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`DECLARATION OF JAMES L. LANSFORD, Ph.D.
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.,
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`DECLARATION OF JAMES L. LANSFORD, Ph.D.
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`I, James L. Lansford, declare as follows:
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`I submit this Declaration at the request of Panasonic Automotive
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`Systems Co., Ltd. for consideration by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in inter
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`partes review proceedings.
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`I reside in Florissant, Colorado.
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`I am over eighteen years of age, and I would otherwise be competent
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`to testify as to the matters set forth herein if I am called upon to do so.
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`I am being reimbursed for my time spent on drafting this Declaration
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`and on collecting any factual information included in this Declaration. I am being
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`reimbursed for my time at a rate of $700 per hour, which is my standard consulting
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`rate that I would otherwise collect when working on other professional matters. I
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`am also being reimbursed for any reasonable expenses that I may incur during the
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`preparation of this Declaration. Any reimbursement I may receive is not
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`contingent upon the substance of my testimony, or the outcome of any proceeding
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`involving the challenged patent or patents. I have no financial interest in the
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`outcome of this matter or in any litigation involving the challenged patent or
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`patents.
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`5.
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`I have held numerous leadership positions in IEEE 802 over the last
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`25 years, including:
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`a. Founding Chair, IEEE 802.19 Coexistence Working Group. In this
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`role, I was a member of the Sponsor Executive Committee (SEC), the
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`leadership team for all of IEEE 802 (including 802.11, 802.3, and
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`802.15, among others).
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`b. Vice-chair, IEEE 802.15.2 Wi-Fi Bluetooth Coexistence Technical
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`Group.
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`c. Chair, IEEE 802.11 DSRC Coexistence Tiger Team.
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`d. Chair, IEEE 802.11 Wireless Next Generation Standing Committee.
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`The IEEE 802.11 WNG SC is the incubator for all new activity in
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`802.11; individuals bring forward proposals for new standards
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`activities and if there is sufficient support, a motion is brought
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`forward to the Working Group to start a Study Group. Once the Study
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`Group completes work on the formal proposal and gets approval from
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`IEEE Standards Association (“IEEE-SA”) to begin a new amendment,
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`a Task Group is formed to begin work writing a standard. The well-
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`known amendments 802.11n (Wi-Fi 4), 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5), 802.11ax
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`(Wi-Fi 6), and 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) all started out as presentations in
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`WNG.
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`6.
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`I was employed as Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of
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`Business Development by Mobilian Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon from
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`February 2000 to November 2003. During my tenure at Mobilian, I was
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`responsible for, among other things, strategy and tactics with respect to standard-
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`setting bodies, including the IEEE, the Bluetooth special interest group, the
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`European Telecommunication Standards Institute’s Broadband Radio Access
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`Network group (ETSI/BRAN), the Software Defined Radio forum, and the Wi-Fi
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`Alliance (formerly known as WECA). While I was at Mobilian, I regularly
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`attended meetings of the IEEE 802.11 and 802.15 Working Groups and was an
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`active contributor, having posted and presented several documents to both the
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`802.11 and 802.15 Working Groups.
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`7.
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`I regularly accessed and reviewed documents that were submitted by
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`members of both the 802.11 and 802.15 working groups, including through the
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`IEEE’s 802wirelessworld website discussed below. In addition, during this period,
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`I was the founding Chair of the IEEE 802.19 Coexistence Working Group, which
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`gave me automatic membership in the IEEE 802 Sponsor Executive Committee
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`(SEC), the group that oversees all working group activities in IEEE 802.
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`8.
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`During this period, the IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.18, and 802.19
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`Working Groups collaborated closely, including by holding meetings on the same
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`dates and in the same venue, where attendees of any Working Group could and
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`often did attend meetings of other Working Groups, by sharing the
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`802wirelessworld document server and website discussed below, and by awarding
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`cross credit across Working Groups, for attending sessions of any of the Working
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`Groups, for purposes of gaining or maintaining voting privileges.
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`9.
