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` UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
` BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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` APPLE INC., ) IPR2017-00317
` ) Patent No. 8,989,830
` Petitioner, )
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` v. )
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` VALENCELL, INC., )
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` Patent Owner. )
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` WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
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` Videotaped deposition of BRIAN W. ANTHONY, PH.D.,
` taken at the offices of Sterne Kessler Goldstein Fox
` 1100 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C.,
` beginning at 9:02 a.m., before Nancy J. Martin, a
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`VALENCELL EXHIBIT 2009
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` I N D E X
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` TESTIMONY OF BRIAN W. ANTHONY, PH.D.
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` BY MR. KENNEDY 5
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` E X H I B I T S
` NUMBER DESCRIPTION MARKED
` Exhibit U.S. Patent 8,989,830 B2, 41 pages 80
` 1001
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` Exhibit Prosecution History File 70
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` Exhibit Declaration of Brian W. 64
` 1003 Anthony, Ph.D., 82 pages
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` Exhibit Academic C.V. of Dr. Brian W. 7
` 1004 Anthony, 20 pages
` Exhibit Mobile Monitoring with Wearable 59
` 1005 Photoplethysmographic Biosensors,
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` Exhibit U.S. Patent No. 4,830,014, 158
` 1007 11 pages
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` Exhibit Decision Instituting Inter Parties 134
` Paper 7 Review, 27 pages
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` WASHINGTON, D.C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017;
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` 9:01 A.M.
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` THE VIDEOGRAPHER: This is the start of media
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` labeled No. 1 of the videotaped deposition of
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` Dr. Brian W. Anthony in the matter of Apple, Inc. v.
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` Valencell, Inc. This is in the United States Patent
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` and Trademark Office before the Patent Trial and
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` Appeal Board, No. IPR2017-00317.
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` This deposition is being held at
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` 1100 New York Avenue, Northwest, Suite 600,
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` Washington, D.C., 20005 on September 13, 2017 at
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` approximately 9:02 a.m.
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` My name is David Campbell from TSG Reporting,
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` Inc., and I'm the legal video specialist. The court
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` reporter is Nancy Martin, in association with
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` Veritext.
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` Counsel, will you please identify yourselves
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` for the record, and the witness will be sworn in and
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` we can proceed.
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` MR. KENNEDY: Bill Kennedy for patent owner,
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` Valencell.
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` MR. SPECHT: Michael Specht for petitioner,
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` Apple, Inc. With me is Jason Fitzsimmons, also of
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` Sterne Kessler Goldstein Fox on behalf of petitioner.
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` BRIAN W. ANTHONY,
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` having been first duly sworn/affirmed,
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` was examined and testified as follows:
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` EXAMINATION
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` BY MR. KENNEDY:
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` Q. Good morning, Dr. Anthony. My name is Bill
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` Kennedy, and I represent the patent owner in this
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` matter, and I'll be asking you the questions today.
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` I'd like you to start by introducing yourself for the
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` record.
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` A. My name is Brian W. Anthony.
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` Q. And what's your understanding of why you're
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` here?
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` A. I agreed, as part of my deposition, to be
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` cross-examined.
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` Q. Have you ever been deposed before?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. How many times?
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` A. One other time.
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` Q. Was that a patent matter?
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` A. It was not.
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` Q. What was that deposition relating to?
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` A. It was for an antitrust case with the FTC.
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` Q. Who were the parties in that antitrust case?
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` A. One of them was a company called Red Lake.
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` Another was a company called -- I'm actually
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` forgetting. It was 10 years ago.
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` Q. So before we go into any further questions,
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` I'd like to just go over some typical deposition
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` ground rules and try to get you to agree to those.
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` The first thing is I'd like you to let me
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` finish asking my question before you answer. In
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` exchange, I'll let you finish answering before I ask
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` another question. Is that fair?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And then if you don't understand one of my
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` questions, I'd like you to tell me so I can try to
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` rephrase it. If you answer one of my questions
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` without telling me you don't understand, I'll assume
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` that you understood the question. Is that fair?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Okay. And then for answers, I'd ask that you
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` give a verbal answer instead of a nod of the head or
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` something like that so that the court reporter can
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` transcribe your answers. Is that fair?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Is there any reason why you can't testify
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` truthfully here today?
