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` CONFIDENTIAL - SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER
`1 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`2 BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`3 UNITED PATENT, INC., *
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`4 Petitioner, * CASE NO.:
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`5 vs. * IPR2019-00482
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`6 AMERICAN PATENTS, LLC, * U.S. PATENT NO.:
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`7 Patent Owner. * 7,373,655
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`8 * * * * * * *
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`9 CONFIDENTIAL
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`10 SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER
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`11 DEPOSITION OF:
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`12 KEVIN JAKEL,
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`13 was held on Tuesday, October 15, 2019,
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`14 commencing 9:36 a.m., at Haynes & Boone, 800
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`15 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., before
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`16 Mary Grace Castleberry, RPR.
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`17 * * *
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` U.S. LEGAL SUPPORT
`19 1818 Market Street, Suite 240
` Philadelphia, PA 19103
`20 Main: 877-479-2484
` Fax: 877-876-9330
`21 Email: SchedulingNE@uslegalsupport.com
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`MemoryWeb Ex. 2009
`Unified Patents v. MemoryWeb – IPR2021-01413
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`MemoryWeb Ex. 2056
`Apple v. MemoryWeb - IPR 2022-00031
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`1 APPEARANCES:
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` On behalf of the PETITIONER:
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`4 ASHRAF FAWZY, ESQ.
` UNIFIED PATENTS
`5 1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
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`6 Washington, D.C. 20009
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`7 E-mail: Afawzy@unitedpatent.com
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` On behalf of the PATENT OWNER:
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`10 ZACHARIAH HARRINGTON, ESQ.
` ANTONELLI, HARRINGTON & THOMPSON
`11 5306 Yoakum Boulevard
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`12 Houston, Texas 77006
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`13 E-mail: Zac@ahtlawfirm.com
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`1 I-N-D-E-X
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`2 Deposition of Kevin Jakel
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`3 October 15, 2019
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` EXAMINATION BY: PAGE:
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`6 Mr. Harrington 4
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`7 Mr. Fawzy 187
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`10 1 - Order 5
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`11 2 - August 23, 2019 email from Bajaj 5
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`14 4 - Unified Patents press release 177
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`1 P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S
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`2 WHEREUPON --
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`3 KEVIN JAKEL,
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`4 a Witness called for examination by counsel
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`5 for the Patent Owner, having been first duly
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`6 sworn, was examined and testified as
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`7 follows:
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`8 EXAMINATION
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`9 BY MR. HARRINGTON:
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`10 Q. Could you please state your full
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`11 name for the record?
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`12 A. Kevin William Jakel.
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`13 Q. And where do you work?
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`14 A. I work at Unified Patents.
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`15 Q. What is your position at Unified
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`16 Patents?
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`17 A. I am the CEO.
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`18 Q. Is there any reason why you can't
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`19 fully and truthfully testify here today?
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`20 A. No.
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`21 Q. You've had your deposition taken
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`1 before, correct?
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`2 A. I have.
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`3 Q. About how many times?
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`4 A. I am starting to lose count a
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`5 little bit. Eight to 10, somewhere in that
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`6 ballpark.
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`7 Q. So I'm not going to go over the
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`8 procedure too much, but your attorney may
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`9 object from time to time. Unless he
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`10 instructs you not to answer, you should
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`11 answer my question.
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`12 Do you understand that?
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`13 A. I do.
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`14 Q. I would like to start out with
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`15 three exhibits. Exhibit 1 will be the order
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`16 from the Board. Exhibit 2 will be an email
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`17 from your attorney and Exhibit 3 will be an
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`18 email with documents attached.
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`19 (Exhibit Nos. 1 through 3 were
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`20 marked for identification.)
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`21 BY MR. HARRINGTON:
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`I recognize the order.
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`Okay.
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`I have never seen this email. At
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`least I don't think I have.
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`Q.
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`Okay. Let's go to Exhibit 3,
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`which is the email with documents.
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`Q.
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`Okay.
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`Do you recognize these documents?