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`I was employed as Chief Technology Officer of Alereon, Inc. in
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`Austin, Texas from November 2003 to February 2010. During my tenure at
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`Alereon, I was responsible for, among other things, defining and executing on the
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`company’s standards and regulatory strategy. During that time, I was also the co-
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`chair of the IEEE 802.15.3a Task Group, chair of the WiMedia Technical Steering
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`Committee, co-chair of the WiMedia 60GHz Study Group, chair of the WiMedia
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`Mobile Applications Study Group, Vice-Chair of the WiMedia Video Study
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`Group, and a member of various other related boards and working groups.
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`10. During this period, the meetings of the 802.11 and 802.15 Working
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`Groups continued to be held at the same times and places, the 802.11 and 802.15
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`Working Groups continued sharing document servers and websites (including
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`initially the 802wirelessworld server and website and later the Mentor server and
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`website discussed below), and the Working Groups continued allowing cross credit
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`for attendance.
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`11. The IEEE 802.11 and 802.15 Working Groups were also formally
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`coordinated via a liaison.1 Because of my role as an 802.15 co-chair, I attended
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`1 For example, see https://mentor.ieee.org/802.15/dcn/05/15-05-0473-00-0000-tgn-
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`every such meeting from 2004 through early 2006. During my tenure at Alereon
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`and as co-chair of the IEEE 802.15.3a Task Group, I also continued to regularly
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`submit documents and to access and review documents that were submitted by
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`other members of the 802.11 and 802.15 working groups, including through the
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`IEEE’s 802wirelessworld server and through the IEEE’s successor (and current)
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`server called Mentor.
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`12.
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`I was employed by CSR plc (“CSR”) from February 2010 to
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`September 2015. After Qualcomm Incorporated (“Qualcomm”) acquired CSR in
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`September 2015, I continued working for Qualcomm through May of 2023. While
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`I was at CSR, among other work, I was the head of CSR’s Wi-Fi Alliance and
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`IEEE 802.11 Standards teams. During that period, I was Chair of the 802.11
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`Wireless Next Generation Standing Committee, in addition to being an active
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`participant, contributor, and voting member of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group.
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`After transitioning to Qualcomm, I became a director of technical standards, where
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`I continued as an active member of the 802.11 Working Group and also continued
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`as chair of the IEEE 802.11 Wireless Next Generation Standing Committee, among
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`other work.
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`13. Since 2010 I have been a lecturer at the University of Colorado,
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`Boulder, in the department of Computer Science. I have taught the Wireless Local
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`Area Networks class in the graduate school since 2011, which is exclusively
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`focused on IEEE 802.11 technology. Among other topics, I teach my students
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`about the IEEE’s standard setting processes, including the processes by which
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`802.11 Working Group participants submit and retrieve documents in order to
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`discuss various proposals in periodic Working Group meetings. As part of those
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`lectures, I show my students how to use the IEEE’s Mentor website to find and
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`download Working Group submissions, and we frequently review current
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`proposals to evaluate their technical content. Students are able to browse and
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`download submissions on Mentor without any need for a username, password or
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`any other restrictions on access to documents.
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`14.
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`I have been a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
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`Engineers (“IEEE”) since 1984 (39 years) and am currently a Life Senior Member.
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`I have participated in the activities of the IEEE Standards Association (“IEEE-
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`SA”) continuously since 2010, and before that with some breaks in voting
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`membership. I have participated in the IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area
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`Networks (“WLAN”) Working Group since 1999, also with some breaks in voting
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`membership.
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`15. The IEEE-SA generates standards using processes that are recognized
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`by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as meeting typical
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`standards development processes. IEEE-SA members can participate in what used
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`to be called Sponsor Ballots (now called SA Ballots) which is the review process
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`for draft standards that have passed from the Task Group to the Working Group to
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`the Sponsor Executive Committee. I have participated in several Sponsor/SA
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`ballots over the last 13 years as an IEEE-SA member.
