. v. Mergen Ltd.,
`345 F. Supp. 2d 431 (D. Del. 2004) .................................................................................3
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`Perfect Web Techs., Inc. v. InfoUSA, Inc.,
`587 F.3d 1324 (Fed. Cir. 2009) .........................................................................................4
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`Unigene Labs., Inc. v. Apotex, Inc.,
`655 F.3d 1352 (Fed. Cir. 2011) .........................................................................................4
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`STATUTES
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`35 U.S.C. § 103(a) ......................................................................................................................3
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`35 U.S.C. § 313 ...........................................................................................................................1
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`35 U.S.C. § 314(a) ..................................................................................................................2, 6
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`OTHER AUTHORITIES
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.100(b) ................................................................................................................2
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.107 ......................................................................................................................1
`37 C.F.R. § 42.107 .................................................................................................................... ..1
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`77 Fed. Reg. 48756, 48766 (Aug. 14, 2012) ........................................................................2
`77 Fed. Reg. 48756, 48766 (Aug. 14, 2012) ...................................................................... ..2
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,805,461............................................................................................... passim
`U.S. Patent NO. 7,805,461 ............................................................................................. .. passim
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`Patent Owner, EdgeAQ, LLC (the “Patent Owner”), pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §
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`313 and 37 C.F.R. § 42.107, submits its Preliminary Response to WTS Paradigm,
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`LLC’s (the “Petitioner”) Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No.
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`7,805,461 (“the ‘461 Patent”).
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`I. INTRODUCTION
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`This Petition is the third of three post-grant proceedings filed by Petitioner
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`against a set of patents owned by Patent Owner. CBM2015-0064; CBM2015-
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`00055. The ‘461 Patent has been involved in pending litigation proceedings before
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`the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, WTS
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`Paradigm, LLC v. EdgeAQ, LLC, Case No. 15-CV-330. However, in that case,
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`Patent Owner has moved to dismiss its claim of infringement based on the ‘461
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`Patent. That motion is still pending.
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`In this Petition, Petitioner asserts that claims 1-11 (which comprise all of the
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`claims in the ‘461 Patent) should be invalidated on the basis of obviousness.
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`Patent Owner intends to vigorously contest the Petition if the Board initiates Inter
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`Partes Review. However, for purposes of its preliminary response, Patent Owner
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`submits that the Petitioner has so clearly failed to carry its burden under the
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`“reasonable likelihood” standard that the Board should not initiate Inter Partes
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`Review. As demonstrated below, none of the prior art cited by Petitioner discloses
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`an
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`induction module configured
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`to present pre-defined questions about
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`specification data to a user to identify a set of SQL queries to be answered to
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`construct a frame-based knowledge tree. This claim limitation is present in some
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`form in all claims of the ‘461 Patent, and its absence in the prior art compels the
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`rejection of the Petition.
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`II. APPLICABLE LEGAL STANDARDS
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`A.
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`Institution of Inter Partes Review.
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`In instituting an Inter Partes Review, the petitioner must show that there is a
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`“reasonable likelihood that the petitioner would prevail with respect to at least 1 of
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`the claims challenged in the petition.” 35 U.S.C. § 314(a). In conducting its
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`review, the standard by which the Board should interpret the claims is not settled.
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`According to the Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, the Board should interpret
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`claims using the “broadest reasonable interpretation” as understood by one of
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`ordinary skill in the art and consistent with the disclosure. Office Patent Trial
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`Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg. 48756, 48766 (Aug. 14, 2012); 37 C.F.R. §
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`42.100(b). However, the U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Cuozzo
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`Speed Tech. v. Lee on the issue of whether the Board in an IPR proceeding should
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`construe claims according to their plain or ordinary meaning or their broadest
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`reasonable interpretation.
