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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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`COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC,
`Petitioner,
`v.
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`ROVI GUIDES, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Patent No. 7,200,855
`Filing Date: May 24, 2001
`Issue Date: April 3, 2007
`Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MULTIPLEXING A
`PLURALITY OF CHANNELS IN A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM
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`Inter Partes Review No.: IPR2020-00789
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`DECLARATION OF CARRIE GARDNER, PH.D.
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`Comcast, Ex. 1213
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
`INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 1 
`I. 
`BACKGROUND AND QUALIFICATIONS ................................................ 2 
`II. 
`PRELIMINARIES .......................................................................................... 3 
`III. 
`IV.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBIT 1006/1206: PCI LOCAL BUS
`SPECIFICATION, REVISION 2.2, PCI SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP,
`DECEMBER 18, 1998 (“PCI”) ...................................................................... 5 
`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................... 5 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 11 
`C.  Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 12 
`V.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBITS 1016, 1116, 1216: EXCERPTS
`FROM THE BOOK MPEG-2 BY JOHN WATKINSON, PUBLISHED BY
`FOCAL PRESS, 1999. ................................................................................. 13 
`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................. 13 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 15 
`C.  Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 18 
`VI.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBIT 1034, 1134, 1234: EXCERPTS
`FROM WIRELESS LANS: IMPLEMENTING INTEROPERABLE
`NETWORKS, JIM GEIER, MACMILLAN TECHNICAL PUBLISHING,
`1999 .............................................................................................................. 18 
`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................. 18 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 21 
`C.  Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 24 
`VII.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBITS 1046, 1107: EXCERPTS FROM
`FIREWIRE® SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE: IEEE 1394A, SECOND
`EDITION DON ANDERSON, ADDISON-WESLEY, 1999. ..................... 24 
`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................. 24 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 27 
`C.  Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 29 
`VIII.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBIT 1017, 1117, 1217: EXCERPTS
`FROM DIGITAL VIDEO: AN INTRODUCTION TO MPEG-2, B.
`HASKELL ET AL., CHAPMAN & HALL, 1997 ....................................... 29 
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`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................. 29 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 32 
`C.  Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 35 
`IX.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBIT 1026, 1126, 1226: EXCERPTS
`FROM TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER’S REFERENCE BOOK,
`FRAIDOON MAZDA, EDITOR, BUTTERWORTH-HEINEMANN LTD,
`1993. ............................................................................................................. 35 
`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................. 35 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 37 
`C.  Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 40 
`X.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBIT 1028, 1128, 1228: EXCERPTS
`FROM SWITCHED, FAST, AND GIGABIT ETHERNET, THIRD
`EDITION, ROBERT BREYER AND SEAN RILEY, MACMILLAN
`TECHNICAL PUBLISHING, 1999 ............................................................. 40 
`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................. 40 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 42 
`C.  Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 45 
`XI.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBIT 1030, 1130, 1230: EXCERPTS
`FROM NEWTON’S TELECOM DICTIONARY: THE OFFICIAL
`DICTIONARY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING & THE
`INTERNET, SIXTEENTH EDITION, TELECOM BOOKS, 2000. ........... 45 
`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................. 45 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 48 
`C.  Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 49 
`XII.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBIT 1033, 1133: EXCERPTS FROM
`INTERNETWORKING WITH TCP/IP VOL I: PRINCIPLES,
`PROTOCOLS, AND ARCHITECTURE, THIRD EDITION, PRENTICE-
`HALL, INC., 1995 ........................................................................................ 49 
`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................. 49 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 51 
`C.  Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 54 
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`XIII.  OPINIONS REGARDING EXHIBIT 1047, 1247: EXCERPTS FROM
`THE BOOK: PCI SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE, FOURTH EDITION BY
`TOM SHANLEY AND DON ANDERSON, PUBLISHED BY ADDISON-
`WESLEY, 1999. ........................................................................................... 54 
`A.  Authentication ................................................................................................. 54 
`B.  Public Accessibility ........................................................................................ 56 
`C.  Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 59 
`XIV.  CONCLUSION ............................................................................................. 59 
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`1.
