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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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`UNIFIED PATENTS,
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`:Case IPR2019—00194
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`VELOS MEDIA; LLC,
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`:Patent 9,338,449
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`Patent Owner.
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`""" naggingiaraigg;gimme ORDERm
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`Washington, D.C.
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`Friday, August 23, 2019
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`videotaped Deposition of:
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`1 A P P E A R A N C E S:
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`2 On behalf of Petitioner:
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`3 ASHRAF FAWZY, ESQUIRE
` Unified Patents
`4 1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Floor 10
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`5 (240) 505-3675
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`8 CHRISTOPHER GRANAGHAN, ESQUIRE
` Nelson, Bumgardner, Albritton
`9 3131 West 7th Street, Suite 300
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`10 (817) 806-3811
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`1 C O N T E N T S
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`2 EXAMINATION BY: PAGE
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`3 MR. GRANAGHAN 6
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`4 MR. FAWZY 208
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`5 MR. GRANAGHAN 217
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`6 VELOS DEPOSITION EXHIBITS: PAGE
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`7 2015 Part two of a written interview given
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`8 by Jakel to Above the Law 57
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`9 2016 Final written decision in Unified Patents,
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`10 Inc. versus Uniloc USA, Inc. and Uniloc
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`11 Luxembourg, S.A. 78
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`12 2017 Petitioner's Supplemental Second Voluntary
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`13 Interrogatory Responses 107
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`14 2018 Member agreement between Unified and
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`17 2019 Post from Unified's Web site dated
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`18 November 8, 2018 144
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`19 2020 Post from a filing of a different IPR
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`20 against Velos patent 153
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`21 2021 Blog post from Unified's Web site dated
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`22 January 9, 2019 158
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`2 VELOS DEPOSITION EXHIBITS: PAGE
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`3 2022 LinkedIn post from Shawn Ambwani 177
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`4 2023 Mass e-mail from Fred Teleki (phonetic)
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`5 to a number of people about the Velos
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`6 licensing program 177
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`7 2024 Document titled Unified Files IPR Against
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`8 US 9,338,449 Owned by Velos Media LLC 189
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`9 2025 Unified Patents newsletter from November
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`10 2018 196
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`11 PREVIOUSLY MARKED EXHIBITS
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`12 VELOS 2003 LinkedIn post by Mr. Ambwani
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`13 VELOS 2010 Web page from Unified Patents' Web
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`14 site pulled from the wayback machine
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`15 UNIFIED 1014 Unified's Voluntary Interrogatory
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`1 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are now on the
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`2 record. This begins DVD No. 1 in the
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`3 deposition of Kevin Jakel in the matter of
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`4 Unified Patents, Incorporated versus Velos
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`5 Media, LLC, in the United States Patent and
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`6 Trademark Office before the Patent Trial and
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`7 Appeal Board, Case No. IPR2019-00194. Today is
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`8 August 23rd, 2019. The time is 10:11 a.m.
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`9 This deposition is being taken at 1875
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`10 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington,
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`11 D.C., at the request of Nelson Bumgardner. The
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`12 videographer is Ray Moore of IST Court
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`13 Reporting and the court reporter is Sheri
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`14 Stewart of IST Court Reporting.
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`15 Will counsel and all parties present state
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`16 their appearances and whom they represent.
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`17 MR. GRANAGHAN: Chris Granaghan from the
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`18 law firm Nelson, Bumgardner, Albritton for the
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`19 patent owner.
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`20 MR. FAWZY: Ashraf Fawzy, in-house counsel
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`21 at Unified Patents on behalf of Unified
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`22 Patents.
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`1 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Will the court reporter
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`2 please swear in the witness.
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`3 P R O C E E D I N G S
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`4 WHEREUPON,
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`5 KEVIN JAKEL
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`6 called as a witness, and having been first duly
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`7 sworn, was examined and testified as follows:
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`8 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Please proceed.
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`9 EXAMINATION BY COUNSEL FOR THE PATENT OWNER
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`10 BY MR. GRANAGHAN:
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`11 Q Good morning, Mr. Jakel. State your name
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`12 for the record, please.
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`13 A Hi. Kevin Jakel.
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`14 Q You're the unified CEO, right?
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`15 A I am Unified CEO.
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`16 Q When I say Unified, I mean Unified
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`17 Patents, obviously.
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`18 You've been deposed before?