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`For purposes of determining whether to institute Inter Partes Review in this
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`matter, however, the Petition should be rejected under any standard for claim
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`interpretation. There is a heavy presumption that a claim term carries its ordinary
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`and customary meaning. CCS Fitness, Inc. v. Brunswick Corp., 288 F.3d 1359,
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`1366 (Fed. Cir. 2002).
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`B. Obviousness under § 103(a).
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`A patent is invalid under Section 103(a) if the “differences between the
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`subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject
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`matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a
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`person having ordinary skill in the art.” 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). An obviousness
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`inquiry requires considering the following four Graham factors: (1) the scope and
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`content of the prior art; (2) the differences between the prior art and the claimed
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`invention; (3) the level of ordinary skill in the art; and (4) objective evidence of
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`nonobviousness. Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1, 17 (1966). See also,
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`KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398, 406-07 (2007) (stating that the four
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`Graham factors continue to define the controlling inquiry). The relevant inquiry is
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`whether the petition has set forth “some articulated reasoning with some rational
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`underpinning to support the legal conclusion of obviousness.” KSR Int’l Co., 550
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`U.S. at 418.
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`Determining the differences between the prior art and the claimed invention
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`requires an element-by-element comparison of the claim elements with regard to
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`the prior art. See, e.g., Oxford Gene Tech., Ltd. v. Mergen Ltd., 345 F. Supp. 2d
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`431, 437 (D. Del. 2004); Inline Connection Corp. v. Earthlink, Inc., 684 F. Supp.
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`2d 496, 523 (D. Del. 2010).
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`The obviousness analysis also must present evidence of a motivation to
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`combine or modify the prior art to arrive at the invention as claimed. See Unigene
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`Labs., Inc. v. Apotex, Inc., 655 F.3d 1352, 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2011); Ortho-McNeil
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`Pharm., Inc. v. Mylan Labs., Inc., 520 F.3d 1358, 1364-65 (Fed. Cir. 2008); In re
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`Kahn, 441 F.3d 977, 986-88 (Fed. Cir. 2006). There must be “some rationale,
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`articulation, or reasoned basis to explain why the conclusion of obviousness is
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`correct.” In re Kahn, 441 F.3d at 986-88. The requirement “remains the primary
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`guarantor against a non-statutory hindsight analysis.” Ortho-McNeil, 520 F.3d at
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`1364-65. It is well-established that rejections on obviousness grounds cannot be
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`sustained by “mere conclusory statements.” KSR Int’l Co., 550 U.S. at 418; see
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`also, Perfect Web Techs., Inc. v. InfoUSA, Inc., 587 F.3d 1324, 1330 (Fed. Cir.
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`2009); M.P.E.P. §§ 2141, 2142, 2143.
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`III. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION
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`Petitioner has proposed claim interpretations for only a single term: “frame.”
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`However, this term as an independent term does not exist in the claims, and should
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`not be interpreted as such. Accordingly, the Petitioner’s proposed interpretation is
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`not made in the context of the claims, and should be rejected.
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`The claims do contain the limitation “frame-based knowledge tree.” Ex.
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`1004, claims 1, 6. This limitation is clearly explained in the specification:
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`Such GUI tools allow the user (typically, a knowledge
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`engineer) to model the product knowledge in a tree like structure
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`where each node of the tree is known as a frame. The attributes that
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`describe and specialize the frame are represented using slots. The
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`node at each level in a tree inherits properties from its parent node(s)
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`and allows the user to override, extend or specialize these properties at
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`the current level. The level in a tree at which certain attributes are
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`placed depends on the generality of those attributes. For example,
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`attributes that are common to a number of configurable items are
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`placed closer to the top of the tree. Attributes that specialize a
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`configurable item are placed at the lower levels of the tree. This
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`process of creating a frame based knowledge tree is called the product
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`knowledge design process and is implemented by knowledge
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`engineers.
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`Ex. 1001, col. 1: 37-52.
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`Patent Owner submits that no particular claim construction is necessary.