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`I, Carrie Gardner, hereby declare under the pains and penalty of perjury:
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`I.
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`INTRODUCTION
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`2.
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`I have personal knowledge of the facts and opinions set forth in this
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`declaration, I believe them to be true, and if called upon to do so, I would testify
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`competently to them. I have been warned that willful false statements and the like
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`are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both.
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`3.
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`I have extensive experience in the field of library and information
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`science. I have taught library and information science courses for San Jose State
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`University since 2002. I was an assistant professor at the Catholic University of
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`America and for the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. I have been
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`the principal consultant at Clairmaxine Consulting since 1991. I have delivered over
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`200 speeches, lectures, workshops and classes on aspects of information
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`authenticity,
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`information flow
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`in our society,
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`intellectual property, and
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`confidentiality with regards to information access.
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`4.
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`I have been retained by Banner Witcoff, Ltd., to authenticate and
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`establish the dates of public accessibility of certain documents in an inter partes
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`review proceedings for U.S. Patent No. 7,200,855. For this service, I am being paid
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`my usual hourly fee of $200/hour. My compensation in no way depends on the
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`substance of my testimony or the outcome of this proceeding.
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`II.
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`BACKGROUND AND QUALIFICATIONS
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`5. My educational history is as follows:
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` 2001: Doctor of Philosophy in Library Science, University of
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`Pittsburgh. Dissertation: Conflict Resolution Behaviors among
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`Stakeholders in Developing and Implementing Internet Use Policies
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`in Pennsylvania Public High Schools;
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` 2014: Master of Education (Reading), Edinboro University of
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`Pennsylvania;
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` 2004: Master of Education (Administration), Temple University;
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` 1993: Master of Library Science, University of Pittsburgh; and
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` 1990: Bachelor of Science, Education and Library Science,
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`Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Magna Cum Laude.
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`6. My employment history is as follows:
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` Principal Consultant, Clairmaxine, 1991-Present;
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` Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher
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`Education, 2007-2012;
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` Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science,
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`Catholic University of America. 2003-2007;
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` Coordinator, Library Media Services, Milton Hershey School.
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`1999-2003;
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` Library Media Specialist, Milton Hershey School. 1996-1999;
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` Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh. 1993-1995;
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` Graduate Student Assistant, University of Pittsburgh. 1992-1993;
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` Library Media Specialist, Palmyra School District. 1990-1992; and
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` Student Retrospective Conversion Cataloger, Millersville
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`University. 1987-1990.
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`7.
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`In the course of my twenty-eight years of academic life, I have myself
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`been an active researcher and librarian. I have collaborated with dozens of
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`individual researchers and worked to provide information to over five thousand
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`patrons. During the course of this work I have developed and maintained expert
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`skills in information management and retrieval.
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`8.
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`Attached hereto as Appendix A is my full resume.
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`III.
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`PRELIMINARIES
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`9.
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`Scope of this declaration. I am not a lawyer and I am not rendering an
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`opinion on the legal question of whether any particular document is, or is not, a
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`“printed publication” under the law.
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`10.
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`I am, however, rendering my expert opinion on the authenticity of the
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`documents referenced herein and on when and how each of these documents was
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`disseminated or otherwise made available to the extent that persons interested and
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`ordinarily skilled in the subject matter or art, exercising reasonable diligence, could
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`have located the documents.
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`11.
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`I have been informed that for the ʼ855 patent, a person having ordinary
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`skill in the art is a hypothetical person that would have had, as of May 2001, a
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`bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer
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`science, or a similar discipline, and at least two years of experience with distributed
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`computing systems such as multimedia systems, or would have had equivalent
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`experience either in industry or research, such as designing, developing, evaluating,
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`testing, or implementing the aforementioned technologies.
