Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. et al
Filing
945
EXHIBITS re #943 Declaration in Support,, Exhibits to Arnold Declaration (Exhibit 29) filed bySamsung Electronics America, Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC. (Attachments: #1 Ex. 34, #2 Ex. 35, #3 Ex. 53, #4 Ex. 62, #5 Ex. 70, #6 Ex. 83)(Related document(s) #943 ) (Maroulis, Victoria) (Filed on 5/18/2012)
EXHIBIT 29
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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APPLE, INC., a California
corporation,
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Plaintiff,
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vs.
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SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,
a Korean business entity;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA,
INC., a New York corporation;
SAMSUNG TELECOMMUNICATIONS
AMERICA, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company,
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Defendants.
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VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF ROGER F. FIDLER
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TAKEN ON BEHALF OF THE PLAINTIFF
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
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(Starting time of the deposition:
9:32 a.m.)
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Job Number: 41966
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THE WITNESS:
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MR. ZELLER:
Uh-huh.
If you understand the
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question, you can try and answer it, but I -- I think
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the question is objectionable is all I'm saying.
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A.
The tablet PCs that were introduced by
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Microsoft or encouraged by Microsoft and the
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e-readers, none of them lived up to my original vision
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of what a tablet should be, and so I believe I
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accurately described in that caption for that photo
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that in my view the iPad was the first device to
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accurately represent the vision that I had been
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talking about since 1981.
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Q.
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that vision was?
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A.
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This is asked and answered.
An easy-to-use device that would be optimum
for reading newspapers, magazines, and books.
MS. TAYLOR:
All right.
I have no further
questions.
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And can you tell me what
To have an easy- -MR. ZELLER:
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(By Ms. Taylor)
EXAMINATION
QUESTIONS BY MR. ZELLER:
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Q.
So I do have some questions for you.
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A.
Okay.
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Q.
And is this a comfortable position for you?
Okay.
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A.
Sure.
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Q.
Or do I need to move?
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No.
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Q.
Okay.
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Fine.
Fine.
Directing your attention to
Exhibit 266 --
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Uh-huh.
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-- which is the presentation that you
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created --
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Uh-huh.
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-- and the slides that you created in 2010.
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Uh-huh.
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First of all, are the dates that are
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reflected in here a true and correct chronology of
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events?
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Yes.
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Q.
And you created this document, Exhibit
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Uh-huh.
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-- prior to the time that you knew of any
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266 --
dispute between Apple and Samsung?
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A.
Yes.
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Q.
Directing your attention to the second page
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of this Exhibit 266.
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
This is a -- a drawing, as you testified
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about before?
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Yes, it's a drawing.
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Q.
Pen-and-ink drawing that you created in
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Right.
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1981?
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MS. TAYLOR:
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Objection, leading.
With paste-up of type taken from a -- a
page from the New York Times.
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Q.
(By Mr. Zeller)
And if you could please
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describe -- well, first of all, did the tablet that
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you were drawing here --
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A.
Did I just say New York Times?
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Q.
Yes.
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Miami Herald.
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Miami
Herald.
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Please correct me.
Q.
Did the tablet that you drew back in
1981 --
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- have any kind of buttons on it, any
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physical buttons?
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No.
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Q.
And was it your understanding or your
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vision that the tablet depicted here --
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- would be operated entirely by
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touchscreen buttons?
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Yes, only by touch.
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Q.
And was the tablet that you drew here a
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continuous flat surface on the front?
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A.
That was my assumption.
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Q.
And that that continuous flat surface on
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the front of the tablet ran from edge to edge?
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A.
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MS. TAYLOR:
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Yes.
Q.
Objection, leading.
(By Mr. Zeller)
And this tablet as you
envisioned it in 1981 --
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- did it have a thin form factor?
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MS. TAYLOR:
Objection, vague.
Which
tablet?
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Well, I didn't draw anything to indicate
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the thickness, but certainly envisioning something was
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lightweight, easy to hold.
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So I would assume thin.
(By Mr. Zeller)
With respect to the
various tablets that you --
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- either drew --
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- or that you did mock-ups of --
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- at any time prior to 2004 did you have a
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certain vision or expectation as to whether or not
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those designs would be thin in profile or thick in
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profile?
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MS. TAYLOR:
Objection, vague and compound.
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So --
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Q.
(By Mr. Zeller)
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You can go ahead and
answer.
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Thin.
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Was there -- was there a practical reason
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for that?
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Convenience to -- for holding.
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Q.
When you say convenience for holding, what
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do you mean by that?
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Making it easy to hold, comfortable to
Q.
In the course of your work, have you done
hold.
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any research on the thickness of the form factor for
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tablets?
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In our laboratory, Knight-Ridder
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Information Design Lab in the 1990s we created
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different size thicknesses of devices.
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complete prototypes, but just plastic blocks of
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different thicknesses and then created the prototypes
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that we have by adding different weights to see what
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people felt comfortable with.
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And did that research indicate to you that
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there was a certain thickness of the tablet form
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factor that bore on the comfort of the users?
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below a half-inch in thickness.
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We found that the preference was anything
Q.
And when you say preference, why was it
according to the research --
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Uh-huh.
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-- as you --
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Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- understood it and the research that you
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Uh-huh.