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`However, should the Board desire to construe the phrase “frame-based knowledge
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`tree,” Patent Owner proposes that the phrase should be construed in accordance
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`with the description in the specification to mean “a model of knowledge in a tree-
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`like structure where each node of the tree is known as a frame.”
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`IV. ARGUMENT
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`Petitioner Fails to Demonstrate a Reasonable Likelihood of Prevailing.
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`To have the Board institute an Inter Partes Review, a petitioner must show
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`that there is a “reasonable likelihood that the petitioner would prevail with respect
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`to at least 1 of the claims challenged in the petition.” 35 U.S.C. § 314(a). The
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`Petitioner has failed to meet this standard with regard to its assertions on
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`obviousness grounds.
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`1.
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`The Petition Fails to Establish A Reasonable Likelihood That
`Claims 1-11 Of The ‘461 Patent Would Have Been Obvious Based
`on Greef, Bader and Weida.
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`The Petition asserts that claims 1-11 are invalid for obviousness based on
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`Greef (Ex. 1005) in view of Bader (Ex. 1011) and Weida (Ex. 1009). The Petition
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`fails to make a prima facie case of obviousness. Greef, Bader and Weida fail,
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`either separately or together, to disclose or teach several of the elements in claims
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`1-11.
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`Claim 1 of the ‘461 Patent is directed to a system comprising an induction
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`module and a processor, where the induction module is configured to:
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`(a) access specification data for at least one product from one or more
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`vendor databases;
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`(b) identify attributes of the specification data to be inducted into a frame-
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`based knowledge tree by querying the one or more vendor databases table for the
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`specification data regarding the attributes;
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`(c) determine a location within the frame-based knowledge tree to place any
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`inducted attributes of the specification data; and
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`(d) present pre-defined questions about the specification data to a user to
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`identify a set of SQL queries to be answered to construct the frame-based
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`knowledge tree.
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`The processor is dimensioned and configured to enable user interaction with the
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`induction module such that a frame-based knowledge tree is automatically
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`constructed with the specification data in response to the user interaction, wherein
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`the interaction comprises receiving input answers from the user in response to the
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`pre-defined questions about the specification data provided to the user.
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`Ex. 1004, claim 1.
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`Similarly, claim 6 of the ‘461 Patent contains four method steps for
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`automatically constructing a frame-based knowledge tree:
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`(a) identifying a plurality of attributes within a vendor database to be
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`inducted into a frame-based knowledge tree by querying at least one vendor-
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`supplied product knowledge database table for data regarding the attributes;
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`(b) presenting pre-defined questions about the data to a user to identify a set
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`of SQL queries to be answered to construct the frame-based knowledge tree;
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`(c) automatically determining respective locations of the plurality of
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`attributes within the frame-based knowledge tree based upon input answers
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`received from a user regarding the data, wherein the input answers are provided in
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`response to the pre-defined questions about the data provided to the user; and
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`(d) inserting at least one of the attributes into the frame-based knowledge
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`tree based on the determined respective locations, whereby the frame-based
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`knowledge tree is constructed.
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`Ex. 1004, claim 1.
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`Both independent claims 1 and 6 contain the elements of presenting pre-
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`defined questions about the specification data to a user to identify a set of SQL
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`queries to be answered to construct the frame-based knowledge tree. Questions
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`are pre-defined, for example, based upon a particular industry. Id. col. 9: 9-11.
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`The input answers provided by the user in response are used to identify the set of
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`SQL queries that need to be run to organize the data from the vendor’s database
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`tables into an automatically constructed knowledge tree. Id. col. 9: 43-52.
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`Greef (Ex. 1005) does not disclose these elements. Petitioner cites Greef at
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`col. 29: 39-50, which describes prompting the user to identify the tabular data to be
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`incorporated into the frame-based hierarchical form. Petition at 35-36. It is clear,
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`however, that this is merely prompting the user to identify the source of the tabular
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`data of the table in a conventional fashion, i.e., “by designating a file name and
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`path for locating the file.” Ex. 1005, col. 29: 48-52. This is not presenting pre-
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`defined questions about the data to a user to identify a set of SQL queries to be
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`answered to construct the frame-based knowledge tree, which occurs after the
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`vendor database table has already been identified and accessed.