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`Looks like this is a membership
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`agreement between Unified and
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`is labeled as UP0017 looks to be a mass
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`email that we sent out related to the fact
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`that we had filed an IPR against American
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`Patents. And it looks like there's UP0017
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`again. And there's UP0021. It looks like
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`another email, a mass email has gone out
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`saying that American Patents -- their patent
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`is determined to be likely invalid. That's
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`probably when institution took place. And
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`it looks like another version of the same
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`1 document. And that looks to be everything
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`2 that I see.
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`3 Q. Okay. How did Unified go about
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`4 collecting these documents?
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`5 A. Well -- so the membership
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`6 agreement we pulled from our server as a
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`7 copy of this membership agreement. In
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`8 addition to doing a bunch of discovery
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`9 review on my part, we had -- these documents
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`10 were the emails that we had sent out that
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`11 were specifically related to American
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`12 Patents and so we produced those documents.
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`13 Q. Did you do like a search through
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`14 emails or how did you search for those
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`15 documents?
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`16 A. So these documents show up in my
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`17 email. So when these documents go out, I
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`18 see these emails as well and so then I
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`19 believe -- my recollection is I instructed
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`20 these documents to be pulled from the system
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`21 that generates these emails.
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`1 Q. And what system generates those
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`2 emails?
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`3 A. One is a mass email system that I
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`4 think comes out of Salesforce and the other
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`5 is a mass email system that comes out of --
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`6 I think it's called Mailchimp.
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`7 Basically give them a bunch of
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`8 email addresses and write the email blast
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`9 you want to send and then you hit send and
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`10 it sends the email to everyone that's -- all
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`11 the emails that you gave the system.
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`12 Q. Exhibit 3, the cover email,
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`13 says -- if you look down to the third
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`14 paragraph -- says, "No responsive documents
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`15 were found for category 2"?
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`16 A. Yes, I see that.
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`17 Q. How did Unified determine that
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`18 there were no responsive documents for
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`19 category 2?
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`20 MR. FAWZY: Objection to the
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`1 THE WITNESS: So let's make sure
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`2 that we are talking about the right thing.
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`3 So category 2 is referring to what, given
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`4 that I've never seen this email before?
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`5 BY MR. HARRINGTON:
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`6 Q. So category 2 is, when you go to
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`7 Exhibit 1, the first full page, and there's
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`8 a number 2.
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`9 A. Yes.
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`10 Q. So do you recognize that category
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`11 2?
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`12 A. I do.
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`13 Q. Do you believe that that category
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`14 2 that your attorney is referring to in the
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`15 email is the same category 2 that the court
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`16 order here is -- well, the PTAB order is
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`17 referring to?
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`18 A. I believe that to be accurate,
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`19 yes.
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`20 Q. So how did Unified determine that
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`21 there were no written communications between
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`2 or types of patents to be considered for an
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`3 IPR petition or express
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`4 instructions, preferences, suggestions or
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`5 desires for selection of a patent or types
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`6 of patents for filing an IPR review?
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`7 A. We determined that because I did
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`8 a personal review of all of the
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`9 communications between Unified and
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`10 And in my review of all of the
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`11 communications between us and
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`12 any custodian that I believed could have
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`13 even communicated with
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`14 communications at all that identified
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`15 patents or types of patents to be considered
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`16 for an inter partes review or express -- or
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`17 I guess express at member's requests,
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`18 instructions, preferences, suggestions, or
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`19 desires regarding the selection of patents
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`20 or types of patents for filing an inter
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`21 partes review.
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`1 So I went into every email
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`2 account, every custodian that would have
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`3 been in a position to communicate with
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`5 to every email that we would have received
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`6 from
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`7 would have sent to
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`8 email address as the search term.
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`9 And so I basically was able to
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`10 look at every single email that would have
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`11 gone either from us to them or from them to
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`12 us, and then I reviewed every single one of
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`13 them and found that there were no
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`14 communications at all that met category 2.
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`15 Q. So you said you looked at every
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`16 custodian. How many custodians were there?
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`17 A. Off the top of my head, I don't
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`18 know the exact number. I don't recall the
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`19 number.