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`19 A I have.
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`20 Q About how many times?
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`21 A Maybe six to ten times.
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`22 Q All in IPRs?
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`1 A No. One previous deposition took place
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`2 many, many years ago related to transfer of some
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`3 boxes from one law firm to another and whether or
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`4 not some materials were in those boxes a long time
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`5 ago.
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`6 Q All the other times were IPRs?
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`7 A All the other times have been related to
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`8 Unified as part of an IPR proceeding.
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`9 Q Has anyone from Unified ever testified in
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`10 an IPR proceeding other than you?
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`11 A Shawn Ambwani. In my very first IPR, I
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`12 gave a deposition.
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`13 Q On real party-in-interest issues?
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`14 A On real party-in-interest issues.
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`15 Q Okay. But since then it's always been
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`16 you?
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`17 A He had, at that time, he had only been at
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`18 the company for a couple weeks, but it's always been
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`19 me.
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`20 Q Are you an attorney, Mr. Jakel?
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`21 A I am.
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`22 Q Where did you go to law school?
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`2 Q Can you give me some of your background
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`3 starting with law school?
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`4 A Sure. So I moved out to Washington, D.C.
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`5 and went to work at the USPTO as a patent examiner.
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`6 I went to law school. I graduated from GW in 2003
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`7 or 2004. I then was an attorney at Howrey and then
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`8 was an attorney with Kaye Scholer and ultimately
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`9 became, or I ultimately left Kaye Scholer to become
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`10 head of IP litigation at Intuit and then I left
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`11 Intuit in 2012 to found Unified Patents.
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`12 Q Do you still consider yourself the
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`13 practice of law?
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`14 A I do.
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`15 Q Where are you licensed?
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`16 A In California and D.C.
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`17 Q All right. So I'm -- sounds like you have
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`18 some pretty extensive deposition experience, so I'm
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`19 going to assume that you know the ground rules. I'm
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`20 happy to go over them if you want, but I assume you
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`21 know them.
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`22 A I do.
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`1 Q Okay. What did you do to prepare for this
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`2 deposition today?
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`3 A Yesterday we went over just some of the
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`4 voluntary interrogatories and some of the materials
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`5 that were in the briefing.
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`6 Q Who is "we"?
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`7 A Myself and Ash Fawzy.
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`8 Q Okay. Did you talk to anyone else to get
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`9 ready for the deposition?
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`10 A I did not.
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`11 Q Other than the voluntary interrogatory
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`12 responses did you review any documents?
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`13 MR. FAWZY: I'm just going to caution the
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`14 witness not to divulge anything we talked about
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`15 during the -- any privileged information during
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`16 the preparation of this deposition.
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`17 BY MR. GRANAGHAN:
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`18 Q And I'm not asking for any of your
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`19 communication with your counsel. Just did you
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`20 review any documents?
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`21 A I did review documents.
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`22 Q Did you review briefing on the motion for
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`2 A That document was not, no.
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`3 Q Okay. What other documents did you
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`4 review?
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`5 MR. FAWZY: I'm going to object. What we
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`6 reviewed is privileged.
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`7 BY MR. GRANAGHAN:
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`8 Q Okay. Are you going to follow that
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`10 A Yes.
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`11 Q All right. Were you the first CEO of
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`12 Unified Patents?
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`13 A Yes.
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`14 Q And when did you start it?
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`15 A I started Unified Patents in the summer of
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`16 2012.
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`17 Q And just before that you were an attorney
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`18 at Intuit, right?
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`19 A I was.
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`20 Q Why did you start Unified?
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`21 A I saw a business opportunity to do
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`22 deterrent work for technology areas related to the
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`1 monetization of patents by nonpracticing entities.
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`2 Q What made you see that business
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`4 A It's kind of a long story. Do you want
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`5 the whole thing?
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`6 Q Sure.
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`7 A So joint defense groups -- my experience
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`8 was both from an outside counsel perspective at Kaye
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`9 Scholer and Howrey and then again as head of IP
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`10 litigation at Intuit. Joint defense groups were
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`11 wildly ineffective and slow where you depend on your
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`12 fair share of joint defense groups. In many cases
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`13 nothing got done.
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`14 And when it came to NPE litigation in
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`15 particular, it's not just one company that is facing
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`16 the, kind of a common issue, there were other
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`17 solutions out there, namely, RPX, that their model
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`18 of doing kind of patent risk mitigation was to try
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`19 and buy companies out of expensive litigation.
