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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`GOOGLELLC,
`Petitioner,
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`TOUCHSTREAM TECHNOLOGIES,INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`IPR2022-00794
`Patent 8,904,289 B2
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`Petitioner states that Google LLC is the real party-in-interest.
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`Pet. 76.!
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`C. Related Matters
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`Petitioner and Patent Ownerindicate the ’289 Patent was asserted in
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`the following district court proceeding: Touchstream Techs, Inc. v. Google,
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`LLC, No. 6-21-cv-00569 (W.D. Tex.). Pet. 76-77; Paper 5 at 1. Petitioner
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`further indicates that the ’289 Patent was asserted in the following district
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`court proceeding: Touchstream Techs., Inc v. Vizbee, Inc., No. 1-17-cv-
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`06247 (S.D.N.Y.). Pet. 76-77.
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`D. The ’289 Patent (Ex. 1001)
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`The ’289 Patent, titled “Play Control of Content on a Display
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`Device,” issued December2, 2014. Ex. 1001, codes (45), (54). The
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`°289 Patent describes a system that “allow[s] a personal computing device,”
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`e.g., a mobile phone,“to be used to select different content to be played on a
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`remote display,” e.g., a television set, and “allow[s] the user to control how
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`the content is displayed on the display device using the personal computing
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`Case 6:21-cv-00569-ADA Document 207-5 Filed 04/20/23 Page 4 of 41
`IPR2022-00794
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`Ex. 1001, 4:40-42. Server system 24 then “converts the incoming
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`player (block 120).” Ex. 1001, 5:65—6:3. The server “interpret[s] and
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`IPR2022-00794
`Patent 8,904,289 B2
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`Il. ANALYSIS
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`A. Discretion Under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a)
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`Patent Ownerargues that we should exercise discretion to deny
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`Under§ 314(a), the Director has discretion to deny institution of an
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`inter partes review (see 37 C.F.R. § 42.4(a) (“The Boardinstitutes thetrial
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`on behalf of the Director.”); Harmonic Inc. v. Avid Tech., Inc., 815 F.3d
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`1356, 1367 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (“[T]he PTO is permitted, but never compelled,
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`discretion to deny institution under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a), the Board considers
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`whether the circumstances ofa parallel district court proceeding are a basis
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`for exercising such discretion. Fintiv Order 5-6.
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`A Memorandum from Director Vidal titled Interim Procedurefor
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`Discretionary Denials in AIA Post-Grant Proceedings with Parallel District
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`Court Litigation (USPTO June 21, 2022) (“Interim Procedure”)sets forth
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`the PTAB will not deny institution of an IPR or PGR under Fintiv
`(i) when
`a petition presents
`compelling
`evidence of
`unpatentability; (ii) when a request for denial under Fintiv is
`
`

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`Based on the present record including the disclosure in the ’289
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`Patent, we apply Petitioner’s definition of the level of ordinary skill in the
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`art (see Pet. 14) with the exception of the open-ended phrase “at least,”
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`which expandsthe range of educational experience indefinitely without an
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`upper bound,i.e. “a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or computer
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`science (or equivalent experience) and two years of experience designing or
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`implementing interactive systems with networked media or media playback
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`systems.” We determinethis level of skill comports with the qualifications a
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`person would have needed to understand and implement the teachings of the
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`’289 Patent and the prior art of record. Cf Okajima v. Bourdeau, 261
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`F.3d 1350, 1355 (Fed. Cir. 2001) (noting that the priorart itself may reflect
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`an appropriate level of skill in the art).
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`C. Claim Construction
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`Weconstrue claim terms according to the standard set forth in Phillips
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`v. AWH Corp., 415 F.3d 1303, 1312-17 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (en banc).
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.100(b) (2021). Under Phillips, claim termsare afforded
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`“their ordinary and customary meaning.” Phillips, 415 F.3d at 1312. “[T]he
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`ordinary and customary meaningof a claim term is the meaning that the
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`term would have to a person of ordinary skill in the art in question at the
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`time of the invention.” Phillips, 415 F.3d at 1313. “Importantly, the person
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`of ordinary skill in the art is deemed to read the claim term notonly in the
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`context of the particular claim in which the disputed term appears, but in the
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`context of the entire patent, including the specification.” Phillips, 415 F.3d
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`at 1313. An inventor may rebut that presumption by providing a definition
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`of the term in the specification “with reasonableclarity, deliberateness, and
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`precision.” Jn re Paulsen, 30 F.3d 1475, 1480 (Fed. Cir. 1994). In the
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`absence ofsuch a definition, limitations are not to be read from the
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`specification into the claims. Jn re Van Geuns, 988 F.2d 1181, 1184 (Fed.
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`Cir. 1993).
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`Case 6:21-cv-00569-ADA Document 207-5 Filed 04/20/23 Page 12 of 41
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`Petitioner asserts that we “need not construe any claimsto resolve
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`[this] controversy” andthatit “adopts” Patent Owner’s “proposed plain and
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`ordinary meaningforall terms [from] the parallel district court action.”
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`Pet. 14-15 (citing Ex. 1014).
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`Patent Owner doesnotassert any particular claim constructionat this
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`stage in the proceeding. Prelim. Resp. 21.
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`Onthis record, we determine that no terms or phrases in the claims
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`require express construction. See Realtime Data, LLC v. Iancu, 912 F.3d
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`1368, 1375 (Fed. Cir. 2019) (“The Board is required to construe ‘only those
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`terms ... that are in controversy, and only to the extent necessary to resolve
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`the controversy.’” (quoting Vivid Techs., Inc. v. Am. Sci. & Eng’g, Inc., 200
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`F.3d 795, 803 (Fed. Cir. 1999))).
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`D. Asserted Obviousness over Muthukumarasamy
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`Petitioner contends Muthukumarasamyrenders claims 1, 2, and 6-8
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`obvious. Pet. 15—16, 20-72.
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`I. Muthukumarasamy (Ex. 1008)
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`Muthukumarasamyis a US patent application publication titled
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`“Device-Based Control System” and published September23, 2010.
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`Ex. 1008, codes (43), (54). Muthukumarasamydescribes a “Device-Based
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