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`20 Q. Is there sort of a main person at
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`21 Unified that communicates with
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`1 A. Mostly -- I mean, myself is one
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`2 of the main persons who communicates with
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`3 them. Shawn Ambwani does as well for
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`4 purposes of we're the people who actually go
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`5 to
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`6 are just about scheduling, timing of when
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`7 we're going to be in
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` and visit with
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`8 them when we're there.
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`9 And then those -- I mean, that
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`10 was the vast, vast majority of all of the
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`11 communications was between myself and
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` and Shawn Ambwani and
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`13 Q. So you went through basically all
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`14 of the email communications between Unified
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`15 and
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`16 communications between
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`17 A. I mean, there are phone calls, so
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`18 scheduling phone calls and things like this.
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`19 So obviously we do talk on the phone. But
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`20 other than that, there are none.
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`21 Q.
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` and Unified don't fax
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`2 letters, formal letters, anything like that?
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`3 A. No. I can't remember the last
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`4 time I used a fax machine.
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`5 Q. Just gotta check.
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`6 A. Yeah, no. I getcha.
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`7 Q. So you said you went through all
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`8 of the emails. About how many emails were
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`9 there between
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`10 Unified?
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`11 A. There were, for kind of both
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`12 Shawn and I, there were like over 100. I
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`13 would think probably less than 200.
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`14 Q. So earlier you called the emails
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`15 in Exhibit 3 mass communications. It looks
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`16 like for each of these emails, there's a
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`17 list attached to it with a bunch of email
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`18 addresses. Is that all of the email
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`19 addresses that these communications went to?
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`20 I'm not familiar with the system
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`21 so I'm just trying to figure out what these
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`1 emails mean. So, for example, if you go to
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`2 UP0017, there's a little email description,
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`3 Unified filed an IPR, and then there's a
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`4 list of emails below that saying date sent,
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`5 date opened, last opened.
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`6 A. Yes.
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`7 Q. Is that all of the people that
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`8 have received this email that you're aware
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`9 of?
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`10 A. So there are, I guess, two types
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`11 of mass emails that we typically send out.
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`12 This one appears to be the -- so we send out
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`13 like a -- every time we do something, we
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`14 send out an email. This one goes to the
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`15 list of members, so this is like the member
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`16 mass email. So this goes to everyone who, I
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`17 guess, is a member of Unified.
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`18 We've asked them who do you want
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`19 to get our, like, mass emails. They said,
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`20 we would be interested. So sometimes
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`21 there's more than one person. Sometimes
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`1 there's only one. But this would be kind of
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`2 just be -- this is like a -- we just send
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`3 this out like after every single thing that
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`4 happens. Every IPR that's filed, one of
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`5 these is generated and it's sent out to
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`6 everyone at Unified.
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`7 Q. And it's just a list of all the
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`8 people that are Unified members? Or not --
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`9 sorry. Strike that.
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`10 Are there any people on this list
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`11 that get the email that are not Unified
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`12 members?
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`13 A. This particular one is Unified
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`14 members. I could go through the list to see
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`15 if every single email address is related to
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`16 a member or not. I probably would be able
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`17 to do that off the top of my head. This
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`18 looks to be the list of members.
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`19 Q. Okay. Are there any members, as
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`20 far as you're aware -- and you don't have
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`21 to -- if you don't know this, you can tell
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`1 me you don't know -- but are there any
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`2 members that do not get this email list?
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`3 For example, is there certain members that
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`4 say, I don't want your mass email?
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`5 A. It's possible. I think you can
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`6 ask to be removed from it and, you know,
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`7 when people change positions within the
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`8 company or things like that, I think that
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`9 there have been changes that have been made
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`10 to who is kind of responsible for the
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`11 Unified kind of relationship within the
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`12 company.
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`13 So I am certain that this email
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`14 distribution list has changed over time, but
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`15 this is like marketing material. We just --
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`16 we send this out just to tout the fact that
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`17 we filed -- we send this type of email out
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`18 to everyone regardless of what zone they're
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`19 in. It's just like a mass email to
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`20 everyone.
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`21 Q. Okay. How many employees does
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`2 A. I believe we have now reached 17,
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`3 I believe is the total.
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`4 Q. Can you tell me what your then
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`5 employees do?
