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`Attorneys for Defendant
`FACEBOOK, INC.
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
`OAKLAND DIVISION
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`WINDY CITY INNOVATIONS, LLC
`Plaintiff,
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`FACEBOOK, INC.,
`Defendant.
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`Case Nos. 4:16-cv-01730-YGR
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`NOTICE RE STATUS OF WINDY CITY’S
`APPEALS OF ADVERSE IPR DECISIONS
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`Defendant Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) files this Notice to provide the Court with an
`update regarding Plaintiff Windy City Innovations LLC (“Windy City”) (together, “the
`Parties”) filing of Notices of Appeals with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
`regarding Final Written Decisions in the inter partes reviews (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent Nos.
`8,407,356 (“the ’356 patent”), 8,458,245 (“the ’245 patent”), 8,473,552 (“the ’552 patent”),
`and 8,694,657 (“the ’657 patent”) (collectively, “the Patents-in-Suit”).
`Windy City’s Appeals. On February 5, 2018, the Parties filed a Joint Case
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`NOTICE RE STATUS OF WINDY CITY’S APPEALS
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`Case 4:16-cv-01730-YGR Document 96 Filed 02/08/18 Page 2 of 3
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`Management Statement in which Facebook informed the Court of its pending Notices of
`Appeal. (Dkt. No. 95 at 4). In the Joint Case Management Statement, Windy City declined to
`inform Facebook or the Court of its intention to file any Notices of Appeal.
`On February 7, 2018—just two days after failing to provide Facebook or the Court with
`notice of its intentions—Windy City filed six Notices of Appeal (Exs. 1-6), challenging all
`adverse decisions from six different IPRs of the Patents-in-Suit, including the PTAB’s finding
`unpatentable twenty-three of the thirty-two asserted claims Windy City elected to pursue in
`this case. (Dkt. No. 95 at 2-3).
`Facebook’s Appeals. On January 10, 2018, Facebook filed four Notices of Appeal to
`the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appealing, among other issues, the PTAB’s
`finding that the nine remaining asserted claims were not unpatentable. Fed. Cir. Appeal Nos.
`18-1400, -1401, -1402, -1403. All of Facebook’s appeals have been consolidated under Case
`No. 18-1400.
`Status of Asserted Claims. As a result of the parties’ ten Notices of Appeal, all
`asserted claims in this litigation are currently on appeal to the Federal Circuit:
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`Patent
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`8,407,356
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`8,458,245
`8,473,552
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`8,694,657
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`Asserted Claims Found
`Unpatentable:
`Appealed by Windy City
`1, 2, 7, 14, 16, 19, 20,
`26, 33, 35
`None
`10, 14, 15, 16, 16, 59,
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`189, 465, 477, 482,
`487, 492
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`Asserted Claims Not
`Found Unpatentable:
`Appealed by Facebook
`None
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`Asserted Claims
`Not Appealed by
`Any Party
`None
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`19, 22-25
`None
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`203, 209, 215, 221
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`None
`None
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`None
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`Case 4:16-cv-01730-YGR Document 96 Filed 02/08/18 Page 3 of 3
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`Dated: February 8, 2018
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`COOLEY LLP
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`/s/ Phillip E. Morton
`Phillip E. Morton
`Attorneys for Defendant
`FACEBOOK, INC.
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`NOTICE RE STATUS OF WINDY CITY’S APPEALS
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