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`12. Such engineers and scientists frequently ask librarians, like myself, to
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`assist them in locating information. Throughout the course of my career, I have
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`assisted numerous engineers and scientists in locating technical papers, books, and
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`Internet articles.
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`13. Materials considered. In forming the opinions expressed in this
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`declaration, I have reviewed the documents and attachments referenced herein.
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`These materials are records created in the ordinary course of business by businesses,
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`publishers, libraries, indexing services, and others. From my years of experience, I
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`am familiar with the process for creating many of these records, and I know these
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`records are created by people with knowledge of the information in the record.
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`Further, these records are created with the expectation that researchers and other
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`members of the public will use them. All materials cited in this declaration and its
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`attachments are of a type that experts in my field would reasonably rely upon and
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`refer to in forming their opinions.
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`IV.
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`OPINIONS REGARDING Exhibit 1006/1206: PCI Local Bus
`Specification, Revision 2.2, PCI Special Interest Group, December 18,
`1998 (“PCI”)
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`A. Authentication
`14. Exhibit 1006/1206 (“PCI”) is a document titled: “PCI Local Bus
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`Specification, Revision 2.2.”
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`15.
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`In order to authenticate Exhibit 1006/1206, I reviewed a Declaration
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`from Doanh Vu (Exhibit 1007/1207) in which Mr. Vu explains that he obtained
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`Exhibit 1006/1206 from the file history of U.S. Patent No. 6,218,864 (the “’864
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`patent”, Exhibit 1011/1211) from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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`(USPTO). Appendix A of Mr. Vu’s declaration includes a copy of the file history
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`of the ’864 patent, and Appendix B is a copy of Exhibit 1006/1206. Mr. Vu attests
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`that Appendix B is a true and correct copy of the document he obtained from the
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`patent office.
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`16. To begin, I went to https://www.google.com/ and using the google
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`search engine, I searched “PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.2,” which is the
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`title on the cover page of the document.
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`17. The first result provided by my search at https://www.google.com/ list
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`was: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~harris/ics216/pci/PCI_22.pdf. This website hosted
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`by the University of California Irvine is a profile page of Ian G. Harris, who
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`according to the website, is a professor of Computer Science. At this website I found
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`a copy of the specification that exactly matches Exhibit 1006/1206, except that
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`Exhibit 1006/1206 includes an additional stamp (“U.S. PTO”) on the cover page.
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`Finding identical copies of the same document from different sources that are
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`unrelated, but that both involve the same field of study of a PHOSITA (an electrical
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`engineering professor’s website and a patent directed to an electrical circuit related
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`to PCI) is an indication that Exhibit 1006/1206 has not been altered from its original
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`form.
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`18. Both
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`Exhibit
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`1006/1206
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`and
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`the
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`copy
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`found
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`at
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`https://www.ics.uci.edu/~harris/ics216/pci/PCI_22.pdf state on page ii that the
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`document was created by the PCI Special Interest Group. Page ii lists the website
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`for the PCI Special Interest Group as: http://www.pcisig.com. I went to
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`http://www.pcisig.com and read that PCISIG is the name of a group that creates
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`specifications and standards for peripheral component
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`interconnect (PCI)
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`technology. At the website: https://pcisig.com/membership, I read that PCISIG
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`started in 1992 as the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group and
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`has over 700 industry companies as members. A printout of this webpage is attached
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`as Exhibit B. I clicked on the link labeled “Member Companies” and read that
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`companies such as 3M, Amazon, and Microsoft are members. Their membership
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`lends credibility to the validity and importance of the organization. I also read that
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`Xilinx, Inc. is also a member, which is the Assignee identified on the cover page of
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`the ’864 patent.