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`6 A. Sure. So we have a legal
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`7 department that includes myself, Shawn
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`8 Ambwani, Jonathan Stroud, Ash, Roshan,
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`9 Alyssa, Jessica, Joane, David, Michelle and
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`10 one more, I believe. And they are
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`11 responsible for overseeing and drafting IPRs
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`12 and then prosecuting them after the fact.
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`13 They're responsible for prior art
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`14 review. They're responsible for reviewing
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`15 landscape information and a whole bunch of
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`16 stuff that kind of legal departments do for
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`17 us. They work on patent equality issues and
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`18 writing stuff for all kinds of things. So
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`19 that's kind of the legal department at the
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`20 company.
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`21 We have a kind of data division
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`1 that is responsible for all the tools you'll
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`2 find on our website, all of the databases
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`3 that we maintain. They're responsible for,
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`4 I guess, like kind of all the analytics and
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`5 the litigation data and all the things that
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`6 we kind of collect and provide as tools on
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`7 our website. They also are responsible for
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`8 kind of the essential patent databases and
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`9 all the stuff that's kind of related to
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`10 that.
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`11 We also do a whole bunch of --
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`12 kind of, I guess, litigation analytics and
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`13 produce kind of a -- I think it's a
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`14 quarterly MPE litigation report that goes
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`15 out and says everything that's kind of going
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`16 on in the universe. They kind of handle all
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`17 of that.
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`18 And then in addition to that, we
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`19 have two software developers who are
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`20 responsible for developing software tools
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`21 and maintaining our software platform and
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`1 all the stuff that we do on that front, so
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`2 they're -- but they're basically just
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`3 software developers.
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`4 Q. Okay. So the legal department,
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`5 was there eight people; is that right?
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`6 A. Somewhere in that ballpark.
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`7 Eight, nine. I need to look specifically to
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`8 remember exactly.
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`9 Q. And then in the software
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`10 developers, there were two. So there was
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`11 somewhere between -- taking me a minute to
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`12 do this -- between six and seven people in
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`13 the data department; is that correct?
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`14 A. I don't know. Maybe. I need
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`15 to -- I'm going to have to like look this
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`16 up.
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`17 Q. Okay. Rough numbers are fine.
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`18 A. Yeah. I mean, we also have like
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`19 a client development woman as well who like
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`20 helps organize like membership and also
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`21 organizes phone calls and marketing calls
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`1 and all that kind of stuff.
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`2 She also helps to put together
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`3 all of our conferences and things throughout
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`4 the year and all that kind of thing.
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`5 Q. I don't want to get into any
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`6 particular detail, but can you tell me what
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`7 the overall salary expenses are that Unified
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`8 has today?
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`9 A. I believe it's like
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`11 off-the-top-of-my-head ballpark for expenses
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`12 on the salary side.
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`13 Q. Do you know what percentage of
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`14 that is the legal department?
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`15 A. Not off the top of my head.
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`16 Q. Aside from salary, what other
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`17 expenses does Unified have?
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`18 A. Rent, travel, you know, all the
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`19 kind of business development expenses,
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`20 conference expenses. We do, you know, the
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`21 prior art searching expenses. We have legal
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`2 stuff as well as obviously filing IPRs. I
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`3 don't know. I haven't -- that's a decent
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`4 summary.
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`5 Q. The legal expenses, and you said
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`6 for IPRs, is that outside counsel expense
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`7 you're referring to?
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`8 A. Yes. And we -- it's not just
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`9 outside counsel. It's experts in prior art
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`10 and all the -- everything that kind of goes
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`11 into the cost of running an IPR.
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`12 Q. How big is that expense on a
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`13 yearly basis for Unified?
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`14 A. I believe for the last year, it
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`15 was about
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`16 Q. Do you know what percentage that
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`17 is of Unified's expenses?
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`18 A. Just that outside counsel expense
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`19 is
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` of the like
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`20 accrued revenue for the year.
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`21 Q.
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`? When
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`2 outside counsel and experts, right? That
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`3 was the kind of overall bucket you're
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`4 referring to?
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`5 A. Yeah. Not including the legal
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`6 expense internal to the company to run all
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`7 of this.
