Eolas Technologies Incorporated v. Adobe Systems Incorporated et al

Filing 996

RESPONSE in Opposition re 877 SEALED MOTION [DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF INVALIDITY FOR LACK OF WRITTEN DESCRIPTION] SEALED MOTION [DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF INVALIDITY FOR LACK OF WRITTEN DESCRIPTION] SEALED MOTION [DEFENDANTS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF INVALIDITY FOR LACK OF WRITTEN DESCRIPTION] filed by Eolas Technologies Incorporated. (Attachments: # 1 Declaration of Josh Budwin, # 2 Exhibit A1, # 3 Exhibit A2, # 4 Exhibit B, # 5 Exhibit C, # 6 Exhibit D, # 7 Exhibit E, # 8 Exhibit F, # 9 Exhibit G, # 10 Exhibit H, # 11 Exhibit I, # 12 Text of Proposed Order)(McKool, Mike)

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EXHIBIT E Highly Confidential Page 301 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TYLER DIVISION EOLAS TECHNOLOGIES, § INCORPORATED § § Plaintiff § § VS. § No. 6:09-cv-446 § ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC., § AMAZON.COM, INC., APPLE, § INC., BLOCKBUSTER, INC., § CDW CORP., CITIGROUP, INC.§ EBAY, INC., FRITO-LAY, § INC., THE GO DADDY GROUP, § INC., GOOGLE, INC., § JPMORGAN CHASE & CO., NEW § FRONTIER MEDIA, INC., § OFFICE DEPOT, INC., PEROT § SYSTEMS CORP., PLAYBOY § ENTERPRISES INTERNATIONAL,§ INC., RENT-A-CAR, INC., § STAPLES, INC., SUN § MICROSYSTEMS, INC., TEXAS § INSTRUMENTS, INC., YAHOO! § INC., AND YOUTUBE, LLC § § Defendants § _________________________ § *** HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL *** VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF CHEONG S. ANG Austin, Texas Friday, July 22, 2011 Volume 2 22 23 24 Reported by: MICHEAL A. JOHNSON, CRR JOB NO. 40572 25 TSG Reporting - Worldwide (877) 702-9580 Highly Confidential Page 302 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 July 22, 2011 9:02 a.m. Videotaped deposition of CHEONG S. ANG, held at the offices of McKool Smith, 300 West 6th Street, Suite 1700, Austin, Texas, pursuant to Agreement before Micheal A. Johnson, a Certified Realtime Reporter and Notary Public of the State of Texas. Page 303 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 APPEARANCES McKOOL SMITH Attorney for Plaintiffs 300 West sixth Street, Suite 1700 Austin, Texas 78701 BY: JOSH BUDWIN, ESQ. KEVIN BURGESS, ESQ. FISH & RICHARDSON Attorney for Defendant 12390 El Camino Real San Diego, California 92130 BY: JASON W. WOLFF, ESQ. WEIL GOTSHAL & MANGES Attorney for Defendants 201 Redwood Shores Parkway Redwood Shores, California 94065 BY: EDWARD R. REINES, ESQ. MARSHALL GERSTEIN & BORUN Attorney for Defendant 233 South Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60606 BY: THOMAS L. DUSTON, ESQ. Page 304 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 APPEARANCES ROPES & GRAY Attorney for Defendant 1900 University Avenue East Palo Alto, California 94303 BY: JAMES R. BATCHELDER, ESQ. VIDEOGRAPHER: Angelica Mathews Page 305 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 TSG Reporting - Worldwide IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between the attorneys for the respective parties herein, that filing and sealing be and the same are hereby waived. IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED that all objections, except as to the form of the question, shall be reserved to the time of trial. IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED that the within deposition may be sworn to and signed before any officer authorized to administer an oath, with the same force and effect as if signed and sworn to before the Court. - oOo - (877) 702-9580 2 Highly Confidential Page 578 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 read the patent, go ahead and start from the front page and read for as long as it takes you. Go ahead. Objection to form on that question. (Witness Reviews Document.) 04:34PM THE VIDEOGRAPHER: I've got about five minutes left on the tape. Would you like to go off the record and change it? MR. BATCHELDER: Why don't we do that while he's reading. 04:36PM MR. BUDWIN: If we're going to change tapes, we're going to take a break. THE VIDEOGRAPHER: This is the end of -MR. BUDWIN: So what do you want 04:36PM him to do? MR. BATCHELDER: I'd just like him to keep reading while we change the tapes. MR. BUDWIN: If we're changing tapes, we're taking a break. It's been an 04:36PM hour and 15 minutes. MR. BATCHELDER: Well, there is a question pending, so no discussion about the question during the break. MR. BUDWIN: That's fine. 04:36PM Page 579 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: This is the end of tape No. 11. We are off the record at 4:37. (Recess Taken From 4:37 p.m. To 4:48 p.m.) 04:47PM THE VIDEOGRAPHER: This is the beginning of tape No. 12. We are back on the record at 4:48. BY MR. BATCHELDER: Q. The videographer needed to change 04:47PM the tape while the question was pending, Mr. Ang, so let me remind you of the question. Other than the Table II of the patents-in-suit, is there any other place in the written description of these patents that 04:47PM describes an embed text format other than an HTML tag format? MR. BUDWIN: Objection, form. Take your time. (Witness Reviews Document.) 