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` 5 U.S. Patent 9,402,032
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`JOSÉ SASIÁN, Ph.D.
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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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` 5 U.S. Patent 9,402,032
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`12 VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF JOSÉ SASIÁN, Ph.D.,
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`13 taken on behalf of the Patent Owner, at HAYNES AND
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`14 BOONE, LLP, 525 University Avenue, Suite 400, Palo Alto,
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`15 California, beginning at 9:10 a.m. on Friday, February
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`16 15, 2019, before Janis Jennings, Certified Shorthand
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`17 Reporter No. 3942, CLR, CCRR.
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` 3 ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER:
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` 4 HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP
` BY: PHILIP W. WOO, ESQ.
` 5 525 University Avenue, Suite 400
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` 8 BY: MICHAEL PARSONS, ESQ.
` JORDAN M. MAUCOTEL, ESQ.
` 9 2505 N. Plano Road, Suite 4000
` Richardson, Texas 95082
`10 972.739.8621
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`13 ON BEHALF OF PATENT OWNER:
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`14 RUSS AUGUST & KABAT
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`15 12424 Wilshire Boulevard, 12th Floor
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`16 310.826.7474
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` 4 Exhibit 1 Declaration of José Sasián, 16
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` 8 Exhibit 3 Curriculum Vitae José Sasián 36
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` 9 Exhibit 4 U.S. Patent No. 9,402,032 63
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`10 Exhibit 5 U.S. Patent No. 9,568,712 63
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`11 Exhibit 6 U.S. Patent No. 9,128,267 70
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`12 Exhibit 7 U.S. Patent No. 8,233,224 70
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`13 Exhibit 8 Translated Japanese Patent 71
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` Exhibit 9 Paper "The Optics of Miniature 72
`15 Digital Camera Modules"
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`16 Exhibit 10 U.S. Patent No. 3,388,956 72
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`17 Exhibit 11 Excerpt page 257 "Microscope 86
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`JOSÉ SASIÁN, Ph.D.
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` 1 PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019;
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` 2 9:10 A.M.
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` 4 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Good morning. My name is
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` 5 Michael Barber. I'm the videographer associated
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` 8 California 94111. The date is February 15th, 2019.
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` 9 The time is 9:11 a.m.
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`10 This deposition is taking place at Haynes
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`11 and Boone, 525 University Avenue, Palo Alto,
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`12 California 94031 in the matter of Apple Inc. versus
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`13 Corephotonics Limited in the United States Patent
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`14 and Trademark Office before the Patent Trial and
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`15 Appeal Board, case numbers IPR2018-01146 and
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`16 IPR2018-01140.
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`17 This is the videotaped deposition of
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`18 José Sasián, Ph.D., being taken on behalf of
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`19 Corephotonics Limited. Counsel, would you please
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`20 identify yourselves for the record and state whom
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`21 you represent.
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`22 MR. RUBIN: Neil Rubin of Russ August &
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`23 Kabat representing Corephotonics.
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`24 MR. WOO: Phillip Woo of the law firm Haynes
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`25 and Boone representing Apple Inc. and defending the
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` 2 MR. MAUCOTEL: Jordan Maucotel, Haynes and
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` 3 Boone, defending the witness.
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` 4 MR. PARSONS: Mike Parsons with Haynes and
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` 5 Boone, also in support of the witness for Apple.
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` 6 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Thank you.
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` 7 Will the court reporter please swear in the
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` 8 witness.
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`10 JOSÉ SASIÁN, Ph.D.,
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`11 The witness herein, was sworn and
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`12 testified as follows:
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`14 EXAMINATION
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`15 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`16 Q. Good morning, Dr. Sasián.
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`17 A. Good morning. How are you?
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`18 Q. I'm good.
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`19 How are you?
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`20 A. Very well. Thank you.
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`21 Q. Did I say your name right?
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`22 A. "Sasián," yes.
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`23 Q. Okay. Thank you.
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`24 Have you been deposed before?
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`25 A. Yes.
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` 1 Q. How many times?
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` 2 A. About 10.
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` 3 Q. In what cases?
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` 4 A. I think the most recent one was around 2015,
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` 5 and it was a case, if I remember well, Samsung
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` 6 versus Largan.
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` 7 Q. Was that a patent case?