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`8 Q. Yeah. So just for outside
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`9 counsel and for experts and kind of running
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`10 the IPRs, that cost is
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`11
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`12 A. Somewhere in the ballpark.
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`13 Q. Does outside counsel do any of
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`14 the work pre-filing an IPR; for example,
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`15 investigating potential IPRs that Unified
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`16 may file?
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`17 A. No.
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`18 Q. So the decision, kind of the
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`19 investigation -- well, strike that.
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`20 The investigation into which IPRs
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`21 to file, that's all done by Unified
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`2 A. Well, it's a little more
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`3 complicated than that. I mean, I guess when
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`4 we decide to start looking at a patent and
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`5 we decide that that patent's going to be
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`6 handled by a law firm if we file, then we
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`7 would engage an outside counsel to start the
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`8 work on it.
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`9 Sometimes we would have already
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`10 started looking at prior art. Sometimes we
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`11 might not have started looking at prior art
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`12 at all. But, I mean, the decision to
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`13 ultimately file depends on whether or not we
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`14 actually have prior art and we like the
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`15 arguments and, you know, it's a good filing.
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`16 So it depends on what you mean by
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`17 preparation. Like the decision to hire a
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`18 counsel to start working on a patent is
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`19 handled completely internal to Unified. If
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`20 we decide that we believe that by filing an
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`21 IPR, we create a deterrence value for our
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`3 minimum, handled completely internal to
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`5 Q. Has Unified ever decided -- made
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`6 the decision it was going to file an IPR and
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`7 then had a law firm turn it down and say,
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`8 no, we can't file that for you?
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`9 MR. FAWZY: I'm going to object
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`10 and -- just on the basis of privilege and
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`11 caution the witness not to reveal any
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`12 privileged information. So I don't know if
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`13 you can answer that question without
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`14 revealing privileged information, but you
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`15 can try.
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`16 THE WITNESS: So let me just say
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`17 that have we ever looked at a patent -- I
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`18 mean, it's not so much that they are telling
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`19 us whether or not they can or can't do it,
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`20 but it is the case that we will look at
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`21 patents and find that the prior art, despite
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`2 that if we were to file an IPR, we wouldn't
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`3 be successful, I guess is one way to talk
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`4 about it.
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`5 I don't know exactly the scope of
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`6 what you mean they tell us that they can't
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`7 do it. But if we were to engage with a firm
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`8 and both through our own internal legal
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`9 counsel and reviewing the legal work that a
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`10 firm did, we as a team would decide that the
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`11 prior art wouldn't show that that IPR would
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`12 be successful, if we didn't like the
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`13 arguments, then we very well would walk away
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`14 from filing an IPR.
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`15 BY MR. HARRINGTON:
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`16 Q. Has that ever actually happened?
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`17 A. I mean, I don't know if we really
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`18 think this is privileged or not. I mean, I
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`19 don't --
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`20 MR. HARRINGTON: If you guys want
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`21 to discuss it and think about it --
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`3 MR. HARRINGTON: Okay.
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`4 MR. FAWZY: -- on the basis of
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`5 privilege.
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`6 BY MR. HARRINGTON:
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`7 Q. How does Unified determine which
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`8 law firm it's going to use for a particular
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`9 IPR?
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`10 MR. FAWZY: Also, I'm going to
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`11 instruct -- object on the basis of privilege
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`12 and instruct you not to answer to the extent
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`13 it reveals privileged information, but if
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`14 you can answer generally.
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`15 BY MR. HARRINGTON:
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`16 Q. I can ask a more specific
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`17 question. Does Unified take any outside
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`18 input into its decision as to what law firms
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`19 to hire?
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`20 A. Absolutely not.
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`21 Q. Has any Unified member ever made
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`2 Unified to use for any IPRs?
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`3 A. No, not in the sense that they
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`4 are telling us -- one of the things that
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`5 Unified actually does is -- I don't know if
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`6 you've looked at our portal, but we actually
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`7 keep statistics on every single IPR that
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`8 gets filed and every law firm that handles
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`9 one.