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`16. The 802.11 Working Group operates indirectly under the IEEE-SA
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`(with the IEEE 802 SEC providing overall oversight of all 802 Working Groups),
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`and includes several Task Groups, each of which is typically responsible for
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`generating a single amendment which will ultimately become part of the baseline
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`IEEE standard. The Task Groups generate draft amendments for approval by the
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`Working Group, which the Working Group presents (indirectly) for approval by
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`IEEE-SA using the Sponsor/SA Ballot process after approval by the IEEE 802
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`SEC. Task Group n (TGn), which was formed in September 2003, was one task
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`group that operated under the 802.11 Working Group.
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`17. During the 2004 to 2006 timeframe, I was active as co-chair of the
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`IEEE 802.15.3a Task Group, and attended every 802 meeting (which included
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`meetings of the IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.18, and 802.19 Working Groups),
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`posting, downloading, and reviewing submissions to the 802wirelessworld server
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`as an active chair of an IEEE 802 Task Group.
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`18. During the 2004 to 2006 timeframe, the 802.11 Working Group would
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`hold regular meetings throughout the calendar year; these meetings were (and
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`continue to be) held every two months, so there are a total of six meetings per year.
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`These meetings, including the interim session in Hawaii during January 16-20,
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`2006 as discussed below, were open to the public. The only requirement for
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`attending these meetings was that the attendee had to pay a registration fee.2
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`Generally, attendees of the 802.11 Working Group meetings were engineers,
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`researchers, and business persons interested in networking technologies, including
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`wireless local area networking (WLAN) technologies.
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`19. During the 2004 to 2006 timeframe, 802.11 Working Group members
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`could provide submissions to the group for consideration. These submissions were
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`presented at 802.11 Working Group meetings and were available to all
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`participants. Submissions typically contained technical material that the group
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`would discuss and consider whether to include in a standard.
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`20. During this timeframe, members could make these submissions
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`through the IEEE 802wirelessworld website.3 The attached “New Participant
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`Orientation” slides, which were presented at the July 2004 meeting, explain how
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`documents were submitted via the 802wirelessworld website. New Participant
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`2 The registration fee can be waived for attendance by visitors.
`3 The website was publicly available as http://www.802wirelessworld.com (This
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`Orientation Slides4 (Appendix A); July 2004 Meeting Minutes,5 p. 5 (Appendix B).
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`As shown below, to submit a document, a member clicked the “Document Control
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`Numbers” tab, entered some information about the document, clicked the “Request
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`DCN” button to request a document control number, and uploaded the document to
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`the server. New Participant Orientation Slides, slides 35-37 (Appendix A). A
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`member could submit revisions to a document using the same process. New
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`Participant Orientation Slides, slides 35-37 (Appendix A).
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`21. A submission’s Document Control Number provides some descriptive
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`information about the submission. Slide 10 of the New Participant Orientation
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`Slides (Appendix A) explains the meaning of the Document Control Numbers.
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`Submissions were assigned a filename in the format gg-yy-sss[1]r(n)-G-
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`HumanName.ext. The “gg” is the group (for example, “11” for 802.11), “yy” is the
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`year the original document was submitted (for example, “04” for 2004), “sss” is a
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`unique number sequentially assigned to each document, “l” is an optional letter for
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`companion documents, “r” and “n” indicate the revision number (for example, “r0”
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`indicates an original document and “r2” indicates a second revision), and “G”
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`indicates the group to which a document is assigned. New Participant Orientation
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`4 Available at https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/04/11-04-0422-04-0000-new-
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`Slides, slide 10 (Appendix A). Note that slide 10 refers to the “old” document
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`submission process that was in operation before the 802wirelessworld website was
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`used. For documents submitted via the 802wirelessworld website, Document
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`Control Numbers were assigned automatically by the website. New Participant
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`Orientation Slides, slides 36-37 (Appendix A).
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`22.
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`In addition to being presented at the public Working Group meetings,
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`submissions to the Working Group were accessible to any member of the public
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`after free registration through the 802wirelessworld website during the 2004 to
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`2006 timeframe. To access Working Group submissions via the website, an
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`interested member of the public could visit the 802wirelessworld website, click the
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`“become a member” link, enter some required contact information, and create a
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`password. New Participant Orientation Slides, slides 25-30 (Appendix A). After
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`creating an account, such a person could view the “Working Group Document
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`Listing” and download any submissions that had been uploaded. New Participant
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`Orientation Slides, slide 35 (Appendix A).
