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` 1 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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` 2 BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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` 4 INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.,
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` 5 Petitioner,
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` 7 ETHICON, LLC,
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` 8 Patent Owner.
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` 11 Case IPR2018-01248
` U.S. Patent No. 8,479,969
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` 15 DEPOSITION OF BRYAN KNODEL, PH.D.
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` 16 April 4, 2019
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` 17 10:44 a.m.
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` 18 Fish & Richardson
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` 19 One Marina Park Drive
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` 20 Boston, Massachusetts
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` 25 ---- Reporter: Julie Thomson Riley, RDR, CRR ---
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`Ethicon Exhibit 2022.001
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`Bryan Knodel, Ph.D.
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`Boston, MA
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` 1 APPEARANCES:
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` 2 For the Petitioner:
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` 3 Fish & Richardson, PC
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` 4 by Steven R. Katz, Esquire
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` 5 One Marina Park Drive
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` 6 Boston, Massachusetts 02210-1878
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` 7 (617) 521-7803
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` 8 katz@fr.com
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` 10 For the Patent Owner:
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` 11 Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
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` 12 by Anish R. Desai, Esquire
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` 13 767 Fifth Avenue
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` 14 New York, New York 10153-0119
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` 15 (212) 310-8730
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` 16 anish.desai@weil.com
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` 18 - and -
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` 20 Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP
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` 21 by Christopher T. Marando, Esquire
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` 22 2001 M Street NW, Suite 600
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` 23 Washington, District of Columbia 20036
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` 24 (202) 682-7094
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` 25 christopher.marando@weil.com
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`Ethicon Exhibit 2022.002
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`Bryan Knodel, Ph.D.
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` 2 MORNING SESSION
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` 3 10:44 a.m.
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` 6 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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` 9 follows:
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` 10 DIRECT EXAMINATION
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` 11 BY MR. DESAI:
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` 12 Q. So, Dr. Knodel, we're starting now with
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` 13 the -- it's the 1248 IPR, which is the one with, I
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` 14 think, Prisco is the primary reference.
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` 15 A. Okay.
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` 16 Q. Okay. And you were being deposed this
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` 17 morning earlier on the 1254 IPR; right?
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` 18 A. These numbers I don't know by heart.
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` 19 Q. The Giordano one?
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` 20 A. The one with Giordano, yes.
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` 21 Q. Okay. What did you do to prepare for your
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` 22 deposition on the Prisco IPR?
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` 23 A. I looked at it last night, and -- yes.
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` 24 Q. What did you look at?
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` 25 A. My deposition, reference to --
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` 1 Q. Your declaration you mean?
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` 2 A. Declaration. Sorry. Declaration, and
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` 3 some of the cited references.
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` 4 Q. Which references did you look at?
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` 5 A. Prisco, Cooper, Wallace, and Tierney. I
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` 6 think that's it. Yeah. Okay.
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` 7 Q. So this declaration includes a discussion
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` 8 of both Wallace and Cooper?
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` 9 A. Yes.
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` 10 Q. Okay. So why don't you take a look at
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` 11 Figure 39 of Wallace -- sorry -- of Cooper.
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` 12 I don't think you're at the right place.
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` 13 A. Thirty-nine you said?
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` 14 Q. Yeah.
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` 15 A. Sorry. Okay. There we are.
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` 16 Q. All right. And unlike Wallace, Cooper
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` 17 discloses the mechanism for actuating the opening
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` 18 and closing of a jaw through the articulation joint;
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` 19 correct?
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` 20 A. Figure 39 illustrates the actuation on the
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` 21 other side of the articulation joint, yes.
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` 22 Q. When I asked you this question earlier
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` 23 today, you said you hadn't thought of it. Did you
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` 24 think about it during the time between the two
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` 25 depositions?
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` 1 MR. KATZ: Actually objection to form.
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` 2 Mischaracterizes testimony. In fact, he did answer
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` 3 that question prior to the break.
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` 4 A. Can you -- can you -- I don't recall
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` 5 exactly what I said. Can you read it back to me.
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` 6 Q. That's fine.
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` 7 A. Okay.
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` 8 Q. We'll move on.
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` 9 All right. You have Prisco in front of
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` 10 you?
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` 11 A. I do.
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` 12 Q. And Prisco is a patent that is about a
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` 13 curved cannula surgical system; is that right?
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` 14 A. A robotic surgical system configured with
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` 15 a rigid curved cannula that extends through the same
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` 16 opening in the patient's body, yeah.
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` 17 Q. What is a curved cannula system?
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` 18 A. A cannula is a tube. A curved cannula
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` 19 would be a curved tube.
