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BOT M8 LLC v. SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA

Oral Argument — 05/07/2021 · Case 20-2218 · 42:43

Appeal Number
20-2218
Argument Date
05/07/2021
Duration
42:43
Segments
475
Panel Judges
  • Judge Judge Dyk high
  • Judge Judge O'Malley medium
  • Judge Judge Linn high
Attorneys
  • Appellant Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) high
  • Appellee Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) high
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0:00 Judge Dyk Our final case this morning is number 20-2218,
0:04 BOT M8 LLC versus Sony Corporation of America, Mr. Andre.
0:10 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) Thank you, Your Honor.
0:12 May it please the court.
0:13 We have two discreet and independent issues.
0:21 Can a district court use its own pleading standard
0:24 that is in direct contradiction to this court's pleading standards
0:28 in dismissing a complaint?
0:30 And the second...
0:31 Judge Dyk Mr. Andre, hi.
0:34 This is Judge Dyke.
0:35 I think you have some good arguments
0:39 that the district court heard in dismissing the 988 and 670
0:49 aspects of the complaint.
0:52 But with respect to the 540 allegations,
0:56 it strikes me that you have a bit of a problem
0:59 because the only allegation that comes close to
1:04 the 540 allegations is that you have a problem
1:05 with satisfying the claim language concerns the hard drive.
1:10 And I think, as I understand the complaint,
1:14 it is alleged that the hard drive is part of the motherboard.
1:19 So why don't you have a problem instead of the 540?
1:25 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) And the authentication program was separate from the motherboard.
1:41 It was not free.
1:52 And the authentication program...
1:54 Judge O'Malley Wait, where did you...
1:55 From the motherboard?
2:04 But the complaint says...
2:16 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) From the motherboard.
2:17 The actual...
2:22 The way it is to be the network.
2:46 Judge Dyk Understanding that.
2:47 If you look at 633 of the appendix,
2:51 paragraph 74,
2:53 it talks about an authentication program
2:55 being in these three separate places.
2:57 But I don't see where there's an allegation
3:01 that the game program is found in each of those three.
3:05 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) So if you're looking at...
3:07 There's memory on the hard drive
3:22 and the authentication program there.
3:24 Go down...
3:41 Judge Dyk Well, wait, wait, wait.
3:42 I don't see where the Blu-ray,
3:45 for example, is alleged to contain the game program.
3:53 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) 637, you'll see that it's saying game software
4:05 that is inserted into the PlayStation 4 console.
4:07 So it actually has the game software on it.
4:10 And we have multiple sites that shows
4:12 that the game comes off proprietary CD-ROM
4:14 from their websites regarding that.
4:20 So that's in that second chart.
4:23 Judge Dyk What do you mean, second chart?
4:24 I'm looking at 637.
4:26 What do you mean, second chart?
4:29 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) There are two charts in each page.
4:32 The way it's set up.
4:33 Judge Dyk I'm not understanding what you're saying.
4:35 Where on the page do I look?
4:38 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) The bottom of that page.
4:40 Judge Dyk Under E?
4:42 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) E, that's correct.
4:43 Judge Dyk Yes.
4:45 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) You'll see there a PlayStation 4 Blu-ray disc
4:47 containing the game software.
4:49 But the Blu-ray disc has the memory and the game program,
5:00 storing the game program
5:01 with the authentication program as well.
5:09 Judge Dyk Yeah.
5:10 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) And up the next page,
5:17 the PlayStation Network server,
5:19 thinking that the board includes memory
5:24 and with the game on it,
5:27 can also be the network server itself.
5:38 Judge Dyk You allege that the hard drive
5:42 is part of the motherboard, right?
5:43 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) The motherboard is different from the board
5:47 and it connects to the board.
5:49 I believe if you look at,
5:52 when you get to the section regarding the motherboard itself,
5:58 down several pages to pull out the motherboard,
6:10 it contains the memory that is different
6:12 from the boards that follow the game program
6:16 during execution.
6:17 We actually allege that the motherboard is different
6:19 from the board that we described.
6:22 The memory is different.
6:30 Judge O'Malley It doesn't say the motherboard is.
6:45 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) There's different memory, obviously.
6:48 We're trying to get across here,
6:49 which is different from.