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`23.
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`In addition, submissions to the Working Group were also publicly
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`available via FTP at ftp.wirelessworld.com. After creating a free account on the
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`802wirelessworld website, a new user would be given the FTP server’s address and
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`instructed to use the “ieee” login with a password of “wireless.” New Participant
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`Orientation Slides, slide 35 (Appendix A). The FTP server’s address and login
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`credentials were also publicly available elsewhere. For example, U.S. Patent No.
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`7,415,074, which was filed on December 21, 2004 and published on July 28, 2005,
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`refers to IEEE submission number 802.11-03/714r0 relating to the IEEE 802.11n
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`and states that it is available at “ftp://ieee:wireless@ftp.802wirelessworld.com/.”
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,415,074, col. 1, ll. 20-39 (Appendix C). In the forgoing URL,
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`“ieee” is the username, “wireless” is the password, and ftp.802wirelessworld.com
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`is the domain name.
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`24. As another example, My colleague Adrian Stephens also wrote a
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`paper which was published in April 2005 in Volume 35, Issue 2 of the ACM
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`SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review.6 With respect to the activities of
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`TGn, the paper states that “802.11n will define modification to both PHY and
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`MAC layers to provide substantially higher throughput than 802.11 a/g[]” and
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`“TGn is currently in its down-selection process to select between proposed
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`solutions.” (Appendix D). The paper also identifies “[t]he IEEE 802.11 WG
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`homepage: “http://www.ieee802.org/11/.” and states that “[t]his contains more
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`detailed description of the scope and status of the individual task groups.”
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`(Appendix D). The paper further states that “[t]he IEEE 802.11 WG working
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`group documents are available (after free registration) from:
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`http://802wirelessworld.com.” (Appendix D).
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`25. The IEEE now maintains a website at the address
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`https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/documents (“Mentor”) where any member of the
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`public can download documents submitted to the 802.11 Working Groups. The
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`Mentor website provides a variety of bibliographic information about each
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`document. This bibliographic information includes the document number, title,
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`authors, and the date a document was uploaded to the IEEE’s database (and made
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`available to the public) as discussed above.
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`26. The IEEE’s current Mentor website was established in mid-2007 to
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`replace the 802wirelessworld website. All documents thereafter uploaded by
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`members were available on the Mentor website. Member submissions that had
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`been uploaded to the 802wirelessworld server prior to establishing the Mentor
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`website were copied over to the Mentor website shortly after the Mentor website
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`was created. I personally used the Mentor website between 2007 and 2009,
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`including to download documents that were previously submitted using the
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`802wirelessworld website. These documents retained their original titles, authors,
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`and document number. These documents also retained their original upload dates.
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`From the time it was first available in 2007 to the present, the Mentor website and
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`all of the documents that it contains, have been freely available to members of the
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`27. The entries in the Mentor website can be searched and extracted by
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`year, task group, title, or other parameters. In the normal course of business of the
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`802.11 Working Group, these database entries and the corresponding documents
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`would have been available to any member of the public as of the indicated upload
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`date, through either the 802wirelessworld or Mentor websites, and the documents
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`that were previously submitted via the 802wirelessworld website would have been
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`available via the Mentor website in 2007, shortly after the Mentor website was put
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`into service.
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`28. Appendix E shows an extract of all documents in the Mentor website
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`for Task Group N (TGn) with Document Control Number (DCN) 1102. The first
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`entry in Appendix E indicates that revision 4 of document 1102 (i.e., IEEE 802.11-
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`05/1102r4) submitted to Task Group N was entitled “Joint Proposal PHY
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`Specification” by Sean Coffey (Realtek Semiconductor) (“Joint Proposal”) and
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`was originally uploaded to the database on January 14, 2006, at which time it
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`would have been publicly available. This entry corresponds to the document
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`attached as Appendix F, which I personally downloaded from the Mentor website
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`on December 12, 2023. Appendix F is a true and correct copy of the document I
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`downloaded from the Mentor website.