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`10 So we have statistics on what law
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`11 firms have done well and which ones have
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`12 done bad. This is something we do generate
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`13 and publish and our members have asked us,
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`14 like, hey, what do you think about law firms
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`15 and who's done well and we talk about our
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`16 statistics and we talk about whatever. But
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`17 we have not been the recipient of anyone
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`18 saying, hey, you need to use this particular
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`19 law firm. I don't think I've ever had that
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`20 conversation with a member.
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`21 Q. Is Apple a member?
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`2 Q. Are you aware that Apple has a
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`3 preferred vendor list for law firms that
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`4 it's willing to use?
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`5 A. I'm not familiar with it. It
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`6 does not surprise me. I've been in-house
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`7 counsel at a firm -- sorry, at a company and
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`8 I have my own preferred list of counsel. It
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`9 doesn't surprise me that they have it. I
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`10 have never heard of Apple's preferred vendor
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`11 list.
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`12 Q. Has any of the members, of
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`13 Unified's members, ever shared its preferred
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`14 vendor list with Unified --
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`15 A. Not to my knowledge.
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`16 Q. -- for its law firms?
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`17 A. Not to my knowledge.
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`18 MR. FAWZY: I'm going to just
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`19 take a second. So far we've gone over
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`20 inferring that includes Unified confidential
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`21 information. So I'm just going to ask that
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`3 order in this case.
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`4 BY MR. HARRINGTON:
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`5 Q. Where does Unified maintain
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`6 offices?
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`7 A. We have an office in California,
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`8 in San Jose. We have an office in
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`9 Washington, D.C. and then we have a lot of
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`10 folks who work from home, so, I mean,
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`11 they're not necessarily maintaining an
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`12 official Unified office, but they have a
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`13 home office or they -- yeah, I think that --
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`14 everyone who works remotely works from a
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`15 home office right now.
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`16 Q. Where does Unified get its
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`17 revenue?
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`18 A. So we have subscriptions that we
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`19 sell to what we call our NPE zones and we
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`20 also have an SEP zone, a standard essential
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`21 patent zone. Both of those members would
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`2 subscribe to those zones. That is where
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`3 revenue comes from from that area.
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`4 We also have conferences that we
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`5 host throughout the year. And those
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`6 conferences we sell kind of sponsorships to
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`7 law firms and we generate some revenue from
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`8 those sponsorships. We also do some kind of
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`9 what we call patent quality drive work where
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`10 companies pay us to look at and analyze kind
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`11 of NPE and patent matters, things around
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`12 like litigation and NPE activity to generate
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`13 data that can be used.
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`14 Those would be, I think, off the
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`15 top of my head, the sources of revenue right
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`16 now.
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`17 Q. Can you give me rough percentages
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`18 for each of those revenue streams?
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`19 A. The revenue from the conferences
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`20 is
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`21
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` The patent quality drive
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`2
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`3 And then the revenue generated
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`4 from the NPE zones and the SEP zones is
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`5 probably
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`6
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`7
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`8
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`9 Q. So for
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` we have an
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`10 agreement here for
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`. Is this for the
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`11
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` agreement?
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`12 A.
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`13
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`14
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`15 Q. So
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` -- there's the SEP and
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`16 NPE and
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`17
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` is that correct?
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`18 A. Yes. There are some five or six
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`19 zones or so, I guess, in the NPE zones and
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`20
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`21 Q. Okay. The SEP zone, so that
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`2 the Velos Media case? Is that like one of
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`3 the SEP zones?
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`4 A. We have filed IPRs in the video
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`5 codec zone and Velos Media is one of the
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`6 companies that we filed IPRs against.
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`7 Q. And so that's part of the SEP --
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`8 A. That's part of SEP.
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`9 Q. -- part that you talk about?
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`10 A. Yes.
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`11 Q. So as part of the SEP business, I
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`12 guess it sounds like it's kind of a separate
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`13 business; is that correct?
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`14 A. I mean, I guess, you know, it's
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`15 like a separate product, I guess, yeah. We
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`16 do different things in the SEP zones than we
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`17 do in the NPE zones. In both of them, we do
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`18 file IPRs. But there's a lot of data and
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`19 tools we've developed on standard essential
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`20 patent licensing to help companies provide
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`21 kind of FRAND offers if they're approached
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