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`90/014,965
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`WOLF GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C.
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`LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y
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`8624844
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`Christina Y Leung
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`All participants (USPTO personnel, patent owner, patent owner's representative):
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`(1) Christina Leung
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`(3) Gerald Hrycyszyn; Rich Giunta (attorneys for PO)
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`(2) Rachna Desai; SPE Timothy Speer (conferees)
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`(4) Eric Bear (technical expert for PO)
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`Date of Interview: 30 November 2022
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`Type: a)() Telephonic b)) Video Conference
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`Claim(s) discussed: 10 and 16 .
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`Identification of prior art discussed: Ledbetter .
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`Description of the general nature of what was agreedto if an agreement was reached, or any other comments:
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`/CHRISTINA Y. LEUNG/
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`U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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`PTOL-474 (Rev. 04-01)
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`Continuation of Description of the general nature of what was agreedto if an agreement was reached, or
`any other comments: Patent Owner's representatives (PO) argued that Ledbetter does not teach displaying
`the "content modes"recited in the claims. PO argued that 844 Patent discloses that "content mode"is not
`the content organized within the mode and doesnot merely refer to a type of content. Rather,it is a visual
`representation of the grouping of content within the mode in a hierarchical interface, e.g., elements 172a-e
`shownin Figures 11, 12, and 17 of 844 Patent. Examiners acknowledged that the term "content mode"is
`associated with element 172 but did not necessarily agree that 844 Patentlimits the term "content mode"to
`PO's interpretation without also meaning a type of content more generally. Agreement was not reached on
`the claims, but Examinerswill fully consider PO's arguments presented in the next response.
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`Application No.: 90/014,965
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`Docket No.: L2039.70001US10
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`First Named Inventor:
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`PORTABLE COMPUTER WITH MULTIPLE DISPLAY
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`INTERVIEW AGENDA
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`Patent Owner, LiTL, thanks Examiner Leung and the Conferees for scheduling a video
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`conference interview on November30, 2022 at 1 pm Eastern to discuss the outstanding Office
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`Action (dated October 12, 2022) in the above-referenced reexamination of Patent No. 8,624,844
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`(“the ’844 Patent”). The arguments and evidenceto be discussed during the interview are
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`INTRODUCTION
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`Third Party Requester, Lenovo (United States) Inc. (“Lenovo”)filed its Request for Ex Parte
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`Reexamination (“Request”) seeking a second bite at the apple afterits petition seeking inter partes
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`review (IPR) of the ’844 Patent was denied because Lenovofailed to show any claim unpatentable.
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`The Grounds in Lenovo’s reexamination request fared no better and failed to establish
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`unpatentability of a single challenged claim. The Office Action adopts a single one of the Request’s
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`grounds and makes a single rejection — claims 10 and 16 are rejected as allegedly being obvious
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`over Lane and Ledbetter.
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`Asexplained in more detail below, the Office Action (“OA”) relies on Ledbetter to
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`purportedly disclose a laptop mode “configured to display to a user on the main display component
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`a first content mode” and an easel mode “configured to display to the user on the main display
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`component a second content mode”as required by claims 10 and 16.' OA at 6-7. The Office Action
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`alleges that the claimed content modes are met by Ledbetter’s various “software operating modes”
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`(“media consumption mode,” “tablet mode,” “walk-up mode” and “workstation mode”) that
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`correspond to different physical configurations of Ledbetter’s computer monitor. Even if these
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`software operating modes were content modes (which Patent Owner does not concede), none of
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`them is “display[ed] to the user.” Thus, the Lane/Ledbetter combination fails to disclose a computer
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`configured to “display to a user” a content mode as claimed.
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`I.
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`°844 PATENT
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`Before the LiTL Webbook commercialized an embodimentof the ‘844 Patent, home
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`computers wereessentially the same as office computers and homeusers struggled with complex
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`interfaces designed in pre-web times. LiTL worked for years to develop its Webbook, recruited
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`leading user experience design (“UXD”) experts and worked closely with some of the world’s
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`leading technology and UXD consultancies. This design effort led to the filing of provisional
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`application no. 61/041,365 on April 1, 2008, to which the 844 Patent claims priority. Ex. 1001, 1.
