UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,
`SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC., and
`GOOGLE LLC,
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`Petitioners
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`v.
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`RYAN HARDIN and ANDREW HILL,
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`Patent Owners.
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`Case IPR2022-1327
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`U.S. Patent No. 10,049,387
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`Petition for Inter Partes Review of
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`U.S. Patent No. 10,049,387
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,
`SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC., and
`GOOGLE LLC,
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`Petitioners
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`v.
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`RYAN HARDIN and ANDREW HILL,
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`Patent Owners.
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`Case IPR2022-1327
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`U.S. Patent No. 10,049,387
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`Petition for Inter Partes Review of
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`U.S. Patent No. 10,049,387
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`Table of Contents
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`INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 1
`I.
`GROUNDS FOR STANDING ........................................................................ 2
`II.
`STATEMENT OF PRECISE RELIEF REQUESTED ................................... 3
`III.
`IV. OVERVIEW OF THE ’387 PATENT ............................................................ 3
`A.
`The Shared Specification ...................................................................... 3
`B.
`Prosecution History .............................................................................10
`1.
`The ’094 Application ................................................................13
`2.
`The ’392 Application ................................................................13
`3.
`The ’204 Application ................................................................15
`4.
`The ’285 Application ................................................................17
`5.
`The ’961 Application ................................................................18
`6.
`The ’786 Application ................................................................19
`OVERVIEW OF THE PRIOR ART REFERENCES ...................................20
`A.
`Hardin ’665 .........................................................................................20
`B.
`Salmre ..................................................................................................20
`LEVEL OF ORDINARY SKILL IN THE ART ...........................................21
`VI.
`VII. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ..........................................................................21
`VIII. DETAILED EXPLANATION OF GROUNDS ............................................22
`A.
`The ’387 Patent Claims Are Not Supported by the Disclosure of the
`’094 or ’392 Application .....................................................................22
`The ’387 Patent’s Priority Date ...........................................................27
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`B.
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`X.
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`IX.
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`Hardin ’665 in View of Salmre Renders Claims 1-9 and 29-30
`Obvious................................................................................................28
`POSAs WOULD HAVE BEEN MOTIVATED TO COMBINE HARDIN
`’665 AND SALMRE ......................................................................................63
`PTAB DISCRETION UNDER 35 U.S.C. §314(a) SHOULD NOT
`PRECLUDE INSTITUTION ........................................................................69
`XI. MANDATORY NOTICES UNDER 37 C.F.R. §42.8 ..................................71
`A.
`Real Parties-in-Interest ........................................................................71
`B.
`Related Matters ....................................................................................72
`C.
`Lead and Backup Counsel ...................................................................73
`D.
`Service Information .............................................................................73
`E.
`Power of Attorney ...............................................................................73
`XII. FEES ..............................................................................................................73
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`PETITIONERS’ EXHIBIT LIST
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`DESCRIPTION
`U.S. Patent No. 10,049,387
`File History of U.S. Patent No. 10,049,387 (Application No.
`15/694,786)
`Declaration of David H. Williams
`Curriculum Vitae of David H. Williams
`U.S. Patent Publication No. US 2010/0279665 A1 (“Hardin
`’665”)
`U.S. Patent Publication No. US 2006/0116817 A1 (“Salmre”)
`U.S. Patent No. 8,433,296 (“the ’296 patent”)
`File History of U.S. Patent No. 8,433,296 (Application No.
`12/434,094)
`U.S. Patent No. 8,977,247 (“the ’247 patent”)
`File History of U.S. Patent No. 8,977,247 (Application No.
`13/856,392)
`U.S. Patent No. 9,286,625 (“the ’625 patent”)
`File History of U.S. Patent No. 9,286,625 (Application No.
`14/608,285)
`U.S. Patent Publication No. US 2014/0279018 A1 (“the ’018
`publication”)
`File History of U.S. Patent Application No. 14/292,204 (“the
`’204 application”)
`U.S. Patent No. 9,779,418
`File History of U.S. Patent No. 9,779,418 (Application No.
