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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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`INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.,
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`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`ETHICON, LLC,
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`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2018-01254
`U.S. Patent No. 8,479,969
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`DEPOSITION OF BRYAN KNODEL, PH.D.
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`April 4, 2019
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`9:31 a.m.
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`Fish & Richardson
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`One Marina Park Drive
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`Boston, Massachusetts
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` 25 ---- Reporter: Julie Thomson Riley, RDR, CRR ---
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`Alderson Court Reporting
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`Ethicon Exhibit 2011.001
`Intuitive v. Ethicon
`IPR2018-01247
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`Bryan Knodel, Ph.D.
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`Boston, MA
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` 1 APPEARANCES:
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` 3 Fish & Richardson, PC
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`by Steven R. Katz, Esquire
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`One Marina Park Drive
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`Boston, Massachusetts 02210-1878
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`by Anish R. Desai, Esquire
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`Ethicon Exhibit 2011.002
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`Bryan Knodel, Ph.D.
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`I N D E X
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` 2 Deposition of:
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` 3 Bryan D. Knodel, Ph.D.
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`by Mr. Desai
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`Ethicon Exhibit 2011.003
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`Bryan Knodel, Ph.D.
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`MORNING SESSION
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`BRYAN D. KNODEL, PH.D.,
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` 7 having been satisfactorily identified and duly sworn
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` 8 by the Notary Public was examined and testified as
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`DIRECT EXAMINATION
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` 11 BY MR. DESAI:
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`Could you state your name for the record.
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`Bryan Knodel.
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`And you were deposed yesterday in the 1247
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`The Anderson case, yes.
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`Okay. And for today's deposition, you
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` 18 have a binder in front of you with the exhibits in
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` 19 the 1254 IPR, which is the Giordano-based IPR; is
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`Yes, I do.
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`Including your declaration?
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`Yes, I do.
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`Okay. Why don't you -- before we do that,
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` 25 what did you do to prepare today for this deposition?
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`Bryan Knodel, Ph.D.
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`I looked over my declaration and the cited
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`And when did you do that?
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`Last night.
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`Okay. Did you meet with your attorney to
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`I did. Yesterday afternoon.
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`For how long?
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`Two hours.
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`Okay. Do you have any corrections to make
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`Not that I'm aware of.
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`Okay.
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`MR. KATZ: Do you happen to have an extra
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`MR. DESAI: Yes I do. Sorry.
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`MR. KATZ: I think it would be helpful if
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`Great.
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`MR. DESAI: Okay. I'll hand out these.
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` 21 This is the -- you already have the Giordano. I'll
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`MR. KATZ: Thank you.
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`THE WITNESS: Okay.
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`Ethicon Exhibit 2011.005
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`Okay. So for claim 24, that starts in
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` 2 your declaration at page or let's say paragraph
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`That is correct.
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`Okay. And as I understand your combination,
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` 6 it's the Shelton stapler, adapted for use with
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` 7 Giordano's articulation mechanism, and then
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` 8 Wallace's surgical robot system; right?
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`Yes.
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`Okay. I'd like you to take a look at
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` 11 Figure 5 of Giordano, which actually is on the next
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` 12 page in your declaration. Okay. And then at the
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` 13 same time, if you could look at Figure 11 of
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` 14 Shelton.
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`Mm-hmm.
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`Okay.
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`Okay.
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`So Shelton stapler, Figure 11, includes a
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` 19 firing bar 14 that moves linearly to fire the
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`That's correct.
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`Okay. And Giordano's stapler includes a
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`Mm-hmm.
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`-- bevel gear assembly 52 --
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`Mm-hmm.
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`-- secondary drive shaft 50, drive gear
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` 4 54, proximal drive gear 56 and helical screw shaft
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` 5 36, and those are used to fire the stapler; right?
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`I didn't see the last few numbers that
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` 7 you -- you went pretty fast. Can you -- I was
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` 8 following you up to the very end, the secondary
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` 9 shaft, 36, and then what was after that? Sorry.
