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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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`SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC. and
`SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,
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`Petitioners,
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`v.
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`RFCYBER CORP.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Patent No. 9,189,787
`Filing Date: May 28, 2013
`Issue Date: November 17, 2015
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`Inventors: Liang Seng Koh, Futong Cho, Hsin Pan, and Fuliang Cho
`Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR
`CONDUCTING E-COMMENCE AND M-COMMENCE
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`PATENT OWNER’S SUR-REPLY
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`Case No. IPR2021-00980
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`Exhibit No. Description
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`RFCyber Corp. v. Google LLC, et al., No. 2:20-cv-00274-JRG,
`Dkt. 63 (E.D. Tex. June 10, 2021)
`Samsung Notice of Intent to Serve Subpoenas on Nokia Corp.,
`served June 21, 2021
`Samsung Notice of Intent to Serve Subpoenas on EMV Co.,
`served June 21, 2021
`Samsung Notice of Intent to Serve Subpoenas on Global Platform
`Inc. served June 21, 2021
`Samsung Notice of Intent to Serve Subpoenas on NXP USA,
`Corp. served June 21, 2021
`Samsung’s Invalidity and Subject Matter Eligibility Contentions,
`served July 14, 2021
`RFCyber’s First Supplemental Objections and Responses to
`Defendants Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Samsung
`Electronics America, Inc.’s First Set of Interrogatories (Nos. 1-
`14), dated September 14, 2021
`RFCyber Corp. v. Google LLC, et al., No. 2:20-cv-00274-JRG,
`Dkt. 85 (E.D. Tex. July 26, 2021)
`Proposed Protective Order
`A comparison of the proposed Protective Order to the default
`Protective Order
`Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America,
`Inc.’s Preliminary Election of Asserted Prior Art in RFCyber
`Corp. v. Google LLC, et al., No. 2:20-cv-00274-JRG (E.D. Tex.
`Sept. 29, 2021)
`RFCyber Corp. v. Google LLC, et al., No. 2:20-cv-00274-JRG,
`Dkt. 130 (E.D. Tex. October 20, 2021).
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`I.
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`INTRODUCTION
`Samsung Electronics America, Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.’s
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`(collectively, “Samsung” or “Petitioner”) Reply (Paper No. 8, “Reply”) does not set
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`forth any new or valid reason to institute trial in this proceeding. As RFCyber
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`explained in its POPR, all the Fintiv factors favor denying institution. Paper No. 6
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`(“POPR”) at 17-25. Samsung’s arguments on Factors 4 and 6 do not change the
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`balance.
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`II.
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`FACTOR 4 FAVORS DENYING INSTITUTION
`In the co-pending District Court Litigation, the Court ordered RFCyber and
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`Samsung to reduce their asserted claims and elected prior art references,
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`respectively, in advance of the March 2022 trial. RFCyber complied with the Court’s
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`order and eventually elected to assert claims 1, 2, 6, 8, and 11 of the ’787 Patent.
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`Samsung continued to elect the same prior art references it asserts in the Petition.
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`Ex. 2011 at 3-4.
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`Samsung now argues that the reduction in claims weighs in favor of instituting
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`trial. Reply at 1-2. Samsung is wrong. The limitations of dependent claims 2, 6, and
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`8 are similar to those of claims 12, 16, and 18, respectively. Thus, there is substantial
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`overlap between the limitations in the petitioned claims and those in the District
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`Court Litigation. In similar circumstances, the Board has found that this kind of
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`substantial overlap favored denial of institution. Keyme, LLC v. The Hillman Grp.,
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`Inc., IPR2020-01485, Paper No. 11 (P.T.A.B. Mar. 31, 2021) (Finding this factor
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`favored institution even when 15 claims not at issue in district court were challenged
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`in an IPR “because it would be inefficient to proceed and there is potential for
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`conflicting decisions due to the substantial overlap between the claims and prior art
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`issues.”). This factor therefore favors denying institution. Id.; see also Apple Inc. v.
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`Fintiv, Inc., IPR2020-00019, Paper No. 11 at 13 (P.T.A.B. Mar. 20, 2020)
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`(precedential) (“[I]f a petition involves the same prior art challenges but challenges
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`claims in addition to those that are challenged in the district court, it may still be
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`inefficient to proceed because the district court may resolve validity of enough
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`overlapping claims to resolve key issues in the petition.”).
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`III. FACTOR 6 FAVORS DENYING INSTITUTION
`As RFCyber explained in its POPR, significant evidence supports its earlier
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`conception with diligent reduction to practice that would antedate Petitioner’s
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`reference, but because the evidence is substantially contained in RFCyber’s source
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`code, the District Court’s trial—nine months earlier than the Final Written Decision
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`in this proceeding—is the proper forum to resolve those issues. POPR at 24-25.
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`Samsung raises meritless arguments that the Board, not the District Court, should
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`consider the patent’s conception and reduction to practice.
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`Samsung first asks the Board to speculate that the Court will grant Samsung’s
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`motion to strike RFCyber’s conception date. Reply at 2. Samsung’s motion is ill-
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`taken. As RFCyber explained in its opposition (Ex. 2012), the local patent rules in
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`the Eastern District of Texas require a patentee to identify: “For any patent that
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`claims priority to an earlier application, the priority date to which each asserted claim
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`allegedly is entitled.” E.D. Tex. Local Patent Rule 3-1(e), available at
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`http://www.txed.uscourts.gov/?q=patent-rules. As the District Court has previously
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`held, “[T]he rule makes clear that the priority date provided pursuant to P.R. 3-1 is
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`related to claiming priority to ‘an earlier application.’” EMG Tech., LLC v. Chrysler
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`Grp., LLC, No. 6:12-CV-259, 2013 WL 12147662, at *1 (E.D. Tex. Jul. 3, 2013).