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` 20 Q. Are you familiar with -- do you -- sorry.
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` 21 Do you have experience with endoscopic
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` 22 instruments that are inserted through a curved
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` 23 cannula?
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` 24 A. Yes.
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` 25 Q. What's the reason for having a curved
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` 1 cannula system?
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` 2 A. I'm not sure of every reason, but the one
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` 3 that I'm familiar with it allowed you to change the
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` 4 angle of approach to a surgical site. When you're
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` 5 straight, you come right at it. Curve, you can
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` 6 sweep through an arc because of that curve, but I'm
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` 7 not sure I could give every reason they do it, to be
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` 8 honest with you.
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` 9 Q. Yeah, I didn't ask for every reason.
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` 10 A. Yeah.
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` 11 Q. I just wanted to know if you know a
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` 12 reason.
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` 13 A. That's what I think they do.
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` 14 Q. Okay. I think all of the handheld
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` 15 endocutter instruments that we've looked at in the
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` 16 past day and a half: Shelton, Giordano, I think your
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` 17 Knodel patent, those are all endocutter instruments
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` 18 that they're not passing through a curved cannula;
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` 19 right?
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` 20 A. The Giordano, Shelton, Knodel endoscopic
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` 21 linear staplers are not designed to pass through a
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` 22 rigid curved cannula. Right.
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` 23 Q. Would you refer to those -- just for
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` 24 terminology sake, would you refer to those as
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` 25 straight instruments, not curved? Like, what's the
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` 3 A. Yeah, straight is probably a good word,
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` 4 yeah.
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` 5 Q. Okay. Are there challenges associated
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` 6 with designing an endoscopic instrument for a curved
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` 7 rigid cannula system that are not present when
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` 8 designing an instrument for a straight cannula?
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` 9 A. I -- I'm sure that there are different
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` 10 requirements. I haven't really thought about
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` 11 specifically what those would be, but, yeah.
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` 12 Q. Okay. Is designing an instrument for a
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` 13 curved rigid cannula system more challenging than
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` 14 for a straight instrument?
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` 15 A. I -- it would totally depend on the whole
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` 16 scope of what the specification was. It may be a
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` 17 benefit; it may be a hindrance. I'm not sure.
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` 18 Q. Have you thought about whether it would be
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` 19 more challenging to design the same instrument, the
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` 20 same endo -- let's try and create a proper
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` 21 hypothetical here.
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` 22 So suppose I have an end effector that
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` 23 does a certain operation, okay --
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` 24 A. Mm-hmm.
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` 25 Q. -- would it -- have you thought about
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` 1 whether it would be more challenging to design the
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` 2 instrument for that end effector if it's being used
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` 3 in a curved cannula system versus in a straight
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` 4 system?
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` 5 A. I have not thought about that.
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` 6 Q. Okay. Let's take a look at Figures 7B, C,
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` 7 and D of Prisco.
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` 8 A. Okay.
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` 9 Q. Are you there?
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` 10 A. I am.
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` 11 Q. Okay. 7B you have a gear 740 that meshes
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` 12 with gear 742 to perform a shaft roll; right?
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` 13 A. That's correct.
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` 14 Q. And Figure 7C and 7D have that same gear
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` 15 mesh arrangement for shaft roll; right?
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` 16 A. They do.
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` 17 Q. Okay. And then if you go to Figures 9, I
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` 18 think, C and E, you have end effectors, two end
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` 19 effectors that include a pair of opposing jaws;
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` 20 right?
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` 21 A. I do see that. Mm-hmm.
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` 22 Q. And these jaws can be opened and closed;
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` 23 right?
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` 24 A. The arrows indicate that. Mm-hmm. One
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` 25 opens and closes with pull. The other opens and
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` 2 Q. Right. So Figure 9C is a pull/pull and
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` 3 Figure 9E is the push/pull; right?
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` 4 A. That's correct.
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` 5 Q. Okay. When the shaft of these instruments
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` 6 is rolled, using that mesh arrangement we just
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` 7 talked about in Figure 7B, C, and D, you would agree
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` 8 that those jaws do not move relative to one another;
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` 9 right?
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` 10 A. I believe that to be true, yes.
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` 11 Q. In other words, the gear mesh for the
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` 12 shaft roll does not control a motion of a movable
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` 13 component of the end effector; right?
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` 14 A. I think that -- I don't see -- I don't see
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` 15 immediately how that would happen; so, I would say
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` 16 that probably the jaws are not actuated when you
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` 17 roll the shaft.
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` 18 Q. Okay. And Figures 7B, C, and D are tool
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` 19 bases for an instrument that's going to be attached
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` 20 to a robotic system; right?