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-- why was it that the respondents
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did --
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preferred a form factor that was half-inch or less in
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profile?
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By holding objects at different thickness,
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they would tell us, you know, what felt the most
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comfortable for them.
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scientific analysis, but by the responses we received
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from people we brought in for focus groups it was
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apparent that thinner was better.
Certainly not a totally
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And why was it better?
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Just felt more comfortable to them.
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Q.
And you said that the basis for your --
your testimony on this --
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Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- includes focus groups?
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Yes.
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We brought in people to give us their
opinion.
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Was there other kind of research that you
did or are you basing it on -- on the focus groups?
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Only on focus groups.
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So returning then to Exhibit 266, the
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second page that's entitled 1981.
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Uh-huh.
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Q.
Did the drawing --
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Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- that -- that you created of this -- this
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1981 tablet --
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Uh-huh.
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-- and that you created back in 1981 show
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an overall rectangular shape?
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Yes.
MS. TAYLOR:
Wait.
Mischaracterizes his
testimony and it's vague.
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(By Mr. Zeller)
And does the drawing that
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you did of the 1981 tablet back in 1981 show four
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evenly rounded corners?
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Yes.
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Q.
Does the drawing that you created in 1981
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that's depicted here on the second page of Exhibit 266
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show a flat, clear surface covering the front of the
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device?
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MS. TAYLOR:
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It could be assumed from the -- from the
drawing that it has a clear surface.
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The document
speaks for itself.
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Objection.
Q.
(By Mr. Zeller)
And the device itself
setting aside the text --
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Uh-huh.
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-- is substantially without ornamentation?
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Yes.
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Does the 1981 drawing that you did of a
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tablet show a thin rim surrounding the front surface?
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Yes.
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Q.
If we could actually then look at your 1981
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three-dimensional mock-up.
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Uh-huh.
It actually came after 1981,
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Right.
What we're calling the 1981 --
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Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- three-dimensional mock-up.
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Uh-huh.
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but --
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Q.
And to be clear, the -- what you have in
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front of you, the physical three-dimensional
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mock-up --
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- the white one that's sometimes referred
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to is an exact copy of a mock-up that was in fact
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created in 1981?
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That's correct.
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Now, does that 1981 mock-up show a
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substantially flat back panel?
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Yes.
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Does it show a thin form factor?
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Yes.
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MS. TAYLOR:
Are you asking about the one
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in front of him or the 1981 one?
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sure.
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MR. ZELLER:
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THE WITNESS:
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MR. ZELLER:
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I just want to be
I'm asking about the 1981 one.
Uh-huh.
Which is identical to the one
he has in front of him as was just established.
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MS. TAYLOR:
Although you asked him in the
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present tense and he says he doesn't have it anymore,
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so that's a little confusing.
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exists.
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Q.
(By Mr. Zeller)
The 1981 one no longer
I'll rephrase it.
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the case that, and tell me if it is, that in 1981 --
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Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- when you created the three-dimensional
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mock-up --
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- of a tablet --
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Yes.
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Q.
-- that you envisioned, that it had a
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substantially flat back?
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Yes.
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Q.
Did it have a thin form factor?
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Yes.
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Q.
And also, if you could hold up the -- the
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three-dimensional mock-up, this so-called white tablet
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or 1981 tablet --
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Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- and you testified earlier about there
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being buttons on it.
Do you recall that?
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That there are no buttons.
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Q.
Well, even earlier in the day --
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A.
Uh-huh.
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Q.
-- you were asked questions about the
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buttons that appear here?
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Oh, yes, okay.
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Q.
And those, to be clear, are -- are shown
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here as touchscreen buttons, not physical buttons?
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Yes.
They're touchscreen buttons, soft
buttons.
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There's no physical buttons --
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No physical buttons.
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Q.
-- on the 1981 mock-up?
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Correct.
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Q.
And it was always the case --
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Yes.
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-- that there was no physical buttons?
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And
can you please turn to Exhibit 266?
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The article?
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Q.
It's the presentation.
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Uh-huh.
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Q.
Exhibit 266.
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Uh-huh.
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Q.
And then if you can turn to the page that
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is headed up 1988 --
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Uh-huh.
Yes.
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Q.
-- which is the fourth page on the
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document.
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these are also drawings?
I think you testified earlier, these are --
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Yes.
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Q.
And what's depicted here are -- on the
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right-hand side are drawings that you did in or about
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1988?
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Correct.
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And did -- are they the same drawings that
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you did back in 1981 that's depicted here on the
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second page of Exhibit 266 or are those different
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drawings?
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No, these are new drawings.
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Q.
Including of the tablet form factor?
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MS. TAYLOR:
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Mischaracterizes.
These drawings do not include the tablet.
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These are just the pages that were put into the
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tablet.
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Q.
(By Mr. Zeller)
You'll see here that there
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appears to be some kind of border around them.
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that depicting?
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That's just the -- the border of the paper.
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Q.
So this is not actually showing a tablet?
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It is not.
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Q.
Actually, let's talk about the article that
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What's
you did first.
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Which article?
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Q.
I will give you an exhibit number in a
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second.
So if you can please turn to Exhibit 248,
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which is the "Portrait vs. Landscape:
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users' preferences for screen orientation"?
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