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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`ROKU, INC.,
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS, INC.,
`Patent Owner
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`Case IPR2019-01614
`Patent 9,911,325
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`PETITIONER’S OBJECTIONS TO PATENT OWNER’S EVIDENCE
`PURSUANT TO 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(b)(1)
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`Mail Stop “PATENT BOARD”
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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`Case IPR2019-01614
`U.S. Patent No. 9,911,325
`Petitioner, Roku, Inc., objects to the admissibility of the following evidence
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`submitted by Patent Owner, Universal Electronics, Inc. 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(b)(1).
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`These objections are being timely filed within 5 business days after service of the
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`evidence to which these objections are directed.
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`Exhibit 2012: August 19, 2020 Transcript, Certain Electronic Devices,
`Including Streaming Players, Televisions, Set Top Boxes, Remote Controllers,
`and Components Thereof, ITC Inv. 337-TA-1200
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`Petitioner objects to this document because it is being improperly submitted
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`with the Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply. As explained in the Consolidated Trial
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`Practice Guide, November 2019, the “sur-reply may not be accompanied by new
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`evidence other than deposition transcripts of the cross-examination of any reply
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`witness.” TPG, 73 (emphasis added). Here, Patent Owner attempts to subvert this
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`rule and attempts to improperly submit additional evidence with its Sur-Reply.
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`Petitioner further objects to this document as irrelevant under FRE 401 and
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`thus inadmissible under FRE 402, or as confusing or a waste of time under FRE
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`403 (e.g., this document is improperly being used to mischaracterize Petitioner’s
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`disagreement with UEI’s addition of a negative limitation to the construction of
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`“key code signal”).
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`Respectfully submitted,
`STERNE, KESSLER, GOLDSTEIN & FOX P.L.L.C.
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`/Lestin L. Kenton/
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`Lestin L. Kenton, Reg. No. 72,314
`Counsel for Petitioner
`Roku, Inc.
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`Date: November 20, 2020
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`1100 New York Avenue, N.W.
`Washington, D.C. 20005–3934
`(202) 371–2600
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`CERTIFICATION OF SERVICE
`The undersigned hereby certifies that a true and correct copy of the
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`foregoing PETITIONER’S OBJECTIONS TO PATENT OWNER’S
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`EVIDENCE PURSUANT TO 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(b)(1) was electronically served
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`via e-mail in its entirety on November 20, 2020, upon the following Attorneys for
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`Patent Owner:
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`Benjamin S. Pleune (Lead Counsel)
`Ryan W. Koppleman (Back-up Counsel)
`Thomas W. Davison (Back-up Counsel)
`James H. Abe (Back-up Counsel)
`Caleb J. Bean (Back-up Counsel)
`Derek S. Neilson (Back-up Counsel)
`Nicholas T. Tsui (Back-up Counsel)
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`ben.pleune@alston.com
`ryan.koppelman@alston.com
`tom.davison@alston.com
`james.abe@alston.com
`caleb.bean@alston.com
`derek.neilson@alston.com
`nick.tsui@alston.com
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`STERNE, KESSLER, GOLDSTEIN & FOX P.L.L.C.
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`/Lestin L. Kenton/
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`Lestin L. Kenton, Reg. No. 72,314
`Counsel for Petitioner
`Roku, Inc.
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`Date: November 20, 2020
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`1100 New York Avenue, N.W.
`Washington, D.C. 20005–3934
`(202) 371–2600
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