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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Good morning.
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`This is Judge Charles Boudreau, and I have
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` Do we have counsel for Alarm.com?
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` MR. SHELTON: Yes, Your Honor. This
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`is Brian Shelton for petitioner. And I'm also
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`joined by co-counsel Teena Sankoorikal.
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Thank you.
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` And do we also have counsel for
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` MR. STERNE: Yes, Your Honor. This is
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`Robert Sterne for patent owner Vivint. And do
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`you want me to identify who's on the call from
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`our side?
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` We have a court reporter, Your Honor.
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Yes, please.
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` MR. STERNE: We have Jason
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`Mutschelknaus on the call. And we have the
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`court reporter. And with your consent, we will,
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`of course, provide a transcript of the call for
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`the record.
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Yes. Please do.
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`Thank you.
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` All right. Thank you.
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` We received Mr. Mandir's message
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`regarding procedures that would be followed by
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`the Patent Office for processing patent owner's
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`request for Certificate of Correction. And we
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` MR. STERNE: Your Honor, this is
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`Robert Sterne speaking. We will absolutely
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`not come to the Board first, because we're very
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`like to make clear at the beginning of the call
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` MR. SHELTON: Your Honor, this is
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: This is Judge
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`Boudreau. Before we go down that road too far,
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`let me just find out from petitioner whether you
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` MR. STERNE: Your Honor, --
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Granted, these are
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`of Correction, it appears that they were
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` MR. SHELTON: Yes, Your Honor. One of
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`the '654 patent, Claims 16 and 24, the claim,
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`application of prior art. And there are other
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`instances. There's another instance where, for
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`example, the limitation of a table was changed
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`to a memory.
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` So our concern, primarily, is that
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Would patent owner
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` MR. STERNE: Yes, we do, Your Honor.
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`I mean, that's exactly what I said at the
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` I mean, look, let's start at the
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`which, by the way, petitioner was aware of
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`in their petition, because they raised it.
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` Now, I want to bring to the Board's
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Wait. Because,
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` MR. STERNE: Well, Your Honor, in
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` The first one is International Flavors
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`IPR2015-01418, and, Your Honors, in Paper Number
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` And in a second case, Your Honors,
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`in Pharmacosmos A/S versus Luitpold
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`earlier, these only go to typographical and
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`clerical errors. The reality here --
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: In each of those
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` MR. STERNE: Yes, they did, Your
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: But we do have
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` MR. STERNE: So the trial has not been
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`37 CFR 1.322, it says, if a request relates to
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`on a petition. So our interpretation of these
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`panel decisions, Your Honor, is that until
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` The last thing we are trying to do
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` MR. SHELTON: Thanks.
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: I'm going to confer
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Okay. This is Judge
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` At the outset, Mr. Sterne, we
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`scope of this sur-reply, not just the issue
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` We did not, Your Honor, address any of
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Thank you. And we
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`their preliminary response, but certainly we'll
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` That's the question we have for the
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Yes, that sounds
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` MR. SHELTON: Okay.
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: No.
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` MR. STERNE: No?
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Nothing is authorized
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` MR. STERNE: Well, how do we defend
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Well, you've already
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` MR. STERNE: No, Your Honor. As we
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: Within seven days.
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`One week.
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` MR. SHELTON: Okay.
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` JUDGE BOUDREAU: All right. Thank you
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` MR. SHELTON: Thank you.
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` I do hereby certify that the aforesaid
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` WITNESS my hand and official seal this
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`26th day of January 2016.
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