Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. et al
Filing
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Unredacted Claim Construction Brief by Samsung Electronics America, Inc.(a New York corporation), Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC(a Delaware limited liability company) re 1256 Order on Administrative Motion to File Under Seal, re (Dkt. No. 1183) (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 2 to the Schmidt Declaration, # 2 Exhibit 4 to the Schmidt Declaration, # 3 Exhibit 9 to the Schmidt Declaration, # 4 Exhibit 10 to the Schmidt Declaration, # 5 Exhibit 11 to the Schmidt Declaration, # 6 Exhibit 12 to the Schmidt Declaration, # 7 Exhibit 13 to the Schmidt Declaration, # 8 Exhibit 14 to the Schmidt Declaration)(Maroulis, Victoria) (Filed on 7/26/2012) Modified text on 7/27/2012 (dhm, COURT STAFF).
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA, SAN JOSE DIVISION
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APPLE INC., a California
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corporation,
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Plaintiff,
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vs.
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SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,
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LTD., a Korean business
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entity; SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS )
AMERICA, INC., a New York
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corporation; SAMSUNG
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, )
LLC, a Delaware limited
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liability company,
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Defendants.
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VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF KARAN SINGH, PH.D.
Redwood Shores, California
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Volume I
Reported by:
Danielle de Gracia
CSR No. 13650
Job No. 143641
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THE WITNESS:
My definition of what --
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the -- the -- sort of the plain English language
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meaning of embedded to me means that something exists
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inside something else.
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Okay.
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With that meaning, can a electronic
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document have another electronic document embedded
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within it?
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Objection.
Vague.
Again, it depends on how you
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define embedding because embedding, you can talk of
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embedding at -- at a visual level, and you can talk
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of embedding perhaps at a -- at a machine level.
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it really needs to be -- it would be need to be
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clarified.
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So
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So can an -- an electronic document have
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another electronic document embedded within it at the
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machine level?
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Objection.
Vague.
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At the machine level, if it
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did, then the -- the overall document -- at the
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machine level, I mean, you can take -- at the machine
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level everything is -- is -- is a bunch of -- of
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bits.
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You could take any -- any combination of
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bits and -- and put them inside another combination
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of bits, absolutely.
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intelligible to the computer anymore is a different
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question.
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What's the difference between an electronic
document and a structured electronic document?
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Whether that would be
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Object to the form of the
question.
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A structured electronic
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document is an electronic document which when -- when
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parsed and -- and displayed by the computer has
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regions and structure that has some semantic meaning
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to the human viewing it.
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And how does that differ than an electronic
document?
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THE WITNESS:
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a plain electronic document.
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Object to the form.
The lack of structure in just
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So is it your position that an electronic
document does not have structure in it?
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Incom- --
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incomplete hypothetical.
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THE WITNESS:
No, I did not say that.
I
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mean, a structured electronic document is also an
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electronic document.
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an electronic document cannot have structure in it.
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So clearly you cannot say that
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So is a structured electronic document a
subset of electronic document?
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Yes, I believe so.
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So if we -- we were to draw a Venn diagram,
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the -- the big circle would have electronic document
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in it, and there would be a smaller circle with
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structured electronic document within it?
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It may not be a smaller circle, but it
certainly would not be a bigger circle.
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So are there electronic documents that are
not structured electronic documents?
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Object -- object to form.
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THE WITNESS:
That would depend on the
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pers- -- say that again.
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that?
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Sorry.
Can you repeat
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Are there electronic documents that are not
structured electronic documents?
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question.
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THE WITNESS:
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patent, yes.
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In the context of the '163
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Why do you qualify your answer within the
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context of the '163 patent?
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Because the '163 patent deals with a
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specific area of talking about -- about -- about
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readability of structured electronic documents, and
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so it sort of sets the context for the kind of
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structure that -- that a person of ordinary skill in
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the art would be -- would look for in such -- in such
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documents under -- yes.
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Can -- can you, in the context of the '163
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patent, could you give me an example of an electronic
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document that's not a structured electronic document?
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Object to the form of the
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question.
Incomplete hypothetical to the extent it
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calls for a legal conclusion.
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THE WITNESS:
In the context of the '163
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patent, an electronic document that -- that -- that
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does not necessarily have the -- the -- the -- have
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the sort of -- the -- the structure that the -- that
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the '163 is talking about would -- would sort of
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be -- it would just be a default.
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just be a -- a document, yeah, which -- which had --
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yeah, it was structureless, yes.
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Can you give me any examples of electronic
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documents that are not structured electronic
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documents in the context of the '163 patent?
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A music file.
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Any other examples?
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Well, that's one.