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`29. Appendix G shows an extract of document in the Mentor website for
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`Task Group n (TGn) with DCN 37. The entry in Appendix G indicates that
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`revision 0 of DCN 37 (i.e., IEEE 802.11-05/0037r0) submitted to Task Group n
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`was entitled “TGn Minutes January 2006 Meeting” by Garth Hillman (Advanced
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`Micro Devices), and was originally uploaded to the database on January 23, 2006,
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`at which time it would have been publicly available. This entry corresponds to the
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`document attached as Appendix H, which I personally downloaded from the
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`Mentor website on December 12, 2023. Appendix H is a true and correct copy of
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`the document I downloaded from the Mentor website.
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`30.
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` The Joint Proposal shown in Appendix F was presented by TGn
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`Joint Proposal team to the IEEE 802.11TGn body in an interim session of the TGn
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`meeting in Hawaii from January 16- 20, 2006 (Appendix H), which I personally
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`participated and reviewed the proposal. As discussed above, all the IEEE 802.11
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`Working Group project timelines7 (Appendix I), and meeting plans8 (Appendix J)
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`including this interim session of the TGn meeting in Hawaii9 (Appendix K) were
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`advertised and open to the public prior to and after each meeting.
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`31. After IEEE-SA approved a final standard for publication (after the
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`draft passed Sponsor/SA Ballot), the standard would be copy-edited by the IEEE-
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`7 Available at https://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Reports/Summary-report-06-
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`8 Available at https://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/Meetings/Meeting_Plan.html
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`SA editorial department. The purpose of this process is to catch editorial (e.g.,
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`stylistic, grammatical, linguistic and syntactic) errors not caught by the balloting
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`participants. During this process, the copy editor engages with the Task Group
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`editor to ensure that no changes have any technical impact.
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`32. After publication, IEEE standards are made available to members of
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`the IEEE and for purchase by any member of the public. The IEEE-SA makes
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`ratified standards available for no cost access to the public for a limited period of
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`time through the Get IEEE802 program, after which they are still available to the
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`public, but there may be a fee to download10: Quoting from the IEEE Get802
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`guidelines:
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`Program Description
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`IEEE shall provide the following:
`a) Unlimited, online, public access to individual IEEE 802 standards
`six months after publication date (unless otherwise agreed), residing
`on an IEEE determined and approved server, and at no cost to end-
`users, based on the following criteria:
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`i. The Program will make available current versions of IEEE 802
`standards as well as those whose superseding version is not available
`in the Program. Current IEEE standards are defined as standards that
`have been approved by the IEEE Standards Board and are not
`withdrawn or superseded. Superseded standards will include notice
`that the document has been superseded. A link to the superseding
`version for purchase may also be made available.
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`ii. Standards will be made available beginning six months after the
`date of publication by IEEE;
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`iii. Draft IEEE 802 standards are not included in the Program;
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`iv. IEEE 802 standard Editions are not included in the Program;
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`v. Inactive or historical standards will not be made available in the
`Program, but will be made available for purchase.
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`33. The Get IEEE program has existed at least since April 2003;
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`according to a report to the IEEE 802 Sponsor Executive Committee by Jonathan
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`Goldberg of IEEE staff, a total of over 7.2 million documents were downloaded by
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`the public during the period from April 2003 to September 2017 as part of the Get
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`IEEE802 program, with over 2.6 million downloads by academia, including
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`students.11 (Appendix L).
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`34. The Get IEEE 802 program (part of the overall IEEE Get program for
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`all standards, not just IEEE 802) is one of four ways to access standards and
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`standards in development (Standards Store, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE
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`Standards Reading Room, and the IEEE Get Program).12 All IEEE standards are
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`available for anyone in the public to obtain, either for free via the Get IEEE802
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`program or for purchase through the Standards Store. Anyone can create an
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`11 See https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/17/ec-17-0180-00-00EC-ieee-802-nov17-
`get802-report.pdf
`12 See https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
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`account in IEEE Xplore and view a copy of any of the published standards via the
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`IEEE Standards Reading room. The Reading Room allows view-only privileges to
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`the general public; institutions that have an IEEE-SA corporate or university
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`account allow their users to download documents for free, even ones that are no
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`longer free under the Get IEEE802 program. Hence, millions of university
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`students and company employees have free access to all versions of IEEE
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`Standards. Anyone else in the general public can purchase any IEEE standard after
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`it transitions out of the Get IEEE802 program.
