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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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`FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
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`MARSHALL DIVISION
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`LUMINATI NETWORKS LTD.
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`Plaintiff,
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`V.
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`TESO LT, UAB; OXYSALES, UAB;
`METACLUSTERLT, UAB;
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`Defendants.
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`Case No. 2:19-cv-395-JRG
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`LEAD CASE
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`LUMINATI’S SURREPLY IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO
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`Code200, UAB,et al. v. Bright Data Ltd.
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`INTRODUCTION........ccsccsssssssssssssssssessssssssssssessesssssessessessessessensesssssesssssessssssessessessessessessesses 1
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`TT. ARGUMENT.........ccccccsscssscssssssssssssssssssssssnsssssssssssessesssssessessessessessssssssessssssssssssssssssessessassssses 2
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`A. Defendants Acknowledge Supremacy of Claim Language But Ignore the Express
`Language of the Claims............ee cece ecesscesceesscesseceeceescceseceeeceseecsaccessceseecsseeeseseseeeseesseeeneees 2
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`B. Defendants Ignore the Clear Language in the Claims and Specifications Distinguishing
`Between Client Devices and ServefS..........cccscsscesesseseeeseeseseeeeseseseseaeseseasseeseeseaseeseaseneeens 4
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`C. Defendants Improperly Attempt to Confuse the Client-Server Model the Client Device
`Modules in an Attempt to Broaden the Meaning of Client Devices to Render them
`Interchangeable .0........ ccc ececssesseeseeseceeeeseeeeeaeseeeeseceseeeeseseseaeeseseaeceeeeseseeeeseseaeeeeeaeeeeseaeenes 6
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`D. That the Client Devices Include Processors, Memory, and a Storageis Irrelevant to the
`LOL Inquiry 00... ec ecescessessessesseseseescssceaeeseeaeeaceaeeaceaeeseeseeseesaeeaesasaseaseaseaeeaeeaeeseeaseaseaseaseateas 7
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`E. Defendants’ Improperly Mischaracterize Luminati’s Position by Trying to Improperly
`Limit the Claim Language to Specific Figures ..0.......ccceccsceseeseeseeeeseeeeeesseseesesseeseeseessens 7
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`F. Defendants’ Arguments Regarding the Novelty of Individual Elements of the Claimsis
`Irrelevant to the 101 Inquiry... eee eseeseeseeseeeeeeseeseeseeseceeeessessesseeseeaeeseeseeseesseaeeasensens 9
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`G. The Claims Do NotDisclose Replacing Client Devices with Servers. .........scseseseteeeeees 9
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`H. Defendants Have the Burden to Prove the Patents Invalid And Can’t Avoid this Burden
`By Complaining that Defendants Don’t have Support in the Record.............cceeeeeeeeeeees 9
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`I. Motions to Dismiss Should Be Denied Without Need for Claim Construction, But
`Defendants’ Arguments MakeClear that Defendants Would Need Claim Construction
`Ignoring Differences Between Client Devices and Servers to Support a Finding of
`ADStractIneSs.........cceecsesseseseeeeeeseceseceeceseceseseceseeeeceeeesessaeesesesseaeseaseeseassaeeaeeeaeeaseneeeaseneeease 10
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`TIT. CONCLUSION.........sscssssssssssssssssssssssssessessesssssessssssnssessessessessessssessessensessessessssssnsessesseesoassass 10
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`TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
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`Cases
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`Aatrix Software, Inc. v. Green Shades Software, Inc., 882 F.3d 1121 (Fed. Cir. 2018)............. 3,9
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`Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’], 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014) occ eecceseeeeeseeeeeeneeeneeeeseneeeneenes 1
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`Amdocs(Isr.) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom,Inc., 841 F. 3d 1288 (Fed. Cir. 2016)... cece eee 3,7
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`BASCOMGlob.Internet Servs. V. AT&T Mobility LLC, 827 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Cir. 2016)......... 3
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`DDR Holdings, LLC v. Hotels.com, L.P., 773 F.3d 1245 (Fed. Cir. 2014) wee ecceeeeeeeeeeeeee 3,7
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`Ericsson Inc. v. TCL Commun. Tech. Holdings Ltd., No. 2018.2003, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS
`11702 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 14, 2020) 0... ce cccesceeeeessesseseeseeseeseeaeeaesaesaesaessessassasaseaseaseaseasenseaseasenees 2
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`Freeny v. Fossil Grp., Inc., No. 2:18-CV-00049-JRG-RSP, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36688 (E.D.