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A file containing
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three-dimensional graphical objects, strictly
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three-dimensional graphical data.
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Any others?
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Well, at least those.
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At least those.
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So why wouldn't a music
file be a structured electronic document?
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question.
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Object to the form of the
Incomplete hypothetical.
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In the context of the '163 patent.
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In the context of the '163 patent.
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Theoretically, there is nothing that precludes it.
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However, a person of ordinary skill in the art
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would -- would typically not associate the -- the
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sort of box-like structure that -- that is intended
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in the '163 patent with something such as a -- a
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music file.
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not -- do not have that inherent, at least
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inherently, have that -- have that structure
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associated with them.
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Typically, music files do not -- are
You could conceive of creating such a
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situation, but that's -- that's -- that's something
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that goes beyond what a person of ordinary skill in
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art would understand.
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structured electronic document?
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So a music file could conceivably be a
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Objection.
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hypothetical.
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I -- I think a person of
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ordinary skill in the art would say -- would say not
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given the -- given the current understanding of music
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files.
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Now, why isn't a file containing strictly
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three-dimensional data a structured electronic
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document?
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Object to the form of the
question.
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Well, by strictly -- strictly
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three-dimensional data, I mean, sort of the raw data
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that -- that often is the result of -- of -- of
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three-dimensional acquisition techniques where you
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get a number of points.
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a -- a big cloud of unstructured points which by
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itself, to me, does not -- does not -- unless --
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unless further worked on, it does not by itself
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disclose any structure.
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And by itself, it's just
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Now, when you formulated your view
of what -- or your position of what a structured
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electronic document means in the context of the '163
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patent, did you review the inventor testimony?
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If I did it would be cited in my report.
Maybe I can look for it.
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Rather than looking at the report -- I don't
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remember seeing it in there either -- let me ask you
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this question.
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Okay.
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Richard Williamson is an inventor on the
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'163 patent, correct?
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Yes.
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During his deposition when he was asked what
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is a structured electronic document, he stated, "A
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structured document is something that has a visual
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structure with structurally interesting components,
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and there are many examples of a structured
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electronic document, whether it be a PDF document
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with an imposed structure or whether it be a Web page
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with a structure, or an -- an .rtf document.
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structured document is something that, you know, a
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normal human can look at and identify areas of
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interest."
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So a
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Do you agree with that definition?
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By and large.
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Okay.
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I would like to qualify that I think
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Mr. Williamson was sort of assuming that -- that that
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structure, not only was it -- it visually apparent to
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the human, but in the examples that he gave, that
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that structure existed in the document itself.
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that?
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Can -- can you describe what you mean by
Yes.
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An example would be that -- would be
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that Web pages have explicit HTML.
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explicit tags such as a division that -- that allow
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visually salient areas of content to be grouped
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together, and that information is explicitly captured
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in the document itself.
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Web pages have
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So is it your position that the document has
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to have structural information that's not visible as
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well as structural information that's visible?
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MR. MONACH:
Object to the form of the
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question as vague and an incomplete hypothetical.
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Calls for a legal conclusion.
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THE WITNESS:
Yeah, I'm -- I -- I -- you'd
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have to rephrase that question for me to answer it.
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Well, in -- in the term "structured
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electronic document," where is the structure?
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something that a human can see or is it something
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that a human cannot see?
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Is it
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question.
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Vague.
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Object to the form of the
Incomplete hypothetical.
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Well, it could be either.
But
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again, to -- to answer that question, clearly you --
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you have to -- you have to qualify that with what the
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human is seeing.
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sort of the -- the machine representation of the
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document or are they looking at the -- the visual
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manifestation of that document once it has been
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interpreted by a machine-readable -- a program?
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So -- so which is it?
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Is the human seeing the -- the --
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I was referring to a human seeing it on the
display of a touch screen, for example.
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So -- so the human is looking at --
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so -- so if I understand you correctly, the human is
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looking at the machine-interpreted visual
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manifestation of a structured electronic document.
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Correct.
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Okay.
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So does the structured electronic document
Now, what's the question?
Sorry.
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have to have structure that is visible to the human
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on the screen as well as structure that's
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understandable by the machine but not visible to the
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human on the screen?
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Objection.
Vague.
Calls for a
legal conclusion.
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It could be either.
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Now, did you see Dr. Gray's definition of
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structured electronic document in his report?
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In his invalidity report?
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Yes.
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I believe I must have, but I don't --
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You don't recall offhand?
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I don't recall offhand.
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Okay.
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But you don't -- you don't recall
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whether you saw a definition by Dr. Gray and agreed
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probably be in my validity report.