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`No, yeah, I'll do it again. I'll try to
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`Okay.
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`Okay. So Giordano stapler has a rotary
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`Yes.
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`-- proximal drive gear 56, and then
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`Right. I followed it. Okay. Thank you.
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`And those are used to fire the stapler?
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`That's correct.
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`Okay. And as I understand your declaration,
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` 1 stapler, so in your proposed combination, the firing
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` 2 of the stapler would be accomplished using Shelton's
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` 3 firing rod; is that right?
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`It could be.
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`Well, what's your opinion in your
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`Oh, I didn't -- in my opinion that I
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` 8 formulated, I didn't feel like I needed to
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` 9 distinguish, because either one -- I wanted to use
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` 10 the -- I wanted to use the articulation of Giordano,
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`So when you say the Shelton stapler --
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`-- what do you mean?
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`I mean because in your declaration, you
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`The mechanisms of the Shelton stapler, but
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` 1 were -- they both accomplished the same purpose.
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` 2 They advanced the wedge and knife.
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`Q.
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`Right. So but in your declaration, when
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`Okay.
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`What parts of the Shelton stapler?
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`The -- I believe that there's -- when I'm
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` 10 I'm combining Giordano and Shelton and Wallace, in
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`You said -- I'll reread it: One
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`It's the combination of the three; right?
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` 19 So I'm not -- I wasn't specifically trying to
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` 1 to the robot. So I wasn't trying to identify -- this
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` 2 exact part from Shelton is what I was considering.
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`Okay. So when you said Shelton stapler,
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`And parts of Wallace.
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`-- and parts of Wallace?
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`Yes, that's what I mean.
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`But what part of -- when you say the
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`I didn't specifically try to identify
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`Okay. You've explained, I think, that the
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`Can you point to my --
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`Right. Yeah. So let's see, in
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`You got that?
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`And if we go to paragraph 117, that's
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`Yes.
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`Okay. And at the bottom there, you define
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` 6 Giordano's articulation mechanism is including,
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` 7 among other things, the articulation control 16 and
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` 8 the articulation pivot 14; right?
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`I do identify that the Giordano's
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` 11 these controls 16, yes, and articulation pivot 14,
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`Okay. Looking at Shelton Figure 11.
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`MR. KATZ: That's right here.
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`Q.
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`Yeah. Thank you.
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`How would the articulation pivot be
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`The outer shaft 32 of Shelton is replaced
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`And you would maintain or you could
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` 22 maintain, in your view, the firing rod 14; right?
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` 23 You wouldn't change that?
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`Fourteen. I am not -- I didn't make a
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` 25 determination whether I would want to or needed to.
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` 1 Maybe; maybe not.
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`Q.
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`The Shelton stapler, am I correct, that it
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` 4 drawing back a closure trigger to close the jaws and
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` 5 then drawing back the firing trigger to fire the
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`Q.
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`That is my understanding as well.
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`Okay. For the Shelton stapler does the
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` 10 to fire or does pulling the trigger all the way
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`I don't recall. Did I -- did I comment on
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`I don't think you did. I'm asking if you
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`I don't recall.
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`Okay. Are you able to determine that by
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` 18 looking at the Shelton stapler in the patent?
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`Perhaps, if I read through it.
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`I don't know that I -- the -- I am hesitant
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` 22 to try to state this because this patent references
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` 23 other patents that may be included, and I don't
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` 24 think that that's something that I have time to
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` 25 delve into right now.
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`Okay. What about Figure 6 of Shelton,
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` 2 taking a look at that, and Figure 8? Limit it to
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` 3 that. Do those figures instruct you as to how the
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` 4 firing would work as to how many times the user
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` 5 needs to pull the trigger?
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`From Figure 6, I would deduce that the
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` 7 firing -- the closure trigger is pulled once, and
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` 8 the firing trigger is pulled once.