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`The inventions described and claimed in the ’844 Patent were groundbreaking in 2008. They
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`earned substantial contemporaneous praise and have become industry standards that are ubiquitous
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`today. They were anything but in the timeframerelevant to this reexamination.
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`' Emphasis added throughoutunless otherwise noted.
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`A.
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`Embodiments
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`Physical Configuration Modes
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`The ’844 Patent describes, and challenged claims 10 and 16 require, a “portable computer
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`configurable betweena plurality of display modes including a laptop mode and an easel mode.”
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`844 Patent, claim 10. Laptop and easel are just two of several display modesthe specification
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`discloses, including: a “tablet mode”(id., 1:35), “a closed mode, a laptop mode, an easel mode, a
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`flat mode and a frame mode”(id., 2:20-23). Someofthese are illustrated in the figures reproduced
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`below. The “portable computer has a conventional laptop appearance”in the “laptop mode,”
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`whereasin the “easel mode” the “base of the computer andits display component stand upright
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`forming an inverted ‘V.’” /d., 1:61-64. “The portable computer may include integrated
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`‘navigation’ hardware” such as “a scroll wheel 132 that allows a user to control, adjust and/or select
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`various functionality of the portable computer” or navigate “through information, such as menus,
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`icons, etc., displayed on the display screen 110, as discussed ... with reference to FIG. 17.” /d.,
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`2.
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`Streamlined GUI Supporting Hierarchical “Map” Navigation
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`The ’844 Patent describes a “streamlined graphical user interface [GUI] that supports ‘map’
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`navigation. The map userinterface provides a clear overview ofthe entire computing environment
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`and searching capability within the environment that may be accessed using”the scroll wheel 132
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`and/or navigation buttons 166, 168 on the computer’s base (see Fig. 17 below). /d., 11:10-19.
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`“[T]he map mode of navigation is a hierarchical mode that reduces the numberof items to select
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`amongst at any stage of navigation, thereby facilitating user access with the scroll wheel 132, and
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`optionally, the navigation button(s) 166, 168.” /d., 11:19-24. This “streamlined” GUIis
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`advantageous whenthe laptop is in a mode(e.g., easel mode) where the keyboardis not readily
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`accessible to the user because the streamlined GUIfacilitates navigation using other hardware(e.g.,
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`scroll wheel 32).
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`“Content Modes” Support Hierarchical Navigation
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`The above-discussed hierarchical navigation mode is achieved by using “content modes.”
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`“Using the map userinterface, information, programs, features, functions, applications may be
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`groupedinto [] various modes of content 172.” Id., 11:37-40. Figure 11 showsa userinterface
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`homescreen 170 that “displays a plurality of modes of content 172.” /d., 11:30. “Someorall of the
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`modesof content 172 mayaccess, retrieve and/or store information on the Internet 174.” /d., 12:4-
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`5. Five content modes are shown in FIG. 11: “media 172a, connect 172b, web 172c, applications
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`172d, and channels 172e.” /d., 11:37-38.
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`“[M]edia content mode 172a may provide access to a medial player to play, view, search
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`and organize media such as music, video, photos, etc.” /d., 11:44-46.
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`“‘[C]onnect mode 172b may provide access to features such as, for example, email, voice-
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`over-IP instant messaging, etc.” /d., 11:46-48.
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`“[W]eb mode 172c may provideaccess to internet browsing and searching.” J/d., 11:49-50.
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`“[A]pplication mode 172d may provideaccess to, for example, computer applications or
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`programs, such as word processor, spreadsheet, calculator, etc.” which may be “web-based services
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`rather than programs or applications. /d., 11:50-55.
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`“[C]hannels mode 172e may provide access to different functionality of the portable
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`computer, with the different functions or features defined as different channels,” examples of which
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`include “an alarm clock channel” that displays a clock and can be programmedto set an alarm, a
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`“photo frame channel” that can display one or more preselected images, and a “television channel”
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`configured to stream Internet television. /d., 11:55-67).
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`FIGs. 12 and 17 show thosefive content modes “displayed as a series of bars across the
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`display screen.” /d., 12:6-7.