04:48PM A. So, Counsel, as I was mentioning earlier before the break and before you had me read through this patent, the purpose that I was doing this was to answer your question on is there another HTML tag format that is 04:59PM Page 580 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 similar to what was provided in Table II. Is that accurate? BY MR. BATCHELDER: Q. My question was other than in Table II of the patents-in-suit, is there any 04:59PM other place in the written description of these patents that describes an embed text format other than an HTML tag format? A. Okay. So -MR. BUDWIN: Objection, form. 04:59PM A. My answer to that after reading through this patent was in the description of the patent itself and then following the description at the end, it mentions that the patent -- the invention has been described 05:00PM with reference to a specific exemplary embodiment therefore. And it will, however, be evident that there is modifications and changes may be made there onto without departing from the broadest spirit and scope 05:00PM of the invention as set forth in the appended claims. And so, for example, different programming languages and techniques may be used, right. And then in conjunction with just 05:00PM Page 581 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 TSG Reporting - Worldwide above Table II what was mentioned was Table II below shows an example -- an example of an HTML tag format used by the present invention to embed a link in an application program within a hypermedia document. So this 05:00PM description actually provides an example and it describes an embodiment of the invention. And then, in fact, there are other places in the description that talks about -- under column 9, line approximately 55, it says, 05:01PM "Assuming network 206 is the Internet, such a request would typically be made by using HTTP in response to an HTML-style link definition." And so all those other -- all those descriptions are alluding to the fact that 05:01PM HTML and the Internet are provided in an example embodiment -- as examples of distributed hypermedia environment that the invention can be implemented on. And then obviously there's another 05:02PM place in the patent, column 6 close to the end, that talks about, "The invention not only allows the user to use a hypermedia format." BY MR. BATCHELDER: Q. What line are you on there? 05:02PM (877) 702-9580 71 Highly Confidential Page 622 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. Do you see anything related to the parsing of type information in your source code appendix on this page? A. Yes, I do. Q. What do you see? 06:09PM A. I see a function code to parse mark tag that was looking for type, the type of attribute from the input text, the Xt. Q. Does that show that your code was using type information to select the 06:10PM executable application? A. Yes. That definitely showed that my code is using type application to select executable applications. Q. Let me just make sure that we're 06:10PM clear. Does the code that you've just looked at on pages 735, 803 and 808 of Exhibit 27, the source code appendix attached to your patent, show that your code was using type information to select among the three 06:10PM different supported executable applications, VIS, WT and MPEG? A. Yes, it does. MR. WOLFF: Objection. BY MR. BUDWIN: 06:10PM Page 623 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. Now, is the code that we just talked about consistent with your testimony that you came up with the idea for type information as early as September 7th, 1993? A. Yes, it does. 06:10PM Q. Do you have an understanding as to whether Dr. Doyle demonstrated versions of this code? A. Yes. Q. And what's your understanding? 06:11PM A. Dr. Doyle demonstrated versions of this code. MR. WOLFF: Objection. BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. Do you have Exhibit 2 in front of 06:11PM you, the invention disclosure form? The letter. A. Okay. I have that. Q. Will you look to the second page, Bates page 16. 06:11PM A. Okay. Q. At the bottom it says, "The first demonstration of this invention to non-UC personnel was on November 16th, 1993, to Dr. Donald Lindberg in Room 101 of the UCSF 06:11PM Page 624 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Library Building." A. Correct. Q. Would Dr. Doyle have demonstrated a version of the code in Exhibit 27 that we just talked about to Dr. Lindberg? 06:11PM MR. WOLFF: Objection. A. Yes, he would. BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. Now, do you recall Dr. Doyle making a presentation at the Medicine Meets Virtual 06:11PM Reality Conference in January of 1994? A. Yes, I recall the event. Q. Would Dr. Doyle have demonstrated a version of the code in Exhibit 27 to the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference? 