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`In re inter partes review of:
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`U.S. Patent 7,818,399 to Ross, et al.
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`Filed: Herewith
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`For: Methods of Expanding Commercial Opportunities for Internet Websites
`Through Coordinated Offsite Marketing
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`Declaration of James Pichler in Support of
`Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No. 7,818,399
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`Exhibit 1003
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`DECLARATION OF JAMES PICHLER
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`1. My name is James Pichler. I am over the age of twenty-one (21)
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`years, of sound mind and capable of making the statements set forth in this
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`Declaration. I am competent to testify to matters set forth herein. All the facts and
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`statements contained herein are within my personal knowledge and they are, to the
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`best of my knowledge, true and correct.
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`2.
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`I am being compensated by the Petitioner for my assistance with its
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`Inter Partes Review (IPR) and, specifically, for my time spent reviewing
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`documents in association with the IPR and in preparing my testimony.
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`Additionally, I am not, and have never been, an employee of Petitioner, and my
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`compensation is not dependent upon the outcome of this proceeding. I am being
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`compensated at a rate of $150 per hour for my work.
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`Digital River Prior Art Publications
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`I have reviewed the Digital River publications provided as Exhibits
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`1004-1006 in the petition for Inter Partes Review. I was an employee of Digital
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`River between July 1996 and July 2010. I have personal knowledge relating to the
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`creation and distribution of these publications as of the times and dates specified as
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`detailed below.
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`4.
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`The following links from the Wayback Machine represent various
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`content from Digital River’s website at different points in time. These links are
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`included as Exhibits 1005-1006 in the Petition. I was personally involved in
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`creating
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`and
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`reviewing
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`content
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`for
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`these
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`websites:
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`https://web.archive.org/web/19970412100754/http://www.digitalriver.com:80/
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`(archived
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`on
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`4/12/1997—Digital
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`River
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`April
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`1997 Website);
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`https://web.archive.org/web/19971221024408/http://digitalriver.com:80/ (archived
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`on 12/21/1997 Digital River December 1997 Website 1 of 4);
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`https://web.archive.org/web/19971221024500/http://digitalriver.com:80/Page2.htm
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`l (archived on 12/21/1997 Digital River December 1997 Website 2 of 4);
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`https://web.archive.org/web/19971221024519/http://digitalriver.com:80/Page3.htm
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`l (archived on 12/21/1997 Digital River December 1997 Website 3 of 4);
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`https://web.archive.org/web/19971221024534/http://digitalriver.com:80/Page4.htm
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`l (archived on 12/21/1997 Digital River December 1997 Website 4 of 4).
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`I certify that each of these pages are true and correct copies of the specified web
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`pages, and that they were published on the World Wide Web at location noted in
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`the archive at least as of the archive date provided by the Wayback Machine.
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`5.
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`A person in the field of ecommerce systems in general, ecommerce
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`affiliate sales systems, web storefront design, and the like, exercising reasonable
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`diligence, would have found the above websites using customary internet searching
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`tools available at the time. Additionally, in my position and capacity at Digital
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`River I often spoke to potential clients in the ecommerce area, including
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`individuals with 3 plus years of technical expertise in this field such as web-
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`designers and technical developers who design and manage ecommerce websites,
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`and directed them to the above websites. In fact, the above websites were made
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`explicitly to receive traffic from such individuals.
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`6.
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`Exhibit 1004 is the 1997 Digital River brochure. I was personally
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`involved in creating and reviewing content for this brochure, and I certify that
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`Exhibit 1004 is a true and correct copy. The 1997 Brochure was freely and
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`actively distributed to potential clients as early as the summer of 1997. When
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`brochures such as this were made by Digital River, it was our express goal to
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`distribute as far and as wide as possible to people in our field (e.g. merchant’s
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`having or wanting to establish ecommerce websites and web designers tasked with
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`designing and maintaining such sites). Individuals receiving this brochure would
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`include potential clients in the ecommerce area, including individuals with 3 plus
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`years of technical expertise in this field such as web-designers and technical
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`developers who design and manage ecommerce websites.
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`I hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own
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`knowledge are true and that all statements made on information and belief are
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`believed to be true; and further that these statements were made with the
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`knowledge that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine
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`or imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States
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`Code.
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