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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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`K/S HIMPP,
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` Petitioner,
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`vs. Case Nos. IPR2017-00781
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`III HOLDINGS 4, LLC,
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` Patent Owner.
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` VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF
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` CLYDE "KIP" M. BROWN, JR., P.E.
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` THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2018
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`HIMPP v. III Holdings 4
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`HIMPP 1016
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`K/S HIMPP,
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`III HOLDINGS 4, LLC,
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`Patent Owner.
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`Transcript of video-recorded deposition
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`APPEARANCES:
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`For Petitioner K/S HIMPP:
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` WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE and DORR LLP
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` BY: HAIXIA LIN, ESQ.
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` CHRISTOPHER R. O'BRIEN, ESQ.
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` christopher.o'brien@wilmerhale.com
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`For the Patent Owner:
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` POLSINELLI, LLP
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` BY: MARGAUX SAVEE, ESQ.
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`petitioner in the matter of K/S HIMPP versus III
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`BY MS. LIN:
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` Q. Great.
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` Can you state your full name for the
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` A. Full name is Clyde Manford Brown, Jr., and
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` A. I do.
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` A. That is correct.
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` A. No.
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` Q. I know you've done depositions before, but
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` A. Okay.
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` Q. Perfect.
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` A. For today's deposition, I reviewed the
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`met a few hours yesterday with Margaux and Hank.
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` Q. Did you meet with anyone else yesterday --
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` A. No.
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` Q. -- to discuss --
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` A. Anyone else? By phone with the in-house
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` Q. Okay. Was that with Russ Rigby?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And you said it was for a few hours?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Okay. Have you discussed this case with
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` A. No.
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` Q. And you said you reviewed your reports.
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`Did you mean your declarations?
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`PTO and so forth.
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` Q. Okay. Did you review any documents in
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`preparation for today's deposition that were not
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`part -- submitted as exhibits in the IPR
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`proceedings?
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` A. No.
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` Q. Okay. And you read the decision, the
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`institution from the Board?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Okay. Perfect.
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` And I know you submitted a CV as an
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`exhibit with your declarations.
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. At the time you submitted it, were they
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Is there anything you want to add to them?
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` A. Well, if I were to send it out now, I
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`the sequence -- two or three. I don't remember.
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`filed inter partes review petitions for U.S. Patent
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`No. 8,654,999; right?
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` A. Yes.
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` A. I would prefer that.
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` Q. I would too.
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` A. Yes, because the proceedings have split
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` Q. Perfect.
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` A. Yes, I do. I would appreciate it if any
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` Q. Okay. Perfect. I can do that.
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` A. I was recommended by Teklicon.
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` Q. And is that an expert consulting firm --
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` A. Expert witness consulting firm.
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` Q. -- service?
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` A. Service, yeah.
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` Q. Okay. And what were you asked to do? For
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`in some cases, had my own opinion.
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` Q. Okay. Do you recall how long -- how many
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` A. I should have actually gone through and
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` A. Yeah.
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`prior art cited in the petitioners; correct?
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` A. That's correct.
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` A. To the best of my knowledge.
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` Q. There's nothing you want to add to them
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` A. There's a few typos, but nothing that
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` Q. Okay. Perfect. Okay.
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` So you know about signal processing;
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` Q. Are you familiar with a filter in the
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` THE WITNESS: I'm familiar with a filter in
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` MS. SAVEE: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: They invented a method of
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` A. No.
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` MS. SAVEE: Objection; form.
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` A. I would agree to that.
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` Q. Okay. How about high-pass filter in the
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` A. In terms of a generic high-pass filter?
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` Q. Yes.
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` A. It is different from a filter in a hearing
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`aid, but it is definitely -- I know what a high-pass
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` Did the inventors invent that?
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` Q. Attenuates the high frequencies?
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` And it lets the low frequencies go
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` THE WITNESS: There's a simple filter to do
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`each one.
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` Q. Okay. Okay. Okay. How about the concept
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`about we try that? Would you agree with that?
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`multi-coefficients to go into individual bands, yes.
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` Q. Okay.
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` Q. Okay. So a set of parameters that dictate
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`coefficients. And that was known by 2009?
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` MS. SAVEE: Objection; form.
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` THE WITNESS: That was generally practiced by
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` Q. Okay.
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` A. The first filter would be a single, like
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`high-frequency noise?
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` A. Right.
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`like we've been discussing, for acclimatization was
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` THE WITNESS: I have not seen that evidence of
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` Q. Okay. Okay. So I'm handing you
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`Exhibit 1004. This is U.S. Patent Application
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`Publication No. 2003/0215105.
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` Are you familiar with Sacha?
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` Let's turn to paragraph 4 in Sacha.
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` A. Okay.
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