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` A. No.
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` Q. Is there any reason why your testimony here
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` might be unreliable?
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` A. No.
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` Q. You understand that you're under oath today?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And do you understand that half truths are
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` unacceptable answers?
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` A. Yes.
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` MR. KENNEDY: I'd like to start first with
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` your background. I'm going to hand you what's been
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` marked in the IPR as Apple -- sorry. Exhibit 1004.
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` REPORTER MARTIN: You said it was previously
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` MR. KENNEDY: Yeah.
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` (Deposition Exhibit 1004 was marked for
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` identification.)
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` BY MR. KENNEDY:
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` Q. Do you recognize Exhibit 1004?
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` (The witness reviewed Exhibit 1004.)
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` THE WITNESS: Yes.
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` BY MR. KENNEDY:
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` Q. What is Exhibit 1004?
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` A. It appears to be my academic CV.
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` Q. Is this different than any other kind of CV
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` that you have? You said, "academic CV."
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` A. I use the moniker "academic CVs." They tend
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` to be 20-page documents that explain all papers, past
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` work. So it's not an abbreviated version.
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` Q. Do you see Section 3 in Exhibit 1004 labeled
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` "Education"?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And then there's a column that says,
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` "Degree." Do you see that?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And then for your B.S. degree you went to
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` Carnegie Mellon University; correct?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And what degree did you receive?
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` A. Mechanical engineering, bachelor of science
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` in mechanical engineering with a minor in European
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` studies.
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` Q. So you didn't receive a degree in electrical
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` engineering; is that correct?
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` A. That is correct.
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` Q. Do you see the row below that, "School, "MIT,
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` Degree, SM"?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. What specific degree was the SM degree?
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` A. That was in mechanical engineering.
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` Q. So for your master's, again, you did not
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` study electrical engineering?
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` A. My degree was in mechanical engineering. I
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` studied electrical engineering, mechanical
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` engineering, computer science.
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` Q. And in what capacity did you study electrical
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` engineering?
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` A. In my thesis I developed a technique to
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` measure the temperature of silicon wafers undergoing
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` rapid thermal processing and developed the mechanics,
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` the optics, and the electronics to measure those
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` characteristics. So both in my research and then the
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` courses that I took.
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` Q. So what specific thing did you do to develop
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` the optics in that project?
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` A. I developed the optics to do the beam forming
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` that would take a pulsed laser and pass it through a
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` conical winds to turn it into a ring, and then the
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` interferometric objects to take a continuous wave
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` laser and point it at the center of a ring, impinging
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` on a silicon surface to detect converging thermal
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` elastic waves, which captured the elastic properties
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` of the silicon as the wave was propagating to it.
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` Q. What do you mean you developed the optics to
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` do the beam forming? Did you buy components? Did you
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` design components and make them?
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` MR. SPECHT: Objection. Form. Sorry. I
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` thought you were done.
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` THE WITNESS: I'm sorry. Can you please
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` Q. Sure. What did you mean by you developed the
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` optics to do the beam forming? Did you design
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` components or make them, or did you buy them off the
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` MR. SPECHT: Objection. Form.
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` THE WITNESS: So I assembled the optical
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` system with commercially available optical components.
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` BY MR. KENNEDY:
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` Q. So you didn't design any optical components;
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` is that correct?
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` A. I guess it would depend on how you just
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` define "design." I did not design a new lens to do
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` this, but I did design the optical system to perform
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` the measurements, yes.
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` Q. What's the difference between those two
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` things?
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` A. An optical component would be something like
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` an individual lens. An optical system would be a
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` combination of lenses, lights, windows, transmissive
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` material, cladding, for example.
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` Q. So I understand my question wasn't entirely
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` clear to you. I meant what's the difference between
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` designing a new lens versus designing a new optical
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` system?
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` A. So if I understand the question correctly --
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` Q. I'll interrupt you so I can try to make it
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` clearer.
