Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc.

Filing 251

RESPONSE in Opposition re #229 MOTION for Summary Judgment OF INVALIDITY OF US PATENT NO. 6,613,101 filed by Apple, Inc.. (Attachments: #1 Text of Proposed Order, #2 Declaration of Steven K. Feiner Ph.D., #3 Exhibit 1 to Declaration of Steven K. Feiner Ph.D., #4 Declaration of Jeffrey G. Randall in Opposition to Motion for Summary Judgment, #5 Exhibit 1 to Randall Declaration, #6 Exhibit 2 to Randall Declaration, #7 Exhibit 3 to Randall Declaration, #8 Exhibit 4 to Randall Declaration, #9 Exhibit 5 to Randall Declaration, #10 Exhibit 6 to Randall Declaration, #11 Exhibit 7 to Randall Declaration, #12 Exhibit 8 to Randall Declaration, #13 Exhibit 9 to Randall Declaration, #14 Exhibit 10 to Randall Declaration, #15 Exhibit 11 to Randall Declaration, #16 Exhibit 12 to Randall Declaration)(Randall, Jeffrey)

Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc.

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Randall Declaration Exhibit 10

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document to the existing collection in Levine based on the internal representations of the third document and the collection has been discussed above, also see for example, column 13, lines 6 t o 6 5 , c o l u m n 1 5 , l i n e s 4 t o 20 a n d c o l u m n 2 5 , l i n e 58 t o column 26, line 28. Regarding claim 69, the claimed limitation

i s akin to Vale's technique of determining the number of times a keyword, i . e . , a word or a group of words i s used at l e a s t once in each of the documents in the computer data base. T h u s , we

w i l l a l s o s u s t a i n t h e o b v i o u s n e s s r e j e c t i o n o f c l a i m s 8 t o 1 0 , 34 t o 3 6 a n d 69 o v e r L e v i n e a n d V a l e . R e j e c t i o n o f c l a i m s 81 t o 86 u n d e r 35 U . S . C . § 1 0 3 These claims are rejected as being obvious over Nicol and Levine. We t a k e u p i n d e p e n d e n t c l a i m 81 f i r s t . We h a v e r e v i e w e d

t h e a r g u m e n t s o f A p p e l l a n t s [ b r i e f , p a g e s 31 t o 34 a n d r e p l y b r i e f , p a g e 2] a n d t h e E x a m i n e r [ a n s w e r , p a g e s 1 0 , 1 1 , 25 a n d 2 6 , a n d we c o n c l u d e t h a t L e v i n e

a n d s u p p l e m e n t a l a n s w e r , p a g e 2]

s h o w s t h e d i s p l a y i n g o f t h e t o p p a g e o f a d o c u m e n t , w h i c h we h a v e considered as an icon in our discussion here, alongside of the collection as the pointer i s pointed to a document in the c o l l e c t i o n . We h a v e d i s c u s s e d t h i s a t l e n g t h a b o v e . Nicol on the

other hand discloses the concept of icons representing various documents and/or software routines in a computer. -21No i n d i v i d u a l

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a r g u m e n t s h a v e b e e n p r e s e n t e d f o r c l a i m s 82 a n d 8 3 .

Therefore,

we s u s t a i n t h e o b v i o u s n e s s r e j e c t i o n o f c l a i m s 81 t o 83 o v e r Nicol and Levine.
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With respect to claim 84, i t calls for

in series a second indicia . . . and a third indicia (claim 84, lines 4 to 7). We h a v e r e v i e w e d

representation"

the Examiner's position [answer, page 11] and find t h a t the Examiner has not established a prima facie case to reject this claim. C l a i m s 85 a n d 86 d e p e n d o n c l a i m 84 a n d t h e E x a m i n e r h a s

not presented any additional evidence for their rejection. T h e r e f o r e , we do n o t s u s t a i n t h e o b v i o u s n e s s r e j e c t i o n o f c l a i m s 84 t o 86 o v e r N i c o l a n d L e v i n e . R e j e c t i o n o f c l a i m s 31 t o 33 u n d e r 35 U . S . C . § 1 0 3 These claims are rejected over Reed. We d o n o t d e a l h e r e

with any procedural issues raised by Appellants in the utilization of this reference in the final rejection [brief, page 34 a n d 3 5 ] . We o n l y r e v i e w t h e m e r i t s o f t h e f i n a l r e j e c t i o n We t a k e u p c l a i m 31 f i r s t . We h a v e r e v i e w e d t h e

based on Reed.

p o s i t i o n s o f A p p e l l a n t s [ b r i e f , p a g e s 35 t o 3 8 ] a n d t h e E x a m i n e r [ a n s w e r , p a g e s 12 t o 1 3 ] a n d we c o n c l u d e
th~t

whereas Reed shows

the textual search as well as the pictorial search, see columns 17 a n d 1 8 , i t d o e s n o t m e e t t h e l i m i t a t i o n
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a

graphical representation of said collection on said display -22-

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