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`Peter S. Veregge (SBN 155,769)
`peter@cislo.com
`CISLO & THOMAS LLP
`2829 Townsgate Road, Suite 330
`Westlake Village, CA 91361
`Telephone: 805-496-1164
`Telefax: 805-435-8446
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`Michael N. Rader (admitted pro hac vice)
`mrader@wolfgreenfield.com
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`WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C.
`605 Third Avenue, 25th Floor
`New York, NY 10158
`212.697.7890 Phone | 617.646.8646 Fax
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`Counsel for Defendants Sony Group
`Corporation, Sony Corporation
`of America, Sony Interactive Entertainment
`LLC, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.,
`and Sony Electronics Inc.
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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`MZ AUDIO SCIENCES, LLC,
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`v.
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`SONY GROUP CORPORATION
`(JAPAN), SONY CORPORATION OF
`AMERICA, SONY INTERACTIVE
`ENTERTAINMENT LLC, SONY
`PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC.,
`and SONY ELECTRONICS INC.,
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`Case No. 2:22-cv-00866 AB (PDx)
`DEFENDANTS’ SOTERA
`WIRELESS STIPULATION
`REGARDING INVALIDITY
`CONTENTIONS
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`Plaintiff,
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`Defendants.
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`Sony Exhibit 1057
`Sony v. MZ Audio
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`Defendants Sony Group Corporation, Sony Corporation of America, Sony
`Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., and Sony
`Electronics Inc. (collectively, “Defendants” or “Sony”) submit this stipulation
`regarding invalidity contentions.
`On September 23, 2022, Sony filed petition number IPR2022-01544 with
`the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) requesting inter partes review
`(“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 7,289,961 (“the ’961 patent”). Petition IPR2022-01544
`asserts the following three grounds of unpatentability:
`IPR Ground Claims
`Grounds of Unpatentability
`1
`1-10
`Obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over U.S.
`Patent No. 6,272,176 (“Srinivasan”), in view of
`Richard C. Cabot et al., “Detection of phase shifts in
`harmonically related tones,” in Journal of the Audio
`Engineering Society, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 568-571
`(Sept. 1976) (“Cabot”), and in further view of PCT
`Publication No. WO 01/58063 (“Kudumakis”).
`Obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Srinivasan,
`in view of Cabot, and in further view of Kudumakis
`and U.S. Patent No. 6,633,653 (“Hobson”).
`Obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over
`Kudumakis, in view of John F. Tilki et al.,
`“Encoding a hidden auxiliary channel onto a digital
`audio signal using psychoacoustic masking,” in
`Proceedings IEEE SOUTHEASTCON ’97.
`‘Engineering the New Century,’ pp. 331-333 (1997)
`(“Tilki”), and in further view of Cabot.
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`2-3, 5, 7-
`8, 10
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`1-10
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`Sony hereby stipulates that if the PTAB institutes IPR2022-01544, then
`Sony will not argue in this case that the claims of the ’961 patent are invalid in
`view of the grounds Sony either raised or could reasonably have raised in
`IPR2022-01544.
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`Dated: September 23, 2022 By: /s/ Michael N. Rader
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`Peter S. Veregge
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`CISLO & THOMAS LLP
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`2829 Townsgate Road, Suite 330
` Westlake Village, CA 91361
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`805.496.1164 | 805.435.8446 Fax
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` Michael N. Rader (admitted pro hac vice)
` mrader@wolfgreenfield.com
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` WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C.
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`605 Third Avenue, 25th Floor
` New York, NY 10158
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`212.697.7890 Phone | 617.646.8646 Fax
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`Randy J. Pritzker (admitted pro hac vice)
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`rpritzker@wolfgreenfield.com
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`Charles T. Steenburg (admitted pro hac vice)
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`csteenburg@wolfgreenfield.com
` Alexandra K. Kim (admitted pro hac vice)
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`akim@wolfgreenfield.com
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`Jie Xiang (admitted pro hac vice)
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`jxiang@wolfgreenfield.com
` WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C.
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`600 Atlantic Avenue
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`Boston, MA 02210
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`617.646.8000 Phone | 617.646.8646 Fax
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`Counsel for Defendants Sony Group
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`Corporation, Sony Corporation of
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`America, Sony Interactive Entertainment
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`LLC, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., and
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`Sony Electronics Inc.
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