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` ) CASE NO.: IPR2016-01198
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` VoIP-PAL.COM, INC.
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` ) Patent 9,179,005
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` Patent Owner. )
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` The discovery deposition of JOHAN EMIL VIKTOR
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`BJORSELL, taken in the above-entitled cause, before Alyssa
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`Fontaine, official reporter, on the 24th of March, 2017,
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`APPEARANCES:
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` ERISE IP
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` 5600 Greenwood Plaza Blvd.
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` Greenwood Village, CO 80111
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` (720) 689-5441
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` BY: MR. PAUL HART
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` On behalf of the Petitioner;
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` BY: MR. KERRY TAYLOR (by phone)
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` On behalf of the Patent Owner.
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`ALSO PRESENT:
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` David Gileff
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` Adam Seitz (by phone)
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`INDEX OF EXAMINATIONS
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`EXAMINATION PAGE
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` By Mr. Taylor 148
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` E X H I B I T S
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`NUMBER DESCRIPTION PAGE
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`Exhibit 1001: United States Patent 17
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`Exhibit 2017: System architecture diagram 33
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`Exhibit 2014: Source code for the RBR server 43
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`Exhibit 2015: SVN log messages 45
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`Exhibit 2012: Declaration of Mr. Bjorsell (005) 51
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`Exhibit 2016: Declaration of Mr. Mangione-Smith 149
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`Exhibit 2012: Declaration of Mr. Bjorsell (815) 151
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`Exhibit 011/1007: Handwritten note by Mr. Bjorsell 173
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` JOHAN EMIL VIKTOR BJORSELL,
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`called as a witness, having been first affirmed, was
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`examined and testified as follows:
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`BY MR. HART:
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` Q. Good morning. Can you please state your full
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`name for the record.
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` A. My full name is Johan Emil Viktor Bjorsell.
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` Q. Okay. Have you been disposed before?
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` A. No.
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` Q. Let me go over some ground rules. My job today
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`is to ask good questions. If for any reason you don't
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`understood it; is that fair?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Okay. The two most important rules today are for
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`the court reporter. Number one is we can't talk over each
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` A. Okay.
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` Q. All right. Very good. Let's get rolling here.
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`Can you describe your post high school education for me?
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`Ireland, I went into the industry. I worked at several
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`and self taught.
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`school?
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`high school when you joined the industry.
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`programmer jobs and system administration jobs dealing
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`with, sort of, system engineering and servers and such.
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`into a startup in London. And then I moved back to
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`Ireland, worked a few different consultancy jobs, again in
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`software development and systems engineering.
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`school?
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` A. So I think that would have been 2009 [sic].
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` Q. Okay. And did you go to London to join the --
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` A. Sorry, not 2009. I'm off by a decade. So I
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`would have graduated in 1999, I believe.
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` Q. Okay. And did you move to London to begin
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`working with the startup you mentioned in 1999?
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` A. I couldn't remember precisely.
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` Q. What was the name of that startup in London?
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` A. Caint, C-a-i-n-t.
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` A. C-a-i-n-t.
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` Q. Caint?
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` A. Yes, it's some Irish meaning.
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` Q. What was your title at Caint?
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` A. I believe it was IT manager, I think.
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`of the systems our team developed.
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` Q. I see. Any telephony-related projects at Caint?
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` A. No, not there.
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` Q. Okay. Did you write any functional source code
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`for any of the projects at Caint?
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` A. Yes, I would have.
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` Q. Okay. And what types of functional source code
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`source code relating to help manage deployments and
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`repatriation part.
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` Q. And when did you leave Caint?
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` A. I worked for a manufacturing company in Ireland.
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` Q. What was the name of that company?
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`Limited.
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`Ship Co. Full-time?
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` A. I was their IT manager.
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` Q. And what types of things did you do as an
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`IT manager at Ship Co.?
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` A. I upgraded their network to an IP based network.
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`maintenance, so I set up a voice over IP system to replace
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`the aging telephony system there.
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`the VOIP system that you set up?
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` A. No, they were separate.
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`VoIP system you set up at Ship Co.?
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`Any PSTN destined call would go straight to the PSTN on
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` Q. Okay. How long did it take you to develop and
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`deploy the VoIP system at Ship Co.?
