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`EXPERT DEPOSITION OF TAL LAVIAN, Ph.D.
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`SUSAN F. MAGEE, RPR, CCRR, CLR, CSR No. 11661
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`APPEARANCES:
` AKERMAN
` Attorneys for Petitioner
` 777 South Flagler Drive
` West Palm Beach, FL 33401
` BY: DAVID BRAFMAN, ESQ.
` BRICE DUMAIS, ESQ.
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` NELSON BUMGARDNER
` Attorneys for Patent Owner
` 3131 West 7th Street
` Fort Worth, TX 76107
` BY: BRENT BUMGARDNER, ESQ.
` JOHN MURPHY, ESQ.
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`APPEARANCES (continued):
` SIBER LAW
` Attorneys for Patent Owner
` 28 West 44th Street
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` VICTOR SIBER, ESQ. (Appearing
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` TAL LAVIAN, Ph.D.,
`called as a witness, having been duly sworn by a
`Certified Shorthand Reporter, was examined and testified
`as follows:
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` MR. BUMGARDNER: Brent Bumgardner and
`John Murphy from Nelson Bumgardner for the patent owner.
`Also with me is Hanna Madbak of Siber Law, and then also
`listening via the conference line is Vic Siber of Siber
`Law.
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` EXAMINATION BY MR. BUMGARDNER
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` Q. Would you please introduce yourself for the
`record.
` A. Tal Lavian.
` Q. Do you go by Dr. Lavian?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Dr. Lavian, do you understand that the court
`reporter to your right is going to take down all of the
`testimony and my questions today?
` A. Yes.
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` Q. Do you understand that she can only take down
`one of us speaking at a time, so if you please let me
`finish asking my question before you start answering,
`that will make her job easier.
` A. Yes.
` Q. You understand your testimony is under oath
`subject to the penalty of perjury?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Have you given depositions before?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Approximately how many?
` A. More than 30.
` Q. Were these depositions in connection with
`proceedings where you were acting as an expert?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Any other types of depositions that you've
`given?
` A. Yes.
` Q. And what types of depositions are those?
` A. I gave a deposition in AAA court. It's not
`court. It's --
` Q. In a courtroom?
` A. It's not a courtroom. I did in ITC court, and
`I did in arbitration.
` Q. Your declaration mentions that you are an
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`inventor in over 80 patents; is that correct?
` A. I believe that it's a bit more. I believe it's
`over 100 now. It's an older version of my declaration,
`of my -- it's over 100, I believe.
` Q. Okay. Have you given any depositions in
`connection with your patents?
` A. No.
` Q. So all the depositions that we've talked about
`so far, you've been acting as an expert and testified
`either in arbitration or in court or in a deposition on
`behalf of a party?
` A. Yes.
` Q. All right. All right. You submitted three
`expert declarations in connection with the IPR
`proceedings between YMAX and Focal IP?
` A. Yes.
` Q. And one of the declarations concerned U.S.
`Patent No. 8,155,298, and I'm going to hand that to you
`now. This declaration has been marked as Exhibit 1002
`in IPR Proceeding 2016-1256.
` And just for your information, Dr. Lavian, it
`doesn't say 1256 on the cover of that declaration, I
`believe, so if you would like to write that on there for
`your reference, that would be fine with me.
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`said about 1256?
` MR. BUMGARDNER: Yeah. My understanding is
`that the '298 patent is at issue in IPR Proceeding 1256.
` MR. BRAFMAN: Okay.
` MR. BUMGARDNER: Are we on the same page?
` MR. DUMAIS: Yeah. It didn't have an IPR
`number when we filed it.
` MR. BRAFMAN: Understood.
` Do you have an extra copy of the exhibits for
`me?
` MR. BUMGARDNER: I do.
` MR. BRAFMAN: Thank you.
` BY MR. BUMGARDNER:
` Q. Dr. Lavian, can we refer to your declaration as
`your declaration concerning the '298 patent?
` A. Yes.
` Q. So if we refer to that, for the record, we will
`be talking about Exhibit 1002 from the 1256 IPR
`proceeding.
` You also submitted a declaration regarding U.S.
`Patent 7,764,777, and I'll hand that to you now.
` Does that appear to be your declaration
`concerning the '777 patent?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Can we refer to this patent as the '777 patent?