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` So you said, "I guess it would depend on how
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` you just define 'design.' I did not design a new lens
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` to do this, but I did design the optical system to
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` perform the measurements, yes." So I'm trying to
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` understand the distinction you're making there.
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` What's the difference of designing a new lens versus
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` designing an optical system?
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` A. So I think as I said, an optical component, a
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` single optical element like a lens is not something
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` that I designed. I would -- I purchased lenses for --
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` that had the correct shape. So I specified what
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` lenses needed to be used and then bought the
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` appropriate lenses.
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` The design of the optical -- of an optical
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` system is a unique arrangement of optical components.
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` Several lenses, several light sources, several
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` protectors.
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` Q. So the fact that you bought a lens off the
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` shelf for the optical system doesn't take away from
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` the fact that you put in some kind of design effort to
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` make a unique arrangement of optical components; is
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` that correct?
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. I'd like to go back to Exhibit 1004 and look
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` at, again, Section 3, and moving down to your Ph.D.
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` from MIT. Can you tell me what specific focus your
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` Ph.D. was on?
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` A. My specific focus of the doctoral thesis was
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` in the video-based system monitoring. My minor of
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` study was in electromechanical system design.
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` Q. And what is "electromechanical system
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` design"?
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` A. That is the integration of electronics,
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` mechanical components, software, and computation.
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` Some would call it "mechatronics." Some would call it
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` "robotics."
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` Q. I'm sorry. Did you say electromechanics or
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` electrical mechanical?
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` A. Electromechanical.
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` Q. And what specific work with optics did you do
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` in your Ph.D. studies?
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` A. In my Ph.D. studies, as I said, the thesis
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` topic was a video-based system monitoring, principally
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` directed towards monitoring of manufacturing lines,
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` the assembly of product happening at high speed or the
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` movement of devices happening at high speed. In such
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` systems the optical components include the lighting
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` that's necessary to appropriately illuminate, the
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` selection of lenses and cameras to appropriately frame
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` and aim and acquire, the inclusion of -- to create
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` some shadows in the control of lighting to make sure
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` that the part or system under interrogation is being
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` appropriately illuminated, for example.
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` I would add to that, actually. Often, in
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` looking at a particular scenario -- and I think one
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` example that was in my thesis was examining a heart
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` valve, a synthetic heart valve, undergoing lifetime
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` testing, and in that system a synthetic heart valve,
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` which was constructed with a polymer ring and real pig
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` tissue as the potential surrogate was being explored
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` as a potential candidate for valve replacement. That
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` system, for example, would be tested in a novel
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` constructive device that would allow fluid to be
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` pumped through it to simulate the beating heart.
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` In such a scenario you need to generally be
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` very creative in figuring out how you create the light
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` path to allow the camera to image the device, how you
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` get light into it.
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` So more often than not, when you're looking
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` at a need for video interrogation in a system that's
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` not plain and open to the visible environment, you
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` need to figure out how to get light into the system,
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` get light out of the system, and have the optical path
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` so that they can be videoed in this case.
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` Q. In your answer just a moment ago you said you
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` made a novel constructive device that would allow
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` fluid to be pumped through it to simulate the beating
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` heart. What was novel about it?
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` A. Many aspects of the device. The novelty in
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` then the baffling and camera framing, mirrors and
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` illumination along the pipe where the heart valve was
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` located." What do you mean by "the techniques to get
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` A. Well, for example, so we have a pipe. We
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` Q. The light pipes were known before this system
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. So what specifically about using these light
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` MR. SPECHT: Objection. Asked and answered.
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` THE WITNESS: I would say I have described
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` what it was, but I think it's the complete system
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` Q. A while back you said, "So more often than
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` not when you're looking at a need for video
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` the visible environment, you need to figure out how to
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` get light into the system, get light out of the
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` videoed in this case." What did you mean by "you need
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` A. We need to figure out how to illuminate the
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` appropriate place is part of the novelty of that
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` system?
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` A. Yes. I think it's for me, reflecting upon
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` it, hard to say what -- the complete system was novel.
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` So it was an individual component known, yes. Did I
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` assemble things that were known and purchasable, yes.