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`20 My problem with that was that it kind
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`21 of incentivizes NPEs to take some of the profits
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`22 they get from RPX, reinvest them and go out and buy
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`1 more patents, so it incentivizes everyone to kind of
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`2 have more NPE litigation.
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`3 My problem was that lots and lots of
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`4 patents -- actually, across the board there's lot of
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`5 patents that are invalid, but in particular it's
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`6 lots of patents that I felt like were invalid that
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`7 were asserted by NPEs, and so I wanted to start a
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`8 company that would have a way to deter people making
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`9 investments into asserting patents in the NPE space.
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`10 There's, you know, patent owners,
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`11 people who buy patents. There are patent licensing
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`12 entities who are in charge of doing that. There's
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`13 the contingency counsel who take on NPE matters and
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`14 there's obviously kind of litigation funding from
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`15 behind the scene. All of those entities are making
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`16 kind of investment decisions into, you know, who
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`17 they want to sue, how they want to sue, technologies
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`18 they want to sue, and what I wanted to do was kind
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`19 of deter the use of bad patents so that technology
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`20 areas were not sued over and over and over and over
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`21 again.
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`22 And so I came up with this idea kind
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`1 of in the, in early kind of 2012, and then worked on
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`2 that and ultimately decided to make a run at it and
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`3 see if I could start a company that would do that
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`4 kind of deterrence work in the summer of 2012.
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`5 Q And for the record, when you say NPE, do
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`6 you mean non-practicing entity?
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`7 A I do.
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`8 Q So is it fair to say that one of your main
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`9 goals in starting Unified was to fix the
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`10 inefficiencies of joint defense groups when
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`11 companies in those joint defense groups are
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`12 litigating against NPEs?
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`13 MR. FAWZY: Object to form.
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`14 A It wasn't, it wasn't like to fix the
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`15 efficiencies of the joint defense groups. I wanted
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`16 a kind of third-party to do something that no one
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`17 else could kind of do, which was create deterrents.
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`18 Joint defense groups aren't about creating
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`19 deterrents. Joint defense groups were about, you
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`20 know, kind of everyone working and doing their own
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`21 kind of litigation strategies and stuff.
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`22 I'm not trying to replace joint
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`1 defense groups. Actually, the whole idea of being
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`2 an entity that would be independent of all of that
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`3 is that we would have kind of the ability to do our
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`4 own thing. You can't really do deterrents as a
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`5 joint defense group, that's kind of the idea. Being
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`6 outside of that whole system it allows the
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`7 third-party, in my view, in this case Unified, to
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`8 create deterrents, and that is kind of the way in
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`9 which I kind of view Unified going forward.
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`10 BY MR. GRANAGHAN:
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`11 Q Did the passage of the American Invents
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`12 Act play into your decision to start Unified?
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`13 A Not entirely. There were things about the
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`14 American Invents Act that I thought would make the
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`15 ability for us to create deterrents more productive,
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`16 and actually I started working on this idea even
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`17 before, even before the passage of the American
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`18 Invents Act, I didn't know if it was going to pass,
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`19 but I had thought around ideas of how you could use,
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`20 back then, inter partes examination for this. I
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`21 think we could have used inter partes through
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`22 examination and done the same thing.
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`1 I do think that the, the procedures
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`2 around the inter partes review are overall a better
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`3 system and therefore, yeah, we take advantage of the
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`4 AIA (phonetic) and the changes that were made to
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`5 inter partes re-examination to bring about the PTAB
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`6 and the IPR process.
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`7 Q So other than the AIA's creation of inter
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`8 partes review, are there other portions of the AIA
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`9 that you saw as a benefit to your efforts to deter
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`11 A I guess I -- I mean, a big part of the AIA
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`12 was about bringing the U.S. laws into kind of
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`13 consistency with international patent laws.
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`14 Unified, I think, could have worked using inter
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`15 parties re-examination. I mean, I guess when I say
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`16 that there's aspects about it that I think are
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`17 better, we don't have inter partes re-examination
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`18 anymore, so it's not like, it's not like I have a
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`19 choice between the two.
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`20 So are there other aspects of the
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`21 AIA? I mean, there's lots of things about the AIA.
