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`IMPLICIT NETWORKS, INC.,
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` Plaintiff,
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`F5 NETWORKS,
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`AND RELATED ACTIONS
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` 30(b)(6) VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF
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` IMPLICIT NETWORKS, INC., THROUGH EDWARD BALASSANIAN
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` Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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` Volume I
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` UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`IMPLICIT NETWORKS, INC.,
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`IMPLICIT NETWORKS, INC.,
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` Plaintiff,
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`HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY,
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` Defendant.
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`IMPLICIT NETWORKS, INC.,
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` Plaintiff,
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`JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.,
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` 30(b)(6) Videotaped Deposition of Implicit
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`Networks, Inc., through Edward Balassanian, Volume
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`I, taken on behalf of Defendants, at 4 Embarcadero
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` INDEX
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`WITNESS EXAMINATION
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`EDWARD BALASSANIAN
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`EXHIBIT 102 United States Patent 107
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`EXHIBIT 104 United States Patent 128
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` 9:44 a.m.
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` THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Good morning. We're 09:43:58
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`with our court reporter, Lori Stokes. We're here
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`Services at the request of the defendant.
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` This deposition is being held at
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`California. And the caption of the cases are
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`Implicit Networks, Inc. versus F5 Networks, Inc., 09:44:35
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`case number 3:10-cv-03365-SI.
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` And Implicit Networks, Inc. versus 09:45:01
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`Juniper Networks, Inc., case number 3:10-cv-04234.
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` MR. HOSIE: Good morning. Spencer Hosie
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`Networks, the plaintiff.
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` MR. McPHIE: David McPhie of Irell &
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` MR. HOSIE: Good morning, Rachel.
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` MS. MAIRE: Good morning.
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` MR. HOSIE: We have not met before. 09:45:55
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` MS. MAIRE: Nice to meet you.
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` MR. HOSIE: Likewise.
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` MR. GREEN: Christopher Green, Fish &
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` THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Thank you.
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` Q Good morning. Would you please state 09:46:20
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`Yarrow Point, Washington 98004.
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` Q Mr. Balassanian, have you ever been 09:46:33
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` Q Are you the inventor of flow-based
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` THE WITNESS: Flow-based processing is a
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` THE WITNESS: Did we have our own mail
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` MR. HOSIE: Objection. Vague as to time. 03:16:36
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` THE WITNESS: BeComm still exists, and
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`infrastructure from old hardware to new hardware,
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`updated to new versions of Exchange. And more
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` Q The loss of email. 03:18:56
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`time periods, we didn't keep the archives.
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` Losing it implies that we meant to
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`piles of email.
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` You had email that you used heavily from
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` A Correct.
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` Q And now you do not have the bulk of those
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` A I don't think I have very many emails
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`from 1996 to 2000 -- or to 1999ish. 03:19:43
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`while, but they took on that responsibility as my
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`workload became too much. And I know that in 2000,
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`we switched over to -- I can't remember the name of 03:20:43
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`the product.
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` But it was an Exchange server -- a
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`Microsoft Exchange server that allowed us to more
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`easily archive email -- I shouldn't say it that
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`way. 03:21:07
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`had way more messages in them. So you didn't have
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`to delete email to keep your in-box manageable.
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`You could actually create folders and stick emails
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`in there. So most of the emails that I have are 03:21:22
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`forward, what time period are you referring to?
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`archived. There might be some before then.
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` But again, when we transitioned between
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`wasn't as careful -- it's easy to obliterate the
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`archives. 03:21:57
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` Q Was that obliteration accidental?
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`in trying to delete records of emails. But
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`sometimes it was intentional in just taking the
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`fastest path to getting a new server set up. 03:22:12
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` Q So it was at least a conscious decision?
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` MR. HOSIE: Objection. Vague and
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`ambiguous. Mischaracterizes the witness'
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`testimony.
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` THE WITNESS: I would characterize it 03:22:26
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`more as not caring whether it was lost or not. 03:22:27
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`BY MR. McPHIE:
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` Q And that includes Implicit's email
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`records all the way through whenever it was in the
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`year 2000 when you hired an individual to manage 03:22:40
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`your email, correct?
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` MR. HOSIE: Objection. Mischaracterizes
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`the testimony.
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` THE WITNESS: As I mentioned, that
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`individual was at the company before. He just took 03:22:50
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`on more of the IT responsibilities.
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` And Implicit has produced a lot of
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`frame. It's just my emails, that I wasn't as
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`required each individual to personally archive
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`their in-boxes. So they -- some people did; some
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`people didn't. I didn't.
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`in-box with any messages in it by the end of the
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`day. It was just a way of knowing I got through
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`what I got through and usually deleted them.
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`BY MR. McPHIE:
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` Q And is that policy still in place today? 03:23:35
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`THE WITNESS: No.
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`Q When did you -- well, withdrawn.
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`When was it that your emails started to
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`be archived on a regular basis?
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`A We never had an archive policy, so there
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`was no archiving on a regular basis. It was more
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`that the server made it easy to do. So if you were 03:24:12
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`so inclined, it was easier to do.
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`Q And when did that happen with respect to
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`your email?
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`MR. HOSIE: Objection. Asked and
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`answered.
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`THE WITNESS: As I said, in the 2000 time
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`frame, that became easier for me to do, and I
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`2000 time frame, keeping a history of the
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`conversations I had with all the different people
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`Q One of the things you did as you were
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`was you would read up on their research before
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`reaching out to them, correct?
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`MR. HOSIE: Objection. Vague as to time.
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`THE WITNESS: I would usually make it
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`a -- I would usually make an effort to understand
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`what the faculty member did before reaching out to
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`them, so I would know whether it was useful to
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`reach out to them.
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`I certainly didn't want to reach out to
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`faculty in neuroscience when I was working on
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`computer operating systems.
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`BY MR. McPHIE:
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`Q You read their papers, and you speak
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`their parlance, correct?
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`MR. HOSIE: Objection. Vague and
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`ambiguous.
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`THE WITNESS: I think I already spoke
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`their parlance because I was in their field.
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`My goal in reading papers online was to
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