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fee is one of the important aspects, but there are other 09:22:01 aspects which also have to be covered, and they will only have a full-fledged and valid contract if they agreed on all essential elements of the contract, and only then will they dismiss the case, or would they make -- would they render the case moot. Q Let's suppose that the parties do not agree on
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a license fee. Does the Orange Book decision say that the defendant must use the second alternative option of letting the patent holder set the royalty? A Q A Q Please repeat the question.
If the parties do not agree on a license fee -- 09:22:37 Yes. -- does the Orange Book decision say that the
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defendant must use the second option of allowing the patent holder to set the royalty? A They have the option. They do not -- they
must -- they have the option to do it. Q Let's talk about a proceeding in which the
I'm not aware of any rate setting procedures which have been brought to my attention. I have not taken part in
any of those, so, of course, I cannot know the details, and I can only speculate, but my speculation would be that the parties will determine the rate according to the -- the standards which are used also when it comes to the determination of license fees; for example, when it's about damages or in cases like this. So I would
assume that similar standards would be applied. BY MR. LOVE: Q And I think we discussed this earlier, so
correct me if I'm wrong, but the standard used to evaluate the rate in that proceeding would be whether the rate was within the limits set by antitrust law; is that correct? A Q Yes. What happens if the rate set by the patent
rate set by the patent holder is not within the limits of antitrust law; what will the court do? A Then a -- a lower rate will be set, which is The court will control the offer
such an offer, and will determine whether this is within 09:24:42 the boundaries of antitrust law, and if not, the rate will be set according to antitrust law and the other important laws which come into play. Q Does the license seeker have to pay the rate
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that was set by the patent holder until the court rules? 09:25:01 A Payment means transfer of funds to the -- to No. He has to escrow money, as much -If he wants to
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the licensor?
be on the absolutely safe side, he may depose estimate escrow as much money as the patent holder has demanded, but as I said before, of course, if he thinks this is too much, he has the option to go below the rate demanded by the patent holder and let this rate be reviewed, and, of course -- yeah, so. Q Do you know how long a proceeding -- a court
not -- these have not taken place, as far as my knowledge is concerned. Q I could only guess.
decisions that you are aware of that hold that the rate
set by a patent holder under the alternative Orange Book 09:26:10 process is acceptable? A As there are no reported 315 procedures, I'm
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not aware of that -(Telephonic interruption.) MR. LOVE: I'll -- I'll ask again just so we
have a clear question and answer. Q As far as you are aware, there are no reported
German decisions showing this second alternative Orange Book procedure? A The rate setting, the second -- the rate
setting -Q A reported. Q So we believe -- you believe that the standard Yes. -- lawsuit? No, the rate has not been
that a court would apply in that proceeding is whether -- is -- is to set a royalty within the limits
decisions? MS. BERRY: THE WITNESS: Objection; form. Purely speculating. I wouldn't I
see any other standards which might be reasonable. wouldn't see any of those standards could come into
play, so it's not a -- yeah, I do not only believe it, there are strong arguments for that. BY MR. LOVE: Q
Book offer that a license seeker had made and that later -A Q Who was? Sure. Let me start again.
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So we are talking about the first Orange Book, not the alternative procedure, but the straightforward Orange Book offer. A Q Yes. So suppose a patent holder rejects an Orange
Book offer and then a German court finds that the royalty offer was so high that that rejection was an abuse of antitrust law. A Yes.
rejection would be a violation of antitrust law or an offer for which the rejection would be an obvious violation of antitrust law? MS. BERRY: THE WITNESS: Objection; form. I would say it's the same. It's
just a question of the standard of how you evaluate the facts. Obvious in the sense of you apply a standard of
review which does not go into all details. BY MR. LOVE: Q Would you agree that the standard for
evaluating an offer under the Orange Book procedure is uncertain in German law? A I wouldn't agree. There's a very clear-cut
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procedure which has been developed by the German Federal 09:52:09 Supreme Court and has been further clarified by the lower courts. Q We were discussing the second alternative
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procedure -A Q Yes.
explaining how the second alternative procedure works; correct? A I said there's none been reported, apart from
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courts have introduced additional constraints into the Orange Book procedure that require additional concessions from defendants? MS. BERRY: THE WITNESS: BY MR. LOVE: Q Objection; form. They have clarified the road.
while making an Orange Book offer? A Not -- you could do it before, but you cannot
do it while he makes this offer, yes. Q Is it favorable for the patent holder to
the license seeker to drop all of its non-infringement defenses? A It's favorable. It's perfectly legitimate for
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the holder of exclusive right to only license or to only 09:53:59 negotiate with people who don't want to attack his right, but it's certainly favorable, yes. Q Here in Seattle, in this case, Judge Robart
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H.264 portfolio with respect to Microsoft's products was 09:54:24 0.555 cents per unit. Were you aware of that? No. Do you have any basis to disagree with that
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or to agree. Q
answer is no, but I'm going to ask anyway. Do you understand that Judge Robart found that
was 2 eurocents, so if Microsoft had offered half a eurocent, would it have been able to avoid an injunction? A If it's less than what has been given here,
it's rather unlikely. Q A Rather unlikely, or no? If it's lower than what has been -- well, the
court said -- the Mannheim Court said what has been offered is so low that the rejection is not -- is not a breach of antitrust law as it is conceivable that the rate has to be higher. So if the rate would have been lower, it is -I cannot second-guess what the court would have said,
but it's -- it's pure logic that if it's lower, I assume 10:01:23 that also the same standard would have been applied, and 10:01:25 the same standard would have taught that the rejection of such an offer is a violation of European antitrust law. Q If Microsoft had escrowed a sufficient amount
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315 procedure, it would have not been enjoined. Q How much money would have been sufficient for
Microsoft to avoid an injunction? MS. BERRY: THE WITNESS: Objection; form. As this is a difficult
case, I'm not able to give you any -- any numbers there. 10:02:06 MR. LOVE: We have been going for about an
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Why don't we take a break. THE VIDEOGRAPHER: (Recess taken.) THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Off the record at 10:01.