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`19. At https://pcisig.com/, I used the search feature on the website to search
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`“PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.2.” The search returned this website:
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`https://pcisig.com/pci-local-bus-specification-revision-23 which stated that the PCI
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`Local Bus Specification Revision 2.2 was issued on December 18, 1998. A printout
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`of this webpage is attached as Exhibit C. This is an exact match to the information
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`contained on the cover page of Exhibit 1006/1206.
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`20.
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`I also searched for “https://pcsig.com” on the website The Internet
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`Archive (https://archive.org/about/). The Internet Archive, which is a 501(c)(3) non-
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`profit, is a digital archive/library of Internet sites that starting in 1996 were ‘scraped’
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`from publicly accessible webpages. The Internet Archive created a service called
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`the Wayback Machine that makes these archived web pages searchable. Searches
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`on the Wayback Machine can be undertaken by URL. If an archive record for a URL
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`is available, webpages for available dates will be shown. Through the Wayback
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`Machine it is possible to view a specific webpage at a URL and see that page on that
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`date as it then appeared. It is more or less a ‘snapshot’ of the website on that date.
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`21. My search for “https://pcsig.com” showed that the website had been
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`archived 1,141 times between December 18, 1996, and April 10, 2020. I selected a
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`capture to review dated February 09, 1999, which is attached as Exhibit D. On this
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`page a selected a link “Specifications,” which opened the webpage archived on
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`March 02, 1999, which is attached as Exhibit E. The top of the pages of Exhibits D
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`and E include the name of the organization and the address, “2575 NE Kathryn St
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`#17 Hillsboro, OR 97124” and Fax number “503-693-8344,” which are the same as
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`that printed on page ii of Exhibit 1006/1206. Also, page 1 of Exhibit D states “PCI
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`SIG Announces Release of PCI v2.2, PCI SIG announced today that v2.2 of the
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`PCI Local Bus standard specification is now available.” Exhibit E identifies costs
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`of certain specifications “as of January 1999” and indicates that “PCI Local Bus
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`Specification Rev. 2.2” is available for “$25 plus shipping*.” Exhibit E further
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`indicates that the specifications are available by submitting a form by Fax to the
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`number noted above. This information from Exhibits D and E provide additional
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`corroboration that the Exhibit 1006/1206 is authentic.
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`22.
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` I further secured a copy of the print book, PCI System Architecture,
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`Fourth Edition by Don Anderson and Tom Shanley published by Addison-Wesley
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`with a copyright of 1999 (Exhibit 1047/1247). Exhibit 1006/1206, the PCI Local
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`Bus Specification, is the basis of the book by Anderson and Shanley, so information
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`from Exhibit 1006/1206 is mentioned throughout the book. I found one example on
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`page 7 which states “[t]he latest version, 2.2 was completed on December 18, 1998
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`[which matches the date on the front cover of Exhibit 1006/1206] and became
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`available in February of 1999”.
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`23. The Anderson and Shanley book (Exhibit 1047/1247) also states:
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`Exhibit 1047/1247 at 13 (excerpt)
`24. The mailing address, US phone and Fax numbers, and website where
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`the specification could be obtained as identified in the book, matches that identified
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`on the second page of Exhibit 1006/1206.
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`Exhibit 1006/1206 at 2 (excerpt)
` Exhibit 1006/1206 is in a condition that creates no suspicion about its
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`25.
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`authenticity. Specifically, Exhibit 1006/1206 is not missing any intermediate pages
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`of text, the text on each page appears to flow seamlessly from one page to the next,
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`and there are no visible alterations to the document. Exhibit 1006/1206 was found
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`at multiple locations.
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`26.
