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` UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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` ___________________
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` BEFORE THE PATENT AND APPEAL BOARD
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` APPLE INC.,
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` Petitioner,
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` SCRAMOGE TECHNOLOGY LTD.,
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` Patent Owner.
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` Case IPR2022-00117
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` U.S. Patent No. 9,843,215
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` REMOTE DEPOSITION OF
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` JOSHUA PHINNEY, Ph.D., P.E.
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` Thursday, July 21, 2022
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`DEPOSITION OF: JOSHUA PHINNEY, Ph.D., P.E.
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`DATE: Thursday, July 21, 2022
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`TIME: 9:57 a.m. Pacific Time
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`LOCATION: Conducted remotely with all
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` APPEARING FOR PETITIONER:
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` SCOTT JARRATT, ESQ.
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` CALMANN J. CLEMENTS, ESQ.
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` Haynes Boone, LLP
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` 6000 Headquarters Drive, Suite 200
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` calmann.clements@haynesboone.com
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` APPEARING FOR PATENT OWNER:
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` JOHN PETRSORIC, ESQ.
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` Russ August & Kabat
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` 12424 Wilshire Boulevard, 12th Floor
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` Los Angeles, California 90025
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` EXAMINATION
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` WITNESS:
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` having first been duly sworn, was examined and
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` Q. Good morning, Dr. Phinney.
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` A. Good morning.
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` Q. Do you have in front of you the declaration
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` you submitted in the IPR proceeding, or the
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` inter partes review proceeding, IPR2022-00117?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Is it okay if we refer to this IPR
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` proceeding as the "117 proceeding"?
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` A. Yes, that's -- that's okay. I'll be a
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` little bit slow with that nomenclature, so you may have
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` to remind me because, because -- but I'll try.
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` Q. I don't think it'll come up, but just in
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` case.
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` This declaration relates to U.S. Patent
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` Number 9,843,215; correct?
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` A. Yes.
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` A. I do.
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` Q. Is it okay if we refer to this patent as the
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` A. Agreed.
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` Q. Your declaration was submitted as
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` Exhibit 1003 in the 117 IPR proceeding; correct?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Do you have a copy of U.S. Patent 6,948 --
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` sorry -- 9,443,648 to Sawa available?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. How did you prepare for your deposition
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` A. I met with counsel and reviewed my
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` declaration.
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` Q. And how long, approximately, did you meet
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` A. Approximately six to eight hours.
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` Q. And was that preparation -- in preparation
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` A. It was -- I'm trying not to count time --
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` one of the meetings had -- was mixed, and that included
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` Q. Besides meeting with counsel and reviewing
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` your declaration, did you do anything else to prepare
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` A. Just looking at the references cited in my
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` declaration as part of reviewing.
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` Q. A minute ago, I mentioned the '648 patent,
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` which is to Sawa. Did you review that patent in
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` preparation for your deposition today?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And is it okay if we refer to that
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` '648 patent as the "Sawa" reference?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Or do you prefer something else?
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` A. Sawa is -- is my preferred way.
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` Q. Do you have a -- a recollection of
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` approximately how long you spent preparing the
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` declaration you submitted in this 117 proceeding?
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` A. Yes. It's -- it's somewhat vague, but back
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` in September, approximately, of 2022.
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` Q. And -- and do you -- do you have any
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` reviewing the prior art and preparing the declaration?
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` A. I'd say it would be around two to
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` declaration yourself?
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` A. Parts of it. Others, I didn't draft in the
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` first instance, but it -- it reflects my opinions.
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` the -- the -- the claim analysis as applied to
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` are -- are my opinions.
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` not 40 yet.
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` Q. So you're fairly -- you're familiar with the
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` A. I -- I'd say so.
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` Q. And given the -- the excessive heat today,
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` if you need to take a break, please let me know. All
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` I'll ask is that you just allow me to finish a line of
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` questioning, and we'll get through that as quickly as
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` possible, if that's okay?
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` A. Thank you. Yes.
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` Q. And I -- I would urge you to take your
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` jacket off as well, but I don't want to step on your
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` A. Okay. I'm there.
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` When you say "decrease the volume," you mean
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` A. Yes.
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` A. Yes.
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` MR. JARRATT: Objection. Scope.
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` THE WITNESS: Yes.
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` Q. And was that in the context of obtaining
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` A. Yes, some of it was.
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` Q. And -- and did you do any modeling work or
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` A. No, I didn't do testing.
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` Q. Did you do any modeling work?
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` Q. If we turn to page 31 of your declaration,
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` a plurality of soft magnetic layers comprising a first
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` soft magnetic layer and a second soft magnetic layer.
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` Do you see that?
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` A. Yes.
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` Do you see that?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. So are you alluding or concluding that the
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` A. They -- they -- they generally are. As I'm
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` providing this -- you know, these -- these block quotes
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` that are describing some of the materials and, yes,
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` indeed, like, you know, the permalloy or silicon steel
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` citation from column 4, lines 5 to 29 of Sawa.
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` Do you see that? And -- and that goes from
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` A. Yes, I see that.
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` Q. You've got a couple of things highlighted,
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Do you have any understanding of what Sawa
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` magnetic thin plate is different in kind from the first
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` magnetic thin plate?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And -- and what is that understanding?
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` I'm -- I -- I appreciate what you were going to say.
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` A. Yes. And it comes down to what it says
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` Q. That's okay. Take -- take your time. No
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` A. Okay. Would you mind just quickly tell me
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` what page that was we were reading on again? Sorry.
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` Q. Page 31 of the declaration.
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` A. Okay. Thank you. Sorry. It just --
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` Q. No, that's okay.
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` A. Okay. So that's -- that's an example is
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` THE WITNESS: I guess I'm not quite sure
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` THE WITNESS: I'm -- I'm saying that the
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` THE WITNESS: No, that's -- that's not what
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` I'm -- I'm saying. I'm just -- I'm just indicating
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` I -- I -- so I'm understanding that
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. So that -- I -- I understand what -- what
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` materials are -- would be too easily saturated in the
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` A. Yes, that's -- that's a -- that's a
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` Q. And then so -- I under- -- am I correct in
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` Q. Turning back to your declaration,
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` A. Okay, I'm there.
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` Q. Okay. Paragraph 60 also runs to page 33 and
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` column 9, line 11 of Sawa specification.
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` A. Well, the -- just because in that -- in that
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` group are sort of famous soft magnetic materials
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` commonly used in like the nickel -- nickel-iron system.
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` That's -- Cr is chromium; correct?
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` Q. So that's -- that sounds like a
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` A. Yes. Yeah, I'm looking here. I think that
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` stainless steel in par- -- might be referring to in
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` composition in it beyond iron and chromium.
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` Q. The following recitation from the
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` lines 12 to 45, this is -- straddles pages 33 to 34 of
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` the declaration. This is with regards to the second
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` magnetic thin plate in Sawa; correct?
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` Q. And I think you highlighted the Si in the
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` Q. On page 34, you highlighted Si (silicon) and
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` Q. Can you explain to me what amorphousing a
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