`Tex. Feb. 12, 2019) .occeccccecccecccssscesscceseeessceescceseecscceseeeseeecseeesseecseeesesesseecaeeesseeseeesesesseeneeeees 4,7
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`Uniloc USA,Inc. v. LG Elecs. USA, Inc., No. 2019-1835, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 13876 (Fed.
`Cir. Apr. 30, 2020) 0... .cceesesceesseseesesseseescsccscescsecsceacsecseeacsecsceassecaeeacsassesacsasaeeassasateaseaeaseases 1,4,7
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`I.
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`INTRODUCTION
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`Rather than address the patent claims as written, Defendants continue to misread and
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`misrepresent them to create straw man claims that Defendants then argue are abstract. But
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`Defendants are not permitted to rewrite the claims to invalidate them. The Patent Office, with a
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`substantial body of Alice-related law to draw on, reviewed the actual claims of each patent and
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`found them valid. The clear claim language discloses methods of steps performed bya client
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`device in a new, novel server—client device—web server architecture that Defendants ignore,
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`instead improperly oversimplifying and rewriting the claims as disclosing only an abstract
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`computer-computer-computer architecture, which is clearly incorrect in light of the claim
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`languageitself and the specifications.! Defendants’ approach also defies the clear Section 101
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`analysis under Alice recognizing “[a]t somelevel, all inventions embody, use, reflect, rest upon,
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`or apply laws of nature, natural phenomena,or abstract ideas.” Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank
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`Int’l, 134 8. Ct. 2347 (2014). Having ignored the language of the claims themselves, Defendants
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`also further attempt to limit the claims to specific figures while ignoring other figures from the
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`specification as well as Luminati’s citations to the specification in its Opposition. Defendants
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`other argumentsare similarly unavailing. Defendants do not have evidencein the record to support
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`an unpatentability finding and the motion should be dismissed. However, even if not dismissed,
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`Defendants could not support such a motion without a favorable claim construction order and
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`additional evidence.
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`’ Defendants also argue that the claims themselves do not include a “new network.” That is
`incorrect -- the claims set forth the components of the new network and how theyrelate to each
`other in a way that establishes such a network, which is a disclosure of the new network.
`Moreover, to the extent that enabling a new network is an advantage of the claims, there is no
`requirementthat the claims expressly state their own advantages. Uniloc USA, Inc. v. LG Elecs.
`USA, Inc., No. 2019-1835, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 13876, at *13 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 30, 2020)
`(“Claims neednotarticulate the advantages of the claimed combinationsto be eligible.”)
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`II.
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`ARGUMENT
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`A.
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`Defendants’ Reply Fails to Address Nonpatent Claims
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`Defendants’ reply only addressesits motion on patent claims andfails to answer Luminati’s
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`opposition (and thus waives) its motion regarding nonpatent claims.
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`B.