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`Scroll wheel 132 and navigation buttons 166, 168 “may be usedto navigate the user
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`interface. ... scrolling the scroll wheel may sequentially highlight different ones of the modes of
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`content 172. ... A highlighted mode 172 maybe selected by pressing the scroll wheel, thereby
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`bringing up a new “page’ or screen on the user interface corresponding to the selected mode. Once
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`within a selected mode of content 172, the scroll wheel may similarly be usedto select particular
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`functions, features or applications within that mode.” /d., 12:22-35. For example, if the user
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`initially selected the connect mode 172b, the user can then use the scroll wheel to select among
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`“features such as, for example, email, voice-over-IP instant messaging, etc.” /d., 11:46-48. While
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`FIGs. 12 and 17 display the different modes of content as a series of bars, other display
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`configurations(e.g., desktop and icon configuration, a dashboard configuration) are possible. /d.,
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`B.
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`The Challenged Claims All Require a Computer Configured To Display First
`and Second Content Modes
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`Claims 10 and 16 (like every other claim in the ’844 Patent) require a “portable computer
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`configurable betweena plurality of display modes including a laptop mode and an easel mode...
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`wherein the laptop modeis configured to display to a user... a first content mode ... [and] the
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`easel modeis configured to display to the user ... a second content mode.”
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`Thus, every claim requires that the portable computer be configured to groupits
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`“information, programs, features, functions, [and] applications”into at least a first and a second
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`content mode, and to display to the user as information on the computer’s display componentthe
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`first content mode (when the computeris in laptop mode) and the second content mode (whenthe
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`computer is in easel mode). /d., 10:62-64, 11:27-40, 12:22-35. The Lane/Ledbetter combination
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`fails to meet these requirements.
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`Il.
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`The Lane/Ledbetter Combination Fails to Meet Any Challenged Claim
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`A.
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`Ledbetter’s Alleged Content Modes Are Never Displayed to the User
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`The Office Action alleges that Ledbetter “teaches different content modes displayed in
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`different display modes,” citing Ledbetter [0023], [0026], and [0057]. OA at 6. The cited Ledbetter
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`paragraphsteach that the computer’s monitor arm can be configured in different physical “usage
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`modes” where the monitor arm is positioned in different physical positions. Ledbetter, [0026].
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`Ledbetter discloses that “the computer providing the content to display can change software
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`operating modes to match the corresponding monitorposition.” /d., [0055]. The operating system
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`“loads a corresponding shell user interface and/or other program or programs (e.g., 13861) as
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`necessary to configure the computer system user interface display 1388 and running programs to
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`match the current mode.” Ledbetter, [0056].
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`Ledbetter describes four operating modes: (1) a “media consumption mode[in which]
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`media player software may be loaded and automatically executed”; (2) a “tablet mode [in which]
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`tablet operating system components such as including handwriting recognition software may be
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`loaded and automatically executed”; (3) a “walk-up mode[in which ] a touch-screen shell program
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`configured to provide convenient access to walk-up types of information (e.g., weather, messages,
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`the internet and so forth)” is loaded; and (4) a “workstation mode[in which] typical shortcuts and
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`other information used for working/productivity or other computer usage (e.g., gaming) may be
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`displayed.” Ledbetter, [0057].
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`Thus, Ledbetter discloses that when the computer arm is in different physical configurations
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`(“usage modes”), the computer enters different “software operating modes”(id., [0055]) where
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`different programs may be run and/or different information displayed on the display.
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`The Request alleged that Ledbetter’s software operating modes“constitute the claimed
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`content modes.” Request, 98-99. The Office Action adopts this mapping of the claimed content
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`modes to Ledbetter, alleging that “Ledbetter further teaches different content modes displayed in
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`different display modes,” where the Office Action identifies — via italics — the “media consumption
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`mode,” “tablet mode,”
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`“walkup mode” and “workstation mode” as meeting the claimed content
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`modes. OAat 6 (emphasis original).
