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`___________
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`ADOBE INC.
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`SYNKLOUD TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
`Patent Owner
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`___________
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`Patent No. 9,239,686
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`DECLARATION OF WINSTON LIAW IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR
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`INTER PARTES REVIEW OF U.S. PATENT NO. 9,239, 686
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`Petition 1 of 2 (claims 1-11)
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`Adobe – Exhibit 1036, page 1
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`I, Winston Liaw, make the following declaration in support of the petition
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`by Adobe Inc. (“Petitioner”) for inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 9,239,686:
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`1.
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`I am an attorney with the law firm of Farella Braun + Martel LLP,
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`counsel for Petitioner. Unless otherwise stated, the facts stated in this declaration
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`are based on my personal knowledge.
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`2.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1010 is a true and correct copy of Request for Comments (RFC) 1738, titled
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`“Uniform Resource Locators (URL),” retrieved from the IETF website at
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`https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738 on or around July 10, 2020.
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`3.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1011 is a true and correct copy of Request for Comments (RFC) 793, titled
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`“TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL, DARPA INTERNET PROGRAM,
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`PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION,” retrieved from the IETF website at
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`https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793 on or around June 30, 2020.
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`4.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1012 is a true and correct copy of Request for Comments (RFC) 959, titled “FILE
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`TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP),” retrieved from the IETF website at
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`https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc959 on or around June 30, 2020.
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`5.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1013 is a true and correct copy of Request for Comments (RFC) 1945, titled
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`Adobe – Exhibit 1036, page 2
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`“Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0,” retrieved from the IETF website at
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`https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945 on or around June 30, 2020.
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`6.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1014 is a true and correct copy of Request for Comments (RFC) 2518, titled
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`“HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring – WEBDAV,” retrieved from the
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`IETF website at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2518 on or around June 30, 2020.
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`7.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1015 is a true and correct copy of “Disconnected Operation in the Coda File
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`System,” by James J. Kistler and M. Satyanarayanan, retrieved from
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`https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/146941.146942 on or around July 1, 2020, which
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`indicates on its face that it was published in ACM Transactions on Computer
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`Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, pages 3-25, dated February 1992.
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`8.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1016 is a true and correct copy of “TranSquid: Transcoding and Caching Proxy for
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`Heterogenous E-Commerce Environments,” by Maheshwari et al., retrieved from
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`https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/995098 on or around July 1, 2020, which
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`indicates on its face that it was published in the Proceedings of the 12th
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`International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Engineering e-
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`Commerce/e-Business Systems (RIDE ’02), dated 2002.
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`9.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`Adobe – Exhibit 1036, page 3
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`1017 is a true and correct copy of “Managing Update Conflicts in Bayou, a Weakly
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`Connected Replicated Storage System,” by Terry et al., retrieved from
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`https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/224056.224070 on or around July 1, 2020,
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`which indicates on its face that it was published in SIGOPS ’95, December 1995,
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`described by the ACM website as SOSP ’95: Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM
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`symposium on Operating Systems Principles, dated December 1995.
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`10.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1018 is a true and correct copy of “A Mobility-Aware File System for Partially
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`Connected Operation,” by Dwyer et al., retrieved from
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`https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/254784.254789 on or around July 1, 2020, which
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`the ACM website states that published in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems
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`Review, dated January 1997.
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`11.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1019 is a true and correct copy of “Reducing File System Latency using a
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`Predictive Approach,” by Griffioen et al., retrieved from
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`https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/1267257.1267270 on or around July 1, 2020,
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`which the ACM websites states was published in USTC'94: Proceedings of the
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`USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Summer 1994
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`Technical Conference - Volume 1, dated June 1994.
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`12.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`Adobe – Exhibit 1036, page 4
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`1024 is a true and correct copy of “Wireless Application Protocol Architecture
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`Specification” (Version Apr. 30, 1998), retrieved from
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`http://www.openmobilealliance.org/wp/Affiliates/WAP.html (specifically,
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`http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/wap/technical%5B1%5D.zip) on
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`or around July 1, 2020, which indicates on page 4 that it is available online at
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`http://www.wapforum.org.
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`13.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1025 is a true and correct copy of “WebDAV: What It Is, What It Does, Why You
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`Need It,” by Hernández, et al., retrieved from
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`https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/947469.947535, which indicates on its face that it
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`was published in SIGUCCS '03, September 21-24, 2003, described by the ACM
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`website as SIGUCCS ’03: Proceedings of the 31st annual ACM SIGUCCS Fall
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`Conference, September 2003.
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`14.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1027 is a true and correct copy of excerpts from Newton’s Telecom Dictionary,
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`15th Edition, Miller Freeman, Inc., dated 1999.
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`15.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1028 is a true and correct copy of excerpts from Microsoft Press Computer
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`Dictionary, Third Edition, Microsoft Press, dated 1997.
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`16.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`Adobe – Exhibit 1036, page 5
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`1029 is a true and correct copy of excerpts from The New Penguin Dictionary of
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`Computing, Dick Pountain, dated 2001.
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`17.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1030 is a true and correct copy of Request for Comments (RFC) 2616, titled
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`“Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1,” retrieved from the IETF website at
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`https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 on or around July 27, 2020.
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`18.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1031 is a true and correct copy of the Federal Circuit’s Order Granting Adobe
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`Inc.’s Petition for Writ of Mandamus, Case No. 20-126, Dkt. 17, directing transfer
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`to the Northern District of California, dated July 28, 2020.
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`19.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1032 is a true and correct copy of the Complaint for Patent Infringement, Dkt. 1,
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`filed in SynKloud Technologies, LLC v. Dropbox, Inc., Case No. 6:19-cv-00526
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`(W.D. Tex.), filed September 6, 2019.
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`20.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1033 is a true and correct copy of the Complaint for Declaratory Judgment, Dkt. 1,
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`filed in Microsoft Corp. v. SynKloud Technologies, LLC, Case No. 1:20-cv-00007
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`(D. Del.), filed January 3, 2020.
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`21.
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`The document submitted with the petition and identified as Exhibit
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`1034 is a true and correct copy of the redacted version of Microsoft Corporation’s
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`Adobe – Exhibit 1036, page 6
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`Opposition to SynKloud’s Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1),
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`12(h)(3), Lack of Standing and 12(b)(6), Dkt. 24, filed in Microsoft Corp. v.
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`SynKloud Technologies, LLC, Case No. 1:20-cv-00007 (D. Del.) on April 20, 2020
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`as Dkt. 26.
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`I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that
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`the foregoing is true and correct and that this declaration was executed on July 31,
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`2020, in San Francisco, California.
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`Winston Liaw
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`Adobe – Exhibit 1036, page 7
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