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`Defendants Err by Ignoring the Actual Language of the Claims
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`Section 101 analysis focuses on the claimed invention, but Defendants err by ignoring the
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`actual language of the claims. Reply at 2. Defendants rely upon Ericsson for the unremarkable
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`assertion that underthe facts of that case and the particular patent at issue there, the “three layered
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`architecture” did not provide “the necessary inventive concept” when the alleged
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`“‘architecture’
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`was‘wholly missing’ from the claims.” Jd. As the Federal Circuit found in Ericsson regarding
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`the claims at issue, “[nJleither claim recites any particular architecture at _all—much less the
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`specific three layered architecture advocated by Ericsson. Nor does either claim recite software
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`stacks or units—vertical, horizontal, or otherwise.” Ericsson Inc. v. TCL Commun. Tech. Holdings
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`Ltd., No. 2018.2003, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 11702, at *21-22 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 14, 2020) (emphasis
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`added). 7 However, Ericsson is inapposite to this case.
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`Defendants wrongly argue that “Luminati never shows where, in the claims, the new
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`architecture is allegedly found.” Reply at 2 (emphasisin original). This is false. As shown in the
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`“According to Ericsson, claims | and 5 "recite three specific layers of software," in which the
`bottom "services layer" is "further arranged into vertical functional software stacks." Appellees'
`Br. 36 (internal quotations omitted). Ericsson contends that the novelty of the claimsis, in part,
`the "arrangement of horizontally partitioned functional software units" which "differs from the
`standard model, which uses vertical layers only." /d. But this allegedly novel aspect of the
`invention is wholly missing from claims 1 and 5. Neither claim recites any particular architecture
`at all—muchless the specific three layered architecture advocated by Ericsson. Nor does either
`claim recite software stacks or units—vertical, horizontal, or otherwise.” Ericsson Inc. v. TCL
`Commun.Tech. Holdings Ltd., No. 2018-2003, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 11702, at *21-22 (Fed. Cir.
`Apr. 14, 2020).
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`Opposition (and unlike Ericsson), each of the independentclaims of the Asserted Patents claim
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`methods involving steps performed bya client device within a server—client device—web server
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`architecture with all three distinct elements expressly recited in the claims. Opp. at 14-17.
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`Importantly, the claims distinguish between and specify the device types and servers rather than
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`call for generic computers. Luminati discussed the claim language extensively in the Opposition
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`including the use of color coding to show eachoftherecited elements of the server—client device—
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`webserverarchitecture as recited in the claims. Jd. at 14-17, 20-22. As just one example from
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`the Opposition, the preamble of claim 1 of the °319 Patent showsall the elements.
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`for use with a first server that
`A method for use with a first client device,
`comprises a web server that is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server that
`responds to HTTP requests, the first server stores a first content identified by a first
`content identifier, and for use with a second server, the method by thefirst client
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`device comprising:
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`The above architecture utilizing distinct network components including steps performed
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`by a “client device”is not abstract and clearly claims these specific components in the body ofthe
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`claims.’ In addition, the Federal Circuit has “routinely held software claimspatent eligible under
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`3 Having ignored the novelserver-client device-webserver architecture of the claims based on the
`dubiousassertion that “residential” does not appear in the claims, Defendants compoundthis error
`by continuing to rely on case law distinguished extensively in the Opposition. Reply at 7-8, n. 5;
`Opp.at 19-23. This server-client device-web server entailed an unconventional arrangement and
`technological solution that required the modification of client devices to add the functionality of a
`serverin line with the claims found patentable in Amdocs, DDR Holdings, and BASCOM. Amdocs,
`841 F.3d at 1301 (the use of “arguably generic gatherers, network devices working in an
`unconventional [manner] to solve a particular technological problem.”); DDR Holdings, 773 F.3d
`at 1257 (“the claimed solution is necessarily rooted in computer technology in order to overcome
`a problem specifically arising in the realm of computer networks”); BASCOM Glob.Internet
`Servs. V. AT&T Mobility LLC, 827 F.3d 1341, 1350-51 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (“an inventive concept
`can be found in the non-convention and non-generic arrangement ofknown, conventionalpieces”);
`See also Aatrix, 882 F.3d at 1127 (district court decision granting 12(b)(6) and denying amended
`complaint overturned because “invention increased the efficiencies of computers processing tax
`forms....suggest[ing] that the claimed invention is directed to an improvement in the computer
`technologyitself and not directed to generic components performing conventionalactivities.”’);
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`Alice step one when they are directed to improvements to the functionality of a computer or
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`network platform itself.” Uniloc USA, Inc. v. LG Elecs. USA, Inc., No. 2019-1835, 2020 U.S.