6:56 And so there's nothing in the claim language that I see
7:00 that they cannot be sitting in the same plane,
7:06 that they shouldn't be connected to each other.
7:08 What we would define as a motherboard
7:09 at this stage of the case
7:11 ain't more than added to survive a motion to dismiss.
7:19 Judge O'Malley Well, what do we do about saying
7:27 that these are pleadings that might be there?
7:33 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) You could have multiple authentication.
7:45 One of the biggest issues regarding
7:46 these gaming consoles,
7:49 they put authentication throughout these consoles.
7:58 They put them on the disk.
7:59 They put them on the servers.
8:01 It's not mutually exclusive.
8:03 And like you said, Judge O'Malley,
8:07 my point is,
8:09 we did the actual consoles.
8:18 We investigated the disk
8:21 and obviously the server,
8:24 because that's behind a firewall.
8:25 This should have been more than adequate
8:28 to survive the standards this court set forward.
8:31 You know, the Nalco case that we cite extensively
8:35 in lifetime industries.
8:38 Judge O'Malley When did you do those?
8:44 At the time?
8:44 The first conference that you'd already done it
8:46 and then you told the leader that you couldn't.
9:01 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) We did an extensive rule 11 analysis
9:03 before we filed complaints.
9:05 We take that very seriously.
9:06 So before the complaint was filed in August of 19,
9:09 we had done the teardowns and created charts.
9:13 Teardown, the legal ways it can do it for you,
9:18 where they actually just teardown the program,
9:20 the actual reverse engineering
9:26 is a different technology altogether.
9:30 Reverse engineering is where you try to go in
9:32 and rip off someone's source code.
9:39 Judge Dyk The two are different.
9:41 It still doesn't explain
9:42 why you didn't raise the jailbreaking issue earlier.
9:47 And I just, I mean,
9:49 you agree that we're dealing here
9:52 with the good cause standard of rule 16, right?
9:54 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) For the motion for leave to amend,
10:00 not on the original dismissal.
10:04 Judge Dyk I understand.
10:06 But, and good cause imposes diligence.
10:09 So why is it that you didn't earlier
10:13 raise the jailbreaking problem?
10:17 On November 21st, for example.
10:21 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) To be honest with you, I think miscommunication,
10:24 it was very explicit that we had done the teardowns
10:27 and we tore down the Sony PlayStation.
10:29 We were talking about.
10:32 Judge Dyk Well, so what?
10:33 You agreed to, he said it's two weeks
10:36 to file the first amendment complaint adequately.
10:40 And you said yes.
10:42 And then, so he set the December 5th date.
10:47 So what's the,
10:49 what's the excuse for not raising the jailbreaking issue
10:52 at that point,
10:52 if you thought that that was necessary
10:55 to file the first amended complaints?
10:58 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) We didn't think it was necessary, Your Honor,
11:01 to be very candid with you.
11:02 We think that the teardowns
11:04 with more than adequate information
11:07 is much greater to do these teardowns
11:12 and provide an element by element claim analysis
11:16 in terms of each and every element
11:23 is this court's stand.
11:27 And that's what the district court has done.
11:30 And it's Mr. Andre.
11:46 Judge Linn It's code information you couldn't have gotten
11:52 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) on the second amended complaint.
11:54 If any of that is there,
11:58 because jailbreak, the actual console
12:08 and reverse engineer,
12:11 there's explicit language.
12:13 I guess I'll reserve.
12:26 Judge Dyk We're not finished yet.
12:28 I don't see that you answered Judge Lynn's question
12:31 where the product of this jailbreaking
12:36 is reflected in the second amended complaint,
12:38 which is what I understood him to have.
12:41 Judge Linn Yes, that was my question,
12:43 and I didn't get an answer.
12:52 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) Complaint, any time you see a source code,
12:55 let me pull it up, 91,
15:01 you'll see a lot of, they do a jailbreak,
16:10 held liable for doing, 588.
16:24 Judge Linn File directory is part of the source code.
17:10 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) You can go on through 2609.
17:27 Judge Dyk But Mr. Andre, this is Judge Dyke.
17:30 I thought your theory in the second amended complaint
17:34 was that the authentication program
17:37 and the game program were online.
17:39 The hard drive,
17:40 and that's what satisfied the claim limitation,
17:44 and that the hard drive was separate from the motherboard.