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` So it was really creating the -- using the cameras and
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` lights in their -- sort of their standard way that you
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` would know how to assemble, to create, to capture the
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` motion of this heart valve.
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` So the system itself to capture the heart
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` valve was really -- the motion of the heart valve was
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` the novelty.
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` Q. Sorry. That last sentence you said, "So the
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` system itself to capture the heart valve was really
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` the motion of -- the heart valve was the novelty,"
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` what did you mean by that?
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` A. I believe up until that point nobody had been
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` successfully able to capture the ex vivo but simulated
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` physiological conditions of a heart valve undergoing
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` rapid lifetime testing.
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` Q. And what about your system allowed this to be
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` achieved?
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` MR. SPECHT: Objection. Asked and answered.
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` THE WITNESS: I'm confused as to how to
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` explain it in a different way but...
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` Q. I'm not asking -- if it's the same answer --
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` I just didn't know if it applied in the same way. So
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` I'd ask the same question again, but it's okay if you
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` say the same -- if your answer is still the same.
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` That's fine.
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` A. The answer is still the same.
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` Q. And what's that same answer?
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` A. I can -- I gave a very long answer. I'm
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` sorry. Please repeat the question, and I'll try to
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` paraphrase what my previous answer was.
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` Q. That's fine. Please. Thank you. I
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` appreciate it.
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` A. Can you please repeat the question.
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` Q. You said, "I believe up until that point
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` nobody had been" able to -- "been successfully able to
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` testing." I wanted to know what about your system
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` allowed this to be achieved?
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` MR. SPECHT: Same objection.
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` THE WITNESS: And I'll try to paraphrase.
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` Again, it's the mechanical construct of the whole
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` heart valve, the fluid system to move the valve, the
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` optical system to illuminate, the optical system to
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` video. So everything assembled to record the heart
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` Q. And all the components in that system are
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` previously known; correct?
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. So it's just the arrangement of those
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` components that was novel?
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` A. I'd have to think further back and see -- to
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` recall whether there were any particular components
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` that I described from scratch. I'd say predominantly,
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` though, it was known components.
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` Q. You can't -- sitting here today, you can't
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` think of any components that were new in that device;
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` correct?
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` A. The piping system. There was no piping
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` system that you would buy into which you would place a
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` heart valve. You can't go to Granger and order heart
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` valve piping.
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` Q. But light pipes were known then; correct?
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. So part of the novelty of the invention was
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` using a known light pipe in a new way?
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` A. I think I want to be careful with the term
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` "light pipe." The pipe wasn't what an expert would
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` typically think of as a light pipe. It was a pipe
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` into which the heart valve was placed. Light would
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` also go up and down the pipe. So in that sense the
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` light was transmitting pipe -- or the pipe was
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` transmitting light, allowing it to propagate.
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` And in a general sense, did the pipe have the
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` effect of allowing light to go in and out, yes. Was
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` it a light pipe as, say, you find in different
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` lighting systems, for example, flatbed scanners, no.
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` Q. But the purpose of those components was to
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` illuminate the heart valve with light; correct?
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` A. Well, the intent of an optical system in
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` general is to provide lighting, windows, material that
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` light can propagate through, air, plastic, glass. So
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` it's -- in the majority of optical systems, those are
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` the standard optical components. Lenses, lights,
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` windows, baffling, shading in a medium through which
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` the light is passing.
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` Q. But an inventor can take those standard
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` optical components and arrange them in a way that's
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` novel; correct?
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` A. In this case I was solving a novel
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` application.
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` Q. So I don't think you answered my question.
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` My question was you listed off a bunch of optical
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` elements, lightings, windows, material, that light can
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` those were standard optical components; correct?
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. What I asked was an inventor can use those
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` known components to come up with a novel thing;
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` correct?
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. So we've been talking about in the heart
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` valve system for a while. Is there anything else that
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` you did in your Ph.D. that involved optics?
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` A. The entire thesis was in some way involved
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` with optics and its video. You can't do video without
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` optical systems. So I used the heart valve as one
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` example of a system that was interrogated.
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` Q. Are there any other things that you worked on
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` at your Ph.D. that involved guiding light?