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`App. LEXIS 13876, at *6 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 30, 2020). The Reply fails to dispute that the architecture
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`of the Asserted Patents is described in the specifications as providing a numberof advantages over
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`conventional
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`systems,
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`including improved data communication speed,
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`anonymity and
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`untraceability. Opp. at 2-7. The Asserted Patents claims are directed toward methods of improving
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`networks through the server-client device-web server architecture and should be upheld as valid
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`under Alice step one.
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`Defendants Ignore the Clear Language in the Claims and Specifications
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`Distinguishing Between Client Devices and Servers
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`Defendants continue to improperly assert that the Court can ignore the clear differences
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`between the above client devices and servers in the claims to wrongly treat
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`them as
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`interchangeable. See e.g. Reply at 1, 5, 6, 9. Essentially, Defendants improperly oversimplify the
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`patents to argue that the claims reciting server—client device—web server architecture merely
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`involve general purpose computers in communication with one another in a computer-computer-
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`computerarchitecture, but that is not the language employedin the patent claims, and Defendants
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`are not permitted to rewrite claims to invalidate them.
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`For example, as addressed in the Opposition and ignored in the Reply, the °614 Patent
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`distinguished clients from servers in conventional client-server Internet Architecture (Dkt. 1-1 at
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`4:40-61), and defined servers as web servers, proxy servers or acceleration servers while
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`Freeny v. Fossil Grp., Inc., No. 2:18-CV-00049-JRG-RSP, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36688, at *9
`(E.D. Tex. Feb. 12, 2019) (12(b)(6) motion denied for failure to show that the claims were (1) not
`directed to improvements rooted in technology, and (2) even assuming the patent had been drawn
`to an abstract idea, had not shown that the ordered combination of elements was conventional).
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`modifying client devices to comprise client peers or agents allowing client devices to serve as
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`‘tunnel’ devices (/d. at 83:4-15). Opp. at 4-5, 7. Defendants continue to erroneously repeat that
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`devices and servers are interchangeable based on the following quotations from the “614 Patent
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`specification: “each of the devices that are not denoted herein as servers, may equally function as
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`a server in the meaning ofclient/server architecture” (Dkt. 1-1 at 119:50-53) and “each of the
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`devices denoted herein as servers, may equally function as a client in the meaning of the
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`client/server architecture” (/d. at 119:50-53) (emphasis added). Mot. At 18-19 and Reply at 5.
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`Defendants fundamentally misunderstand these quotes to mean that each device in the claim can
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`be replaced with a server and vice-versa. However, the specification is clearly explaining that
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`patented claims add functionality to devices and servers to allow them to serve as proxies by
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`allowing client devices to “provide facilities or services” and servers to access client devices “for
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`a service or resource” in contrast to conventional client-server Internet architecture. Dkt. 1-1 at
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`4:40-61. Additionally, Defendants’ citations emphasize that the patent specification refers to the
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`different components having different roles and are notall just used as generic computers.
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`With regard to the ‘319 and ‘510 Patents, the specification clearly contrasts communication
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`devices against servers. Opp. at 3-4. Defendants cite no basis from the specifications of these
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`patents to assert that a client device is interchangeable with a server. All the citations Defendants
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`cite refer to a “communication device” that may serveas a client, agent, or peer—thelist does not
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`include a server.
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`Id. at 4.