17:47 Am I wrong about that?
17:49 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) The board that...
17:56 Judge Dyk Just tell me whether I'm...
17:57 Am I wrong?
17:58 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) You're correct.
17:59 Judge Dyk Okay, well, then this allegation
18:02 doesn't have anything to do with this
18:03 because this is talking about the Blu-ray disc.
18:07 Where did you rely on the source code
18:11 to make the central allegation
18:14 that I just referred to about the hard drive?
18:17 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) The first one is the hard drive, Blu-ray disc.
18:40 Judge Dyk So when you agreed with me
18:42 that the second amended complaint
18:44 relied on both of these things being in the hard drive,
18:49 that wasn't quite right
18:50 because you're saying that's not entirely the theory.
18:56 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) That's one of the allegations we've alleged.
19:02 Back here a little bit, too.
19:27 And then the district court required this court,
19:34 and actually in direct contradiction,
19:36 to what's in this court.
19:37 We then went in and showed them our teardown charts
19:40 that we had done in two weeks.
19:44 The court then said that was not
19:47 to go do the source engineering on source code,
19:56 which we had to do...
19:57 Judge Dyk Required you to do that?
20:00 Where did the district court require you to do that?
20:04 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) In his order, he dismissed the amended complaint
20:08 saying that the teardowns were not sufficient.
20:12 Judge Dyk That's not true.
20:13 This is that he required you to jailbreak.
20:17 He allowed you to do it.
20:19 He didn't require...
20:20 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) He said, we need source code.
20:26 They would not give us the source code
20:33 because source code is one of the most protective...
20:37 And the only way you can do it is to find this stuff.
20:42 Judge Linn What the judge was saying was that
20:52 you couldn't have done this before.
21:02 Give you another chance.
21:03 Well, you have my permission for what it's worth.
21:10 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) The amended complaint,
21:32 the teardowns we'd done prior to that,
21:43 that was not going to be sufficient.
21:44 We needed source DMCA.
21:51 And he said, well, I don't know if I have authority or not,
21:54 but you have the authority to do so.
21:57 It was in my wildest imagination.
22:01 I could not...
22:03 Imagine that in order to file a complaint,
22:05 you'd have to go in and have each and every element,
22:10 not just an allegation.
22:12 And as this court has done,
22:15 this disease and Nalco,
22:17 you have to prove your case.
22:24 Judge Dyk Mr. Mastranda, I think we're way over our time here
22:27 unless my colleagues have further questions for you
22:30 at this point.
22:31 I think we'll hear from Mr. O'Quinn.
22:34 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) Some reserve time on the one-on-one issue.
22:37 Judge Dyk You have no time left at all,
22:41 but we'll give you two minutes to rebuttal.
22:45 Mr. O'Quinn.
22:46 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) Thank you, Judge Dyke.
22:49 May it please the court, John O'Quinn on behalf of Stoney.
22:52 The district court properly applied precedent
22:54 to dismiss bot M8 claims against Stoney
22:57 as either inadequately pled
22:58 or patenting an eligible subject matter.
23:01 I think what's important to recognize here
23:04 is with respect to these particular claims...
23:07 Judge Dyk Could you address the 540
23:09 and what Mr. Andre said about that?
23:14 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) Yes, Judge Dyke.
23:15 So with respect to the 540 patent,
23:17 as I said,
23:18 as some of the questions from you
23:20 and Judge O'Malley have indicated,
23:22 there were allegations that the authentication
23:24 was on the motherboard itself.
23:27 You can see that at Appendix 630,
23:29 paragraphs 66, 67, and 68.
23:32 That, of course, is the opposite
23:34 of what the claims require.
23:36 The claims here, it's not enough
23:39 that there simply be an authentication program somewhere.
23:42 It's got to be on the same board with the game,
23:45 and that board has to not be
23:48 the motherboard.
23:49 And that is exactly what is missing here,
23:52 at least in terms of any sort of plausible allegations.
23:55 There are allegations that it's on the motherboard,
23:58 which under the Ninth Circuit's decision in Trist
24:00 shows that this is really all hand-waving
24:04 and therefore not entitled to the presumption of truth.
24:07 And the allegations...
