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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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`SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (USA) INC.,
`SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB, and SONY MOBILE
`COMMUNICATIONS, INC.,
`Petitioners
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`CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED,
`Patent Owner
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`U.S. Patent No. 6,928,433
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`Case No. IPR2016-01407
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`PATENT OWNER’S MOTION FOR
`OBSERVATIONS ON CROSS-EXAMINATION
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`Patent No. 6,928,433
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`Creative Technology Ltd. (“Patent Owner”) submits this motion for
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`observations regarding the cross-examination of Dr. Benjamin B. Bederson.
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`A. Dr. Bederson’s Admissions Regarding the Problem Being Solved
`Observation #1: In Ex. 2045 at page 20, lines 14-17, Dr. Bederson
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`testified that “I don’t recall disagreeing with any characterization that Mr. Bear
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`made of the ’433 patent’s technical description.” This testimony is relevant to
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`pages 2-3 and 6-9 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 3 of Dr.
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`Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that “I do
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`not understand the ’433 patent to have presented any new solution to any
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`problem.” This testimony is relevant because it shows that Dr. Bederson does not
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`dispute Mr. Bear’s description of the problems that the ’433 patent solves.
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`Observation #2: In Ex. 2045 at page 21, lines 18-21, Dr. Bederson was
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`asked “And in your declaration, you don’t offer an alternative interpretation of the
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`’433 patent as solving a different problem, correct?” In response, Dr. Bederson
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`testified “No, I don’t think I do.” This testimony is relevant to pages 2-3 and 6-9
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`of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 3 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply
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`Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that “I do not understand the
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`’433 patent to have presented any new solution to any problem.” This testimony is
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`relevant because it shows that Dr. Bederson does not dispute Mr. Bear’s
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`description of the problems that the ’433 patent solves.
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`B. Deficiencies in Dr. Bederson’s Analysis of ISO 9241-14
`Observation #3: In Ex. 2045 at page 28, lines 9-16, Dr. Bederson did not
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`dispute that the scope of ISO9241-14 is expressly described as “recommendations
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`for menus used in user-computer dialogues to accomplish typical office tasks.”
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`This testimony is relevant to pages 6-9 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and
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`paragraph 9 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson
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`asserts that “It is therefore my understanding (confirmed by ISO9241-14) that, at
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`the time of the invention, both the ‘problem’ Patent Owner alleges was solved by
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`the ’433 patent, and the ‘key solution’ Patent Owner argues is presented by the
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`’433 patent, were known in the art.” This testimony is relevant because it shows
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`that ISO9241-14’s express “scope” is limited to “typical office tasks.”
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`Observation #4: In Ex. 2045 at page 38, lines 8-16, Dr. Bederson testified
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`that he “do[esn’t] think that this part [i.e., part 14 of ISO9241] specifically
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`describes whether the VDTs [video display terminals] are portable or not.” This
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`testimony is relevant to pages 6-9 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 9
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`of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that
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`“It is therefore my understanding (confirmed by ISO9241-14) that, at the time of
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`the invention, both the ‘problem’ Patent Owner alleges was solved by the ’433
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`patent, and the ‘key solution’ Patent Owner argues is presented by the ’433 patent,
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`were known in the art.” This testimony is relevant because it shows that one of
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`skill in the art would not have relied on ISO9241-14’s disclosures in designing a
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`user interface for a portable media player in light of the document’s failure to
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`discuss or disclose any applicability to portable devices.
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`Observation #5: In Ex. 2045 at page 42, lines 2-8, Dr. Bederson was
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`asked “Alphanumeric keyboard, function keys, cursor keys are all input devices
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`that are present on conventional desktop computers, correct?” In response, Dr.
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`Bederson answered “I think there they’re sometimes present on conventional
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`computers.” This testimony is relevant to pages 6-9 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper
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`25) and paragraph 9 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr.
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`Bederson asserts that “It is therefore my understanding (confirmed by ISO9241-
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`14) that, at the time of the invention, both the ‘problem’ Patent Owner alleges was
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`solved by the ’433 patent, and the ‘key solution’ Patent Owner argues is presented
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`by the ’433 patent, were known in the art.” This testimony is relevant because it
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`shows that ISO9241-14’s disclosures relate to conventional desktop computers
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`rather than portable media players.
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`Observation #6: In Ex. 2045 at page 44, line 22 to page 46, line 23, Dr.
