`FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
`WACO DIVISION
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`No. 1:20–CV–351–ADA
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`Jury Trial Demanded
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`Plaintiff,
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`STC.UNM,
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`vs.
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`Apple Inc.,
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` Defendant.
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`CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER
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`The Court held a telephonic Markman hearing on April 3, 2020 and a telephonic
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`supplemental Markman hearing on April 8, 2020. During the hearings, the Court provided the
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`below constructions. The Court will enter a Memorandum in Support of this Order shortly.
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`’204 Patent
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`Agreed Constructions:
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`Term
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`Agreed Construction
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`“a plurality of channel taps”
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`“at least two samples of a channel response at different time
`delays”
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`“channel responses”
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`“communication channels’ responses in the time domain to
`transmitted signals”
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`Claim Construction Rulings:
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`Term
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`Whether the preambles for all
`asserted claims are limiting
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`Court’s Construction
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`Each preamble is limiting
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`– 1 –
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`AUSTIN DIVISION
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`Exhibit 1005
`Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364
`Page 1 of 3
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`’096 Patent
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`Agreed Constructions:
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`Term
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`Agreed Construction
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`“at least one of […] and […]” “[…] and/or […]”
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`“symbol period”
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`“the time it takes to transmit one symbol”
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`Claim Construction Rulings:
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`Term
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`Whether the preambles for all
`asserted claims are limiting
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`“frame structure”
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`“symbol”
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`Court’s Construction
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`Each preamble is limiting
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`“a single structure comprising one or more frames, wherein
`each frame may have one or more subframes”
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`Plain-and-ordinary meaning, wherein the plain-and-ordinary
`meaning means “a transmissible unit of information”
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`“pilot symbols that are denser
`than”
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`“more pilot symbols per unit time than, wherein a unit time is
`the symbol period of the first communication system”
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`“[first & second]
`communication system”
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`“wherein the first
`communication system’s
`symbols and the second
`communication system’s
`symbols co-exist in one
`transmission scheme”
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`“data” / “non-data”
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`Construction for communication system: Plain-and-
`ordinary meaning, where the plain-and-ordinary meaning is
`“a combination of hardware and software that transmits and
`receives data according to one or more communications
`standards”
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`Plain-and-ordinary meaning where the plain-and-ordinary
`meaning is “wherein symbols of the first communication
`system and symbols of the second communication system
`exist together in one transmission scheme”
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`Data: Plain-and-ordinary meaning
`Non-data: Plain-and-ordinary meaning
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`“support higher mobility
`than”
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`Not indefinite. “support higher relative velocity between a
`transmitter and a receiver than”
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`– 2 –
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`Exhibit 1005
`Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364
`Page 2 of 3
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`’326 Patent
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`Agreed Constructions:
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`Term
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`Agreed Construction
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`“with a variable length related
`to a modulation order and a
`number of transmissions”
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`Claim Construction Rulings:
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`Term
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`Whether the preambles for all
`asserted claims are limiting
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`“circular shift”
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`“with a variable length that is related to both modulation
`order and a number of transmissions”
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`Court’s Construction
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`Each preamble is limiting
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`“an operation that moves a sequence of bits from one end of
`an ordered group of bits to the other end”
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`SIGNED this 9th day of April, 2020.
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`ALAN D ALBRIGHT
`UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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`– 3 –
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`Exhibit 1005
`Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364
`Page 3 of 3
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