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` A. As part of my thesis or as part of my
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` graduate research? I also was involved in using
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` borescopes to interrogate engine parts. I was
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` would design optical components. I was a TA for an
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` optical engineering class, and certainly, optical
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` components. Windows, lights were all part of that
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` class that I took. So that's all part and parcel of
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` what my doctoral studies included.
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` Q. During your doctoral studies, did you come up
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` with any optical elements that you considered novel?
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` A. Please, can you ask the question again.
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` Q. During your doctoral studies, did you come up
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` with any optical elements that you considered novel?
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` A. And by "element," if I can ask for
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` clarification, you mean a single optical component?
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` Q. Sure.
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` A. I guess it depends on how broadly you want to
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` define "novel." So do they design novel windows, yes.
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` Do they sort of arrange optical transmissive material
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` in novel ways, yes. Did I design any new lenses, no.
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` I would also add that my -- during my doctoral studies
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` I was also running and starting my company, and there
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` were optical devices and techniques that -- I was
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` doing that.
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` Q. When you said, "Did I design novel windows,
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` yes," what specific novel windows did you design?
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` A. I'll continue to use the heart valve.
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` Q. So I'm not just asking you about the heart
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` valve. I'm asking about which novel windows did you
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` MR. SPECHT: Counsel, please let the expert
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` MR. KENNEDY: I thought it would just be
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` since I saw where his answer was going.
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` THE WITNESS: So a novel -- in this sense, a
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` novel window is generally not designed in isolation.
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` A novel window is generally designed with a system in
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` mind. It's more common to find individual -- so you
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` don't generally find them by windows. You buy lenses.
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` And so it's hard to say that I've designed a window
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` that could have been released for commercial product
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` and reused in many different ways. It's always in the
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` context of getting light into a particular area that
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` BY MR. KENNEDY:
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` Q. So the novelty in the windows that you
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` designed was in the context of getting light into a
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` particular area that needs to be illuminated?
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. We've already heard about the heart valve
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` example. Is that an example of one of those windows?
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` A. There were certainly windows in that system.
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` Q. And did you -- were you involved in any other
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` systems in which you found that the novelty in the
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` windows was designed in the context of getting the
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` light into a particular area that needs to be
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` illuminated?
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` A. Most optical systems, when you're trying to
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` direct and guide light to a particular location, are
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` going to involve windows. So I'd say the majority of
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` the systems that I would video, or if they were in
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` enclosed spaces, would in some way have, as a
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` component, a technique or a window, an opening through
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` which to get light.
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` Q. I'd like to go back to your original answer.
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` You said, "So did I design novel windows, yes." And I
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` asked you what specific novel windows that you
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` designed. I believe that the ultimate answer that
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` came down to was "the novelty in the windows designed
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` was in the context of getting light into the
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` particular area that needs to be illuminated"; is that
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` correct?
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` A. Correct. That sounds like what I said.
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` Q. And then the example you provided, that was
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` your pig heart valve example; is that correct?
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` A. Correct. That is one example, yeah.
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` Q. Are there any other examples of that?
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` A. As I think I also mentioned, involved in
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` using borescopes to examine the insides of engines, of
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` turbines. What are some other examples? In the
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` context of our -- for -- are you asking just in the
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` context of the things that I did at MIT as part of my
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` doctoral work?
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` Q. For now, yes.
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` A. Okay. I was also involved with systems to do
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` robotic tele-operation using cameras to observe motion
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` behind walls or on gimbals. And, again, those are
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` windows in those systems. Those are some examples.
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` I'm sure there are others, but, now, going back to my
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` doctoral thesis is --
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` Q. Can you think of any other examples?
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` A. I think one of the other examples that
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` probably made it into my thesis was the diaper
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` packaging line where we had to monitor the flow of
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` diapers being packaged. Glue was being applied to the
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` diaper as part of a machine, and it passed through a
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` gluing and attaching of paper to the glue as another
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` example. I'm certain there are others.
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` Q. What are the others?
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` A. I did already highlight my master's work,
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` which was -- the term included windows in both the use
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` detection of service motion.
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` height-of-fill systems for monitoring f