`15/009,961)
`USPTO Memo: Interim Procedure for Discretionary Denials in
`AIA Post-Grant Proceedings with Parallel District Court
`Litigation, June 21, 2022
`Complaint – Hardin et al. v. Samsung Elecs. Co., Ltd. et al.,
`2:21-cv-00290-JRG, ECF No. 1 (E.D. Tex. July 30, 2021)
`Return of Service – Hardin et al. v. Samsung Elecs. Co., Ltd. et
`al., 2:21-cv-00290-JRG, ECF No. 4 (E.D. Tex. Aug. 9, 2021)
`United States District Courts – National Judicial Caseload
`Profile, https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/
`fcms_na_distprofile0331.2022.pdf (last visited July 26, 2022)
`Plaintiffs’ Objections And Response To Defendants’ Second
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`Exhibit No.
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`1002
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`1004
`1005
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`1006
`1007
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`DESCRIPTION
`Set Of Interrogatories To Plaintiff, Hardin et al. v. Samsung
`Elecs. Co., Ltd. et al., 2:21-cv-00290-JRG, served July 1, 2022
`Geofencing, Techopedia,
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`Notification as a General-Purpose Service, Proceedings of the
`2nd International Workshop on Mobile Commerce 40 (2002)
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`loc.com/what_locating.html (last visited July 26, 2022)
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,164,986
`U.S. Patent No. 8,536,999
`U.S. Patent Publication No. US 2008/0094256 A1
`Plaintiffs’ Claim Construction Brief – Hardin et al. v. Samsung
`Elecs. Co., Ltd. et al., 2:21-cv-00290-JRG, ECF 58 (E.D. Tex.
`July 8, 2022)
`Defendants’ Claim Construction Brief – Hardin et al. v.
`Samsung Elecs. Co., Ltd. et al., 2:21-cv-00290-JRG, ECF 67
`(E.D. Tex. July 25, 2022)
`U.S. Patent No. 8,010,134
`U.S. Patent No. 10,380,636
`Letter from Andrew Trask to Rex Mann, dated August 2022
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`LISTING OF CHALLENGED CLAIMS
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`Claim Limitation
`Claim 1
`A mobile device comprising:
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`memory;
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`at least one processor operably coupled to the memory;
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`a location-determination component; and
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`at least one module configured for execution by the at least one
`processor, wherein the at least one module comprises at least one
`instruction for:
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`receiving, from an application program during its execution in the
`mobile device, one or more requests to reserve at least one selected
`geographic area of interest, wherein the at least one selected
`geographic area of interest in each of the one or more requests is
`being requested via said application program to be reserved for
`having a particular identifier associated with the at least one
`selected geographic area of interest provided to said application
`program
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`after it has been determined, by at least use of the at least one
`processor and of location information representing at least one
`physical geographic location of the mobile device as determined
`by the location-determination component, that the mobile device
`has at least entered the at least one selected geographic area of
`interest, and
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`wherein each of the one or more requests comprises data
`representing a) said particular identifier, represented by a data
`string, as content provided via said application program to be
`associated with the at least one selected geographic area of interest,
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`b) at least one latitude value, at least one longitude value, and at
`least one radius value, each being provided via said application
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`Reference
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`[1.pre]
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`[1.a]
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`[1.b]
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`[1.c]
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`[1.d]
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`[1.e]
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`[1.f]
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`[1.g]
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`program, to be used for establishing a perimeter boundary for the
`at least one selected geographic area of interest, and c) information
`specifying at least one area bound by the perimeter boundary as the
`at least one selected geographic area of interest;
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`registering said application program, in the memory, for having
`said particular identifier provided to said application program after
`it has been determined, by at least use of the at least one processor
`and of the location information, that the mobile device has at least
`entered the at least one selected geographic area of interest;
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`storing, in the memory, at least one record, for said application
`program, associated with said particular identifier and the at least
`one selected geographic area of interest;
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`obtaining the location information representing at least one
`physical geographic location of the mobile device as determined
`by the location-determination component; and
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`after it has been determined, by at least use of the at least one
`processor, of the location information, and of the at least one
`selected geographic area of interest associated with the at least one
`record stored in the memory for said application program, that the
`mobile device has at least entered the at least one selected
`geographic area of interest associated with the at least one record
`stored in the memory and has remained therein for at least a
`designated length of time,
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`[1.i]
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`[1.j]
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`[1.k]
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`[1.l]
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`[1.m]
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`providing at least said particular identifier associated with the at
`least one record stored in the memory to said application program.