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`Exhibit 1015
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`IPR2024-00364
`Page 18 of 425
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`I declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are true and
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`that all statements made on information and belief are believed to be true, and
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`further that these statements were made with the knowledge that willfully false
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`statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both,
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`under Section 1101 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
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`Date:
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`Location:
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`Signature:
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`31 December 2023
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`Timisoara, Romania
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`APPENDIX A
`APPENDIX A
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`Exhibit 1015
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`Panasonic v. UNM
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`Exhibit 1015
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`July 2004
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`New Participant Orientation
`IEEE 802.11 Vice-Chair
`Al Petrick
`IEEE 802.15 Vice-Chair
`Jim Allen
`IEEE 802.18 Chair
`Carl Stevenson
`IEEE 802.19 Chair
`Steve Shellhammer
`IEEE 802.20 Chair
`Jerry Upton
`IEEE 802.21 Chair
`Ajay Rajkumar
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`Submission
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`Slide 1
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`Al Petrick, IceFyre, Jim Allen, Appairent
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`Exhibit 1015, Panasonic v. UNM
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`July 2004
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`IEEE 802.11 Officers…Primary Roles
`Wireless LANs
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`• Stuart J. Kerry, Chairman
`• Al Petrick, Vice-Chair…Attendance record
`and Treasury
`• Harry Worstell, Vice-Chair….Documentation,
`Voter Database
`• Tim Godfrey, Secretary ...Working Group Minutes
`and Wireless Network Lead.
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`Submission
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`Slide 2
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`Al Petrick, IceFyre, Jim Allen, Appairent
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`Exhibit 1015, Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364, Page 22 of 425
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`July 2004
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`IEEE 802.15 Officers…Primary Roles
`Wireless PANs
`• Bob Heile, Chairman, Documentation
`• Jim Allen, Vice-Chair…
`• Pat Kinney, Secretary ...Working Group Minutes
`• Mike McInnis, Asst Secretary
`• James Gilb, Parliamentarian
`• Rick Alfvin, Webmaster/Docmaster/Attendance
`• John Barr, Treasury
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`Submission
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`Slide 3
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`Al Petrick, IceFyre, Jim Allen, Appairent
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`Exhibit 1015, Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364, Page 23 of 425
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`July 2004
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`IEEE 802.18 Officers…Primary Roles
`Radio Regulatory TAG
`• Carl Stevenson, Chairman, Documentation
`• Denis Kuwahara,Vice-Chair/Secretary
`– WG minutes
`– Attendance
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`Submission
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`Slide 4
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`Al Petrick, IceFyre, Jim Allen, Appairent
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`Exhibit 1015, Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364, Page 24 of 425
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`
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`July 2004
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`IEEE 802.20 Officers…Primary Roles
`Mobile Broadband Wireless Access
`• Jerry Upton, Chairman, Documentation,
`Voting Rights
`• Gang Wu, Vice-Chair, Voting Tokens
`• Rao Yalla Pragada, Secretary ...Working
`Group Minutes, Attendance
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`Submission
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`Slide 5
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`Al Petrick, IceFyre, Jim Allen, Appairent
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`Exhibit 1015, Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364, Page 25 of 425
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`July 2004
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`IEEE 802.21 Officers…Primary Roles
`Media Independent Handover Services
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`• Ajay Rajkumar Chairman, Documentation,
`Voting Rights, Voting Tokens
`• Vice-Chair, OPEN
`• WG Secretary, OPEN
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`Submission
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`Slide 6
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`Al Petrick, IceFyre, Jim Allen, Appairent
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`Exhibit 1015, Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364, Page 26 of 425
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`
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`July 2004
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents
`in Standards
`6. Patents
`IEEE standards may include the known use of patent(s), including patent applications, provided the
`IEEE receives assurance from the patent holder or applicant with respect to patents essential for
`compliance with both mandatory and optional portions of the standard. This assurance shall be
`provided without coercion and prior to approval of the standard (or reaffirmation when a patent
`becomes known after initial approval of the standard). This assurance shall be a letter that is in the
`form of either
`a) A general disclaimer to the effect that the patentee will not enforce any of its present or future
`patent(s) whose use would be required to implement the proposed IEEE standard against any person
`or entity using the patent(s) to comply with the standard or
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`b) A statement that a license will be made available without compensation or under reasonable rates,
`with reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination
`This assurance shall apply, at a minimum, from the date of the standard's approval to the date of the
`standard's withdrawal and is irrevocable during that period.