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`In addition, as explained in the Opposition and below, these patents
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`disclose the client device as including multiple modules to allow that device to alternatively serve
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`as a client, agent, or peer, depending uponits role in requesting or receiving content. The purpose
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`set forth in these patents is to use user devices instead of servers to act as proxy nodesin the
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`network. Opp. at 3-7. That brings the advantages of being able to build a large-scale network of
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`millions of residential devices that are proxies, which was never donein the claimed mannerprior
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`to these patents.
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`Defendants Improperly Attempt to Confuse the Client-Server Model
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`Client Device Modules in an Attempt to Broaden the Meaning of Client Devices to
`Render them Interchangeable
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`with servers,
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`that
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`incorrect and contrary to the
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`To the extent that Defendants suggest that agents, peers and clients are interchangeable
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`allow the client device to function in a mannercontrary to
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`the conventional client/server architecture. Defendants’
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`comparison of agents, peers andclients is a red herring, as
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`these descriptions are merely functionalities that can
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`operate on a client device. Reply at 4, 9; see Opp. at 3. As
`further described in the °319 Patent specification, “the
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`acceleration application 220 intercepts the requests being made by applications of the
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`communication device (client) that use the Internet, in order to modify the requests and route the
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`requests through the communication network....Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram furtherillustrating
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`elements of the acceleration application 220, as well as communication paths of the acceleration
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`application 220....The acceleration application 220 also contains three separate modules that run
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`in parallel, namely, a client module 224, a peer module 226, and an agent module 228, each of
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`which comes into play according to the specific role that the communication device 200 is
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`partaking in the communication network 100 at a given time.” °319 Patent at 8:60-9:25.
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`Claims Directed to Novel Network Improvements or Architecture are
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`Patentable as a Matter of Law, and the Client Devices’ Inclusion of Processors,
`Memory,and a Storageis Irrelevant
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`Defendants erroneously assert that because client devices contain processors, memory and
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`a storage, they are just general-purpose computers and must be unpatentable under 101. Reply at
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`4-5. However, Section 101 analysis requires that the claims be analyzed as a whole. Thefact that
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`a component mayinclude conventional components does not render such a claim unpatentable.
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`“The collection, filtering, aggregating, and completing steps all depend upon the invention’s
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`unique distributed architecture—the same architecture outlined in ourearlier analysis of the ‘065
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`patent. An understanding of how this is accomplished is only possible through an examination of
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`the claimsin light of the written description.” Amdocs(Isr.) Ltd. v. Openet Telecom,Inc., 841 F.
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`3d 1288, 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (emphasis added).
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`The Federal Circuit just reconfirmed the law that network architecture improvements are
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`patentable this past week in Uniloc USA, Inc. v. LG Elecs. USA, Inc., No. 2019-1835, 2020 U.S.
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`App. LEXIS 13876, at *6 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 30, 2020) (noting that courts have “routinely held” such
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`claims patentable and reversing district court finding of invalidity). See also DDR Holdings, LLC
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`v. Hotels.com, L.P., 773 F.3d 1245 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (use of Internet was not abstract when claim
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`language viewedinlight of specification); Aatrix, 882 F.3d at 1128 (computer program notabstract
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`as claimed); Freeny v. Fossil Grp., Inc., No. 2:18-CV-0049-JRG-RSP, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS
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`36688, at *11-13 (E.D. Tex., Feb. 12, 2019) (rejecting Defendants’ argument that because the
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`claim only asserted generic or conventional computer components” because “the components are
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`used to perform a specific improvementoverthe priorart.”). Opp. at 21.
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`Defendants’ Improperly Mischaracterize Luminati’s Position by Trying to
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`Improperly Limit the Claim Languageto Specific Figures
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`Having ignored the claim language, Defendants attempt
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`to mischaracterize the
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`Defendants’ Arguments Regarding the Novelty of Individual Elements of the
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`Claimsis Irrelevant to the 101 Inquiry
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`Defendants dispute the novelty of individual componentsin the claims, but that is not how
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`patentability is assessed.