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`22 If you have some specifics, I might be able to tell
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`1 you whether I think any of them benefit us, but
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`2 ultimately having a good patent system, I think, is,
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`3 is a good thing for both Unified and everybody else.
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`4 Q When did Unified file its first IPR?
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`5 A We filed our first IPR in the summer of
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`6 2013.
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`7 Q And you said you started Unified in 2012?
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`8 A I did.
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`9 Q Who did you start Unified with?
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`10 A Started by myself. I left Intuit, I
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`11 believe it was July of 2012, went out, started
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`12 talking to people and companies about what I had in
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`22 Q And has he left since then?
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`1 A Yes.
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`2 Q So do you,
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`3 A
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`4 the summer of 2013 and at the time he left, Shawn
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`5 Ambwani joined and
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`10 Q And Mr. Ambwani is the chief operating
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`11 officer, right?
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`12 A He is, yes.
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`13 Q Who was Unified's first customer?
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`14 MR. FAWZY: Objection.
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`15 MR. GRANAGHAN: What's the objection?
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`16 MR. FAWZY: To the form of the question.
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`17 Unified doesn't have customers.
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`18 A The first company to sign an agreement
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`19 with Unified was NetApp.
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`20 BY MR. GRANAGHAN:
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`21 Q And you don't refer to them as customers;
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`22 is that right?
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`1 A I mean, everyone signs a membership
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`2 agreement so we call them a member and they become a
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`3 member of a zone and you could be a member of one
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`4 zone, you could be a member of two zones, you could
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`5 be a member of all of our zones. It's not like
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`6 we -- we call them, if you have a membership
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`7 agreement, so we refer to them all as members.
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`8 Q Do you consider that as different than a
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`9 customer?
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`10 A I don't think so, no. They're customers,
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`11 yeah.
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`12 Q Is NetApp still a customer?
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`13 A It is, yes.
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`14 Q But it is --
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`16 A
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`18 Q So what kind of activities does Unified
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`19 perform for its members?
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`20 A So members sign up to a zone. A zone has
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`21 a whole bunch of things that we do, data analytics,
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`22 we do landscaping work, we do kind of research and
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`1 analytics, we do prior art. We do all kinds of,
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`2 kind of activities in the space. We want to be kind
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`3 of the most knowledgeable people about all of the
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`4 activity that's going on in a particular zone.
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`5 We have tools and services that we
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`6 provide through our portal that includes like patent
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`7 quality tools and a whole bunch of other things.
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`8 The big thing that all of our zones do is what we
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`9 refer to as deterrence. That deterrence is kind of
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`10 an independent service that we run to choose how
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`11 we're going to create that deterrence.
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`12 And we use IPRs to identify or we
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`13 identify and then we file IPRs against patents we
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`14 believe are invalid, and when doing so we try to
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`15 show that those patents should never have been
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`16 issued in the first place. We think that that
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`17 deterrent strategy is designed to deter others --
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`18 well, and the patent owner that we file against.
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`19 But in addition to that, most
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`20 important point, we want every IPR to have kind of
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`21 an outsized deterrent impact so that others watching
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`22 will also be deterred from bringing kind of invalid
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`1 patents and trying to entice those in our zones.
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`2 Q What percentage of Unified's expenditures
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`3 today are spent on IPRs?
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`4 A So as part of our total expenditures, IPRs
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`5 are like one of the most expensive parts of what we
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`6 do, it's simply because they're expensive, but we
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`7 think that all the other stuff we do is important as
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`8 well. But IPRs are kind of a, one of the more
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`9 expensive parts of what we do for them.
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`10 Q Do you know, ballpark percentage, of the
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`11 expenditures that you have on IPRs?
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`12 A So of our expenditures, IPRs would make up
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`13 the largest percentage of it.
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`15 standard essential patent zone, the video codec
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`16 zone, it makes up a
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`17 expenditures because we have done some other work
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`18 that's quite expensive as well.
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`19 We have done an economic analysis of
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`20 HEVC and as part of that, that was a rather
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`21 expensive endeavor as well. We also developed some
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`22 tools, landscaping tools, curated data around that,
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`1 which is also pretty expensive. And we've also done
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`2 some additional kind of database work around
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`3 submissions to the standard setting bodies, that has
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`4 been pretty expensive as well.
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`5 So our standard essential patent
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`6 zone, actually the expenditures on IPRs is
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`7 it would be in our NPE zone.
