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`QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART
`& SULLIVAN, LLP
`James R. Asperger (Bar No. 083188)
`j imaspergerquinnemanuel.com
`865 S. Figueroa St., 10th Floor
`Los Angeles, California 90017
`Telephone: (213) 443-3000
`Facsimile: (213) 443-3100
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`Kevin P.B. Johnson (Bar No. 177129)
`keviqiohnson,@quinnemanuel.com
`555 Twin Dolphin Drive, 5th Floor
`Redwood Shores California 94065
`Telephone: (650) 801-5000
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`Attorneys for Plaintiff the California
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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`The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF
`TECHNOLOGY, a California
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`Plaintiff,
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`HUGHES COMMUNICATIONS,
`INC. a Delaware corporation,
`HUG NETWORK SYSTEMS,
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`company, DISH NETWORK
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`corporation, DISH NETWORK L.L.C.,
`a Colorado limited liability company,
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`BROADBAND L.L.C., a Colorado
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`CASE NO. 2:13-cv-07245-NW-JEM
`AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR
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`CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
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`CASE NO. 2:13..cv-07245-MRP-JEM
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`CALTECH - EXHIBIT 2018
`Apple Inc. v. California Institute of Technology
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`Plaintiff the California Institute of Technology ("Caltech" or "Plaintiff’), by
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`3 Hughes Communications, Inc., Hughes Network Systems, LLC, DISH Network
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`4 Corporation, DISH Network L.L.C., and dishNET Satellite Broadband L.L.C.
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`NATURE OF THE ACTION
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`This is a civil action for patent infringement arising under the patent
`8 laws of the United States, 35 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq.
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`Defendants have infringed and continue to infringe, contributed to and
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`10 continue to contribute to the infringement of, and/or actively induced and continue
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`11 to induce others to infringe Caltech’s U.S. Patent No. 7,116,710, U.S. Patent No.
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`12. 7,421,032, U.S. Patent No. 7,916,781, and U.S. Patent No. 8,284,833 (collectively,
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`13 "the Asserted Patents"). Caltech is the legal owner by assignment of the Asserted
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`14 Patents, which were duly and legally issued by the United States Patent and
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`15 Trademark Office. Caltech seeks injunctive relief and monetary damages.
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`THE PARTIES
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`Caltech is a non-profit private university organized under the laws of
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`18 the State of California, with its principal place of business at 1200 East California
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`19 Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125.
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`On information and belief, Hughes Communications, Inc. ("Hughes
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`21 Communications") is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of
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`22 Delaware, with its principal place of business located at 11717 Exploration Lane,
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`On information and belief, Hughes
`24 Communications is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hughes Satellite Systems
`25 Corporation, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Echo Star Corporation
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`26 ("EchoStar").
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`28 Network") is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of
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`Delaware, with its principal place of business located at 11717 Exploration Lane,
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`2 Germantown, Maryland 20876. On information and belief, Hughes Network is a
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`3 wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications. Hughes Communications
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`4 and Hughes Network, collectively, are referred to as "Hughes Defendants."
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`On information and belief, DISH Network Corporation ("DISH Corp.")
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`6 is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Nevada with its principal
`7 place of business located at 9601 South Meridian Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado
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`On information and belief, DISH Network L.L.C. ("DISH L.L.C.") is a
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`10 limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Colorado with its
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`11 principal place of business located at 9601 South Meridian Boulevard, Englewood,
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`12 Colorado 80112. On information and belief, DISH L.L.C. is a wholly owned
`13 subsidiary of DISH Corp.
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`On information and belief, dishNET Satellite Broadband L.L.C.
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`("dishNET") is a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of
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`16 Colorado with its principal place of business located at 9601 South Meridian
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`17 Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80112. On information and belief, dishNET is a
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`18 wholly owned subsidiary of DISH Corp. On information and belief, dishNET and
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`19 DISH L.L.C. are related entities. DISH Corp., DISH L.L.C., and dishNET,
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`20 collectively, are referred to as "Dish Defendants."
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`On information and belief, Hughes Defendants’ parent company,
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`22 EchoStar, and Dish Defendants were previously one company. On information and
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`23 belief, around January 2008, EchoStar and Dish Defendants became two separate
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`24 companies (the "spin-off’).
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`10. On information and belief, the business relationship among Dish
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`26 Defendants, EchoStar and Hughes Defendants remains extremely integrated. The
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`27 same individual serves as the Chairman of both Dish Defendants and EchoStar.
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`28 Further, since the spin-off, a substantial majority of the voting power of the shares
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`of both Dish Defendants and EchoStar is owned beneficially by the Chairman, or by
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`2 certain trusts established by the Chairman. Additionally, on information and belief,
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`3 in addition to the Chairman, an individual responsible for the development and
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`implementation of advanced technologies that are of potential utility and importance
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`to both Dish Defendants and EchoStar serves on the board of both companies. On
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`6 information and belief, in 2010, Dish Defendants accounted for 82.5% of EchoStar’s
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`total revenue and in 2012, Dish Defendants accounted for 49.5% of EchoStar’s total
`8 revenue. Additionally, on information and belief, in October 2012, Dish Defendants
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`9 and Hughes Defendants entered into a distribution agreement relating to Hughes
`10 Defendants’ satellite internet service.