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` A. Probably I was working on it for, like, nine, ten
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` Q. Okay. But Ship Co. was your first enterprise
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`VoIP system that you ever worked on; is that correct?
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` Q. Okay. Of those nine to ten months that you
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` Q. Sure.
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`at the time as well, so it -- it was still in its infancy
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`customer overlapped your VoIP work at Ship Co.?
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`Ship Co. and --
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` A. They're independent. Directly.
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` A. I was a software developer.
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`systems and we were responsible for the credit card
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`scoring system. And it was also like a credit card
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`application, like, processing thing, but the core or the
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` Q. I see. So other people were working on other
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` A. So in 2004, I wrapped up all those contracts
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`2004.
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` A. It was with the Digifonica team and I started
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` A. It was IP Centrex developer.
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` A. So research and development of a voice over
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`IP system which, like, included testing as well.
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` Q. Okay. And what specific aspects were you
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`like B2BUA and how to do routing.
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`you doing as an IP Centrex developer?
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`was a very small team, so when I developed or when we
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`you joined in June or July of 2004?
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` A. There was five people, I think, when I joined.
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` Q. Do you remember who those people were?
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` A. Yeah, they're -- conveniently enough it's the
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`detail. I'm handing the witness what is marked
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`Exhibit 1001. And that's from the 815 patent proceeding.
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` A. I do.
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` Q. And are those the five original employees of
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Okay. First --
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` A. And they're team members so I -- some of them
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`they're the people I worked with and they're the people
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` Q. I see. The first name is Clay Perreault? Am I
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` A. As far as I know, yes.
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`when you joined?
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` A. He was CEO and I think he also had title of CTO.
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` A. He had done coding, but on this -- on what we
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`resources aspect, getting people hired, that sort of
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. Okay. Rod Thomson. Do you recall what his role
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` A. He did -- yeah, he did write some code and things
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`like that, to lesser extents than myself and Fuad, for
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`I pronouncing that correctly?
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` A. Yes.
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`overall role on the team?
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` A. He was a software developer.
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` Q. Okay. Would you say you or Mr. Arafa did more
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`coding of the Digifonica system?
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` Q. Okay. And at what point did that change?
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` A. I think it was yeah, in late, like, in the fall
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` Q. And was your title systems architect at that
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` A. I think so.
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` Q. And can you -- you kind of gave me a brief run
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` A. So working with the team to understand the -- you
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`as part of that systems architect role?
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` Q. Okay. And what were your new roles and
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`responsibilities as director of operations?
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` A. So roles would have been overseeing testing and
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` A. Also interacting with the development team so it
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` Q. Sure.
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` A. I wasn't too fussed about titles.
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` Q. When did you leave Digifonica?
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` A. It was I think 2007. '07 or '08, I think.
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` Q. Okay. Why did you leave Digifonica?
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` A. I was let go. The company basically ran out of
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` A. Yes, for a while.
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` Q. Okay. Approximately how long?
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` A. Maybe they lasted six months or something. I'm
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` Q. And do you know how many employees were still
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`I mean, it was definitely less.
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`Digifonica had when you left?
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` A. I don't think any. I think that was the problem.
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` Q. Do you know if it was literally none, or ...?
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` A. I think it might have been literally none.
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` Q. Okay. That is a problem.
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` A. Yeah.
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` Q. Did Digifonica ever have paying customers?
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` Q. But to your knowledge, there was never a paying
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` Q. As an employee of Digifonica?
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` A. Yeah. But I did it on my own credit card and
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` A. I think I let some charges go through. I don't
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` A. No, not just like an actual real customer.
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` Q. Are you familiar with the entity of VoIP-PAL.com?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And do you work for VoIP-PAL?
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` Q. How are you being compensated for your assistance
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` A. Just on an hourly rate.
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` Q. And what is your hourly rate?
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` A. It's $120 US per hour.
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` Q. And are you aware that there is a related patent
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`infringement lawsuit against Apple?
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` A. I think that's why we're here, yeah.
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` Q. Okay. Just for your background, two separate
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`proceedings right now. There's a lawsuit in federal court
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