24:09 Judge Dyk So where do we find the allegations
24:11 that the authentication program's on the motherboard?
24:15 Which page, which paragraph?
24:17 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) It's Appendix 630, Judge Dike,
24:20 and in all of paragraphs 66, 67, and 68.
24:26 Now, even if that wasn't there,
24:28 we would be making the same argument here,
24:30 because ultimately what they have to have
24:32 to open the doors of discovery,
24:35 as Twombly specifies,
24:38 is they need to have a plausible basis.
24:40 Judge Dyk You're referring specifically to paragraph 66,
24:43 where it says the PlayStation reads an authentication program
24:46 from the memory of the motherboard,
24:47 not the memory of the motherboard?
24:49 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) Yes, yes, Judge Dike.
24:50 Okay.
24:52 And so there are allegations,
24:54 and I think it's important to recognize,
24:56 both for the 540 and for the 990 patent,
25:00 that there are multiple things in these devices
25:04 where programs could be stored.
25:06 So you're not dealing with a situation
25:07 where there's a single board,
25:09 and you could infer, well, everything must be on that.
25:12 In fact, what's purportedly inventive here
25:15 about both the 540 patent,
25:17 and the 990 patent,
25:19 is that they gather certain things on one board,
25:22 separate from the motherboard,
25:25 so as to reduce commercial manufacturing costs.
25:28 Because they didn't invent motherboards or boards,
25:33 they didn't invent authentication programs,
25:35 or mutual authentication programs,
25:37 or fault inspection programs.
25:39 The only thing that's putatively inventive here
25:42 is the specific configurations on the specific devices.
25:47 Judge O'Malley What's your response, Mr. O'Quinn,
25:50 to Mr. Andre's contention that...
25:53 Well, Judge O'Malley, I don't understand him
26:03 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) to be alleging that there are alternative pleadings
26:06 vis-a-vis the motherboard.
26:08 And I think what is perhaps telling
26:11 is if you look at Appendix 1676,
26:14 Paragraph 66, the proposed Second Amended Complaint,
26:18 they now delete the allegations about the motherboard
26:21 from the proposed Second Amended Complaint.
26:23 So I don't think it was an alternative.
26:25 I think they were just guessing
26:26 that it could be on any possible board in the device.
26:31 And they didn't think it all the way through
26:32 because obviously alleging it's on the motherboard
26:35 is inconsistent with what the claims require.
26:39 And I think there's exactly...
26:40 Judge O'Malley Let me ask you a couple other questions.
26:42 First, just on timeliness ground.
27:05 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) I appreciate the question, Judge O'Malley.
27:07 I think if you look at the order,
27:09 what he was saying is that that was the deadline
27:11 by which they could file a motion for leave to amend.
27:15 end. And isn't that when they did? Well, respectfully, Judge O'Malley, I think what
27:23 he was saying is, I will entertain the motion if you file it by then. But he ultimately concluded
27:29 that the motion shouldn't be granted because one of the things that they would have needed to show
27:33 in the motion was just cause. Because the Rule 16 standard applied, the deadline for an amended
27:40 complaint was the deadline that they had agreed to. But to the extent the court relied on
27:45 Judge O'Malley timeliness, that was wrong. Maybe. Well, Judge O'Malley, I didn't read his opinion as saying
27:58 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) that they had filed their motion in an untimely way. I read his opinion as saying that you didn't
28:05 satisfy the just cause standard because you didn't exercise diligence. But I didn't read him
28:11 as denying their motion as being untimely, as opposed to that they didn't exercise
28:16 sufficient diligence in the time for which they filed an amended complaint because they should
28:24 have done all of this beforehand. And my colleague on the other side makes a number of statements
28:29 about how he couldn't imagine that reverse engineering was really what the district court
28:35 required. But of course, not only is that what the district court specifically said at Appendix 533,
28:42 but indeed, this came up in the motion to dismiss.
28:46 And there was no argument in the motion to dismiss hearing that they did not think that
28:52 they were required to reverse engineer. In fact, Sonia's counsel specifically argued at Appendix...