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`Bederson admitted that ISO9241-14 was “developed primarily by reviewing the
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`existing” publications (listed in “Annex C”), “many” of which “were published in
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`the 1980’s,” that most publications in the relevant “fields in the 1980’s related to
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`desktop computers,” and that “much of the research in the 1980’s focused on
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`desktop computers.” This testimony is relevant to pages 6-9 of Petitioners’ Reply
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`(Paper 25) and paragraph 9 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where
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`Dr. Bederson asserts that “It is therefore my understanding (confirmed by
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`ISO9241-14) that, at the time of the invention, both the ‘problem’ Patent Owner
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`alleges was solved by the ’433 patent, and the ‘key solution’ Patent Owner argues
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`is presented by the ’433 patent, were known in the art.” This testimony is relevant
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`because it shows that one of skill in the art would not have found ISO9241-14
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`applicable to the claimed inventions for a user interface for a portable media player
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`because ISO9241-14 is expressly based on older user interface literature, which
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`focused on desktop computers as opposed to portable devices.
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`Observation #7: In Ex. 2045 at page 87, lines 1-7, Dr. Bederson admitted
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`that “[g]iven that ISO 9241-14 is based substantially on publications from the
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`1980’s,” it is “[t]heoretically” “possible that some of the recommendations in that
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`standard could cause degradation in usability when applied to handheld-sized
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`devices.” This testimony is relevant to pages 6-9 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25)
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`and paragraph 9 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr.
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`Bederson asserts that “It is therefore my understanding (confirmed by ISO9241-
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`14) that, at the time of the invention, both the ‘problem’ Patent Owner alleges was
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`solved by the ’433 patent, and the ‘key solution’ Patent Owner argues is presented
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`by the ’433 patent, were known in the art.” This testimony is relevant because it
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`shows that one of skill in the art would not have found ISO9241-14 applicable to
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`the claimed inventions for a user interface for a portable media player because
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`ISO9241-14’s recommendations are expressly based on older research performed
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`on desktop computers which could reduce usability if applied to a portable device.
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`C. Deficiencies in Dr. Bederson’s Analysis of Seidensticker
`Observation #8: In Ex. 2045 at page 60, lines 10-12, Dr. Bederson
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`testified that the “Seidensticker interface has four hardware buttons,” and at page
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`61, lines 1-6, Dr. Bederson testified that “generally there are trade-offs in the
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`design of an interface that can impact usability, including a number of buttons.”
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`This testimony is relevant to page 17 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and
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`paragraph 14 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson
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`asserts that “A POSA would have understood how to implement a user interface in
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`which a menu option could be used in two different ways . . . For example,
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`separate buttons could be provided to perform the different operations . . . or
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`‘rocker’ buttons in which pressing in one direction leads to one result and pressing
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`in another direction leads to another result.” This testimony is relevant because it
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`shows that Seidensticker teaches away from Dr. Bederson’s proposed
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`modifications for accessing a menu option in two different ways, and that such
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`modifications raise usability tradeoffs which Dr. Bederson failed to analyze in his
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`declaration.
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`Observation #9: In Ex. 2045 at page 64, lines 4-16, Dr. Bederson was
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`asked the question “Seidensticker, itself, only discloses use of the longer than a
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`predetermined time interval function in connection with its Up and Down buttons,
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`isn’t that correct?” In response, Dr. Bederson testified that “I think I had just said
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`that’s what Seidensticker discloses.” This testimony is relevant to page 17 of
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`Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraphs 14-15 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply
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`Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that “the same button (e.g., the
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`Action button of Seidensticker) could be configured for both operations,” and “that
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`one button could be configured for both operations, is confirmed by Seidensticker
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`itself” in which “a user may trigger one operation by depressing a button and a
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`different operation by depressing that same button for ‘longer than a predetermined
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`time interval.’” This testimony is relevant because it shows that Seidensticker does
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`not disclose using the action button to trigger two different operations based on the
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`amount of time the button is depressed as proposed by Dr. Bederson.
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`Observation #10: In Ex. 2045 at page 65, lines 9-15, Dr. Bederson was
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`asked “So you hold the Up button down, there is some time interval and eventually
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`it decides to keep scrolling but scroll faster, and the same if you hold the Down
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`button, it keeps scrolling down but scrolls down faster. Is that a fair summary [of
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`Seidensticker’s longer than a predetermined time interval function]?” In response,
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`Dr. Bederson testified that “That’s what the user experience would be for a person
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`using this.” This testimony is relevant to page 17 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25)
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`and paragraph 15 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr.
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`Bederson asserts “that one button could be configured for both operations, is
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`confirmed by Seidensticker itself” in which “a user may trigger one operation by
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`depressing a button and a different operation by depressing that same button for
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`‘longer than a predetermined time interval.’” This testimony is relevant because it
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`shows that Seidensticker’s predetermined time interval function only performs a
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`single operation in the user interface—scrolling in a selected direction—and not
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`the two disparate operations that Dr. Bederson suggests in connection with his
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`proposed modification of Seidensticker.