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` 8 A. Yes.
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` 9 Q. Were all of those 10 depositions taken of
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`10 you as an expert witness?
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`11 A. Yes.
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`12 Q. And were all of those cases patent cases?
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`13 A. Probably two, no. One was a trade secret
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`14 case, and the other one may not have been a patent
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`15 case.
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`16 Q. Who were the parties to the trade secret
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`17 case?
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`18 A. I don't distinctly recall the names.
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`19 Q. You don't remember either of the names?
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`20 A. No, I cannot remember right now.
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`21 Q. In the Samsung versus Largan case, which
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`22 party were you appearing on behalf of?
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`23 A. On the part of the defendant.
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`24 Q. Largan?
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`25 A. No. Samsung.
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` 1 Q. Okay. What other companies have you worked
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` 2 for as an expert witness?
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` 3 A. For Nikon. I -- I cannot recall exactly the
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` 4 names right now. I will have to review my -- my
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` 5 list of cases.
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` 6 Q. Okay. So aside from Samsung and Nikon, you
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` 7 can't remember any of the other companies that
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` 8 you've worked as a witness for?
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` 9 A. Well, I think I remember having worked for a
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`10 company in -- another company in Korea, but I don't
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`11 recall the name right now. I -- I remember working
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`12 for a company regarding illumination devices, but I
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`13 don't recall the -- the exact names right now.
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`14 Q. Have you -- withdrawn.
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`15 Aside from the IPRs concerning
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`16 Corephotonics' patents, have you ever worked as a
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`17 expert witness or a consultant for Apple?
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`18 A. I haven't worked, that I can recall, for
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`19 Apple as an expert or as a consultant.
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`20 Q. Okay. Have you ever been in a case as an
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`21 expert or as a consultant where Apple was a party on
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`22 the other side?
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`23 A. Not that I recall. Yeah. I should clarify
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`24 that -- that my statement is that prior to this case
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`25 I haven't worked for Apple as -- as an expert or as
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` 2 Q. I'm sorry. How was that different than the
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` 3 answer that you gave before? What is it you're
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` 4 clarifying?
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` 5 A. Well, what happened is that I'm not sure if
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` 6 I understood the question right.
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` 7 Q. Okay. What was it that you weren't sure
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` 9 A. Whether the question referred to the past or
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`10 the present.
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`11 Q. I see. I see.
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`12 So you're -- you weren't clear on whether my
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`13 question included other cases involving
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`14 Corephotonics and Apple; is that right?
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`15 A. No. No.
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`16 Q. Okay. Is there another case that you're
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`17 presently working on for Apple as an expert or a
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`18 consultant?
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`19 A. Oh, now that you mentioned it, I recall that
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`20 there was another case that I work on behalf of
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`21 Apple, but my understanding is that the case was
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`22 dismissed.
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`23 Q. What case was that?
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`24 A. I don't recall the case number or -- or --
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`25 or the -- yeah, I don't recall the case number.
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` 1 Q. To the best of your recollection, when was
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` 3 A. A few months ago.
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` 4 Q. Was that -- what law firm was representing
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` 6 A. I'm not sure if -- if -- if I'm entitled to
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` 8 Q. Okay. Was that -- well, let me ask a
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`10 Aside from of the cases -- withdrawn.
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`11 Aside from the present cases between Apple
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`12 and Corephotonics, have you worked on any other case
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`13 as an expert witness or a consultant with the law
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`14 firm of Haynes and Boone?
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`15 A. No.
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`16 Q. Have you worked on any other case as an
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`17 expert witness or consultant with any of the
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`18 attorneys from Haynes and Boone that are working on
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`19 this case?
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`20 A. No. No, I don't think so.
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`21 Q. How many IPRs have you worked on between
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`22 Apple and Corephotonics?
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`23 A. Between Apple and Corephotonics? I believe
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`24 four.
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`25 Q. So there are two IPRs that we're here to
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` 1 talk about today, and we'll get to that later.
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` 2 We'll get to the details of that later. And then
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` 3 there are two other IPRs that you worked on other
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` 4 than the ones we are talking about today; correct?
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` 5 A. Yes.
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` 6 Q. How many total hours have you worked across
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` 7 those four IPRs through today?