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`Q.
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`Okay. In paragraph 127 of your declaration,
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` 11 limitation 24.2.2.
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`Yes.
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`Okay. And your primary position here is
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` 14 that the Shelton stapler with the Giordano
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` 15 articulation mechanism satisfies this limitation;
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`Giordano, in view of Wallace, where the
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` 18 Shelton stapler with Giordano's articulation
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` 19 mechanism, yes.
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`Right.
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`Mm-hmm.
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`But then you have a sentence at the very
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` 23 end of the paragraph that says "Moreover, Wallace,
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` 24 likewise, teaches a surgical instrument with an
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` 25 articulation joint providing articulation about an
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` 1 axis transverse to the longitudinal axis, and thus
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` 2 Wallace likewise provides the necessary teaching to
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` 3 add articulation to the Shelton stapler."
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`Do you see that?
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`I do see that.
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`Okay. Are you proposing an alternative
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` 7 combination here where the Shelton stapler utilizes
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` 8 the platform wrist mechanism that's described in
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` 9 Wallace as opposed to the Giordano articulation
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` 10 pivot?
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`What I'm proposing is that Wallace, that
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` 12 the Wallace articulation joint creates a geometric
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` 13 relationship where the axis is transverse to the
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` 14 longitudinal tool.
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`Okay. You didn't answer my question.
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`Oh, I'm sorry.
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`You answered a different question.
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`Okay.
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`I'll try again.
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`Are you proposing a combination here where
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` 21 the Shelton stapler utilizes the platform wrist
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` 22 mechanism that's described in Wallace as opposed to
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` 23 the Giordano articulation pivot?
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`I'm not sure I understand the question. I
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` 25 know this is the third time you've asked it, but.
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`Q.
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`Okay. In your previous paragraph you
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` 2 explain how the Shelton stapler will utilize a
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` 3 Giordano articulation mechanism which we've
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` 4 discussed as the articulation control 16 at least
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` 5 and the articulation pivot 14; right?
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`A.
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`No. No, that's -- if you understood me to
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` 7 say that, I wasn't saying that we would use that
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` 8 exact articulation control 16. Sixteen is out on
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` 9 the shaft, and it's -- it's -- I wasn't saying we're
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` 10 using 16 specifically.
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`A.
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`So you're changing your declaration?
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`No.
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`Can you show me where I said -- identified
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` 14 specifically part No. 16.
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`Q.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`I think we just went through that.
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`Okay. Let's do it again.
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`Paragraph 117.
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`Okay. I identify that that is the
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` 19 mechanism of Giordano, but I'm not specifically
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` 20 saying that I'm using all the -- I'm not identifying
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` 21 the pieces of -- when I'm saying that that is -- in
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` 22 Giordano, 16 is the articulation control; that is
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` 23 true. What I'm not saying that it is in a
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` 24 combination that 16 is a part that I have identified
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` 25 that I'm using. That's the clarification I'm
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`Q.
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`And so when you said or Giordano disclosed
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` 3 an articulation mechanism, including among other
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` 4 things, an articulation control 16 and articulation
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` 5 pivot 14 --
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Right.
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`-- you said that right?
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`I did say that, yes.
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`And then later on in your declaration, you
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` 10 say the Shelton stapler with Giordano's articulation
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` 11 mechanism. That's what you said, paragraph 127?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`I understand that.
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`Right. And so now you're changing
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` 14 this -- hold on. Let me just --
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`MR. KATZ: And hold on because I'm going
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` 16 to object. So hold your horses.
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`Q.
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`You're changing or you're modifying
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` 18 paragraph 127 now, so that what you're saying here
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` 19 is when you're saying Giordano's articulation
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` 20 mechanism, you're not referring to the control 16?
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`MR. KATZ: And objection to form.
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` 22 Argumentative and mischaracterizes testimony.
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`A.