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`Even if Ledbetter’s “software operating modes” could be considered content modes (which
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`Patent Owner does not concede), the computer being configured to run different software operating
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`modes does not meet the claimed requirement that the computer be configured to display first and
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`second content modes. The specification makes clear that “information, programs, features,
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`functions, [and] applications may be groupedinto [] various modes of content 172” (id., 11:37-40),
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`and that the content modes can be “displayed as a series of bars across the display screen”(id., 12:6-
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`7) as shown in FIGs. 12 and 17. After a desired content modeis selected from the display, the
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`“particularfunctions, features or applications within” that content mode can be displayed and a
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`desired function, feature or application can be selected. /d., 12:22-35. Thus, displaying a content
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`moderequires displaying some “information, such as menus,icons, etc. ... on the display screen
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`110” (844 Patent, 10:54-65) that represents the content mode, not merely displaying one or more
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`functions, features or applications grouped into a content mode.
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`Thus, the Lane/Ledbetter combination is not “configured to display to a user” the things —
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`software operating modes — the Office Action alleges are first and second content modes. Thus, the
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`Lane/Ledbetter combination does not meet any challenged claim, because the claims do not simply
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`require first and second content modes, they require that the computer be configured to “display to a
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`user” those content modes.
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`B.
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`Displaying Functions, Features and/or Applications When Leadbetter’s
`Computer Is In One of Its Software Operating Modes Does Not Meet The
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`The only things in Ledbetter that the Office Action alleges are displayed to the user are
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`particular functions, features and/or applications that are displayed when the computeris in a
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`particular software operating modes. Specifically, the Office action identifies “media player
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`software [] loaded and automatically executed” in media consumption mode, “handwriting
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`recognition software [] loaded and automatically executed” in tablet mode, “walk-up types of
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`information (e.g., weather, messages, the internet and so forth) may be loaded” in walk-up mode,
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`and “typical shortcuts and other information used for working/productivity ... may be displayed”in
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`workstation mode. OA at 6. The ‘844 Patent specification refers to these as “particularfunctions,
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`features or applications” that may be grouped within a content mode (‘844 Patent, 12:22-35), and
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`makesclear that displaying the “particular functions, features or applications within” a content
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`modeis not the same thing as displaying the content modeitself. /d., 11:37-40, 12:6-7, 12:22-35.
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`Thus, to the extent the Office Action suggests that functions, features and/or applications displayed
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`by Ledbetter whenin its display modes could meet the claimed content modes, that would be
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`inconsistent with the specification of the ‘844 Patent.
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`Claim Interpretation — Content Mode Cannot Be Interpreted More
`Broadly Than The WayIt is Used in the Specification
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`Despite having already filed (and lost) an IPR petition challenging the 844 patent andfiling
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`a 176-page Request challenging just two claims, Lenovo never acknowledged where the
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`specification describes what “content modes”are, and Lenovocited no evidence of any useofthis
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`term in the art that differs from the meaning the specification gives to this term that is coined
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`therein. Like the Request, the Office Action did not affirmatively construe “content mode.”
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`“[T]he best source for determining the meaning of a claim term” under the broadest
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`reasonable interpretation (BRI) standard “is the specification.” MPEP § 2111.01. A claim
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`interpretation under BRI “cannot be divorced from the specification and the record evidence.” /n re
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`NTP, Inc., 654 F.3d 1279, 1288 (Fed. Cir. 2011). The interpretation “must be consistent with the
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`one that those skilled in the art would reach.” Jn re Cortright, 165 F.3d 1353, 1358 (Fed. Cir.
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`1999). Indeed, the claims must be interpreted “in light of the specification as it would be interpreted
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`by one of ordinary skill in the art.” MPEP § 2111 (quoting Jn re Am. Acad. ofSci. Tech. Ctr., 367
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`F.3d 1359, 1364 (Fed. Cir. 2004)).
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`As a matter of law, when “terms have noplain or established meaning to one of ordinary
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`skill in the art,” “they ordinarily cannot be construed broader than the disclosure in the
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`specification.” Indacon, Inc. vy. Facebook, Inc., 824 F.3d 1352, 1357 (Fed. Cir. 2016); /rdeto
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`Access, Inc. vy. Echostar Satellite Corp., 383 F.3d 1295, 1300 (Fed. Cir. 2004) (“[A]bsent such an
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`accepted meaning[in the art], we construe a claim term only as broadly as provided for by the
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`patent itself.”). In such circumstances, the specification must be used to ascertain the meaning and
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`scope of the claim term, even whenit is not expressly defined. /rdeto, 383 F.3d at 1300 (“Even
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`when guidance is not provided in explicit definitional format, ‘the specification may define claim
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`terms “by implication’” such that the meaning may be ‘found in or ascertained by a reading of the
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`patent documents.’”).