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` A. Yes.
` Q. And can we refer to this declaration as your
`declaration concerning the '777 patent?
` A. Yes.
` Q. And for the record, this exhibit was marked as
`Exhibit 1002 in IPR Proceeding 2016-1258.
` You also submitted a third declaration
`concerning U.S. Patent No. 8,457,113. And let me hand
`that to you now. Handed you one and one for your
`counsel.
` Is this your declaration, Dr. Lavian?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Can we refer to this declaration as your
`declaration concerning the '113 patent?
` A. Yes.
` MR. BUMGARDNER: And for the record, this
`declaration is marked as Exhibit 1002 in IPR Proceeding
`2016-1260.
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` Q. Dr. Lavian, did you sign each of these
`declarations?
` A. Yes.
` Q. And before you signed these declarations, you
`declared your belief -- or let me strike that.
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`your belief that the statements that you made in the
`declarations were accurate?
` A. Yes.
` Q. These declarations concern the validity of the
`'777 patent, the '298 patent and the '113 patent;
`correct?
` A. Yes.
` Q. In each of the declarations I believe there is
`a background section titled "State of the Art"; is that
`correct?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Is that section, with the exception of
`different paragraph numbers, the same for each of the
`declarations to the best of your recollection?
` A. To the best of my recollection it should be the
`same.
` Q. And each declaration submits a section on claim
`construction of various terms from the patents at issue;
`correct?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Unless otherwise indicated in your declaration,
`do your opinions concerning the validity of the patent
`claims at issue use the claim constructions expressed in
`your declarations?
` A. Yes.
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` Q. And are the opinions concerning the validity of
`these patents made from the perspective of someone with
`your background and experience?
` A. No.
` Q. And why is that?
` A. Because of the opinion from my background, but
`it's from the point of view of the person of skill in
`the art at the time of the invention, not of mine today.
` Q. And can you explain to me why your background
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`opinion?
` A. I have substantially more experience than a
`person of ordinary skill in the art.
` Q. All right. If you'll take a look at the '298
`declaration at paragraph 22.
` A. Yes.
` Q. This paragraph concerns the priority date of
`the '298 patent, and your first sentence of this
`paragraph states, "The face of the '298 patent reflects
`a chain of patent applications dating back to May 4 of
`2000."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Does your report assume that the patents have a
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` A. No.
` Q. What does your report assume with respect to
`the priority date of the patents at issue?
` A. If you go few line down of paragraph 22, it
`said June 1, 1999.
` Q. Okay. So when you discuss the priority date
`for each of the three patents, you'll be assuming a
`priority date of June 1, 1999?
` A. May/June 1999, yes.
` Q. Why did you say May/June 1999?
` A. I got from the lawyer -- the lawyer told me
`that the priority date is a legal issue, that the
`priority date might be around claim back to May/June
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` Q. Okay. Your report as stated in paragraph 22
`indicates a priority date as early as June 1, 1999; is
`that correct?
` A. Yes, that's correct. It's my error. I didn't
`read it correctly. June 1, 1999.
` Q. Just so we're on the same page, when we discuss
`the concept of prior art in this deposition, you'll be
`assuming that the patents have a priority date of
`June 1, 1999?
` A. Yes.
` Q. If you'll please take a look at your
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`declaration concerning the '777 patent, I'd like to ask
`you a few questions. If you'll turn to page 19, please.
`Actually, if you'll turn to page 18, Dr. Lavian. My
`apologies.
` On page 18 do you see a section of your
`declaration titled "State of the Art"?
` A. Yes.
` Q. And on page 19 you have a subsection titled
`the "PSTN/Circuit Switching Networks."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. All right. In paragraph 41 the first sentence
`states that, "In the United States, the PSTN is a
`countrywide network of switches connected to each other
`by wires."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. So is it fair to say that you consider the PSTN
`the network of switches connected to each other by
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` THE WITNESS: I give more information on
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` Q. Okay. My question to you is: To you, is the
`PSTN a network of switches that are connected to one
`another?
` A. It's more than this. It explain the rest of
`the next paragraphs.
` Q. All right. Let's take a look at the next
`paragraph. Paragraph 42 says, "Even more specifically,
`the PSTN uses a hierarchy of switches."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. So do you consider the PSTN to be this
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` MR. BRAFMAN: Objection to form.