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`I'm saying that -- what I'm saying in
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` 24 paragraph 17 is relative to Figure No. 2. I'm
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` 25 identifying the articulation control in the pivot,
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` 1 among other things, so that the reader can say, oh,
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` 2 here's the articulation joint and its control.
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`Later when I say I want to use Giordano's
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` 4 articulation, I didn't identify all the elements of
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` 5 the articulation. I identified them relative to
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` 6 Figure 2 for identification, so I'm not specifically
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` 7 saying that the combination requires the specific
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` 8 component 16. That's what I'm trying to clarify.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`Okay.
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`All right. So let's now go back to the
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` 12 other question I was asking --
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`-- which is where you say at the end of
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` 15 paragraph 127, are you proposing a combination here
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` 16 where the Shelton stapler would utilize the platform
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` 17 wrist mechanism that's described in Wallace?
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`A.
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`I'm -- yes, so Wallace would provide a
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` 19 longitudinal -- an axis -- Wallace articulation
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` 20 would create an axis transverse to the longitudinal
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` 21 tool if that were -- if that were included in a
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` 22 combination with Shelton.
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`Q.
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`So if someone were to use the platform
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` 24 wrist mechanism in Wallace with the Shelton stapler,
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` 25 you're saying that would be -- allow you to
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`That's what you're saying?
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`That's what I'm saying.
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`Is it your position that somebody would --
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` 6 a person of ordinary skill in the art would use the
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` 7 platform wrist mechanism in Wallace with the Shelton
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` 8 stapler?
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`A.
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`I didn't really -- I didn't consider the
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` 10 question from that perspective. It wasn't a
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` 11 question of would. It was a question of could.
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`Q.
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`Have you explained here in your declaration
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` 13 how the Shelton stapler with the platform wrist
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` 14 mechanism of Wallace would have a proximal spine
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` 15 portion pivotally coupled to a distal spine portion
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` 16 at an articulation joint?
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`A.
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`Once, again, it might be faster if you
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` 18 point to where you're -- which claim are you referring
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` 19 to?
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Well, I'm talking about limitation 24.2.2 --
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`Okay.
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`-- and your only paragraph about that is
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` 23 paragraph 127.
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`Q.
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`And so do you think you've explained here
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` 2 wrist would have a proximal spine portion pivotally
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` 3 coupled to a distal spine portion at an articulation
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` 4 joint?
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`A.
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`The Wallace articulation joint has
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` 6 something beyond it that it's driving, and if we
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` 7 look at Wallace --
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`Q.
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`Well, before you do that, before you -- I'll
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` 9 let you do that in a second.
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`Q.
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`Yeah.
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`Okay. But first answer my question. Do
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` 12 you think you've explained that here in paragraph 127?
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`A.
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`I think it -- I think I explained it to
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` 14 the -- I guess it seemed obvious to me.
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`Q.
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`Q.
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`You're not answering my question.
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`Okay.
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`My question is do you think you've
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` 18 explained it here in paragraph 127?
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`A.
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`I felt that I -- 127 was clear in my
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` 20 intention.
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`Q.
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`You think it's clear in paragraph 127 that
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` 22 you've explained how the Shelton stapler with the
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` 23 Wallace platform wrist has a proximal spine portion
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` 24 pivotally coupled to a distal spine portion at an
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`What I wrote I felt was sufficient for
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` 2 someone to look at then what does Wallace have?
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` 3 What does Shelton have? And that the combination
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` 4 met the limitations of that claim.
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`Q.
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`Okay. Where in Wallace have you pointed
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` 6 us to?
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`A.
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`I didn't specifically point to Wallace. I
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` 8 didn't try to identify a component by number that
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` 9 said this is the distal spine portion.
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`Q.
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`We talked about Wallace a bit yesterday.
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` 11 I don't remember if we covered this or not. You'd
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` 12 agree that the purpose of Wallace is to provide a
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` 13 platform wrist mechanism that provides three degrees
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` 14 of movement of an end effector?