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`Claim 2
`The mobile device of claim 1 wherein the at least one module
`further comprises at least one instruction for:
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`[2.pre]
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`determining, by at least use of the at least one processor, of the
`location information, and of the at least one selected geographic
`area of interest associated with the at least one record stored in the
`memory for said application program, that the mobile device has at
`least entered the at least one selected geographic area of interest
`associated with the at least one record stored in the memory and
`has remained therein for at least the designated length of time.
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`Claim 3
`The mobile device of claim 2 wherein:
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`storing the at least one record includes storing the at least one
`record after availability for the at least one selected geographic
`area of interest to be reserved per each of the one or more requests
`has been positively determined; and
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`the at least one module further comprises at least one instruction
`for: determining availability for the at least one selected
`geographic area of interest to be reserved for said application
`program.
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`[2.a]
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`[3.pre]
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`[3.a]
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`[3.b]
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`Claim 4
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`[4.pre]
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`The mobile device of claim 2 wherein the at least one module
`further comprises at least one instruction for:
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`[4.a]
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`after providing at least said particular identifier associated with the
`at least one record stored in the memory to said application
`program, displaying, on the mobile device via a graphical user
`interface tangibly embodied by the mobile device and via said
`application program, content related to the at least one selected
`geographic area of interest.
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`Claim 5
`The mobile device of claim 2 wherein the at least one module
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`[5.pre]
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`further comprises at least one instruction for:
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`creating a notification indicating that the mobile device has at least
`entered the at least one selected geographic area of interest
`associated with the at least one record stored in the memory.
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`Claim 6
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`[6.pre]
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`[6.a]
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`The mobile device of claim 2 wherein the at least one module
`further comprises at least one instruction for:
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`receiving a data value representing the designated length of time.
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`[7.pre]
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`The mobile device of claim 2
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`Claim 7
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`[7.a]
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`[8.pre]
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`[8.a]
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`wherein the at least one instruction for receiving, from an
`application program during its execution in the mobile device, one
`or more requests to reserve at least one selected geographic area of
`interest includes being at least one instruction for receiving, from
`at least one other application program during its execution in the
`mobile device, one or more other requests to reserve at least one
`other selected geographic area of interest.
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`Claim 8
`The mobile device of claim 7 wherein the at least one module
`further comprises at least one instruction for:
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`using the at least one selected geographic area of interest with said
`particular identifier to establish, in the memory, the at least one
`selected geographic area of interest in each of the one or more
`requests as an area reserved for content related to said application
`program and not an area reserved for content related to the at least
`one other application program.
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`[9.a]
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`Claim 9
`The mobile device of claim 6 wherein the at least one module
`further comprises at least one instruction for:
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`providing at least said particular identifier associated with the at
`least one record stored in the memory to said application program
`after it has been determined, by at least use of the at least one
`processor, of the location information, and of the at least one
`selected geographic area of interest associated with the at least one
`record stored in the memory for said application program, that the
`mobile device, following a designated start time and during a
`designated duration of time, has at least entered the at least one
`selected geographic area of interest and has remained therein for at
`least the designated length of time; and
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`[9.b]
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`receiving a data value representing the designated duration of time.
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`[29.pre]
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`[29.a]
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`Claim 29
`The mobile device of claim 3 wherein the at least one module
`further comprises at least one instruction for:
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`after providing at least said particular identifier associated with the
`at least one record stored in the memory to said application
`program, displaying, on the mobile device via a graphical user
`interface tangibly embodied by the mobile device and via said
`application program, content related to the at least one selected
`geographic area of interest.