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If you had a structured electronic document
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on a display and you enlarged the -- the structured
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electronic document, you zoomed in on it for example,
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and as you zoom in on it additional content is added.
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Does that change the fact that the document
is a structured electronic document?
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Okay.
I -- I think you -- can I have that
question read back to me?
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(Record read.)
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Objection.
Vague.
I would have to ask you
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whether the additional content you referred to is
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additional visual content or additional electron- --
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additional electronic content.
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It -- it --
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Well, maybe you could answer under both of
those scenarios for me.
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Sounds like your answer would be different.
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Well, it -- I would need to know where this
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additional content was coming from.
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would have to -- I'd -- I actually need you to tell
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me where this content was coming from.
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content?
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And so -- so you
Which
This -- it's somewhat hypothetical, right?
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So in this hypothetical situation, you would have to
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Okay.
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Uh-huh.
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And you zoomed in on that picture.
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Uh-huh.
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And as you zoomed in on that picture,
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Let's say we had a picture.
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additional pixels were added.
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Uh-huh.
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Would that change the fact that the
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underlying electronic document is a structured
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electronic document?
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Objection.
Vague.
Incomplete
hypothetical.
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THE WITNESS:
In a scenario where a pixel --
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an image was displayed as being somewhat small and
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then the image was enlarged so that pixels that were
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in the original document were not collapsed onto a
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single pixel but were -- but -- but occupied -- but
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occupied multiple pixels in that specific instance,
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and the -- and it was essentially -- the data was
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part of -- was part of the same original document,
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that would be -- so in that scenario, what was the
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question that you -- so I've -- I've -- I've -- I've
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para- -- I've paraphrased the scenario, but now
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disagree with his defin- -- definition in this case?
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Objection.
Lack of foundation
and vague.
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THE WITNESS:
I -- I would actually need --
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I would need to know all the different parameters
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under which he came to that conclusion to be able
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to -- to say anything conclusively about this.
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If he came to that conclusion with respect
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to Launch Tile in the meaning of electronic document,
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would you agree with that conclusion?
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Objection.
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Lack of foundation
and vague.
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I would -- I would really need
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to know all the different factors that -- that --
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that led him to that conclusion.
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questions that you have asked me have been quite out
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of -- they -- they -- they have had -- they have been
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sort of hypothetical to begin with and have had no
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context either.
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to --
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What you -- the
So it would be impossible for me
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Well, does electronic document have a
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well-known meaning to one of ordinary skill in the
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art in your field?
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MR. MONACH:
Objection.
Vague and
incomplete hypothetical.
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THE WITNESS:
Yes.
Generally in -- in just
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a general setting, an electronic document is -- is a
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file in a, you know, in -- that is -- that is stored
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on a computational device.
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So your definition of electronic document is
a file stored on a computational device?
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Well, stored on a -- on a computer storage
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medium.
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Does it have to be a file?
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Well, a file is usually some cohesive piece
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of information.
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it.
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Yeah.
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So that's one way of talking about
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Can it be anything other than a file?
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Objection.
Vague.
Incomplete
hypothetical.
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THE WITNESS:
It could be as long as there
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was enough evidence to -- to treat them as -- as a
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cohesive, something that a person of ordinary skill
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in the art would think of as a cohesive document.
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Let's assume the court construed the term
structured electronic document to mean something that
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is visually represented on a display with a define
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set of boundaries.
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Visually represented on a display -- okay.
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In that case -- under that hypothetical
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construction, would Launch Tile anticipate Claim 2 of
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the '163 patent?
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Objection.
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Incomplete
hypothetical.
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So the -- the hypothetical
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construction of a structured electronic document that
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you are giving me is just some piece of electronic
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information that visually appears with some -- with
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some understood boundaries.
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Okay.
So and then the question is under that -under that --
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Construction.
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Construction, does Launch Tile anticipate
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Claim 2?
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Correct.
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I don't believe so.
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Okay.
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At least for the reason that -- at least for
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Do you know why?
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the reason that -- to begin with, the structure that
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is disclosed by Launch Tile is independent of the
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structure of any document.
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I, the undersigned, a Certified Shorthand
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Reporter of the State of California, do hereby
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certify:
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That the foregoing proceedings were taken
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before me at the time and place herein set forth;
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that any witnesses in the foregoing proceedings,
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prior to testifying, were placed under oath; that a
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verbatim record of the proceedings was made by me
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using machine shorthand which was thereafter
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transcribed under my direction; further, that the
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foregoing transcript is an accurate transcription
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thereof.
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I further certify that I am neither
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financially interested in the action nor a relative
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or employee of any attorney or party to this action.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have this date
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Dated:
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