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`MR. KATZ: Objection to form.
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`A.
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`I don't -- I don't recall that statement
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` 17 being made, no. Three degrees of freedom.
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`Q.
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`You don't recall that being said in
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` 19 Wallace?
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` 22 I?
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`Q.
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`Three degrees of freedom, no, that's --
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`I didn't say three degrees of freedom, did
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`You just did, yes.
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`I said three degrees of movement.
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`Okay.
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`Okay. Does that change -- does it matter?
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`Well, I think of a wrist as two degrees of
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`Q.
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`Okay. I didn't use the word "freedom";
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` 5 so, I'll try again.
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` 6
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`You would agree that the purpose of
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` 7 Wallace is to provide a platform wrist mechanism
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` 8 that provides three degrees of movement of an end
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` 9 effector?
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`MR. KATZ: Objection to form.
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`A.
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`I don't really understand the question
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` 12 or -- yeah, I don't understand what you're saying.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Okay. You read Wallace; right?
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`Yes, I did.
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`All right. So why don't we take a look at
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` 16 it. Column two.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`The bottom of column two, and you see it
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` 19 says "Manipulation and control of these end
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` 20 effectors is a critical aspect of robotic surgical
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` 21 systems."
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`Q.
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`Do you see that?
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`I do see that. Mm-hmm.
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`Okay. And then it talks about providing a
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` 2 effector.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Do you see that?
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`I do see that.
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`You understand what that means?
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`I do in this context. It's much more
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` 7 clear than what I thought I heard you say before.
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`Q.
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`Oh, okay.
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`So now you agree that the purpose of this
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` 10 patent is to provide a mechanism that provides three
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` 11 degrees of rotational movement for an end effector
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` 12 for a robotic surgical system; correct?
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`MR. KATZ: Objection to form.
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`You may answer.
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`A.
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`The entire device has three degrees of
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` 16 motion, yes. The articulation is not providing
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` 17 three degrees of motion.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`The third degree is the shaft roll?
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`Exactly. That's what's confusing me.
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`Okay. And the way that Wallace
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` 21 accomplishes providing that three degrees of
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` 22 movement is to have a shaft roll and a platform
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` 23 wrist; right?
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`Q.
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`That is correct, I believe.
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`Wallace illustrates a tool base that
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` 2 system for an end effector; right?
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` 3
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`A.
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`Yes, Wallace has a tool base for
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` 4 connection to a robotic surgical system that drives
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` 5 the instruments, yes.
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` 6
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`Q.
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`And it's illustrated in Figures 26 to 30;
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` 7 right. That's the tool base?
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`A.
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`You can see a portion of the tool base in
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` 9 28 and 29. It is more clear in 27 and 30, yes.
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`Q.
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`And 26 too; right? I think they're all
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` 11 just different views of the same tool base; right?
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` 12
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`A.
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`Yes. Basically, yes, I think so. I think
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` 13 so.
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`Is 62 is that what he calls it, a tool
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` 21 62.
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`Q.
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`I think so.
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`I just don't want to use the wrong term.
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`You can check. Yeah, column 7.
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`Column 7.
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`Right around line 37, it says tool base,
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`Thirty-seven.
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`You can also see in the figures, the
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` 24 description of the figures in column 7. There's say
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` 25 Figure 26, they're all --
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`-- referring to the tool base; right?
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`Okay. Linkage 62. And then it's a little
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` 4 bit weird. It talks about linkage 62.
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`Q.
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`Right. If you just look at the description
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` 6 of Figures 26 to 30 on column 7, you'll see that
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` 7 they're referring to a tool base. Column 7.
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` 8 I think you're in the wrong -- you're in the wrong
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` 9 place.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`That's what was throwing me off.
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`You've gone too far into your binder now.
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`Yeah, I'd gone into Tierney. I'm like,
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` 13 boy, I'm just not seeing what you're saying.