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`Claim 30
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`[30.pre]
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`The mobile device of claim 29 wherein:
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`[30.a]
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`the at least one instruction for receiving, from an application
`program during its execution in the mobile device, one or more
`requests to reserve at least one selected geographic area of interest
`includes being at least one instruction for receiving, from at least
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`one other application program during its execution in the mobile
`device, one or more other requests to reserve at least one other
`selected geographic area of interest; and
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`the at least one module further comprises at least one instruction
`for: using the at least one selected geographic area of interest with
`said particular identifier to establish, in the memory, the at least
`one selected geographic area of interest in each of the one or more
`requests as an area reserved for content related to said application
`program and not an area reserved for content related to the at least
`one other application program.
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`[30.b]
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`INTRODUCTION
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`This Petition presents a compelling case of obviousness based on the broken
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`priority chain of Patent 10,049,387 (“’387 patent”). As explained, although the
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`’387 patent purports to claim priority to an application filed in 2009, that
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`application provides no written description support for a critical limitation found in
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`every claim of the ’387 patent. Specifically, each independent claim requires “[a]
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`mobile device comprising…at least one module…compris[ing] at least one
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`instruction for receiving, from an application program during its execution in the
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`mobile device, one or more requests to reserve” a geographic location. The 2009
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`application, however, discloses receiving such a request only from a “sponsor”—
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`which is disclosed as an entirely separate entity not located on the mobile device.
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`An examiner of an intermediate application in the purported priority chain
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`recognized precisely this issue. Following a claim amendment attempting to
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`conflate the “application program” and the “sponsor,” the examiner rejected the
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`claims based on, inter alia, §112. As the examiner pointed out, the specification
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`contained no support for the notion of the “sponsor” and the “application program”
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`being one and the same; rather, as the examiner explained, the application
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`developer and sponsor are “two different parties.” (EX1014, 90-91.) Patent
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`Owners (“POs”) never responded to that §112 rejection, and instead abandoned the
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`application and pursued the subject matter in a later-filed application before a
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`different examiner.
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`The inability of the ’387 patent to claim priority to the 2009 application is
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`fatal to the validity of its claims. The 2009 application was published in 2010 as
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`Hardin ’665—a patent publication with an identical specification as the ’387
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`patent. The next application in the chain leading to the ’387 patent, meanwhile,
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`was not filed until 2013. Thus, because the ’387 patent is not entitled to its 2009
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`priority date, Hardin ’665 is necessarily prior art.
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`Unsurprisingly, Hardin ’665 discloses nearly all of what the ’387 patent
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`claims. And the missing claim limitation—namely, receiving, on a mobile device,
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`a request from an application program on the mobile device—is supplied expressly
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`by Salmre, a 2006 patent publication. Together, Hardin ’665 and Salmre present a
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`compelling case for obviousness of the challenged claims.
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`Accordingly, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics America,
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`Inc., and Google LLC (“Petitioners”) request inter partes review (“IPR”) of claims
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`1-9 and 29-30 of the ’387 patent.1
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`II. GROUNDS FOR STANDING
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`Petitioners certify that the ’387 patent is available for IPR, and that
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`1 Together with two concurrently filed petitions, Petitioners request IPR of ’387
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`patent claims 1-34.
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`Petitioners are not barred or estopped from requesting this review of the challenged
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`claims. Petitioners file this Petition within one year of service of POs’ complaint
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`against Petitioners. (EX1019.)
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`III.
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`STATEMENT OF PRECISE RELIEF REQUESTED
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`Petitioners respectfully request review and cancellation under 35 U.S.C.
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`§311 of claims 1-9 and 29-30 in view of:
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`Prior Art
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`2010/0279665 (“Hardin ’665”), published 11/4/2010; prior art under AIA 35
`U.S.C. §102(a)(1) (EX1005)
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`2006/0116817 (“Salmre”), published 6/1/2006; prior art under AIA 35 U.S.C.
`§102(a)(1) (EX1006)
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`Ground
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`Claims
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`Basis
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`1-9, 29-30
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`Obviousness based on Hardin ’665 in view of Salmre.