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` 8 A. I don't have a -- a calendar right now with
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`10 Q. Have you billed for the time that you worked
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`11 on these IPRs?
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`12 A. Yes.
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`13 Q. Did you submit separate bills for the
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`14 different IPRs, or did you combine your work on the
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`15 IPRs into combined bills?
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`16 A. If I remember well, it was a combined bill,
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`17 different combined bills.
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`18 Q. To the best of your recollection or ability
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`19 to estimate, how many hours have you billed for?
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`20 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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`21 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`22 Q. And, to be clear, I'm talking about in the
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`23 four IPRs --
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`24 A. In the four IPRs.
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`25 Q. -- concerning -- between Apple and
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` 2 A. I really don't know the -- the -- the
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` 5 Q. Was it more or less than 50 hours?
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` 6 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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` 7 THE WITNESS: Perhaps 50; around 50 or more.
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` 8 I don't recall right now.
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` 9 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`10 Q. Could it be less than 50?
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`11 A. Maybe not.
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`12 Q. Could it be more than 100?
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`13 A. I -- maybe not.
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`14 Q. What fraction of the hours that you've spent
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`15 working on these four IPRs did you spend using the
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`16 Zemax software?
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`17 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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`18 THE WITNESS: So the question is
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`19 approximately how many hours I used Zemax in doing
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`20 work for these proceedings?
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`21 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`22 Q. That's right.
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`23 A. Probably several hours.
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`24 Q. Several hours?
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`25 A. Several, yes.
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` 1 Q. Would you estimate it -- it was more than
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` 3 A. No. I would say maybe up around ten -- ten
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` 5 Q. When were you hired to work on these IPRs?
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` 6 A. I think around about one year ago.
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` 7 Q. Do you think it was in February of 2018?
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` 8 A. Yeah, it may have been around February of
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` 9 2018.
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`10 Q. Do you know if when you were hired to work
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`11 on these IPRs -- withdrawn.
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`12 The ten depositions approximately that
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`13 you've done before today, how many of those cases
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`14 involved cameras? Withdrawn.
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`15 The ten depositions that you have taken
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`16 before today approximately, of those, how many
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`17 involved lenses?
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`18 A. It might have been three, four. Yeah.
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`19 Maybe three, four, five, yes, or six.
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`20 Q. So for the ones that didn't involve lenses,
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`21 what areas of technology did those cases involve?
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`22 A. Well, one was about the trade secret case,
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`23 and that wasn't about, per se, lenses. Another one
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`24 was about gemstones. That's what I can recall right
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` 1 Q. What was the trade secret case about?
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` 2 A. The trade secret case, I cannot talk about
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` 3 what I'm not supposed to talk about.
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` 4 Q. Well, I understand the specific details of
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` 5 the trade secrets may be -- may not be public, but
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` 6 the -- what type of products did that case involve?
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` 7 A. It was related to optics products not
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` 8 related to -- to the current case.
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` 9 Q. What type of optics products?
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`10 A. Maybe prisms, if I remember now. I think if
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`11 I -- it had to do with -- with parallel place of
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`12 glass and maybe prisms. I would have to review
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`13 to -- to -- to be accurate.
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`14 MR. RUBIN: So let's start the numbering of
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`15 the exhibits from Sasián No. 1.
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`16 DEPOSITION REPORTER: They are not
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`18 MR. RUBIN: No.
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`19 DEPOSITION REPORTER: Can we go off the
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`20 record for a moment.
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`21 MR. RUBIN: Sure.
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`22 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Going off the record.
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`23 The time is 9:27 a.m.
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`24 (Off the record.)
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`25 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Back on the record. The
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` 2 (Exhibit 1 marked for identification.)
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` 3 BY MR. RUBIN:
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` 4 Q. All right. So in front of you, Dr. Sasián,
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` 5 is a -- an exhibit that's been marked as
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` 6 Exhibit No. 1 for the deposition and titled
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` 7 "Declaration of José Sasián, Ph.D. under 37 C.F.R.
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` 8 Section 1.68" and marked on the top of each page as
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` 9 being in the "Inter Partes Review" of the '032
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`10 patent. Do you see that?
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`11 A. Yes.
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`12 Q. I will represent to you that this was
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`13 submitted as Exhibit 1003 in the IPR concerning the
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`14 '032 patent.
