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`Raymond W. Mort, III
`raymort@austinlaw.com
`THE MORT LAW FIRM, PLLC
`100 Congress Avenue, Suite 2000
`Austin, Texas 78701
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`Re:
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`Jawbone Innovations, LLC v. Apple Inc., Case No. 6:21-cv-00984
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`Counsel:
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`We write regarding a petition for inter partes review (IPR) being filed with the Patent
`Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to address claims of U.S. Patent No. 11,122,357 (“the
`’357 patent”). The table below lists grounds asserted by Apple Inc. (“Apple”) in the
`IPR2022-01321 petition challenging claims of this patent, along with the implicated
`claims against which the grounds are asserted.
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`We write to inform you that Apple hereby stipulates that in the event the PTAB
`institutes an inter partes review based on the IPR2022-01321 petition and including
`the grounds listed in the table below against the corresponding claims listed in the
`table for those grounds (“Instituted Grounds”), then Apple will not seek resolution in
`the above-captioned district court litigation (6:21-cv-00984) of the Instituted Grounds
`against the corresponding claims listed in the table for those same grounds.
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`Patent No. Proceeding No.
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`Claim(s)
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`Ground
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`11,122,357
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`IPR2022-01321 1-20
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`Obvious (§ 103) over Kanamori,
`McCowen, and Elko
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`In so stipulating, Apple seeks to avoid multiple proceedings addressing the validity of
`the ’357 patent based on the same grounds. Rather, Apple wishes the patentability of
`this patent over the above-identified Grounds to be addressed at the PTAB. But, for
`the sake of clarity and to avoid any doubt, if the PTAB declines institution of Apple’s
`IPR petitions relating to the ’357 patent, Apple reserves the right to seek resolution of
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`the above-identified Grounds in the above-captioned district court litigation (6:21-cv-
`00984).
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`Sincerely,
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`/s/ Ricardo Bonilla
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`Ricardo Bonilla
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`Counsel for Apple Inc.
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`Reference
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`Kanamori
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`McCowan
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`Elko
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`List of Prior Art References
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`Details
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`U.S. Patent Publication No. 2004/0185804 to Kanamori et al.,
`filed November 18, 2003, and published September 23, 2004
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`Iain A. McCowan et al., Near-field Adaptive Beamformer for
`Robust Speech Recognition, 12 Digital Signal Processing 87-
`106 (2002); published in January 2002
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`U.S. Patent No. 8,942,387 to Elko et al., claims priority to
`international application PCT/US2007/006093, filed March 9,
`2007
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