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`IV. OVERVIEW OF THE ’387 PATENT
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`A.
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`The Shared Specification
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`The ’387 patent issued on 8/14/2018, from Application 15/694,786.
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`(EX1001.) The ’387 patent purports to claim priority through a series of
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`applications to Application 12/434,094 (“’094 application”) (which published as
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`Hardin ’665), filed 5/1/2009. (Id.) The ’387 patent and each of the purported
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`priority applications share the same specification. (EX1001; EX1007; EX1009;
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`EX1011; EX1013; EX1015.)
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`The specification describes a system that uses a centralized “content delivery
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`platform” for registering applications on a mobile device for content delivery.
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`(EX1001, Abstract.) The operator of the content delivery platform establishes
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`geographic areas, which a sponsor can reserve via the content delivery platform for
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`delivery of content associated with that sponsor to a particular application on the
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`mobile device. (Id., Abstract, 1:61-65.) When the mobile device enters a
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`sponsor’s reserved geographic area, the content delivery platform delivers that
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`sponsor’s content to the application on the mobile device. (Id., Abstract, 2:2-5.)
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`According to the specification, “sponsors” can (i) reserve geographic areas, and (ii)
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`provide “advertisements or other content controlled by the sponsor” to the content
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`delivery platform for later delivery to mobile devices. (See, e.g., EX1001, 3:10-16,
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`9:13-15.)
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`Figure 1 of the ’387 patent illustrates the architecture of the system
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`originally disclosed in the ’094 application (and published as Hardin ’665),
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`including a content delivery platform (in red), a developer (in green), sponsors (in
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`yellow), and mobile devices (in blue):
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`(Id., FIG. 1 (annotated).) The specification explains:
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`System 100 can provide for exclusive delivery of
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`advertising or other content to registered applications
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`running on mobile devices located within a particular
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`proximity to a reserved geographic area…. Content
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`delivery platform 112 receives a request from developer
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`platform 108 to register a program or other application
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`for use on mobile devices. Content delivery platform
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`112 can use the registered application program to provide
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`selected content to mobile devices.
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`(Id., 3:17-29; see also id., 9:58-10:2, 10:7-10.) The specification explains that a
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`sponsor can reserve geographic areas by sending requests to the content delivery
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`platform:
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`Sponsor A 121, sponsor C 123, or sponsor B 125 can
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`reserve an exclusive interest in a particular geographic
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`area by sending a request to content delivery platform
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`112.… The request can also include time limitations,
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`limitations based on the length of time a mobile device
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`remains within a given geographic area, or other desired
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`limitations.
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`(Id., 3:40-51; see also id., FIG. 4 (“Receive Sponsor’s request for selected area”),
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`2:27-36 (“the content delivery system reserves exclusive interests in geographic
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`areas for particular sponsors based on the sponsors’ requests”), 3:6-16 (“Sponsors
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`can reserve an exclusive interest, or in some embodiments a semi-exclusive
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`interest, in a geographic area….”), 3:30-39 (“a geographical area reserved by one
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`or more of the sponsors.”), 9:3-6 (“a method 400 for allowing sponsors to reserve
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`particular geographic areas”), 9:13-15 (“These geographic areas are areas the
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`sponsor wishes to reserve….”), 9:36-51 (“a sponsor’s request for a selected area
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`is received”).)2 The specification further explains that “the sponsor can establish
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`perimeters defining geographic areas” or the geographic areas may be predefined.
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`(Id., 9:11-35.)
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`The architecture described in the specification includes “sponsors” that
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`communicate with content delivery platform 112. (Id., 3:40-51.) Each sponsor
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`can reserve with the content delivery platform geographic areas for content
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`delivery to mobile devices when the device “physically enters or remains within
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`the sponsor’s reserved area for a desired length of time.” (Id., 4:13-5:29, 9:52-
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`10:2; see also id., 2:15-26.) The delivered content can include advertisements, still
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`images, animations, videos, audio, alphanumeric identifiers, or other content. (Id.)