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` 21 A. Yes.
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` 22 Q. Okay. And those tool bases are designed
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` 23 to drive a shaft roll and to open and close jaws;
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` 24 right?
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` 25 A. I don't think necessarily exclusively, but
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` 2 Q. We'll take it one at a time if you want
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` 4 A. Sure.
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` 5 Q. 7B. Why don't we start with 7B.
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` 6 A. 7B, I see a roll and I see one actuator
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` 7 that's designed to go in two directions. So that
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` 8 looks like those are the only -- just based on that
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` 9 figure, just looking -- I might need to read the
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` 10 description, but the figure only shows two.
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` 11 C, I think I only -- I see the rotation of
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` 12 770 is linked through a gear sector through the
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` 13 linkage 774, to give forward and backward motion.
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` 14 So that also looks like that's forward and backward
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` 15 motion.
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` 16 7D, a little more difficult to tell just
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` 17 looking at the figure.
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` 18 Okay.
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` 19 Q. Okay. 7C -- why don't we just take it one
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` 20 at a time with the description. So if you look at
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` 21 Figure 7B and then the description is at column 15,
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` 22 starting at line 36. Are you there?
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` 23 A. Yes, I am.
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` 24 Q. Okay. So my understanding of Figure 7B is
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` 25 that you have a -- there are only two motions
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` 1 provided for here. One is the shaft roll, and then
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` 2 the other is the pull/pull for opening and closing
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` 3 the jaws; right?
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` 4 A. That is what it says, yes.
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` 5 Q. Okay. And then Figure 7C --
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` 6 A. Mm-hmm.
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` 7 Q. -- again we have in this one we have two
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` 8 motions. Again, one is the shaft roll and the other
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` 9 is the push/pull for the open, close; right?
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` 10 I think it's at the bottom of column 15.
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` 11 A. Oh, I was at the top of 16. Sorry. Yes,
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` 12 push/pull. Right. Mm-hmm.
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` 13 Q. Okay. And then Figure 7D is, again, also
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` 14 two motions. You have the shaft roll, and then you
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` 15 have the two gears used for the push/pull,
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` 16 open/close?
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` 17 A. Oh, yes. Yeah, I recall this. Mm-hmm.
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` 18 Mm-hmm.
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` 19 Q. So all of the tool bases that are
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` 20 described in Prisco are designed to do the shaft
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` 21 roll and the open close of the jaws, and that's it.
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` 22 Right?
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` 23 A. That's what these figures are showing,
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` 24 yes.
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` 25 Q. All right. Let's take a look at Cooper.
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` 1 A. Okay.
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` 2 Q. Okay. And if we go to Figure 36.
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` 3 A. Okay.
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` 4 Q. Sorry. One second.
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` 5 Sorry. Can you go back to Prisco. I have
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` 6 one more question. Sorry for bouncing around.
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` 7 A. Sure. I'm back at Prisco.
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` 8 Q. All right. Figure 8A.
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` 9 Okay. This is an illustration of what's
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` 10 in the, I guess, the shaft of the instrument; right?
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` 11 A. Let's just flip over to 8A's description,
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` 12 and we'll know for sure. "Is a cut-away perspective
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` 13 view that shows an illustrative structure of a
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` 14 portion of an instrument shaft. Two tension
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` 15 elements ... to operate the end effector."
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` 16 Yeah, there's quite a bit of detail, but,
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` 17 yeah, that's a cut-away view of what's inside of a
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` 18 particular shaft.
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` 19 Q. Right. It's a shaft for the curved
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` 20 cannula, one of the curved cannula instruments
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` 21 described in this patent; right?
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` 22 A. I'm trying to confirm that. That --
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` 23 looking at this, it seems to be describing an
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` 24 instrument construction for use with this system.
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` 25 Q. Okay. Do you understand the reason for
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` 1 the -- or the purpose of using the support tubes
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` 2 806A and B and the stiffening rods 816?
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` 3 A. I haven't really thought about it.
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` 4 Q. Okay. Okay.
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` 5 A. Or I -- let me say that. Yeah I -- okay.
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` 6 Never mind. Sorry.
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` 7 Q. Do you have anything to add?
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` 8 A. No. I was just thinking I don't recall -- I
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` 9 don't recall thinking about those specifically, but
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` 10 I was -- a flit of a memory flipped through my mind,
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` 11 but I don't recall thinking about those specifically.
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` 12 Q. Okay. We can go back to Cooper --
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` 13 A. All right.
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` 14 Q. -- on Figure 36.
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` 15 A. Okay.