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`If the combination is patentable as set forth in the claim (which the
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`server—client device-web server architecture is) then the claim is patentable. Novelty is a
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`separate validity requirementnot asserted in the motion to dismiss. Opp.at 25.
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`H.
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`The Claims Do Not Disclose Replacing Client Devices with Servers
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`Defendants repeatedly and wronglyassert that the claims allow for switching the claimed
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`client devices with servers. Reply at 6-9. As addressed above,this interpretation ignores the clear
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`language of the claims and specification to create a straw man abstract computer-computer-
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`computerarchitecture. The patent claims do not allow Defendants to simply replace a client
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`device with a serveror vice versus.
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`Evidence is Relevant to Alice Step Two, and Defendants Fail to Meet Their
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`Burden
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`Defendants argue that they do not need to provide evidence in support of their motion,
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`because they filed a 12(b)(6) motion. Reply at 8. However, Patents are assumed valid and
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`Defendants have the burden of proving that they are abstract. The patent specifications disclose
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`the modification of client devices to add the functionality of servers contrary to the conventional
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`client-server Internet architecture and contrary to the routine and ordinary use of these client
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`devices, such as laptops and smart phones, and consequently the claimed components do not
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`operate in a routine or ordinary way. Opp.at 23-25. Step two ofAliceis satisfied “when the claim
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`limitations involve more than performance of well-understood, routine, and conventional activities
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`previously known to the industry.” Aatrix Software, Inc. v. Green Shades Software, Inc. , 882 F.3d
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`1121, 1128 (Fed. Cir. 2018).
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`There is no support in the specification for Defendantsposition that client devices function
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`as servers as part of their routine and ordinary use and Defendants provide no evidence for this
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`position. Reply at n. 1; 6-8. It is a complete misreading of FRCP 12(b)(6), for Defendants to argue
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`that because there is no evidence of record that supports their position, they can ignore this
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`requirement. Reply at 8. As Defendants don’t have evidence to the contrary, Defendants can’t
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`meettheir burden of proof and the motion should be dismissedforfailing to satisfy Alice step two.
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`Motions to Dismiss Should Be Denied Without Need for Claim Construction,
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`But Defendants’ Arguments Make Clear that Defendants Would Need Claim
`Construction Ignoring Differences Between Client Devices and Servers to Support a
`Finding of Abstractness
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`While the Motion should be dismissed without delay, Defendants makeit clear that they
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`would need a favorable claim construction ruling to support their interpretation of the claims to
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`read the client devices and servers as the same. Reply at 8-10. Based on Defendants’ preliminary
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`arguments in this briefing, they appear to take the position that the client device is interchangeable
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`with a server, because the claimed invention modifies the client device to add the functionality of
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`a server and vice versus allowing the client device to serve as a proxy contrary to conventional
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`client-server Internet architecture. There is no question that client devices include mobile devices
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`such as smartphones, given the dependent claims (see e.g. ‘614 Patent claims 15-16), however
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`Defendants seek to broaden the scope ofthe client device to incorporate commercial servers. Such
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`a construction is contrary to the express language of the claims and specification, but regardless
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`Defendants would need this construction to support their computer-computer-computerabstract
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`architecture argument.
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`Il.
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`CONCLUSION
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`For the foregoing reasons, Plaintiff respectfully requests that the Court deny Defendants’
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`Rule 12(b)(6) motion inits entirety.
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`Case 2:19-cv-00395-JRG Document 47 Filed 05/05/20 Page 14 of 14 PagelD #: 817
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`Dated: May5, 2020
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`By: /s/ Korula T_ Cherian
`Mark Mann
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`Korula T. Cherian
`Robert Harkins
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`Attorneysfor Plaintiff
`Luminati NetworksLtd.
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`Code200, UAB,et al. v. Bright Data Ltd.
`IPR2022-01109, EX. 2019
`14 of 14
`The Data Company TechnologiesInc. v. Bright Data Ltd.
`IPR2022-00135, EX. 2008
`14 of 14
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