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`8 Q When you say "standard essential patent
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`9 zone", are there zones within the standard essential
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`10 patent zone?
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`11 A Let me just maybe break this up. We
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`12 originally started working on NPE matters and we
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`13 called those kind of NPE zones. And then in -- when
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`14 we started working on standard essential patent
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`15 issues, SEP issues, we created another part of the
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`16 business that would be kind of working on standard
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`17 essential patent licensing issues. And inside that
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`18 we have a standard essential patent zone. We
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`19 would -- you know, we're always working on creating
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`20 new standard essential patent zones around other
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`21 standards. LTE is an example or Wi-Fi or 5G or, you
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`22 know, any of the other standards, USB, I don't know,
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`1 there's tons of other standards.
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`2 So each of those other standards
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`3 would possibly get their own zone for us to be doing
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`4 this kind of work on standard essential patent areas
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`5 on each of those standards.
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`6 Q So just to make sure I'm clear, though,
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`7 the SEP zone is not synonymous with the video codec
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`8 zone. The video codec zone is based on within this
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`9 SEP area, right?
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`10 A Yes, correct. Yes, absolutely.
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`11 Q So going back to the expenditures and IPR.
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`12 Do you know a percentage in number, percentage of
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`13 Unified's expenditures, that it spent on IPRs?
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`14 A As a percentage, I do not. I haven't
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`15 tracked, as a percentage, expenditures in the video
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`16 codec zone and a specific amount that is related to
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`17 the filing of IPRs.
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`18 Q Do you think it's more or less than
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`20 A
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`21 Q You think it's
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`22 A I don't know.
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`1 Q How many employees does Unified currently
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`3 A I believe we currently have 14 employees.
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`4 Q How many of those are attorneys?
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`5 A Most of them. I have to try to count them
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`6 up. I can, if you want me to.
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`7 Q Yeah. Go ahead and do it. When I say
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`8 attorneys, I mean how many are actually practicing
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`9 attorneys, would you consider?
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`10 A All of the attorneys that are -- all of
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`11 the attorneys that are working at Unified are
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`12 licensed attorneys to practice law.
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`13 Q All right.
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`14 A So they're all practicing attorneys.
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`15 Q Okay.
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`16 A I think 11 out of 14 are attorneys.
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`17 Q And what are their responsibilities at
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`18 Unified?
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`19 A We have a department of attorneys that are
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`20 responsible for overseeing and doing legal work
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`21 related to IPRs. We have -- well, I'm an attorney
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`22 so I'm in charge of kind of all of the operations
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`1 and I oversee the legal department. I oversee all
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`2 the departments too, so I'm engaged in all of that.
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`3 Shawn is an attorney and he
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`4 participates in all of that activity as well.
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`17 Q And how many attorneys are in the
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`18 department?
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`19 A So that department, not including myself
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`20 or Shawn, who both are in that department, by the
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`21 way, but I'm just going to -- I'll include us too,
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`22 so that would
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`1 Q Okay. And how is work divied up within
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`2 that, within the department? Are certain attorneys
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`3 assigned to a certain zone or is it divied up
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`4 another way?
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`5 A
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`22 Q
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`14 A
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`1 Q So what do you do day-to-day as Unified's
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`2 CEO?
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`3 A So day-to-day any given day would include
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`4 some, you know, just like over, overhead kind of
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`5 running the company. Anything from HR to payroll to
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`6 management meetings, meeting with people. It would
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`7 include kind of engaging with the legal department
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`8 around the filing of IPRs and that process. It
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`9 would include business development and, you know,
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`10 kind of strategy and pipeline issues for Unified.
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`11 Finance would make up another aspect
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`12 of it, just being on top of budgeting for the entire
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`13 company. All of that would go into kind of my
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`14 day-to-day activities.
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`15 Q Do you interface with Unified's members?
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`16 A I do.
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`17 Q How much of your time is spent doing that?
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`18 A Not very much. If there's an opportunity
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`19 to engage. I mean, there's no, like, schedule for
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`20 me to engage. If there's a reason to talk with
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`21 someone, I do, but I don't -- like specific
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`22 questions on what type of engagement.
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`1 Q How do you usually talk to them? Phone,
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`2 e-mail, text?
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`3 A Phone would be the biggest means of
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`4 communication.
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`5 Q What kind of things do you usually talk to
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`6 the members about?