28:57 Judge O'Malley Well, counsel, I understand that. But the question is whether or not it's quiret that tell you that I
29:12 have never seen trial. No, Judge O'Malley, I understand the concern. Let me try to
29:32 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) assuage it in a couple of ways. First of all, the district court did not tell them that they had to
29:38 use source code and that they had to plead things about source code. He did say that they needed to
29:44 plead why they thought something was in a particular place. What is their basis? For
29:51 example, with the 540, what is their plausible reason for alleging that it's not on the
29:56 motherboard, but instead on some other board? Why do they think it's there? I mean, they have to
30:02 know the answer to that question in order to come into court in the first place. And that's what he
30:06 was asking for. And he said, well, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't
30:08 know. And he specifically told them at Appendix 532, and he reiterated this at Appendix 10 in his
30:13 opinion, that if they couldn't explain why they, if they couldn't allege something, then they could
30:20 explain why it was that they could not do so. And so we're not talking about a situation like
30:26 KTEC, where I know this court was concerned that somebody shouldn't just be able to hide things
30:31 Judge O'Malley and therefore avoid a complaint being filed against them. And he told them, well, certainly
30:58 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) Judge O'Malley, this court,
30:59 has never said that. This court has had a very, a very few number of cases that really addressed
31:04 the pleading standards, and really none in the context of this particular type of technology,
31:10 which is very far removed from what was at issue in, say, for example, this disease.
31:14 Itself noted that you dealt with a very simple technology, and you could look at a picture
31:19 and understand what the basis for the allegations were. Here, they tried to run that play, but of
31:26 course, you know, you can't look at the picture of the hard drive, as they suggest, at Appendix
31:31 636. That thing is there, either for the 540 patent or the 990 patent. And you can't look at a picture.
31:38 Judge Dyk So let me, this is Judge Knight. Let's talk about the 990, the 988, and the 670. If, in fact,
31:45 they don't have to allege source code to have satisfactory allegations with respect to those
31:51 patents, and they don't seem to have the same problem that they do with the 540 of making
31:58 contradictory allegations, what's wrong with the allegations of the 540?
32:03 The First Amendment's complaint would respect to those three patents, the 990, the 988, and the 670.
32:09 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) Sure. So let me break them up, Judge Knight, because the 990, I think, is very similar and
32:15 suffers from the same, many of the same problems as the 540. I think the other two are closely
32:21 related to themselves. And starting with the 990, you do have the type of inconsistency in the sense
32:28 that if you look at Appendix 660, paragraph, it's Q, 106Q,
32:33 what they allege is that the PlayStation 4 itself implements the mutual authentication,
32:39 separate from the authentication program that's on the flash memory. And, of course,
32:45 the flash memory is the alleged removable storage medium that has the game. And the issue here with
32:51 these patents, it's very unusual for an electronic. It's not just the functional relationship between
33:03 these programs. It's that they have to fit in devices. There are multiple things. It's on this
33:32 one. It's on the one with the 980. It's on the one with the 980. It's on the one with the 980. It's
33:37 a game for it to be, which is actually just on the device itself. And that is, of course, what they
33:45 allege at Appendix 660, paragraph 106Q. So I think you have the exact same issue in terms of court in
33:54 the words of NALCO. But if you don't agree with that, you still have the question.
33:59 Judge Dyk Okay. But let's talk about the 988 and the 670 specifically. There are no contradictory
34:04 allegations there, right? Well, I...
34:14 Wait, wait. Answer my question. Is there... Are there...
34:18 Do you contend that they're conflicting allegations as to the 988 and the 670?
34:24 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) Judge Duck, I don't think they are as squarely conflicting as with respect to the 990 and 540,
34:31 which are completely conflicting. What's wrong with the allegations as to those two patents?
34:45 128F on Appendix... Parts of the game are loaded at different times upon request. And whether that
34:54 is directly contradictory, it is certainly inconsistent with or at least belies the notion
35:00 that the fault...
35:01 ...fault program is done before the game ever starts executing, because...
35:06 Judge Dyk Let's assume that we conclude that there are no contradictory allegations for the 988 and the 670.
35:16 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) Well, Judge Dyke, what's wrong with the allegations is that they still have not
35:19 pled an answer to the question of why do they think the program is done before the game starts,
35:30 or the other way around, why the game doesn't start before the inspection program is complete.
35:39 I'm sorry, Judge O'Malley?
35:43 What goes to just...
35:58 Judge O'Malley ...be probable. It just has to pass the line...