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`The other sections of Greef cited by Petitioner do no better. One section
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`describes the method itself identifying category subcategory information, id. col.
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`30: 33-42, while the other section describes the method at a step enabling the user
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`to identify a tabular product attribute to act as a general identifier for products, id.
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`col. 18: 42-46. There is no disclosure here of presenting pre-defined questions
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`about the specification data to a user to identify a set of SQL queries to be
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`answered. Further, Figure 17 of Greef simply shows an example of a vendor
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`product table (i.e., a source of data), while Figure 20 merely shows the “Get Data”
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`file name and path location designation as the initial step in the Greef
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`methodology. As discussed above, this does not disclose the claim limitation in
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`issue.
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`Weida and Bader do not fill the gap with regard to this missing element from
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`Greef. Bader, for example, describes a process for converting from a relational
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`database to a hierarchical database with user selection of keywords from the
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`relational database. Ex. 1011, col. 11:53 through col. 12: 31. This discussion is in
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`the context of explaining Figures 13a-d, which show nothing to indicate that pre-
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`defined questions about specification data are being presented to a user to identify
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`a set of SQL queries to be answered.
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`Petitioner does not cite any section of Weida (Ex. 1009) in its Petition as
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`disclosing these elements. Thus, the proposed combination of Greef, Bader and
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`Weida does not teach or suggest all of the elements of claims 1-11, and the Petition
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`should be denied.
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`The Petition improperly contains substantive argument based on Carter (Ex.
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`1010), Petition at 36-37, which is not identified as part of any of the proposed
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`rejections. Petitioner asserts that Carter is incorporated by reference in Weida, but
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`no relevant portion of Carter is reproduced or set forth in Weida. Even if
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`Petitioner had properly proposed Carter on its own merits as part of a proposed
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`rejection, however, it would not help. Carter discloses a method for modification
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`of the contents of a multiple inheritance concept hierarchy database (i.e., the
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`database is already in a hierarchy with nodes). It allows a user to move nodes in
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`the hierarchy using a drag-and-drop operation interface. Ex. 1010, Figs. 26-27.
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`Carter thus addresses modification of an existing hierarchical database, not the
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`creation of one. There is nothing to indicate that pre-defined questions about
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`specification data (from a data table) are being presented to a user to identify a set
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`of SQL queries to be answered to construct a frame-based knowledge tree.
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`This section of the Petition also improperly contains a citation to Altman
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`(Ex. 1012), Petition at 38, which is not included in the first proposed combination
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`of prior art. However, as Altman is included in the second proposed rejection,
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`Patent Owner will address the cited section to demonstrate that the addition of
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`Altman does not fill the gaps left by Greef, Bader and Weida. Altman simply
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`discloses that a user sends standard knowledge base queries across a distributed
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`computer system, and the system translates the queries into a language suitable for
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`querying the database, such as Structured Query Language (SQL). Ex. 1012,
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`Abstract, col. 5: 65 through 6: 8. Altman does not disclose presenting pre-defined
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`questions about specification data to a user; instead, the user is forming and
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`sending the queries, not responding to them. Further, in Altman the user’s queries
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`are translated directly into SQL. In contrast, in claims 1-11 of the patent-in-issue,
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`the responses of the user to the pre-defined questions are used to identify a set of
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`SQL queries to be answered to construct a frame-based knowledge tree.
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`With regard to independent claim 6, the Petition simply references the above
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`citations with regard to claim 1. See Petition at 50. The cited prior art thus fails to
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`disclose, teach or suggest all of the elements of independent claims 1 and 6, and
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`the proposed obviousness rejection must fail. This failure applies to all of the
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`dependent claims.