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`Importantly, nothing in the specification indicates that the geographic area is
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`reserved by an application running on the mobile device. (EX1003, ¶¶68, 105-
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`110.) Indeed, there is no reference to any entity other than a sponsor reserving a
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`geographic area. (Id.) That is, there is no disclosure of a registered application
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`running on a mobile device requesting to reserve a geographic area.
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`Figure 2 depicts a user of registered application 231 located within a first
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`sponsor’s reserved area 207 and an object of interest 233 located in a second
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`sponsor’s reserved area 205:
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`(EX1001, FIG. 2, 5:52-56.) Although Figure 2 shows that registered application
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`231 sends “request 213” to content delivery platform 212, request 213 is a request
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`for content, not a request to reserve a geographic area. (Id., 6:4-35; see also id.,
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`1:65-2:2, 11:54-57.) Further, request 213 may include “information indicating the
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`location of object of interest 233, a request for content, information indicating the
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`location of registered application 231, information indicating the identity of the
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`registered application 231, and a previously received request identifier.” (Id., 6:6-
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`12.) Nothing in the specification discloses that an application program can request
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`to reserve a geographic area. (EX1003, ¶¶70, 106-108.)
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`In addition, the specification describes the content delivery platform as a
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`separate component that is remote from the mobile device. (EX1001, 12:1-21
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`(“[T]he mobile device can forward information associated with a target location
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`to the content delivery platform, or the content delivery server can obtain location
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`information from a third party application or device…or otherwise.”); see also id.,
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`FIGs. 1-3, 3:30-34 (“a registered application program is provided to mobile
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`devices by developer platform 108, content delivery platform 112…”), 11:46-49
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`(“a method of interaction between a mobile device and a content providing
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`platform”), 11:66-12:1 (“[A] session can be initiated between the application on
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`the mobile device, and the content delivery platform.”).) For example, the
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`specification explains that the content delivery platform communicates with
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`multiple mobile devices (and therefore cannot be hosted on the mobile devices).
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`(Id., FIG. 3, 7:12-35; see also id., 10:3-19 (“[M]ultiple devices may execute copies
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`of the same registered application…and multiple different registered applications
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`may be executed on multiple devices.”).) The specification also explains that the
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`content delivery platform communicates with mobile devices via the internet and
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`communication towers. (Id., FIG. 1, 3:52-4:12 (“System 100 can include a
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`network, for example Internet 131, through which content delivery platform 112,
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`can communicate to other networked devices; and communication towers
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`144….”).) POSAs would have understood that if the content delivery platform
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`was on the same mobile device as the registered application, then it would not need
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`to communicate with the mobile device via the internet or communication towers.
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`(EX1003, ¶¶113-115.)
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`Indeed, the specification explains that the content delivery platform “may be
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`implemented in a processing system executing a set of instructions stored in
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`memory, or on a removable computer readable medium,” such as that shown in
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`Figure 7. (EX1001, 13:3-18; see also id., FIG. 7, 2:38-44.) POSAs would have
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`understood that such a generic statement, especially when made in the context of
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`the entire specification, does not provide any teaching that the content delivery
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`platform is implemented on a mobile device. (EX1003, ¶116.) Moreover, the
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`specification explains that the content delivery platform can be implemented in
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`hardware and/or software. (EX1001, 13:44-53.) Nothing in the specification
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`discloses a content delivery platform implemented on the same mobile device as
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`the registered application programs. (EX1003, ¶¶111-118.)
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`B.
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`Prosecution History
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`To demonstrate why the ’387 patent’s priority date is no earlier than
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`1/29/2015, and not the 5/1/2009 filing date of its ultimate parent application, a
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`discussion of the prosecution histories of the application chain is necessary. The
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`’387 patent was filed on 9/2/2017, as Application 15/694,786 (“’786 application”).