` THE WITNESS: It's include more in this as
`explained in my declaration.
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` Q. What more do you believe that it includes?
` A. I give more details on several pages what is
`the PSTN.
` Q. I understand that.
` I'm not -- I'm asking generally, do you
`consider the PSTN to be the five-level hierarchy of
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`include in the PSTN you have five-level hierarchy, but
`you have more.
` Q. Where do you explain in your declaration that
`the PSTN includes more than the five-level hierarchy of
`switches?
` A. I have all of this several pages on page 19,
`page 20, page 21. The entire -- page 22. I have more
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` Q. I understand there's more information.
` My question is, is the PSTN to you, does it
`consist of the network of switches or is there
`additional equipment beyond switches that you consider
`to be part of the PSTN?
` A. I explain in details in several pages what is
`the PSTN. It has switches, yes. It has more things.
` Q. Such as wires connecting the switches?
` A. For example.
` Q. Okay. Let's go back to paragraph 41.
` In the first sentence you state, "In the
`United States, the PSTN is a countrywide network of
`switches connected to each other by wires."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Is that a true statement?
` A. Yes. It's a true statement. It's not only by
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`wire, but that's in high level.
` Q. The next sentence says, "The wires and switches
`between them connect the telephone of a calling party to
`the telephone of the called party."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Do you consider in this sentence the telephone
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` A. No. It's just description of what is the PSTN.
`It's including a connection between both parties.
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` I'm asking, do you consider the telephone of
`the calling party in this example to be part of the
`PSTN?
` A. No.
` Q. Do you consider the telephone of the called
`party to be part of the PSTN?
` A. No.
` Q. Would it be fair to say that the telephone of
`the calling party is accessing the PSTN in this example?
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` A. Yes.
` Q. And the telephone of the called party is
`accessing the PSTN in this example?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Okay. Let's go back to paragraph 43 where you
`make the statement in the first sentence that, "The
`switches in the PSTN use a five-level hierarchy."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. In this first sentence you identify end or --
`I'm sorry. Strike that.
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`paragraph 3 is an edge or end (class 5) switch.
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Do the terms "edge switch," "end switch" and
`"class 5 switch" mean the same thing to you?
` A. No.
` Q. Explain to me why -- well, strike that.
` You say "edge" or "end."
` A. Yes.
` Q. Is that referring to a type of switch?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Do edge or end switches refer to the same thing
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` A. No.
` Q. Help me out here because you say "edge" or
`"end" switch, and then you say "(class 5)."
` A. Part of 43 give a high-level description of
`what is the conceptual architecture of the PSTN and is
`part of the high-level conceptual architectural. There
`are five type of switches that give the high-level
`position. It's not accurate. It's the conceptual
`visual way to say what is the PSTN.
` Q. Would you disagree that an edge switch is a
`type of Class 5 switch?
` A. It depends.
` Q. Okay. Would you agree that you have cited to
`literature in this case that classifies an edge switch
`as a Class 5 switch?
` A. It depends how you can paint it. I gave the
`high-level picture of the hierarchy, and you can find
`the different papers, different books, some iterations
`of the same process. This is a high level, and I can't
`expect in one paragraph to explain the entire hierarchy.
`I tried to do my best to explain the hierarchy.
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`from this high level, is it common to refer to edge
`switches and end switches as Class 5 switches?
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`switches that are Class 5. In a high level, yes.
` Q. Where does the term "edge switch" -- do you
`know why it's called an edge switch?
` A. Because it's -- I believe because it's
`connected to the edge of the PSTN, yes.
` Q. So the edge switch is at the -- what you would
`consider to be the edge of the PSTN?
` A. In a high level. Different people use
`different words, different terminology to the same
`things. It's a high-level conceptual view. It does not
`exist in practice. In the market, it's not identical to
`the concept.
` Q. Do you agree, though, that the name "edge
`switch" came from the fact that people conceptually view
`edge switches as being the edge of the PSTN?
` A. I don't know what's the reason that -- what --
`what was the history of the naming, but I believe that's
`reasonable.
` Q. Same question for end switch.
` Do you know how end switch got its name?
` A. Yes. I believe that end switch has different
`variation of where it got its name, but more likely it's
`from the connection to the corporate.
` Q. Connection to a what?