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`Because the Office Action established no accepted meaningin the art for the term “content
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`mode,” the specification’s meaning controls and this term cannot be interpreted more broadly than
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`the specification’s disclosure. Jn re Suitco Surface, Inc., 603 F.3d 1255, 1260 (Fed. Cir. 2010)
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`(“The broadest-construction rubric ... does not give the PTO an unfettered license to interpret
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`claims to embrace anything remotely related to the claimed invention. Rather, claims should always
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`be read in light of the specification and teachingsin the underlying patent.”); Jn re NTP, 654 F.3d at
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`1288 (Even underthe “broadest reasonable construction, the construction cannot be divorced from
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`the specification and the record evidence.”); MPEP § 2111 (“The broadest reasonable interpretation
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`does not mean the broadest possible interpretation.” Rather, it “must be consistent with the use of
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`the claim term in the specification”).
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`Displaying Functions, Features and/or Applications Grouped Within a
`Content Modeis Different than Displaying the Content Mode
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`The ’844 Patent could not be clearer that there is a difference between a content mode and
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`“the content organized within that mode.” °844 Patent, 11:40-43. A content modeis displayed with
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`other content modes as shown in Figs. 12 and 17. /d., 12:6-8 (the different modes of content 172
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`may be displayed... as illustrated in Fig. 12”). The content modes support “hierarchical”
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`navigation (’844 Patent, 11:19-24) not only because they group together “information, programs,
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`features, functions, [and] applications” (/d., 37-40), but because the content groups are displayed to
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`the user. “[T]he different modes of content 172 may be displayedas a series of bars across the
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`display screen 110, as illustrated in Fig. 12.” ’844 Patent, 12:6-8; see also Fig. 17.
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`The user may “navigate” a user interface that displays one or more content modes, and in
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`one embodiment may “select” a particular content mode by pressing the scroll wheel when the
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`desired content modeis highlighted. /d., 12:23-29. In one embodiment,after the user has selected a
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`particular content mode on the userinterface, “a new ‘page’ or screen on the userinterface
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`corresponding to the selected mode”is brought up that displays to the user the “ particular
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`functions, features or applications within that [previously-selected content] mode”so that the user
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`mayselect a desired function, feature or application. /d., 12:32-35. Thus, according to the
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`specification, displaying a content mode meansdisplaying some “information, such as menus,
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`icons, etc. ... on the display screen 110”(id., 10:54-65) that represents the content mode, andis
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`distinct from displaying any functions, features and/or applications grouped within that content
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`mode.
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`As noted above, the Office Action relies on Ledbetter’s disclosure of “media player software
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`[] loaded and automatically executed” in media consumption mode, “handwriting recognition
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`software [] loaded and automatically executed” in tablet mode, “walk-up types of information(e.g.,
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`weather, messages, the internet and so forth) may be loaded” in walk-up mode, and “typical
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`shortcuts and other information used for working/productivity ... may be displayed” in workstation
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`mode. OA at 6. The ‘844 Patent specification refers to these as “particularfunctions, features or
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`applications” that may be grouped within a content mode (‘844 Patent, 12:22-35), and makesclear
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`that displaying the “particular functions, features or applications within” a content mode is not the
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`same thing as displaying the content modeitself. /d., 11:37-40, 12:6-7, 12:22-35; see also e.g., Fig.
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`11 (the LiTL media playeris an application program that is displayed separately from the “Media”
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`content mode 172a displayed on Figs. 12 and 17).
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`IV.
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`Conclusion
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`LiTl appreciates the examiner’s consideration of this interview agenda andlooks forward to
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`discussing these and any other issues the examiners would like to address during the interview.
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`Dated: November 18, 2022
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`/ Gerald B. Hrycyszyn/
`Edward J. Russavage, Reg. No. 43,069
`Richard F. Giunta, Reg. No. 36,149
`Gerald B. Hrycyszyn, Reg. No. 50,474
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