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`I conclude, based on:
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` finding identical copies of Exhibit 1006/1206 from unrelated sources (the
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`’864 patent and an electrical engineering professor’s website), which both
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`pertain to the subject matter of the reference and relevant background of a
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`PHOSITA,
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` finding references to Exhibit 1006/1206 (including its release date and other
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`information that match the contents of the exhibit) on the current website of
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`the publisher of the exhibit and in the Anderson and Shanley book (Exhibit
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`1047/1247), which is specifically about Exhibit 1006/1206, and
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` finding references to Exhibit 1006/1206 in the archived webpages of the
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`publisher that were captured near the date of publication, including references
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`of the availability date and cost of Exhibit 1006/1206, and a matching address
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`and Fax number that is included in Exhibit 1006/1206
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`that Exhibit 1006/1206 is an authentic copy of the PCI Local Bus Specification,
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`Revision 2.2, released on December 18, 1998 and published by the PCI Special
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`Interest Group.
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`B.
`27.
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`Public Accessibility
` In order to determine whether, and if so, Exhibit 1006/1206 was
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`available to the public, I considered the same information I discussed above
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`regarding the authenticity of the exhibit.
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`28.
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`In particular, the exhibit itself includes a date of December 18, 1998,
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`and the website of the publisher indicates the same date as the release date of the
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`document.
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`29. Additionally, three separate references specifically identify and
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`included details of Exhibit 1006/1206. The first is the ’824 patent (Exhibit
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`1011/1211), which as discussed above includes a copy of Exhibit 1006/1206 that the
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`applicant provided to the USPTO on August 10, 1999. The second is the Anderson
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`and Shanley book (Exhibit 1047/1247), which itself was published in May 1999, and
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`which provides a history of the specification indicating that it became available in
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`February 1999. The third is the webpages of the publisher that were archived in
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`February and March 1999 that announce the release and availability of the
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`document.
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`30. Using San Jose State University library resources, I further conducted
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`a full text search of articles published before May 24, 2001 for “PCI Local Bus
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`Specification Revision 2.2.” The search returned 112 articles. To confirm the search
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`was accurate, I downloaded 12 of the articles and confirmed that the searched text
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`was included in the article and that the article was published before May 24, 2001.
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`A list of these 12 articles is attached as Exhibit F.
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`31. Based on the above corroborating information, I conclude that Exhibit
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`1006/1206 was publicly available to a person of ordinary skill in the art interested in
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`obtaining the document as of February 1999 as indicated in Anderson and Shanley
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`(Exhibit 1047/1247) and the archived webpage, which is a few months after its
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`release date of December 18, 1998, and certainly no later than August 10, 1999, the
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`date the ’864 patent (Exhibit 1011/1211) was submitted to the patent office as an
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`application.
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`C. Conclusion
`32. Based on the totality of evidence presented here it is my opinion that
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`Exhibit 1006/1206 is an authentic copy of the “PCI Local Bus Specification,
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`Revision 2.2,” released on December 18, 1998 and published by the PCI Special
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`Interest Group, which was publicly available February 1999.
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`V.
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`OPINIONS REGARDING Exhibits 1016, 1116, 1216: Excerpts from the
`book MPEG-2 by John Watkinson, published by Focal Press, 1999.
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`A. Authentication
`33.
` Exhibits 1016, 1116, and 1216 (each including the same reference
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`“Watkinson”) contains excerpts from a monograph (book) titled “MPEG-2” by John
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`Watkinson that was published by Focal Press in 1999. In order to authenticate
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`Exhibit 1016/1116/1216, I secured a print copy of the book. The book was in a
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`condition that left no doubt about its authenticity. The pages were securely within
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`the cover and no pages were missing. After examining the condition of the book, I
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`turned to the title page. I confirmed that Watkinson is titled “MPEG-2” by John
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`Watkinson and published by Focal Press. On the verso of the title page, I found the
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`phrase “Copyright John Watkinson 1999.”
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`34.
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`I also found the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) number
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`of 0-24-0515102. ISBN identifiers are unique numeric identifiers that are placed in
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`books in order to identify exact editions. If a new book is issued, it must include a
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`different ISBN. This includes format as well as content changes. If content changes
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`or if a different binding (i.e., paperback) is created, a new ISBN must be secured.