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`JURISDICTION AND VENUE
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`11. This Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this action under
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`13 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1338(a).
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`12. Hughes Defendants are subject to this Court’s personal jurisdiction. On
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`information and belief, Hughes Defendants regularly conduct business in the State
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`16 of California, including in the Central District of California, and have committed
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`17 acts of patent infringement and/or contributed to or induced acts of patent
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`18 infringement by others in this District and elsewhere in California and the United
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`19 States. As such, Hughes Defendants have purposefully availed themselves of the
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`20 privilege of conducting business within this District; have established sufficient
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`21 minimum contacts with this District such that they should reasonably and fairly
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`22 anticipate being haled into court in this District; have purposefully directed activities
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`23 at residents of this State; and at least a portion of the patent infringement claims
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`24 alleged herein arise out of or are related to one or more of the foregoing activities.
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`13. Dish Defendants are subject to this Court’s personal jurisdiction. On
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`26 information and belief, Dish Defendants regularly conduct business in the State of
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`27 California, including in the Central District of California, maintain employees in this
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`28 District and elsewhere in California, and have committed acts of patent infringement
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`and/or contributed to or induced acts of patent infringement by others in this District
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`2 and elsewhere in California and the United States. As such, Dish Defendants have
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`3 purposefully availed themselves of the privilege of conducting business within this
`4 District; have established sufficient minimum contacts with this District such that
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`6 have purposefully directed activities at residents of this State; and at least a portion
`7 of the patent infringement claims alleged herein arise out of or are related to one or
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`14. Venue is proper in this judicial district pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1391
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`10 and 1400 because Defendants regularly conduct business in this District, and certain
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`11 of the acts complained of herein occurred in this District.
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`CALTECH’S ASSERTED PATENTS
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`15. On October 3, 2006, the United States Patent Office issued U.S. Patent
`14 I No. 7,116,710, titled "Serial Concatenation of Interleaved Convolutional Codes
`15 Forming Turbo-Like Codes" (the "710 patent"). A true and correct copy of the
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`16 ’710 patent is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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`16. On September 2, 2008, the United States Patent Office issued U.S.
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`18 Patent No. 7,421,032, titled "Serial Concatenation of Interleaved Convolutional
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`19 Codes Forming Turbo-Like Codes" (the "032 patent"). A true and correct copy of
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`20 the ’032 patent is attached hereto as Exhibit B. The ’032 patent is a continuation of
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`21 the application that led to the ’710 patent.
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`17. On March 29, 2011, the United States Patent Office issued U.S. Patent
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`23 No. 7,916,781, titled "Serial Concatenation of Interleaved Convolutional Codes
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`24 Forming Turbo-Like Codes" (the "781 patent"). A true and correct copy of the
`’781 patent is attached hereto as Exhibit C. The 1 781 patent is a continuation of the
`26 application that led to the ’032 patent, which is a continuation of the application that
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`27 led to the ’710 patent.
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`No. 8,284,833, titled "Serial Concatenation of Interleaved Convolutional Codes
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`2 Forming Turbo-Like Codes" (the "833 patent"). A true and correct copy of the
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`3 ’833 patent is attached hereto as Exhibit D. The ’833 patent is a continuation of the
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`!AI application that led to the ’781 patent, which is a continuation of the application that
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`19. The Asserted Patents identify Hui Jin, Aamod Khandekar, and Robert
`8 J. McEliece as the inventors (the "Named Inventors").
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`20. Caltech is the owner of all right, title, and interest in and to each of the
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`10 Asserted Patents with full and exclusive right to bring suit to enforce the Asserted
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`11 Patents, including the right to recover for past damages and/or royalties.
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`21. The Asserted Patents are valid and enforceable.
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`BACKGROUND TO THIS ACTION
`22. The Asserted Patents disclose a seminal improvement to coding
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`15 systems and methods used for digital satellite transmission. The Asserted Patents
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`16 disclose an ensemble of codes called irregular repeat-accumulate (IRA) codes,
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`17 which are specific types of low-density parity check (LDPC) codes. The IRA codes
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`18 disclosed in the Asserted Patents enable a transmission rate close to the theoretical
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`19 limit, while also providing the advantage of a low encoding complexity.
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`23. In September 2000, the Named Inventors of the Asserted Patents
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`21 published a paper regarding their invention, titled "Irregular Repeat-Accumulate
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`22 Codes" for the Second International Conference on Turbo Codes. (Exhibit E.) This
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`23 paper has been widely cited by experts in the industry.