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`15 Do you recognize this as your declaration
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`16 from that IPR?
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`17 A. Yeah. Yeah, I believe so.
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`18 Q. All right. To your knowledge, is this
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`19 declaration accurate?
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`20 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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`21 THE WITNESS: Could you repeat the question,
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`22 please.
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`23 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`24 Q. To your knowledge, is your declaration,
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`25 Exhibit No. 1, accurate?
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` 1 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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` 2 THE WITNESS: Yes, at the moment I signed
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` 3 it, I -- I -- I believe it -- it was correct.
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` 4 BY MR. RUBIN:
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` 5 Q. And now that some time has passed since you
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` 7 have you become aware of any errors in the
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` 9 A. No, I am not aware currently of any error.
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`10 Q. Is there anything that with the benefit of a
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`11 few months' time since you had to submit this you
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`12 wished you were allowed to add or change?
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`13 A. Not that I can think right now, no.
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`14 Q. And does this declaration, Exhibit No. 1,
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`15 contain your complete opinions regarding the IPR
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`16 challenging the '032 patent?
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`17 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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`18 THE WITNESS: My declaration contains the
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`19 opinions on the case that I have at the moment I
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`20 signed it.
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`21 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`22 Q. And just for the -- to make the record
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`23 clear, Exhibit No. 1 is -- I will represent to you,
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`24 is the declaration submitted in Case
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`25 No. IPR2018-01140.
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` 1 MR. RUBIN: Let's mark this as the next
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` 2 exhibit.
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` 3 (Exhibit 2 marked for identification.)
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` 4 DEPOSITION REPORTER: Exhibit 2.
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` 5 BY MR. RUBIN:
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` 6 Q. So in front of you marked as Exhibit 2 is a
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` 7 document entitled "Declaration of José Sasián, Ph.D.
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` 8 under 37 C.F.R. Section 1.68." I will represent to
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` 9 you that this was submitted as Apple Exhibit 1003 in
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`10 Case No. IPR2018-01146.
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`11 You -- am I -- is it correct that you --
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`12 withdrawn.
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`13 Is it correct that you submitted two
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`14 different declarations relating to the '712 patent?
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`15 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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`16 THE WITNESS: Yes. As I recall, yes.
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`17 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`18 Q. And this is one of the declarations that you
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`19 submitted regarding the '712 patent; is that right?
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`20 A. Yes.
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`21 Q. And so you recognize Exhibit 2 as a
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`22 declaration that you prepared and signed?
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`23 A. Yeah. It appears to be my declaration.
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`24 Q. To your knowledge sitting here today, is
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`25 this declaration accurate?
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` 1 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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` 2 THE WITNESS: At this moment I don't have
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` 3 any reason to believe that is not accurate.
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` 4 BY MR. RUBIN:
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` 5 Q. So there's no errors, that you are aware of,
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` 7 A. I'm not aware at this moment of any error.
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` 8 Q. And is there anything in this declaration
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` 9 concerning the '712 patent that you wish you were
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`10 allowed to add or change?
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`11 A. Let me just get back to your previous
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`12 question for a moment. There might be typos,
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`13 maybe -- yeah, typos or -- or maybe clerical errors
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`14 because this -- because errors happen in
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`15 declarations, so -- but I'm not aware of any at this
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`16 moment.
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`17 Q. Okay. Yeah. I'm not asking you to
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`18 guarantee that in 122 pages there aren't any typos.
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`19 But sitting here today, at least right now, you
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`20 can't think of any that you know of?
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`21 A. That's correct.
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`22 Q. Before these cases had you ever worked as an
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`23 expert witness or a consultant in a case before the
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`24 Patent Trial and Appeal Board?
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`25 A. Yes. I mean -- in an IPR?
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` 1 Q. Fair enough. So the most common type of
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` 2 case before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is an
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` 3 IPR, or inter partes review. There are other types
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` 4 of proceedings. There is something called a
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` 5 "covered business method review," and there is
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` 6 something called a "post-grant review." I don't
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` 7 know if you've heard of those, but let's call all of
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` 8 those proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal
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` 9 Board.
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`10 Are all of the other proceedings before the
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`11 Patent Trial and Appeal Board that you've worked on
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`12 IPRs?