` A. Corporate.
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` Q. All right. If you take a look at the diagram
`that you have in figure -- I'm sorry. Strike that.
` In paragraph 43 you have a figure. Do you see
`that figure I'm referring to?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Do you see the level of -- there are two
`switches that are labeled "Class 5 Central Office:
`Local Exchange"?
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Is a Class 5 switch frequently referred to as a
`Central Office?
` A. Central Office is an office. In the office,
`you have mainly started the history, start to have many
`Class 5 switches.
` Q. So a Class 5 switch is sometimes referred to as
`a Central Office switch; is that correct?
` A. Sometimes, yes.
` Q. And in the hierarchy above the Class 5 switch
`is a toll or tandem switch; correct?
` A. In many case, yes, yeah.
` Q. In paragraph 43 you say "toll or tandem" switch
`"(class 4)."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
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` Q. So when viewing the PSTN from a five-level
`hierarchy, is it fair to characterize a toll or tandem
`switch as a class 4 switch?
` A. In a high-level conceptual way, yes.
` Q. And above the toll or tandem switch is what you
`call a "primary (class 3)" switch.
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. And the hierarchy also includes a "sectional
`(class 2)" switch.
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. And a "regional (class 1)" switch?
` A. Yes.
` Q. So you would agree that these five different
`classes of switches are switches in the PSTN?
` A. This is a high-level conceptual view of the
`PSTN, and yes, they're considered to be part of the
`PSTN.
` Q. Have you ever in any of your patents or
`literature expressed the PSTN as or depicted it as a
`cloud?
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` THE WITNESS: I don't remember all the details
`of my patents, but I believe that makes sense.
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` Q. So you've at least seen people express the PSTN
`in various literature as a cloud?
` A. Yes.
` Q. And when you see that cloud expressed in
`literature, do you understand it to refer to this
`five-level hierarchy of switches generally?
` A. Clouds may -- is general depiction of a
`network.
` Q. Of the PSTN?
` A. Not of the PSTN.
` Q. If you saw a cloud that was labeled as the
`PSTN, as a person of ordinary skill, would you
`understand that to be referring to the switches within
`the PSTN?
` MR. BRAFMAN: Objection to form.
` THE WITNESS: It depends. I need to see the
`picture and based on the depiction to understand. Cloud
`mean many different things.
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` Q. Do the terms "toll switch" and "tandem switch"
`mean the same thing at a conceptual level?
` A. Not identical. In higher level they refer to
`similar functionalities.
` Q. Is a toll switch often referred to as a Class 4
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`switch?
` MR. BRAFMAN: Objection. Asked and answered.
` THE WITNESS: In a high level in many places,
`yes.
` BY MR. BUMGARDNER:
` Q. Is a tandem switch often referred to as a
`Class 4 switch?
` A. In high-level conceptual, yes.
` Q. All right. So going back to paragraph 41 --
`strike that.
` Let's take a look at paragraph 45 of the '777
`declaration. You state that, "When a telephone call is
`placed on the PSTN, the call typically travels from the
`caller's phone to the edge switch in the caller's local
`central office."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. So is it fair to say in this example that the
`caller's local central office edge switch is the
`caller's point of access to the PSTN?
` A. There are many different architecture, but
`conceptually in high level, yes.
` Q. I'm not asking about conceptually. I'm asking
`about the way you used it in this sentence where you
`said, "When a telephone call is placed on the" PN --
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`"PSTN, the call typically travels from the caller's
`phone to the edge switch in the caller's local central
`office."
` A. Yes. Typically this is the case.
` Q. So the edge switch in the caller's local
`central office would be the caller's phone point of
`access to the PSTN in this example?
` A. In this example, yes.
` Q. Does an edge switch in this example provide
`dial tone to the caller's phone?
` A. It depends. In many cases, yes.
` Q. Typically is it the edge switch that provides
`dial tone?
` A. Typically, yes.
` Q. Okay. You next say that, "Unless the recipient
`is in the same geographical area and directly connected
`to the same central office, the call is then typically
`routed to one or more tandem switches (in sequence)
`until it reaches the edge switch that is directly
`connected to the recipient's phone, and finally to the
`recipient's phone."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. So in this example, the recipient, unless he is
`connected -- his phone is connected to the same central
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`office, his telephone would be connected to a different
`central office?