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`25 disclosed in the September 2000 paper by the Named Inventors of the Asserted
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`26 Patents. For example, a paper praising these IRA codes was published in August
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`27 2004 by Aline Roumy, Souad Guemghar, Giuseppe Caire, and Sergio Verd(cid:252) in the
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`IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. This paper, titled "Design Methods for
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`Irregular Repeat-Accumulate Codes," states:
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`IRA codes are, in fact, special subclasses of both irregular
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`LDPCs, and they can be decoded with a very-low-complexity
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`(Exhibit F, at 1.) This paper also notes that, four years after the September 2000
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`paper, the Named Inventors were the only ones to propose a method to design IRA
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`The current standard for digital satellite transmissions embodies the
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`invention of the Asserted Patents by using channel codes that are IRA codes. This
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`digital satellite transmission standard is titled "Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB);
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`Second generation framing structure, channel coding and modulation systems for
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`Broadcasting, Interactive Services, News Gathering and other broadband satellite
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`Experts in the industry recognize that the DVB-S2 standard uses the
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`IRA codes initially disclosed by the Named Inventors of the Asserted Patents. For
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`example, a 2005 paper published by the highly regarded Institute of Electrical and
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`Electronics Engineers (IEEE), titled "A Synthesizable IP Core for DVB-S2 LDPC
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`Code Decoding," and authored by Frank Kienle, Torben Brack, and Norbert Wehn
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`The LDPC codes as defined in the DVB-S2 standard are IRA
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`Furthermore, the DVB-S2 code shows regularities which can be
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`27. Moreover, this paper provides credit to the September 2000 paper
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`IRA codes that are defined in the DVB-S2 standard. (Id. at 1 & n.8.)
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`Similarly, on information and belief, a 2007 paper titled "Factorizable
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`DVB-S2 standard uses the IRA codes initially disclosed by the Named Inventors of
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`the Asserted Patents. This paper, authored by Marco Gomes, Gabriel Falc(cid:226)o, Vitor
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`Silva, Vitor Ferreira, Alexandre Sengo, and Miguel Falcªo, states:
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`The new DVB-S2 [] standard adopted a special class of LDPC
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`Liva, Shumei Song, Lan Lan, Yifei Zhang, Shu Lin, and William E. Ryan, confirms
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`that the DVB-S2 standard uses the IRA codes, stating:
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`The ETSI DVB S2 [] standard for digital video broadcast
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`31. As such, products, methods, equipment, and/or services that implement
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`the DVB-S2 standard practice one or more claims of each of the Asserted Patents
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`because the DVB-S2 standard embodies the invention of the Asserted Patents by
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`using IRA codes.
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`32. On information and belief, Hughes Defendants manufacture, use,
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`1 broadband internet access to consumers and broadband network services to the
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`2 enterprise markets, among other activities, including through their HN System and
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`3 H1X System product lines. Hughes Defendants have extensively publicized that their
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`4 flagship FIN System and 1-IX System satellite broadband internet product lines
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`implement the DVB-S2 standard. On information and belief, Hughes Defendants
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`6 market and sell, among other activities, certain broadband equipment and services
`7 that implements the DVB-S2 standard through the HughesNet brand. On
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`8 information and belief, Hughes Defendants further sell or provide certain broadband
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`9 equipment and services that implements the DVB-S2 standard to Dish Defendants.
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`10 On information and belief, Hughes Defendants use their broadband equipment that
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`11 implements the DVB-S2 standard for testing, consulting, and/or support services,
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`16 manufacture, market, offer for sale, sell, distribute, and/or use, among other
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`17 activities, the Hopper set-top box that implements the DVB-S2 standard.
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`18 Additionally, for example, on information and belief, Dish Defendants market, offer
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`19 for sale, sell, and distribute, among other activities, Hughes Defendants’ satellite
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`20 internet service, among other products and services, under the dishNET brand
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`21 pursuant to a distribution agreement entered into with Hughes Defendants in
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`22 October 2012. On information and belief, Dish Defendants purchase certain
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`23 broadband equipment and services that implements the DVB-S2 standard from
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`24 Hughes Defendants and offer for sale, sell, provide, and/or distribute this equipment
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`25 and service to its customers. On information and belief, Dish Defendants use this
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`26 broadband equipment and service that implements the DVB-S2 standard for testing,
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`34. Hughes Defendants admit that their broadband satellite systems are
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`3 compliant with "high-speed DVB-S2." (Exhibit J.) Additionally, Hughes
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`4 Defendants have touted that implementation of this DVB-S2 standard "provides for
`5 higher throughputs, better coding efficiency, and improved satellite resource
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`Further, Hughes Defendants’ website advertises its HX System and
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`8 provides a link to a brochure titled "High-Performance IP Satellite Broadband
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`9 System." (Exhibit L.) This brochure similarly highlights Hughes Defendants’
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`10 implementation of the DVB-S2 standard, stating that the core component of the 1-IX
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`11 System, the FIX Gateway, "uses a DVB-S2 carrier . . . for the outbound channel
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`37. Plaintiff re-alleges and incorporates by reference the allegations of the
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`38. On information and belief, in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 271, Defendants
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`39. On information and belief, in violation of 35 U.S.C. § 271, Defendants
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`27 the ’710 patent. Defendants have induced and continue to induce others to infringe
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`14 customers the Hopper set-top box on their website. On information and belief, the
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`4 acts of infringement are enjoined by the Court. The hardships that an injunction
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`6 The public interest would be served by issuance of an injunction. Thus, Caltech is
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`50. Hughes Defendants’ infringement of the ’710 patent has been and
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