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`7 A Most of what we're talking about is going
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`8 to be like activity in the industry, understanding
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`9 the NPE litigation is going up, NPE litigation is
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`10 going down. If there's any type of like industry
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`11 information about how their industry is doing, if
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`12 there's lots of investment in startups, if the
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`13 industry is growing or retracting, whether or not
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`14 that's an indication that NPE activity in the long
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`15 run is going to be high or going to be low.
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`16 If we're talking about like the
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`17 standard of essential patent zones, we're talking
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`18 about kind of issues around transparency of SEP
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`19 licensing, case law around SEP licensing, economic
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`20 issues of SEP licensing, the standard essential,
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`21 sorry, the standard setting bodies and how they work
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`22 and what they're doing and all of the things around
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`1 these issues would all be -- have industry
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`2 information that are constantly looking to learn
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`3 from.
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`4 These same conversations happen with
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`5 me with nonmembers too. Like this is the same
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`6 industry information topics that we're going to be
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`7 talking with everyone about.
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`8 Q Is it usually Unified giving members and
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`9 nonmembers industry information or are these members
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`10 and nonmembers giving you guys industry information?
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`11 A This is -- I guess it's a little bit of
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`12 both. I mean, it's kind of just like this is not --
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`13 industry information, when I say industry
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`14 information, I'm talking about like just public
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`15 information. None of this is like confidential or
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`16 anything. It's like public knowledge about kind of
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`17 what's going on in the industry. When I talk about
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`18 NPE trends it's just like litigation data. Is NPE
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`19 activity going up in an area, is it going down in an
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`20 area, you know, what are they seeing. Are they
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`21 feeling like the NPE activity is going up or going
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`22 down. We track all the litigation that's out there.
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`1 So all this public information is
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`2 kind of something that we would be talking about so
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`3 it's kind of just like this is not like a data dump
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`4 from them to us or a data dump from us to them.
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`5 This is just what is everyone feeling about a
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`6 particular issue. If it's NPE stuff, it's NPE kind
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`7 of public data about NPEs. If it is SEP stuff it's,
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`8 you know, public data we've learned or heard about
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`9 or they've heard or learned about, about the SEP
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`10 industry.
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`11 Q Did you talk to these third parties about
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`12 specific patents with them?
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`13 A We do not talk about specific patents.
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`14 So, I mean, I don't think the answer is -- the
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`15 answer is no, I mean, this is not like a -- we do
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`16 not talk to our members about a specific patent. We
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`17 don't really talk to third parties about specific
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`18 patents either. That's not really the type of
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`19 engagement we have with our membership or with third
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`20 parties.
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`21 Q What about patents, nonspecific patents
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`22 but patent portfolios?
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`1 A Well, no. I mean, we don't really talk
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`2 about specific patent portfolios either. There are,
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`3 there are big portfolios that get mentioned all the
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`4 time, Intellectual Ventures, nonintellectual --
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`5 Intellectual Ventures, really, really well known.
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`6 Intellectual Ventures is selling patents to NPEs at
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`7 a remarkable rate. They're really one of the big
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`8 sources of patents right now.
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`9 Just as an example of a portfolio
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`10 that would have come up at conferences and
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`11 conversations and everything about what's going on,
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`12 in zones, outside of zones, general information.
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`13 So, yeah, I mean of course portfolios come up as an
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`14 example. Intellectual Ventures is an example of one
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`15 of those.
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`16 In the SEP space, we also talk about,
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`17 like, all the big players that are out there. So
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`18 there are some, as I'm sure you're aware, there are
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`19 three major patent pools around the SEP space, MPEG
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`20 LA, HEVC Advance, Velos Media.
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`21 So these, these are like portfolios,
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`22 I guess, or like big topics. All of this gets kind
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`1 of -- this is industry information and knowledge.
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`2 This is talked about in the context of all, all SEP
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`3 information. This is the ecosystem around what is
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`4 currently the standard essential patent licensing
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`5 related to HEVC.
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`6 Q So you have talked to your customers about
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`7 Velos?
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`8 A We have.
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`9 MR. FAWZY: Objection, vague.
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`10 A We have talked to everyone that's, that's
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`11 dealing with or engaged in SEP licensing issues on
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`12 HEVC. We've talked to all of them about MPEG LA,
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`13 HEVC Advance and Velos Media in the context of that
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`14 being the ecosystem that is currently being licensed
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`15 in the,