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`Thus, the Court will deny Samsung’s motion. See Ex. 2012.
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`Samsung cites Elbit Sys. Land C4I Ltd. v. Hughes Network Sys., LLC, No.
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`2:15-cv-00037, 2017 WL 2651618 (E.D. Tex. 2017), but that case involved a
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`patentee changing its contended priority date nine days before the close of fact
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`discovery. Id. at *9-10. As RFCyber explained in its opposition, it has consistently
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`set forth a conception date of December 2004 since the first time Samsung asked for
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`it, and Samsung itself delayed even raising the issue until near the end of fact
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`discovery. Ex. 2012 at 1-5.
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`Samsung next argues that “most (if not all) of Patent Owner’s alleged swear
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`behind evidence in the [District Court] Litigation appears to be irrelevant and/or
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`unauthentic as the actual documents themselves were not provided.” Reply at 3.
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`Samsung’s basis for this argument is dubious at best. As Samsung is aware,1
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`RFCyber made its source code available for inspection and specifically identified
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`the relevant code files. Despite having ample opportunity, Samsung has declined to
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`inspect RFCyber’s source code (the “actual documents”) and determine whether the
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`evidence is relevant or authentic. And, of course, RFCyber could not submit its
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`source code files with its POPR without losing the enhanced protections of the
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`District Court Protective Order. POPR at 24-25. Indeed, Samsung would not even
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`agree to the entry of a Protective Order with an Attorneys’ Eyes Only provision,
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`much less one with source code protections. See Paper No. 7 at 1.
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`Samsung next argues that RFCyber should have provided a full analysis to
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`“tie its alleged evidence of conception and reduction to practice to the claims of the
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`patent.” Reply at 3-4. But that analysis would require RFCyber to extensively cite
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`and file its source code, and thus RFCyber could not provide such an analysis
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`without foregoing its source code protections. This issue is the exact reason why
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`Factor 6 weighs against institution.
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`Samsung next argues that “Exhibit 2007 itself shows Patent Owner cannot
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`meet the due diligence standard.” Reply at 4. Samsung does not explain why, other
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`1 At least two of Samsung’s counsel of record in this proceeding are also counsel
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`of record in the District Court Litigation.
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`than to cite irrelevant cases. Patent Owner can meet the diligence standard through
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`corroborated testimony; indeed “diligence and its corroboration may be shown by a
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`variety of activities.” Brown v. Barbacid, 436 F.3d 1376, 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2006)
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`(reversing Board finding of insufficient diligence). RFCyber will provide
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`declarations from the inventors and then Samsung will doubtless seek to depose
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`those declarants. Of course, Samsung has already taken or will have taken the
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`deposition of each inventor in the District Court Litigation before fact discovery ends
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`on November 1—another reason it is more efficient to litigate the issue in the District
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`Court. Thus, this factor weighs against institution: these many depositions will take
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`substantial time—indeed, some of the witnesses live overseas—and go against the
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`PTAB’s mandate to provide a speedy resolution. Instead, the parties have already
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`expended these resources in the District Court Litigation.
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`Finally, Samsung glibly argues that parties can and have submitted
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`confidential information to the Board. Reply at 4-5. Samsung cites no case where
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`the Board imposed the same source code protections as in the District Court
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`Litigation. See id. RFCyber should not be forced into a choice where it can either
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`forego those protections or risk losing a valid patent to non-prior art.
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`Accordingly, the Board should exercise its discretion to deny institution.
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`Dated: October 25, 2021
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`/Vincent J. Rubino, III /
`Vincent J. Rubino, III (Reg. No. 68,594)
`Lead Counsel for Patent Owner
`Fabricant LLP
`411 Theodore Fremd Avenue,
` Suite 206 South
`Rye, New York 10580
`Telephone: 212-257-5797
`Facsimile: 212-257-5796
`Email: vrubino@fabricantllp.com
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
`A copy of PATENT OWNER’S SURREPLY and EXHIBITS (Nos. 2011
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`through 2012) have been served on Petitioners’ counsel of record as follows:
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`Heath J. Briggs
`Email: BriggsH@gtlaw.com
`Greenberg Traurig, LLP
`1144 15th St. Suite 3300
`Denver, CO 80202
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`Andrew R. Sommer
`Email: SommerA@gtlaw.com
`Greenberg Traurig, LLP
`1750 Tysons Boulevard
`McLean, VA 22102
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`Jeffrey R. Colin
`Email: ColinJ@gtlaw.com
`Allan A. Kassenoff
`Email: KassenoffA@gtlaw.com
`Greenberg Traurig, LLP
`200 Park Avenue
`New York, NY 10166
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`Attorneys for Samsung America, Inc. and
`Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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`October 25, 2021
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`By:
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`/Vincent J. Rubino, III /
`Vincent J. Rubino, III (Reg. No. 68,594)
`Fabricant LLP
`411 Theodore Fremd Avenue
`Suite 206 South
`Rye, New York 10580
`Tel. 212-257-5797
`Fax. 212-257-5796
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