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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`DECLARATION OF MELANIE ARLANTICO
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`ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
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`Petitioner
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`AQUILA INNOVATIONS INC.
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`Patent Owner
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`Case IPR2019-01526
`U.S. Patent No. 6,895,519
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`AQUILA – Ex. 2015
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`I, Melanie Arlantico, declare:
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`I am employed at the law firm of Freitas & Weinberg LLP, counsel
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`for Patent Owner Aquila Innovations Inc. in the above-captioned proceeding. I
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`have person knowledge of the facts in this declaration.
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`2.
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`I reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, which I understand remains
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`under stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The stay at home
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`orders require everyone employed at the firm, who ordinarily do not work from
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`home, to work remotely.
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`3.
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`I use remote desktop software to access my work desktop computer
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`that is physically located at the firm’s Redwood Shores, California offices.
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`Counsel’s work product, including all of the electronic files related to Aquila’s
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`Patent Owner Response, is stored on devices other than my home computer.
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`4.
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`On June 5, 2020, beginning at 10:45 PM Eastern time, I prepared
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`Aquila’s Patent Owner Response and corresponding exhibits for filing using a
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`remote connection to my work desktop computer. Beginning around 11:35 PM and
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`ending around 11:45 PM Eastern time, while the Patent Owner Response was
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`processing, I successfully filed Exhibits 2005 to 2014.
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`5.
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`After filing the exhibits, the remote desktop software crashed while I
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`was finalizing the Patent Owner Response for filing, cutting off my access to my
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`work desktop computer and the Patent Owner Response. Despite my best efforts, I
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`was not able to reconnect with my work desktop computer until 12:16 AM Eastern
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`time on June 6, 2020, 16 minutes after the deadline.
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`6.
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`Had the remote desktop software not crashed, I would have been able
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`to file the Patent Owner Response before midnight.
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`I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the
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`best of my knowledge. Executed in San Mateo, California.
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`Date: June 11, 2020
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`/Melanie Arlantico/
`Melanie Arlantico
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