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`Q.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Sorry.
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`Boy, I'm really confused.
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`That's okay.
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`Okay. Let me try again. Coupled to tool
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` 18 base 62, yes, it is clear now. Thank you.
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`Q.
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`No problem.
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`All right. So the tool base that's shown
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` 21 in Figures 26 to 30 of Wallace is not designed to
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` 22 drive an endocutter that clamps and fires; correct?
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`Q.
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`That is correct.
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`Okay. The motions that are provided in
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` 1 wrist and a shaft roll; correct?
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` 2
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`A.
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`No. I think there's also an actuation to
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` 3 actuate an end effector.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Are you sure about that?
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`I'm not sure. That's why I say I think
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` 6 there's an actuation as well.
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`I don't --
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`Q.
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`Well, I don't think there is, so by my
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` 9 read of Wallace, there are -- that tool base
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` 10 performs, as it's shown and described, performs the
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` 11 shaft roll and the articulation.
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` 16 yourself.
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`Okay.
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`Do you want to check that for yourself?
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`No, that's fine.
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`No, I actually need you to check for
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`Q.
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`If that's what you believe.
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`I want to know what you believe.
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`MR. KATZ: Objection. Asked and answered.
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`A.
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`I just want to see -- because Wallace
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` 21 shows, for example, in Figure 6B --
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Right. So I agree --
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`-- Wallace shows --
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`Go ahead.
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`-- it shows a jaw to be actuated in
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`Do you agree that that's a jaw?
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`Q.
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`I agree that's a jaw. I don't agree that
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` 4 Wallace discloses a tool base that actuates that.
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` 5 So that's my question to you.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`So the same as 2A; right?
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`All right. So why don't we stick to one
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` 8 question at a time.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Okay. Sorry.
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`Show me in Wallace where it describes the
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` 11 tool base is actuating the jaws?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`All right.
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`Figure 30 -- show me what part of Figure 30
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` 14 is actuating the jaw.
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`Q.
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` 17 too, so --
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`Okay. We can probably make this quicker
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`Sure.
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`-- there's in Figure 30, there's two
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` 20 spools that are labeled 400. Do you see that?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`I do.
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`Okay. And those are used for the platform
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` 23 wrist; right?
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`I believe that's correct, yes.
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`420.
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`Do you see that?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Yes, I do.
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`Okay. And that is described as that's for
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` 4 shaft roll; right?
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` 7 right?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`A.
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`Right.
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`Okay. So then there's one spool left;
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`That is correct.
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`And that --
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`Not numbered.
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`And that doesn't have any mechanisms
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` 12 associated with it; right?
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`A.
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`Not in this figure; that's correct.
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`Does it have any in Figures 26, 28 -- oh
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` 15 sorry -- Figures 26, 27, 28 or 29?
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`A.
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`I do not see the fourth spool being
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`-- in those figures.
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`All right. And so then you would agree
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` 21 that the tool base that's shown in Figures 26 to 30
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` 22 does not illustrate or show how you would drive the
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` 23 actuation of jaws; correct?
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`1-800-FOR-DEPO
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`That is correct.
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`Okay. And are you aware of any description
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`A.
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`I'm not aware of that. I know that
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` 4 Wallace shows jaws. We agree with that, but I don't
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` 5 recall -- I'd have to look to see through the
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` 6 reference to see if he ever describes that.
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`Why don't you take a moment to see if you
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` 8 can figure that out.
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`(Pause.)
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`A.
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`So Wallace identifies the grasping jaws
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` 11 and a whole bunch of other actuatable or devices
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` 12 that would require actuation in column 7, around
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` 13 line 48.
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`So clearly Wallace is contemplating
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` 15 actuating devices that require actuation, but, I
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` 16 don't see -- he doesn't point to a figure where he
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` 17 actually shows that connection.
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`Okay. So in Figures 2A and, for example,
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` 19 Figure 6B, and there's some description