06:12PM MR. WOLFF: Objection. A. Yes, he would have. BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. Do you recall in the testimony that you gave earlier Mr. Reines and Mr. Batchelder 06:12PM asking you about disclosure of embed text formats other than the embed tag in Table II of the specification of your patent? A. Repeat that, please. Q. Sure. Do you recall Mr. Batchelder 06:12PM Page 625 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 TSG Reporting - Worldwide and Mr. Reines asking you about disclosure of embed text formats other than the embed tag in Table II in the specification of your patent? A. Yes, I do. Q. When you were answering those 06:12PM questions, were you looking at a version of the patent that did not include the source code appendix? MR. WOLFF: Objection. A. That's correct. 06:12PM BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. Looking at the version of the patent with the source code appendix, for example, Exhibit 27, do you see a disclosure of embed text formats other than the embed tag 06:13PM shown in Table II of the specification? Let me direct you to page 578. I think we might have switched exhibits. Do you have Exhibit 6 which is the other version of the source code appendix? Do you see the page that ends 578? 06:13PM Are you there? A. One second. Q. Are you on the page that ends E 023578? A. Yes. 06:14PM (877) 702-9580 82 Highly Confidential Page 626 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Q. Do you see, Mr. Ang, about midway through the page there's a #ifdef_VIS? A. Yes, I do. Q. And then do you see something in there called IMAGE3D? 06:14PM A. Yes. Q. Is IMAGE3D an example of an embed text format that is not an embed tag, for example, what's shown in Table II of your patent? 06:15PM MR. WOLFF: Objection. A. Yeah, IMAGE3D would be. So prior to using the tag e-m-b-e-d, IMAGE3D was used as another instance of an embed text format for HTML. 06:15PM BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. Mr. Ang, we may have talked -- you can set that aside. We may have talked about this earlier, but other than yourself, your co-inventors are Mr. Martin and Dr. Doyle; is 06:15PM that right? A. That's correct. Q. Do you recall your employment agreement with the University of California San Francisco? 06:15PM Page 627 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A. Yes, I do. Q. And did your employment agreement require you to bring inventions to the attention of the university? A. Yes, my -- yes, definitely. 06:15PM Q. Is that why you filled out the document in Exhibit 2 that we talked about earlier? MR. WOLFF: Objection. A. That's correct. 06:16PM BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. At the time you began working on your invention in the summer of 1993 at the University of California San Francisco, what web browsers were you aware of? 06:16PM A. During -- during my work at UC San Francisco around the 1993 time frame I was aware of NCSA Mosaic. Q. And was one of the things that your invention did was add functionality to Mosaic 06:16PM that didn't previously exist in Mosaic or any other web browser? MR. WOLFF: Objection. A. That's correct. We added functionality that was described in the 06:16PM Page 628 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 invention. BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. And that's what we see in the code in Exhibit 6 and Exhibit 27? MR. WOLFF: Objection. 06:16PM A. That's correct. BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. In the summer and fall of 1993, did Mosaic allow for embedded interactive objects in web pages? 06:17PM MR. WOLFF: Objection. A. Mosaic itself from NCSA did not allow embedding of interactive objects. BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. If Mosaic itself did allow the 06:17PM embedding of interactive objects, would you have had to modify it? MR. WOLFF: Objection. A. If Mosaic itself allowed embedding of interactive objects, then I would not have 06:17PM done any additional codes to it. BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. Were you aware of any web browser prior to your invention that allowed for embedded interactive objects? 06:17PM Page 629 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 TSG Reporting - Worldwide MR. WOLFF: Objection. A. No, I wasn't aware of any. BY MR. BUDWIN: Q. Have you heard of something called X Windows? 06:17PM A. Yes, I have. Q. What is X Windows? A. X Windows is a graphical windowing systems that runs on many Unix systems. Q. Is X Windows a web browser? 06:17PM A. X Windows is not a browser. Q. Is X Windows your invention? A. No, X Windows is not my invention. MR. WOLFF: Object to form. BY MR. BUDWIN: 06:18PM Q. Have you ever heard of someone called Pei Wei or something called Viola? A. I have heard of Pei Wei and Viola much later, I guess from the last litigation. Q. How did you first come about 06:18PM hearing about Pei Wei or Viola? A. In the last litigation. Q. So that would have been after your patent issued? A. That's correct. 06:18PM (877) 702-9580 83

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