36:05 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) I think that's certainly true, and that's consistent with what the Supreme Court said
36:13 in both Twombly and Iqbal. And of course, what Iqbal says is it's not that something has to be
36:18 fanciful to disentitle it to the presumption of truth. It's the history nature of the allegation
36:25 that disentitles it to the presumption of truth. And, you know, 540 and the 990 ought that they be
36:34 on the main device itself, because, you know, the whole point of the invention was to move it off to
36:39 a special board for manufacturing reasons. The question is, why do they think the program is done
36:44 before the game starts? Why have they moved the... Why have they nudged it, in the words of Twombly,
36:48 passability, possibility, excuse me, that the fault inspection program has started, other than just
37:01 simply say so? The problem is that when there is nothing, they don't point to anything, like in a
37:08 user manual, they don't point to anything that can draw the inference. The game program doesn't
37:16 start before the fault inspection program concludes.
37:25 Judge O'Malley ...nature of their allegations. I mean, we're saying whether you...
37:37 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) Well, Judge O'Malley, I mean, two points in response. First, you know, this case was originally
37:45 filed in another court. Somebody filed a motion to transfer, you know, without...
37:55 May I continue, Your Honor?
37:57 Yeah.
37:57 Judge O'Malley Yeah. We'll just add one piece to my question, but infringement of non-infringement, at least as to
38:07 some... You understood what they were saying about system-operated, right?
38:16 Appellee Attorney (John C. O'quinn) Well, Judge O'Malley, the district court certainly didn't deny their motion.
38:21 Excuse me. The district court did not grant our motion to dismiss as to all of the claims, and we
38:29 certainly did afterwards, you know, move for summary judgment on the patents that remained in
38:36 the case. And I think one of them, they actually had voluntarily dismissed, and then the summary
38:41 judgment was focused on 101 with respect to the 363 patent. But with respect to the first question,
38:47 or the first part of your question, Judge O'Malley, you know,
38:50 obviously there's a strategic choice that anyone has to make when you're filing a motion to transfer
38:55 of whether to have a motion to dismiss and run the risk of having the court dig into it and decide the
39:01 case... Decide the motion to dismiss issue, and then that would become a basis for denying a voluntary
39:06 1404 transfer of motion. And so when the court did grant the motion to transfer, the district court
39:12 applying Ninth Circuit law like Sparling v. Hoffman and Wong v. Bell, you know, properly of its own
39:18 initiative noted the inadequacy of the...
39:20 the complaint and actually did more than what the Ninth Circuit contemplates. He didn't simply dismiss it after
39:26 giving them notice. He gave them the opportunity to re-plead, and he gave them as much time as they wanted to.
39:36 He gave them exactly the time that they asked for. And so I think the fact that we didn't originally move to
39:44 dismiss when, of course, a Rule 12 motion, if it had come to that, that there's no significance to be drawn from
39:52 that, Judge O'Malley.
39:55 Judge Dyk Judge O'Malley Okay. And unless my colleagues have further questions, I think we're...
39:59 I think we're out of time. Okay. Hearing none, Mr. Andre, you have two minutes.
40:05 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) Mr. Andre Thank you. And just very... Judge O'Malley, they did file a summary judgment of non-infringement on that,
40:15 and they did it based on the fact they knew exactly what was the... It is drawn to a machine, future gains.
40:28 This is a dynamically... happens in or a combination of specific...
40:34 Judge O'Malley Judge O'Malley Well, let's... let's... what about...
40:44 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) Mr. Andre There's inconsistencies. Removable disk, and that's what it is, and it could also reside on the motherboard.
41:14 We showed... Judge Lynn asked earlier about the appendix in the red line version of it.
41:20 We showed that in appendix number 260. We actually showed the... We did show that it's not inconsistency in authentication.
41:47 Judge O'Malley Judge O'Malley Not too much.
41:48 Appellant Attorney (Paul J. Andre) Mr. Andre The motherboard not have... the motherboard to have authentication...
42:13 Judge O'Malley That the memory with authentication program was present in multiple places.
42:30 Judge Dyk Mr. Andre Thank you, Mr. Andre. Thank you, Mr. O'Quinn. The case is submitted.
42:34 Judge O'Malley Judge O'Malley The court is adjourned from day to day.