U.S. Patent No. 8,791,910 (“’910 Patent”)
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`Japanese Patent No. 2,666,900 (Filed September 14, 1990) (“Yasuhiro ’900”)
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`Yasuhiro ’900 qualifies as prior art to U.S. Patent No. 8,791,910 (“’910 Patent”) at least under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(a) and (b) (pre-AIA)
`and anticipates, and alone or with other references, renders obvious one or more of claims 1–37. To the extent Yasuhiro ’900 does not
`disclose one or more limitations of the claims, it would have been obvious to combine the teachings of Yasuhiro ’900 with the
`knowledge of one of ordinary skill in the art and with one or more of the references below or those described in Exhibit B-14 to render
`the claims at issue in the ’910 patent invalid.
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`• U.S. Patent No. 4,291,303 to Cutler (“Cutler”) was filed August 23, 1979, and issued September 22, 1981. Cutler qualifies as
`prior art with regard to the ’910 Patent at least under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(a) and (b) (pre-AIA).
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`• U.S. Patent No. 6,230,222 to Rush (“Rush”) was filed October 29, 1998, and issued May 8, 2001. Rush qualifies as prior art
`with regard to the ’910 Patent at least under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(a) and (b) (pre-AIA).
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`• U.S. Patent No. 6,696,585 to Houston (“Houston”) was filed April 24, 2001, and issued February 24. 2004. Houston qualifies
`as prior art with regard to the ’910 Patent at least under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(a) and (b) (pre-AIA).
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`• U.S. Patent No. 7,053,887 to Kraus (“Kraus”) was filed August 19. 2004, and issued May 30, 2006. Kraus qualifies as prior
`art with regard to the ’910 Patent at least under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) (pre-AIA). Kraus was also published as U.S. Patent
`Application Publication No. 2005/0052432 (“Kraus Application”) on March 10, 2005, and qualifies as prior art with regard to
`the ’910 Patent at least under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) (pre-AIA). Where this chart refers to Kraus, Respondents intend to refer also
`to the corresponding section of Kraus Application.
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`• U.S. Patent No. 7,508,324 to Suraqui (“Suraqui”) was filed March 23, 2005, and issued March 24, 2009. Suraqui qualifies as
`prior art with regard to the ’910 Patent at least under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(a) and (e) (pre-AIA).
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`• U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2003/0063073 by Geaghan (“Geaghan”) was filed October 3, 2001, and published
`April 3, 2003. Geaghan qualifies as prior art with regard to the ’910 Patent at least under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(a) and (b) (pre-
`AIA).
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`• U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2006/0109252 (“Kolmykov-Zotov”) was filed November 23, 2004 and published May
`25, 2006. Kolmykov-Zotov qualifies as prior art with regard to the ’910 Patent at least under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(a) and (e) (pre-
`AIA).
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`Japanese Patent No. 2674898 (“Yasuhiro ’898”) was filed on June 15, 1991 and issued November 12, 1997. Yasuhiro ’898
`qualifies as prior art with regard to the ’910 patent at least under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(a) and (b) (pre-AIA).
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`• US Patent No. 7,663,607 (“Hotelling”), filed on May 6, 2004 and thus prior art to the ’910 patent under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e).
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`• US Patent Pub. No. 2004/0008129 (“Philipp”), published on January 15, 2004 and thus prior art under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(b).
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`• Prior art references as set forth in Exhibit B-14.
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`• Prior art references as described in the cover pleading to these contentions.
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`Asserted Claims
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`Claim 1
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`Prior Art Disclosures
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`1[pre] A method comprising, by one or more
`computing devices:
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`Yasuhiro ’900, alone or in combination with the knowledge of a person of
`ordinary skill in the art, discloses the method recited in claim 1.
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`1[a] receiving two or more output signals
`responsive to two or more capacitive couplings,
`each of the capacitive couplings occurring
`between a pointing object and one of two or more
`sensing areas within a sensing region, each of the
`sensing areas having a position within the sensing
`region; and
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`See, e.g., Yasuhiro ’900 at pp. 2–4.
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`Yasuhiro ’900, alone or in combination with one or more of Yasuhiro ’898,
`Philipp, or Hotelling, and/or the knowledge of a person of ordinary skill in the
`art, discloses “receiving two or more output signals responsive to two or more
`capacitive couplings, each of the capacitive couplings occurring between a
`pointing object and one of two or more sensing areas within a sensing region,
`each of the sensing areas having a position within the sensing region.”
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`For example, as shown in Yasuhiro ’900 Figure 1(a) below, Yasuhiro ’900
`discloses “[a] non-touch switch device in which a multiplicity of non-touch
`switches ... detect a change in the capacitance” to detect the presence of an
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