` A. Reasonably, yes. That's one example they give
`in this sentence.
` Q. Did you give another example in this sentence?
` A. No. That's the example I gave in this
`sentence.
` Q. All right. And the recipient's central office
`would be his point of access to the PSTN in this
`example?
` A. Yeah.
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` Q. All right. As the call travels from the
`caller's phone in this example to the -- strike that.
` As the call travels from the caller's phone to
`the first edge switch in the caller's central office, in
`this example it then goes through one or more tandem
`switches; is that correct?
` A. In many cases, yes. In other cases not.
` Q. In this example, yes?
` A. In this example, yes.
` Q. And the tandem switches route the telephone
`call to the recipient's central office in this example?
` A. In this sentence, yes.
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` Q. And then the recipient's central office then
`connects the call to the recipient's phone?
` A. In a high level that's a concept, yes.
` Q. In this example, yes?
` A. Yes.
` Q. And would the recipient's central office end
`switch be responsible for making the recipient's phone
`ring?
` A. The edge switch will do so.
` Q. Okay. My bad.
` So it would be the recipient's central office
`edge switch that would cause the recipient's telephone
`to ring?
` A. It depends. In many cases yes.
` Q. In this general example that would be the case?
` A. In a high-level conceptual view this is the
`case. It's oversimplified by version, view of the PSTN.
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` Q. In a just an ordinary phone call in this
`general time period, if I pick up a standard landline
`telephone and hear a dial tone, that dial tone is being
`provided by the central office edge switch that my phone
`is connected to; correct?
` A. Generally, yes.
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` Q. And similarly, if I had a standard landline
`telephone and it rings, it is the central office edge
`switch connected to that phone that's causing it to
`ring; correct?
` A. Generally, yes.
` Q. Is there any term that a person of ordinary
`skill would use to describe the connection between a
`standard landline telephone and the central office edge
`switch that it connects to?
` MR. BRAFMAN: Objection to form.
` THE WITNESS: I'm not sure I understand.
` BY MR. BUMGARDNER:
` Q. Sure. I'm sorry. I'll try to explain it.
` So if I had a standard telephone in my house at
`this time in the late '90s and it's connected to an edge
`switch at the central office via a line; correct? Are
`you following me?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Is there a standard term that a person of
`ordinary skill would use to describe that line that
`connects the phone to the edge switch?
` A. It depends. Many people will call it different
`names, but in general it's the plain old telephone
`connections or wires or copper -- different people will
`call the same things. The same fiber. The same copper
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`wire between the user to the central office, yes.
` Q. So there's a -- in a typical case at this point
`in time there will be a copper wire that connects a
`phone to an edge switch at a central office?
` A. In a high level, yes.
` Q. In the example in paragraph 45, the recipient's
`phone and the caller's phone connect to edge switches in
`a central office; correct?
` MR. BRAFMAN: Objection to form.
` THE WITNESS: That's what I explained in
`paragraph 45, yes, in a high level.
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` Q. That's what you refer to in paragraph 45;
`correct?
` A. Yes.
` Q. All right. Let's take a look at your '298
`declaration, if you could put that in front of you. If
`you'll take a look at paragraph 106 that appears on
`page 53.
` A. What paragraph number?
` Q. It's page 53, paragraph 106.
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Okay. Do you see the second sentence that
`begins with, "A tandem switch can be reached directly"?
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` Do you see that?
` A. Where exactly?
` Okay.
` Q. Let me read the sentence. "A tandem switch can
`be reached directly (or, at worst, through other PSTN
`switches) from any PSTN edge switch."
` Do you see that?
` A. Yes.
` Q. Is that a true statement?
` A. This is a high-level conceptual. The word
`"any" might be refer to any that it's connected to.
` MR. BUMGARDNER: Objection. Nonresponsive.
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` Q. Did I read that sentence correctly, Dr. Lavian?
` A. Can you read it again?
` Q. "A tandem switch can be reached directly (or,
`at worst, through other PSTN switches) from any PSTN
`edge switch."
` A. Yes, you read it correctly.
` Q. And this is a sentence that appears verbatim in
`your declaration for the '298 patent?
` A. Yes.
` Q. One which you signed to verify the accuracy of
`the contents of; correct?
` A. Yes.
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` Q. So woul