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`Approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board – March 2003, May 2004
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`Submission
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`Slide 7
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`Al Petrick, IceFyre, Jim Allen, Appairent
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`Exhibit 1015, Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364, Page 27 of 425
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`
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`July 2004
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`Inappropriate Topics for IEEE WG
`Meetings
`• Don’t discuss licensing terms or conditions
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`• Don’t discuss product pricing, territorial restrictions or market share
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`• Don’t discuss ongoing litigation or threatened litigation
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`• Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed… do formally object.
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`If you have questions,
`contact the IEEE Patent Committee Administrator
`at patcom@ieee.org
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`Approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board – December 2002
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`Submission
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`Slide 8
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`Al Petrick, IceFyre, Jim Allen, Appairent
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`Exhibit 1015, Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364, Page 28 of 425
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`July 2004
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`General Information
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`–
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`–
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`• Meetings governed by Roberts Rules of Order. latest edition
`• Meetings operated under published IEEE 802 and IEEE 802.11/.20 Policies and Procedures
`–
`IEEE 802.11 Policies and Procedures
`•
`document: IEEE 802.11-00/331r7 (on the 802.11 Website)
`IEEE 802.15 Policies and Procedures
`•
`document: 99001r6P802-15_Policies and Procedures
`IEEE 802.20 Policies and Procedures
`•
`document: 802.20 – PD -05
`– Participation and Representation
`–
`Individual representation and voting…. Not by company!!!!
`– Open participation with conference fee
`– www.IEEE802.org/11
`802.11 working group web page
`– www.IEEE802.org/15
`802.15 working group web page
`– www.IEEE802.org/18
`802.18 working group web page
`– www.IEEE802.org/19
`802.19 working group web page
`– www.IEEE802.org/20
`802.20 working group web page
`– www.IEEE802.org/21
`802.21 working group web page
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`Photography not permitted unless approved by WG Chair
`•
`• Audio taping of IEEE 802.11/.15 meetings is NOT allowed
`• Media – Press and Analyst briefings
`– Only the 802.11/.21 Chair and Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the
`media on behalf of IEEE 802.11/.21 WG
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`Submission
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`Slide 9
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`Al Petrick, IceFyre, Jim Allen, Appairent
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`Exhibit 1015, Panasonic v. UNM
`IPR2024-00364, Page 29 of 425
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`July 2004
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`•
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`doc.: IEEE 802.11-04/422r4
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`•
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`•
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`Old Document – Submissions for 802.11
`The file name starts with:
`File names and document format: gg-yy-sss[l]r(n)-G-HumanName.ext
`where
`– “gg” is the 802 group
`– "yy" is the last digit of the year
`– "sss" is the sequence number of the document
`– "l" is an optional letter "A" added to the document number
`(for companion documents as a Power Point Presentation on
`–
`a Word document submission
`–
`– "r" is the letter r
`– "n" is the revision number
`– "G" is the group to which the document assigned to (see above
`in the document list)
`–
`The human name should be as short as possible.
`•
`(please use either a dash or underscore for the coupling letter)
`•
`Try to avoid adding the TG in the name.
`•
`• Example:
`11-01-462r8-W-New-Participant-Orientation.ppt
`See Harry Worstell – Vice Chair for document – submission numbers
`Slide 10
`Al
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