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`This system guarantees that different versions of a book have an ISBN that defines
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`its relationship to all other editions of that title. In order to further authentic
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`Watkinson, I went to https://catalog.loc.gov/ which is the online catalog of the
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`Library of Congress. I searched the catalog using “0240515102” and retrieved a
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`record at this website: https://lccn.loc.gov/99203277 which contains the Library of
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`Congress record for the book, which included identical identifying information as
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`that indicated above. I found the Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) of
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`99-203277. The Library of Congress provides a service where publishers send
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`advanced copies of books to the Library of Congress staff. The staff assign a Library
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`of Congress Control Number. The first part of the number is the year the book was
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`received. The number after the dash is an accession number based on the number of
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`books received that year. Exhibit 1016/1116/1216 was received by the Library of
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`Congress in 1999 and it was the 203,277th book given an LCCN number during that
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`year. I further went to the website https://www.worldcat.org/ which is the largest
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`database of library holdings in the world. Librarians from around the world upload
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`the holdings of their libraries to the database. I searched “0240515102” and retrieved
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`this record: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41159672. I found entries for books that
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`are identical to Exhibit 1016/1116/1216 and held by numerous libraries.
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`Importantly, the books identified in the Worldcat database have the same ISBN
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`number as Exhibit 1016/1116/1216, and every aspect described in Worldcat was an
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`identical match to Exhibit 1016/1116/1216.
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`35.
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`I further went to http://amazon.com and searched “0240515102” and
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`retrieved
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`this
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`record: https://www.amazon.com/Mpeg-2-John-Watkinson/dp/
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`0240515102/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=0240515102&qid=1586827118&sr
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`=8-1, which contains details identical to that indicated in Exhibit 1016/1116/1216,
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`including an image of the front cover and an image of the copyright page. The
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`Amazon webpage indicated that the book was available on April 14, 1999.
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`36. Based on the foregoing (i.e., finding information about multiple copies
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`of books identical to Watkinson available for sale and finding entries for multiple
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`copies in different library collections), I conclude that Watkinson (Exhibit
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`1016/1116/1216) is authentic.
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`B.
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`Public Accessibility
` In order to determine whether, and if so when, Watkinson was
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`available to the public, I first examined the book itself. Having established that
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`Exhibit 1016/1116/1216 is authentic based on my finding multiple identical copies
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`of it at likely websites, I examined Watkinson for information about availability.
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`The verso of the title page is the most common location for information about
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`copyright in books. The verso of the title page in Watkinson states that the book
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`was copyrighted in 1999.
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`38.
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`In order to further confirm the public accessibility of Exhibit
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`1016/1116/1216, I went to https://amazon.com. I searched “0240515102” and
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`retrieved
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`this
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`website:
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`https://www.amazon.com/Mpeg-2-John-
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`Watkinson/dp/0240515102/
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`15
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`ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=0240515102&qid=1586828212&sr=8-1 which
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`lists the date the resource was available as April 14, 1999.
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`39.
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`I further retrieved the record of the book from the Library of Congress
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`at:
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`https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/staffView?searchId=22429&recPointer=0&rec
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`Count=25&searchType=1&bibId=3106181. The LOC record includes a MARC
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`(Machine-readable cataloging) record, which is an international standard set by the
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`library community. Librarians around the world use the MARC standard to catalog
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`books and other items found in libraries. Using this standard provides uniformity to
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`library catalogs around the world. Each field in a MARC record begins with a
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`number and contains multiple subfields. The MARC standard defines what
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`information librarians put into each field. Use of the MARC record guarantees that
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`librarians around the world catalog the same book in the same manner and that those
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`records are compatible with the software that librarians purchase to create digital
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`(online) catalogs of the resources in libraries. Use of MARC records also increases
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`the accessibility of library collections for patrons.
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`40. Fields 245, 650, 955, and 991 of the MARC record for Watkinson are
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`copied below.
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`245 10 |a MPEG-2 / |c John Watkinson.