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`13 A. Many of them were IPRs.
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`14 Q. Do you know if there were any that were not
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`15 IPRs?
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`16 A. I believe the trade secret case and the
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`17 diamond case were not -- were not IPRs.
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`18 Q. I see. I see.
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`19 A. And there is another case that I think it
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`20 was in the federal circuit court that wasn't an IPR.
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`21 Q. I see. So of the 10 cases where you've been
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`22 deposed, were most of those IPR cases?
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`23 A. Yes.
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`24 Q. So from your work on IPRs, are you familiar
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`25 with the fact that when an expert submits a
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` 1 declaration on behalf of the petitioner, the party
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` 2 challenging the patent, that declaration is
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` 3 submitted together with something called a
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` 4 "petition"?
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` 5 A. Yes.
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` 6 Q. Have you seen the petitions that Apple
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` 7 submitted in these IPRs?
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` 8 A. I might. I don't recall distinctly.
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` 9 Q. Have you seen those petitions within the
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`10 last week?
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`11 A. I don't recall if I have or I have not.
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`12 Q. How long did you work on preparing these
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`13 declarations between when you first started working
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`14 on them and when they were submitted?
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`15 A. What do you mean by "how long"?
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`16 Q. Well, so these were submitted in May of
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`17 2018. Okay. Withdrawn.
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`18 These declarations were signed May 22nd and
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`19 May 23rd of 2018. How long before those dates did
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`20 you first begin working on the declarations?
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`21 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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`22 THE WITNESS: I -- if I remember correctly,
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`23 I started working on the case around February. And
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`24 from February to May, I -- I gather -- I read and
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`25 gathered some materials to -- to work on the
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` 1 declarations eventually.
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` 2 BY MR. RUBIN:
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` 3 Q. Aside from prior art references that you
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` 4 expressly discuss in these declarations and the
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` 5 other two declarations you submitted in the other
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` 6 Apple Corephotonics IPRs, have you done any analysis
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` 7 of any other prior art with respect to the '032 or
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` 8 '712 patents?
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` 9 A. Yes.
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`10 Q. What -- what prior art is that?
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`11 A. Excuse me?
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`12 Q. What prior art is that?
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`13 A. Let me give you a little bit of a
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`14 background. I -- I am familiar with the technology
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`15 and have a collection of -- I don't know -- 100,
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`16 200, 300 patents regarding cell phone lenses. And I
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`17 will scan through them, and some of them I will do a
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`18 little bit of analysis or not. But at the end the
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`19 reference I use for my declarations, I -- I am
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`20 disclosing them in my declarations.
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`21 Q. So how many -- how many prior art
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`22 references -- withdrawn.
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`23 How many lens-related patents would you
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`24 estimate you looked at as part of your work on the
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`25 Apple/Corephotonics IPRs?
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` 1 A. I understand looking at a patent as opening
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` 2 a patent and seeing if a lens will be similar. It
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` 3 may have been 100 or 200.
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` 4 Q. And these 1- or 200 -- withdrawn.
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` 5 These 100 or 200 lens-related patents that
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` 6 you looked at, did I understand you as saying that
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` 7 these were all patents that you had already
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` 8 assembled prior to your work on this case?
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` 9 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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`10 THE WITNESS: Some -- some patents that I
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`11 have prior to this case and other -- and other
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`12 patents that I found in doing work for this case.
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`13 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`14 Q. How had you -- withdrawn.
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`15 For what purpose had you obtained the
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`16 patents that you already had that you analyzed for
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`17 the purpose of this case?
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`18 MR. WOO: Objection. Privileged or
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`19 potentially calls for privileged information. I
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`20 caution the witness not to divulge any substance if
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`21 this relates to communication with attorneys for
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`22 matters, legal proceedings.
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`23 THE WITNESS: One reason is that I teach my
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`24 students about this technology or I have some
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`25 students doing for their reports or thesis search
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` 1 on -- on -- doing research on or dedicating their
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` 2 thesis on subjects related to cell phone lenses.
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` 3 And so they -- one example is one student found --
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` 4 dedi- -- dedicated his report, master's thesis, to
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` 5 cell phone lenses and made a collection of patents
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` 6 about cell phone lenses, and -- and that's the
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` 7 reason I'm aware of these patents.