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`Observation #11: In Ex. 2045 at page 69, lines 8-17, Dr. Bederson was
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`asked “Seidensticker’s predetermined time interval functionality is a disclosure in
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`Seidensticker of a way to navigate a long -- a relatively long list without causing an
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`undue negative user experience, isn’t that correct?” In response, Dr. Bederson
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`testified that “I think this is the general rationale for this particular design, and it
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`has some ability to support that design problem.” This testimony is relevant to
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`page 9 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 8 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply
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`Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that “a POSA would have
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`understood from ISO9241-14 that if a large number of menu options were to be
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`displayed, a long scrollable list should not be used when rapid search time is
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`important, and instead a ‘hierarchical’ or ‘network’ menu structure should be
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`used.’” This testimony is relevant because it shows that Seidensticker discloses
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`that long lists can be readily navigated using its “longer than a predetermined time
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`interval” functionality—teaching away from the cited disclosures of ISO9241-14.
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`Observation #12: In Ex. 2045 at page 74, lines 10-22, Dr. Bederson
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`testified that, according to Figure 3 of Seidensticker, “Whether or not a selected
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`item refers to an application” and whether a “Selected Item Refer[s] to [an] Other
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`Menu Item” are “aspect[s] of the user interface, not something that the user is
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`choosing at the particular time of interacting with the user interface.” This
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`testimony is relevant to page 17 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 14
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`of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that
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`“A POSA would have understood how to implement a user interface in which a
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`menu option could be used in two different ways, such as, in the Birrell-
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`Seidensticker combination.” This testimony is relevant because it shows that
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`Seidensticker teaches away from Dr. Bederson’s proposed modifications because
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`Seidensticker’s user interface is designed such that any particular menu option can
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`be used in only one way (either displaying another menu or executing an
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`application, but not both).
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`Observation #13: In Ex. 2045 at page 79, lines 8-12, Dr. Bederson
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`confirmed that “Seidensticker says that using only four control buttons provides
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`versatility in a compact user interface environment for a portable device.” This
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`testimony is relevant to page 17 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 14
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`of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that
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`“A POSA would have understood how to implement a user interface in which a
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`menu option could be used in two different ways . . . For example, separate buttons
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`could be provided to perform the different operations . . . or ‘rocker’ buttons in
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`which pressing in one direction leads to one result and pressing in another direction
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`leads to another result.” This testimony is relevant because it shows that
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`Seidensticker teaches away from Dr. Bederson’s proposal to add additional buttons
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`to permit accessing a menu option in two different ways, because Seidensticker
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`teaches that its use of only four buttons is beneficial in achieving “a compact user
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`interface.”
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`D. Deficiencies in Dr. Bederson’s Analysis of Playlists in Looney
`Observation #14: In Ex. 2045 at page 91, line 17 to page 92, line 4, Dr.
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`Bederson testified, “Now, Pick and Next are all ways of accessing songs in Looney
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`that are initiated by the user,” that “Now, Pick and Next are all single words,” and
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`that “Play is also a single word in play block 532.” This testimony is relevant to
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`page 22 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 18 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply
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`Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that “‘Play’ block 532, [] is not
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`a user-triggered action but rather software code that plays music.” This testimony
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`is relevant because it shows that Looney adopts a common syntax of using a single
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`word to identify user-initiated commands, including the “Play” command.
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`Observation #15: In Ex. 2045 at page 95, lines 6-17, Dr. Bederson
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`admitted that “[t]he Now operation in Looney also results in the playing of music. .
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`. . But the figure -- the flowchart in Figure 6 of Looney does not show the flow for
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`the Now operation passing through play block 532.” This testimony is relevant to
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`page 22 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 18 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply
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`Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that “Play” block 532, [] is not
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`a user-triggered action but rather software code that plays music.” This testimony
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`is relevant because the fact that Looney’s “Now” command plays music, but does
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`not flow through “play block 532” in Figure 6 of Looney proves that Dr.
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`Bederson’s characterization of “play block 532” as “software code that plays
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`music” is inaccurate.
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`Observation #16: In Ex. 2045 at page 95, line 20 to page 96, line 22, Dr.
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`Bederson admitted that “[t]he Now, Pick and Next boxes flow all show that they’re
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`terminated at block 508, ‘Begin Playing Songs in Playlist in Order,’” that “508
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`looks like it’s describing something that’s not a user action,” and that his “reply
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`declaration [does not explain] the difference between the software code of 508 and
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`the software code of 532.” This testimony is relevant to page 22 of Petitioners’
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`Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 18 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex.
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`1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that “‘Play’ block 532, [] is not a user-triggered
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`action but rather software code that plays music.” This testimony is relevant
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`because Dr. Bederson’s interpretation of “‘Play’ block 532” in Looney’s Figure 6
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`as “software code that plays music” is contradicted by the fact that block 508,
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`which follows immediately after block 532 in Figure 6’s “Pick” and “Next” flows
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`is admittedly software code that plays music, and Dr. Bederson has no explanation
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`for why Looney’s Figure 6 would redundantly show two successive blocks which
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`are both software code for playing music.