`650 _0 |a Video compression
`650 _0 |a MPEG (Video coding standard)
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`955 __ |a pb18 05-05-99 to cat.; jf00 05-07-99; jf03 to Subj. 05-17-99; jf08 05-
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`17-99 to SL; jf25 05-20-99 to ddc
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`991 __ |b c-GenColl |h TK6680.5 |i .W384 1999 |t Copy 1 |w BOOKS
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`41. The collections of the Library of Congress are searchable by keyword,
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`subject matter, author, or title such that a person, with or without a research assistant,
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`could find works in which they were interested. For example, a member of the public
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`could have located Watkinson by searching author: John Watkinson; title: MPEG-
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`2; and/or the subject field: “Video Compression” and “MPEG (Video coding
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`standard)” in fields 245 and 650, respectively. Members of the public could read,
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`study, and make notes about a selected work in the Reading Rooms. Further,
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`members of the public were permitted to make photocopies of portions of the works
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`while in the Reading Rooms. Accordingly, Watkinson was accessible to the general
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`public and searchable by subject matter when it was available at the Library of
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`Congress. The 991 record identifies the call number including the publication date
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`of 1999, and the number of copies “Copy 1” available. The 955 record indicates the
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`processing and cataloging of Watkinson in sequential steps separated by semi-
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`colons. Processing began on May 5, 1999, when the book was submitted for
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`cataloging (CAT), and finished on May 20, 1999, when the book was submitted for
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`Dewy Decimal Classification (DDC) number assignment. Watkinson would have
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`17
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`been accessible to the public on the shelf in the Library of Congress within a few
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`days thereafter.
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`42.
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`In view of the forgoing, it is my opinion that Exhibit 1016/1116/1216
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`was publicly available to persons interested and ordinarily skilled in the relevant
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`subject matter or art, exercising reasonable diligence in May or June of 1999.
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`C.
`43.
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` Conclusions
` I conclude that Exhibit 1016/1116/1216 is authentic and was publicly
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`available at no later than June 1999.
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`VI.
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`OPINIONS REGARDING Exhibit 1034, 1134, 1234: Excerpts from
`Wireless LANs: Implementing Interoperable Networks, Jim Geier,
`Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999
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`A. Authentication
`44. Exhibits 1034, 1134, and 1234 (each including the same reference
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`“Grier”) contains excerpts from a monograph book titled “Wireless LANs:
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`Implementing Interoperable Networks,” First Edition authored by Jim Geier,
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`copyright 1999 by the publisher Macmillan Technical Publishing. In order to
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`authenticate Exhibit 1034/1134/1234, I secured a print copy of the book. The book
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`was in a condition that left no doubt about its authenticity. The pages were securely
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`within the cover and no pages were missing. After examining the condition of the
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`book, I turned to the title page and the verso of the title page. I confirmed that this
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`was the First Edition of the book titled “Wireless LANs: Implementing Interoperable
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`Networks” authored by Jim Geier that was copyrighted by Macmillan Technical
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`Publishing in 1999. Also on the verso of the title page, I found the Library of
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`Congress Control Number (LCCN) of 98-85489. The Library of Congress provides
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`a service where publishers send advanced copies of books to the Library of Congress
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`staff. The staff assign a Library of Congress Control Number. The first part of the
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`number is the year the book was received. The number after the dash is an accession
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`number based on the number of books received that year. Exhibit 1034/1134/1234
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`was received by the Library of Congress in 1998 and it was the 85,489th book given
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`an LCCN number during that year.
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`45. When I examined Exhibit 1034/1134/1234, I found the International
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`Standard Book Number (ISBN) number of 1-57870-081-7. ISBN identifiers are
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`unique numeric identifiers that are placed in books in order to identify exact editions.
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`If a new book is issued, it must include a different ISBN. This includes format as
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`well as content changes. If content changes or if a different binding (i.e., paperback)
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`is created, a new ISBN mu

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