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`(EX1001, Cover.) The ’387 patent was filed as a continuation of Application
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`15/009,961 (“’961 application”), which was filed 1/29/2016, and issued as Patent
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`9,779,418 (EX1015) (“’418 patent”). (EX1002, 11.) The ’418 patent was filed as
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`a continuation of Application 14/608,285 (“’285 application”), which was filed
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`1/29/2015 and issued as Patent 9,286,625 (EX1011) (“’625 patent”). (Id.) The
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`’625 patent was filed as a continuation of Application 13/856,392 (“’392
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`application”), which was filed 4/3/2013 and issued as Patent 8,977,247 (EX1009)
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`(“’247 patent”). (Id.) The ’247 patent was filed as a continuation of the ’094
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`application, which was filed 5/1/2009, published as Hardin ’665 on 11/4/2010, and
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`issued as Patent 8,433,296 (EX1007) (“’296 patent”). (Id.) In addition,
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`Application 14/292,204 (“’204 application”) was filed as a division of the ’392
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`application, but was later abandoned. (EX1013.) This is the ’387 patent’s family
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`tree3:
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`3 Petitioners have also filed IPR petitions challenging the parent and child
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`applications of the ’387 patent.
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`Appl. 12/434,094
`Patent 8,433,296
`Filed 5/1/09
`Issued 4/30/13
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`Appl. 13/856,392
`Patent 8,977,247
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`Filed 4/3/13
`Issued 3/10/15
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`Appl. 14/292,204
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`Filed 5/30/2014
`Aband 2/23/17
`Examiner Nguyen
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`Appl. 14/608,285
`Patent 9,286,625
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`Filed 1/29/15
`Issued 3/15/16
`Examiner Akonai
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`Appl. 15/009,961
`Patent 9,779,418
`CON
`Filed 1/29/16
`Issued 10/3/17
`Examiner Akonai
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`Appl. 15/694,786
`Patent 10,049,387
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`Filed 9/2/17
`Issued 8/14/18
`Examiner Akonai
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`Appl. 16/019,285
`Patent 10,984,447
`CON
`Filed 6/26/18
`Issued 4/20/21
`Examiner Akonai
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`Appl. 17/182,809
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`Filed 2/23/21
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`1.
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`The ’094 Application
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`The first application in the chain, the ’094 application, was filed 5/1/2009
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`and published as Hardin ’665 on 11/4/2010. As-filed claim 1 recited, inter alia,
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`“reserving respective ones of the plurality of geographic areas for delivery of
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`content associated with respective ones of a plurality of sponsors.” (EX1008, 37.)
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`As-filed independent claims 8 and 15 included similar limitations. (Id., 38-40.)
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`Thus, the as-filed independent claims of the ’094 application did not recite which
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`entity (e.g., sponsors, application programs) submits requests to reserve geographic
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`areas. As-filed dependent claims 5, 12, and 19, however, recited “receiving, from
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`a sponsor, a request to obtain an interest in a selected one of the plurality of
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`geographic areas.” (Id., 38-41.)
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`When the ’094 application later issued as the ’296 patent, claim 1 recited
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`“receiving, from a sponsor, a request to obtain an interest in a selected one of the
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`plurality of geographic areas.” (EX1007.) Similarly, independent claims 6 and 11
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`recite an “instruction to receive, from a sponsor, a request to obtain an interest in a
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`selected one of the plurality of geographic areas.” (Id.) The claims do not recite
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`receiving, from an application program, a request to reserve or obtain an interest
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`in a geographic area. (EX1003, ¶¶74-79.)
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`2.
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`The ’392 Application
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`The next application in the chain, the ’392 application, was filed on 4/3/2013
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`and issued as the ’247 patent. Like the ’094 application, the as-filed independent
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`claims of the ’392 application did not specify the entity submitting requests to
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`reserve a geographic area. (EX1010, 26-30.) In contrast, certain dependent claims
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`recited “receiving, from a sponsor, a request to obtain an interest in a selected one
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`of the plurality of geographic areas.” (Id., 26, 29-30.)
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`In response to a rejection, POs amended claim 1 to recite, inter alia,
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`“receiving” such requests “from one or more sponsors.” (Id., 114-15.) POs also
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`amended certain dependent claims to recite “the one or more sponsors is at least
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`one of the one or more instances of the application program.” (Id., 116, 119-20,
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`123.) POs argued that t
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