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`Observation #17: In Ex. 2045 at page 97, line 11 to page 98, line 5, Dr.
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`Bederson admitted that the “Now” command has a different number in Figures 6
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`and 14. This testimony is relevant to page 22 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and
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`paragraph 20 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson
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`asserts that “The POR appears to equate the ‘play block 532’ with a Play
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`button. . . . That interpretation contradicts Figure 14 (which the POR also cites), in
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`which the ‘Play’ button is indicated with reference numeral 601, not reference
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`numeral 532.” This testimony is relevant because it shows that Figures 6 and 14 of
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`Looney use a different numbering scheme and therefore the fact that “Play” has a
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`different number in those figures is irrelevant.
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`Observation #18: In Ex. 2045 at page 98, lines 16-22, Dr. Bederson
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`admitted that “[t]here’s nothing in Looney that says expressly one way or the other
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`whether play block 532 in Figure 6 is or is not the code that implements the play
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`button 601 in Figure 14.” This testimony is relevant to page 22 of Petitioners’
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`Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 20 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex.
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`1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that “The POR appears to equate the ‘play block
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`532’ with a Play button. . . . That interpretation contradicts Figure 14 (which the
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`POR also cites), in which the ‘Play’ button is indicated with reference numeral
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`601, not reference numeral 532.” This testimony is relevant because it shows Dr.
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`Bederson’s opinion that “‘Play’ block 532” is not the code for implementing Play
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`button 601 is not supported by any express disclosures of Looney.
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`Observation #19: In Ex. 2045 at page 101, lines 2-24, Dr. Bederson
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`admitted that “Figure 6 of Looney is labeled ‘CONTROLS FOR S2 AND S3,’”
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`which “refer[s] to Screen 2 and Screen 3 of Looney,” that “Figure 14 is one of the
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`various figures that shows the operation of Screen 2 of Looney,” that “Play button
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`labeled 601 is [] one of the controls on [Screen] 2 of Looney,” and that
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`“presumably, pressing that play button in Figure 14 of Looney labeled 601” “plays
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`something.” This testimony is relevant to page 22 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25)
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`and paragraph 20 of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr.
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`Bederson asserts that “The POR appears to equate the ‘play block 532’ with a Play
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`button. . . . That interpretation contradicts Figure 14 (which the POR also cites), in
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`which the ‘Play’ button is indicated with reference numeral 601, not reference
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`numeral 532.” This testimony is relevant because it confirms that “Play” block
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`532 corresponds to play button 601.
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`Observation #20: In Ex. 2045 at page 105, line 6 to page 106, line 17, page
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`108, line 12 to page 109, line 23, page 113, line 11 to page 114, line 20, and page
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`116, line 5 to page 117, line 3, Dr. Bederson testified that Looney’s “Mix Up,”
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`“Sort,” and “Save,” functionality are user-triggered actions, that “Mix Up,” “Sort,”
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`and “Save” are all expressly characterized by Looney as “command[s],” and that
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`“‘Play’ block 532” is also characterized by Looney as a “command.” This
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`testimony is relevant to page 22 of Petitioners’ Reply (Paper 25) and paragraph 18
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`of Dr. Bederson’s Reply Declaration (Ex. 1020), where Dr. Bederson asserts that
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`“‘Play’ block 532, [] is not a user-triggered action but rather software code that
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`plays music.” This testimony is relevant because it demonstrates that Looney
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`consistently uses the term “command” to refer to user-initiated actions, and
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`therefore, contrary to Dr. Bederson’s opinion, Play block 532 represents a user-
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`initiated action.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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` /Jonathan D. Baker/
`Jonathan D. Baker, Reg. No. 45708
`Farney Daniels PC
`411 Borel Avenue, Suite 310
`San Mateo, California 94402
`Phone: 424-268-5210
`E-mail: jbaker@farneydaniels.com
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that a copy of the foregoing Patent
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`Owner’s Motion for Observations on Cross-Examination was served via email on
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`July 24, 2017, on the attorneys for the Petitioners:
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`Michael N. Rader, Reg. No. 52,146
`Randy J. Pritzker, Reg. No. 35, 986
`Andrew J. Tibbetts, Reg. No. 65,139
`WOLF GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C.
`600 Atlantic Avenue
`Boston, MA 02210-2206
`Telephone: 617-646-8000Fax: 617-646-8646
`Emails: rpritzker-ptab@wolfgreenfield.com
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`mrader-ptab@wolfgreenfield.com
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`atibbetts-ptab@wolfgreenfield.com
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`Date: July 24, 2017
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`/Jonathan D. Baker/
`Jonathan D. Baker, Reg. No. 45,708
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