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` 8 BY MR. RUBIN:
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` 9 Q. Okay. So I believe there are at least two
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`10 students, two master's degree students' reports that
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`11 you list in your declarations that involved
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`12 researching lens patents?
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`13 A. Yes. Let me clarify. Not in my
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`14 declaration, but in my CV.
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`15 Q. Okay. Well, if you could turn in Exhibit 1
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`16 to page -- so each page of your declaration's --
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`17 actually has two sets of page numbers on it.
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`18 A. Yes.
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`19 Q. For -- I guess, unless I say otherwise, I'll
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`20 refer to the bottom set of page numbers, but if
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`21 you're ever uncertain about what I'm referring to,
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`22 feel free to ask me to clarify.
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`23 So if you could turn to page 7 of 85. Are
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`24 you there?
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`25 A. Yes.
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` 1 Q. And this has --
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` 2 A. Okay.
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` 3 Q. So page 7 of 85 lists with bullet points
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` 4 certain student reports that you've directed?
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` 5 A. Yes.
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` 6 Q. And so the fifth and the sixth reports in
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` 7 that list both refer to camera lens patent research;
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` 8 is that right?
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` 9 A. Yes.
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`10 Q. All right.
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`11 A. Yes.
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`12 Q. Was it one of these reports that you were --
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`13 A. Yes.
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`14 Q. -- referring to earlier?
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`15 Which one?
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`16 A. To both.
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`17 Q. Okay. So did you look at the patents that
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`18 are cited in these two student reports to see if any
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`19 of those were -- would be useful for an anticipation
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`20 or obviousness opinion concerning the '032 and '712
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`21 patents?
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`22 A. Yes.
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`23 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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`24 THE WITNESS: In one case I looked at
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`25 this -- at those patents.
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` 1 BY MR. RUBIN:
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` 2 Q. Which case was that?
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` 3 A. I believe on the -- on the one entitled
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` 4 "Patent Review Miniature Camera Lenses," though I
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` 5 need to clarify that I look at the -- the actual
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` 6 files, at the actual collection of patents.
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` 7 Q. I see. And am I correct that you did not
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` 8 end up actually using any of the patents in that
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` 9 2007 master student report in your declarations?
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`10 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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`11 THE WITNESS: Let me try to be accurate. I
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`12 may not have used any of the patents on the
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`13 collection of patents.
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`14 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`15 Q. I see. So the -- the patents that you cite
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`16 in your declarations were patents that you learned
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`17 about from some source other than your collection of
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`18 lens-related patents?
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`19 MR. WOO: Objection. Form. Also objection.
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`20 Potentially calls for privileged information.
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`21 I caution the witness not to divulge any
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`22 communication with attorneys.
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`23 BY MR. RUBIN:
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`24 Q. And, just to be clear, at least the question
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`25 that I asked you was just whether -- whether -- I
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` 1 wasn't asking what other source you got the patents
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` 2 that you discuss in your declaration from, but just
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` 3 whether it was some source other than your
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` 4 collection of patents.
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` 5 MR. WOO: Objection. Form.
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` 6 THE WITNESS: Could you please repeat the
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` 7 question so that I have it clear, please.
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` 8 BY MR. RUBIN:
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` 9 Q. Okay. So your declarations, Exhibit 1 and
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`10 Exhibit 2, refer to certain patents other than the
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`11 Corephotonics patents?
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`12 A. Yes.
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`13 Q. And I understand from your testimony today
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`14 that in working on these declarations you looked at
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`15 a collection of 100 or 200, approximately, patents
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`16 that you assembled prior to your work on this case;
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`17 is that right?
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`18 A. I want to be accurate. I have different
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`19 sources of patents for mobile phones, and I have
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`20 different folders in which these patents sit. One
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`21 folder, for example, may have patents that I search
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`22 working on this case through the free online patents
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`23 website. So you just type there a word related to
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`24 the patent, such as "pickup lens" --
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`25 (Clarification requested by Reporter.)
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` 1 THE WITNESS: -- "pickup lens." And you may
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` 2 have a number of entries, and some of these entries
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` 3 may relate to the patent, and I may have saved this
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` 4 particular patent. So I have a collection of
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` 5 patent