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` 16 Q. Okay. And we've already discussed how
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` 17 Cooper is a -- you agree that Cooper's a patent
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` 18 that's directed to a multi-disk wrist; right?
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` 19 A. Yes, it is a positively positionable
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` 20 multi-disk wrist mechanism.
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` 21 Q. Okay. And in Figure 36, you see the
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` 22 multi-disk wrist is located at the distal end of the
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` 23 device where the end effector is; right?
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` 24 A. I do see that. Mm-hmm.
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` 25 Q. And this is a straight instrument, right,
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` 2 A. 402 is there. I don't know does it
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` 3 specifically say whether 402 is rigid? Oftentimes,
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` 4 devices that can curve are drawn straight just for
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` 5 simplicity.
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` 6 So it's a shaft. It doesn't specifically
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` 7 say whether it's a flexible shaft or a rigid shaft.
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` 8 Q. Okay. And Cooper describes in detail how
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` 9 to actuate a gripping motion through the multi-disk
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` 10 wrist; right?
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` 11 A. There's some -- there's quite a bit of
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` 12 detail in Cooper about an actuation mechanism for
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` 13 actuating the jaw.
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` 14 Q. All of the implementations in Cooper for
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` 15 actuating a gripping motion through the wrist involve
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` 16 the use of cable actuators pass through an aperture
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` 17 in the disks of the wrist; right?
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` 18 A. I'm not sure if all of them do.
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` 19 Q. Are you aware of any that don't?
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` 20 A. I'd have to look again to see if there's
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` 21 any that -- I mean I just -- it's just a big
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` 22 statement whether it's all including the references
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` 23 that it also draws on. I can't really agree to that
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` 24 statement.
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` 25 Q. Have you assessed in your analysis of
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` 1 Cooper whether it describes an actuating and
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` 2 gripping motion through the wrist without the use of
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` 3 cables?
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` 4 A. I don't recall specifically looking for
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` 5 that, to see if it disclosed that.
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` 6 Q. Okay. Have you -- did you look and see
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` 7 whether Cooper or do you have an opinion as to
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` 8 whether Cooper discloses actuating a gripping motion
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` 9 through the wrist by the use of a drive rod?
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` 10 A. Can you say the question one more time.
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` 11 Q. Do you have an opinion as to whether
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` 12 Cooper discloses actuating a gripping motion through
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` 13 the wrist by use of a drive rod?
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` 14 A. I don't -- I don't -- I'm just -- did I
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` 15 formulate an opinion on that in -- I'm just -- I
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` 16 feel like I'm off topic. Is this something
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` 17 that -- did I formulate an opinion upon that in my
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` 18 declaration that I need to clarify?
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` 19 Q. I'm asking if you have an opinion about
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` 20 it. I don't know if you do. I mean I don't think I
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` 21 saw it in your declaration, but I don't know for
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` 22 sure, so.
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` 23 A. Oh, okay. I don't know -- I think that
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` 24 there are probably a bar construction that could go
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` 25 through the Cooper joint.
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` 1 Q. Did you discuss that in your declaration?
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` 2 A. That's what I -- I don't recall, so if --
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` 3 Q. Okay.
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` 4 A. Yeah.
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` 5 Q. My question is -- just if you focus on the
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` 6 question.
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` 7 A. Okay.
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` 8 Q. So the question is do you have an opinion
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` 9 as to whether Cooper discloses using a drive rod to
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` 10 actuate the gripping mechanism through the wrist?
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` 11 MR. KATZ: Objection. Asked and answered.
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` 12 A. I don't -- I don't recall thinking about
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` 13 that.
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` 14 Q. Okay. In forming your opinions, did you
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` 17 A. I don't -- I don't believe that that's --
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` 18 that --
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` 19 Q. I'm sorry.
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` 20 A. -- Wallace requires it to bend sharply.
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` 21 Q. Sorry. All right. In forming your
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` 24 A. That the grip mechanism needs to bend
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` 2 A. I -- the Cooper mechanism can bend a
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` 6 Q. In forming your opinions, did you consider
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` 8 rubbing against the apertures of the disk?
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` 9 A. Friction is discussed in the patent, and
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` 10 selections of materials appropriate for it. It's
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` 12 Q. Let me take a look at column 17 of Cooper,
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` 15 A. I'm in column 17 of Cooper.
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` 16 Q. And there's a Section D --
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` 17 A. Mm-hmm.
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` 18 Q. -- titled "Grip Actuation Mechanism";
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` 19 right?
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` 20 A. I see that.
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` 21 Q. Did you review this section carefully?
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` 22 A. I reviewed this entire patent, so, yes, I
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` 23 did.