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`The first proposed combination thus does not disclose, teach or suggest all of
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`the elements of claims 1-11, and the Petition has failed to make a prima facie case
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`of obviousness. Accordingly, the Board should deny the Petition’s proposed
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`ground of obviousness of claims 1-11 based on Greef, Bader and Weida.
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`2.
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`The Petition Fails to Establish A Reasonable Likelihood That
`Claims 1-11 Of The ‘461 Patent Would Have Been Obvious Based
`on Greef, Bader, Weida and Altman.
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`The Petition asserts that claims 1-11 are invalid for obviousness based on
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`Greef (Ex. 1005) in view of Bader (Ex. 1011) and Weida (Ex. 1009) and Altman
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`(Ex. 1012). The Petition fails to make a prima facie case of obviousness. As
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`discussed above, Greef, Bader, Weida and Altman fail, either separately or
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`together, to disclose or teach several of the elements in claims 1-11.
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`The Petition merely references the discussion of the claim elements from the
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`first proposed rejection based on Greef, Bader and Weida. Petition at 59-60.
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`Further, as discussed above, the Petition improperly included Altman in its
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`argument regarding the first proposed rejection. Petition at 38. Patent Owner
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`incorporates its arguments above with regard to Greef, Bader, Weida and Altman.
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`The deficiencies of Greef, Bader and Weida have been demonstrated above.
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`Altman is similarly deficient. Altman simply discloses that a user sends standard
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`knowledge base queries across a distributed computer system, and the system
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`translates the queries into a language suitable for querying the database, such as
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`Structured Query Language (SQL). Ex. 1012, Abstract, col. 5: 65 through 6: 8.
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`Altman does not disclose presenting pre-defined questions about specification data
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`to a user; instead, the user is forming and sending the queries, not responding to
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`them. Further, in Altman the user’s queries are translated directly into SQL. In
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`contrast, in claims 1-11 of the patent-in-issue, the responses of the user to the pre-
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`defined questions are used to identify a set of SQL queries to be answered to
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`construct a frame-based knowledge tree.
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`The second proposed combination thus does not disclose, teach or suggest
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`all of the elements of claims 1-11, and the Petition has failed to make a prima facie
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`case of obviousness. Accordingly, the Board should deny the Petition’s proposed
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`ground of obviousness of claims 1-11 based on Greef, Bader, Weida and Altman.
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`For the reasons above, Patent Owner requests that the Board deny in its
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`V. CONCLUSION
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`entirety the Petition for Inter Partes Review of the ‘461 Patent.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN,
`CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, P.C.
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`/W. Edward Ramage/
`W. Edward Ramage, Reg. No. 50,810
`Baker Donelson Center
`211 Commerce Street, Suite 800
`Nashville, Tennessee 37201
`Tel: (615) 726-5771
`Fax: (615) 744-5771
`Email: eramage@bakerdonelson.com
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`Samuel F. Miller (pending pro hac
`vice)
`Baker Donelson Center
`211 Commerce Street, Suite 800
`Nashville, Tennessee 37201
`Tel: (615) 726-5594
`Fax: (615) 744-5594
`Email: smiller@bakerdonelson.com
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`Counsel for Patent Owner EdgeAQ,
`LLC
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`Dated: February 17, 2016
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that, on February 17, 2016, the foregoing
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`Preliminary Response to Petition was served in its entirety via U.S. Express Mail,
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`postage prepaid, and electronic mail upon the following:
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`Michael Jaskolski
`Quarles & Brady LLP
`411 East Wisconsin Ave. Suite 2400
`Milwaukee, WI 53202
`Tel: (703) 412-6297
`Email: michael.jaskolski@quarles.com
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`Louis A. Klapp
`Quarles & Brady LLP
`300 North LaSalle Street, Suite 4000
`Chicago, IL 60654
`Tel: (703) 412-6297
`Email: louis.klapp@quarles.com
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