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` 24 Q. Okay. And then you would agree that the
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` 25 only grip actuation mechanism described in this
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` 3 A. I'm going to look at it again to refresh
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` 5 Q. Go ahead.
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` 7 A. So the pull/pull wrist mechanism is what
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` 8 this is describing, not the push/pull. It's very
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` 9 difficult to push on cables, and so when we're
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` 10 talking about push/pull versus pull/pull, this is a
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` 16 Q. Column 18.
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` 17 A. Eighteen.
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` 18 Q. Opening actuator cable 446, closing
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` 19 actuator cable 448.
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` 20 A. Ah.
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` 21 Q. The actuator cable is 446, 448. You see
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` 22 it now?
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` 23 A. Yeah, I see it. I was over at 17, sort of
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` 24 scouring that. Mm-hmm.
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` 25 Okay. I see that. A-ha. So this does
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` 2 Q. Yeah, so my question was you would agree,
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` 3 since you've read this before and you're scanning it
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` 4 now, that the only grip actuation mechanism
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` 6 cables that pass through the aperture of the disks;
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` 8 A. In this section, I only see cables. Where
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` 9 they pass through is I'd have to look at that more
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` 11 Q. Okay. Well, okay. Why don't we just
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` 12 clarify that then.
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` 13 A. Okay.
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` 14 Q. Go to column 13, for example.
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` 15 A. Okay. Mm-hmm.
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` 16 Q. And you see here it says in one
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` 17 embodiment -- we're at line five.
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` 18 A. Mm-hmm.
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` 19 Q. Actually --
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` 20 A. The inner diameter's three, and the outer
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` 21 diameter's two. That's difficult.
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` 22 Q. Yeah. Let me point you to a different
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` 23 place.
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` 24 A. Okay.
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` 25 Q. I think I'm in the wrong place because
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` 1 there's different cables discussed here. There's
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` 4 A. Right. Right.
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` 5 Q. Okay. So --
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` 6 A. You've got to keep track of which is going
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` 8 Q. Yeah, right. So I think column 13, at
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` 10 A. Mm-hmm.
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` 11 Q. -- it says, "The lumen formed by the
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` 12 annular disks can be used for isolation and for
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` 13 passing pull cables for grip."
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` 14 Do you see that?
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` 15 A. I do see that now, yes.
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` 16 Q. Okay. So that would be an opening between
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` 17 the disks where you can pass the actuation cables
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` 19 A. That's -- yeah, I'm going to look over
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` 20 here at Figure 5.
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` 21 Figure 5's about as clear as mud, but,
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` 22 yes, there's a lumen in the disks for passing, in
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` 23 this case, cables through, yes.
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` 24 Q. Right. And it's also shown as an example
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` 25 in Figure 39, where the actuation grip cables are
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` 2 A. Okay. Let me just look. Thirty-nine. I
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` 3 just want to make sure that those aren't just
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` 4 directional errors -- arrows, because they don't
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` 5 even look like cables.
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` 6 Q. If you go to --
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` 7 A. 446.
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` 8 Q. I'll tell you. If you go to column 18 --
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` 9 A. Actuation cables 446 and 448, and the
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` 10 wrist controls such as -- okay. Mm-hmm. I see them
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` 11 now. Yep.
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` 12 Q. Okay. So all my question was that this
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` 13 figure confirms that you have the actuation grip
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` 14 cables, 446 and 448, being passed through the center
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` 15 of the disks?
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` 16 A. I see that, yes. Mm-hmm.
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` 17 Q. Okay.
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` 18 A. Or at least through the lumen.
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` 19 Q. Let's --
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` 20 A. The reason why I'm clarifying that is if
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` 21 you pull on that, it's going to not run through the
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` 22 middle; it's going to go over on one side.
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` 23 Q. I understand. Okay.
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` 24 Let's take a break.
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` 25 A. Okay.
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` 2 MR. DESAI: All right. We don't have any
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` 4 THE WITNESS: Okay. Thank you.
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` 5 MR. KATZ: Nothing for me.
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` 2 I, Julie Thomson Riley, RDR, CRR, do certify
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` 12 produced by me is a true and accurate record of the
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` 13 proceedings to the best of my ability; that I am
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`Inc. vs. Ethicon,
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`LLC, on April 4, 2019, was stenographically recorded
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`by me;
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`the witness provided satisfactory
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`evidence of identification, as prescribed by
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`Executive Order 455 (03-13),
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`issued by the Governor
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`sworn by me,
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`a Notary Public in and for the
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`Commonwealth of Massachusetts;
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`produced by me
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