question earlier about if the parties in a German patent 10:21:05 infringement suit agree on a license fee, and I was asking you what they would do, and I don't want to restate your testimony, but part of your response, as I understood it, was, there are other terms besides a license fee that the parties would need to agree on. Do you remember this question?
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account, if the -- the -- the patent as been made use of 10:22:57 before, so these are the elements which have been -have been decided about by the court.
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have to be included in such a License Agreement or not is pure speculation, I have no opinion on that. Q Mannheim. If Microsoft had followed the second Okay. Let's go back to what happened in
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alternative of the Orange Book procedure, Motorola would 10:23:34 have set a higher royalty than the 1 to 2 eurocents that 10:23:35 Microsoft had offered; correct? MS. BERRY: THE WITNESS: BY MR. LOVE: Q A Why would Motorola have set a lower royalty? I am not aware of -- the business evaluations, Objection; form. I have no opinion on that.
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which are behind such an offer, are not -- have not come 10:23:50 to my attention. I -- I can only speculate, but, of
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course, we can assume that. Q If Microsoft had challenged the rate set by
Motorola by bringing a separate proceeding later and the 10:24:03 court set the royalty, the royalty set by the court
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would also be higher than a -- than the 1 to 2 eurocents 10:24:10 that Microsoft had offered; correct?
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because you apply a different standard of -- there of assessing the -- the license fee, and as you hear evidence and as further circumstances will be looked upon and be considered by the court, it -- it's just a different way of assessing.
It can even be -- if the evidence is such that points in 10:24:46 this direction might even be lower. It's just a new
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story then, and it will be assessed independently, and the court will -- will find what is the adequate and -and FRAND and entered as conformed license fee. be higher. It could even be lower. It can
I -- I cannot say.
This is speculation.
the -- the standards, which are used to determine the license fee, they are the relevant thing, and they take into account the standards. This might lead to one --
to one result or to the other. BY MR. LOVE: Q When we talked earlier about the second
alternative, I thought I understood your position to be that the same standard would be used to evaluate and determine a correct license fee. that is not objectionable -A Yes. It's a license fee
going to set a royalty that is not objectionable under antitrust law; correct? A Q Yes. The Mannheim Court said that Motorola's
rejection of the 1-to-2-eurocent offer was not objectionable under antitrust law; right? A Q Can you repeat, please. Sure. Microsoft offered 1 to 2 eurocents. Motorola
rejected it, and the Mannheim Court said that rejection did not violate antitrust law. A Q Yes, that's correct. But you said just now that in a later
proceeding, if a court is setting the rate, it might set 10:26:28 a rate lower than what Microsoft offered. A It's -- it's speculation, and it also is a
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question of the German law of civil procedure and evidence. You know, in the -- in the first proceeding
the courts will also assess what has been written in the 10:26:46 briefs without taking evidence, and so they will make their -- they will form their opinion on what has been written and submitted by the parties.
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speculation, but as there is another -- different standard of how the facts are evaluated, it may even be lower, but, again, this is pure speculation. The only thing I want to say, this is a
completely new story where all facts are assessed newly, 10:27:41 and then the court will -- will find it -- will have its 10:27:46 decision -- will render its decision on the basis of the 10:27:50 facts which it has evaluated according to the law of civil procedure in this second proceeding. Q So the court, in the second proceeding, would
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apply the same standard, but it might reach a different result because it considers more evidence; is that correct? A It's just a different standard of review, a
different standard of review of the first -- the review you have in your first -- in the first -- in the first
road, that it's the -- the question whether or not it is 10:28:21 obvious. So the idea is you have a -- you look into the 10:28:26
injunction, you also have a different standard of -- of evidence, which is lower than in -- in a full proceeding. And so it's just a different way of
assessing facts and -- and hearing evidence or not hearing evidence. Q So I want to make sure I understand your
position on what would have happened under the Orange Book. So this will be sort of a long question. I'll
ask you a couple things, and just stop me if anything doesn't make sense. Under the Orange Book procedure, as I understand it, there are three paths for Microsoft to avoid an injunction by agreeing to pay a royalty.
First, Microsoft could have made an Orange Book 10:29:36 offer that Motorola accepted; correct?
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Second, Microsoft could have let Motorola set a 10:29:42 royalty; correct?
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rate that was set by Motorola, in which case a court, in 10:29:51 a separate proceeding, may set a different royalty; correct? A Q Can you repeat the question? Sure. So the -- the third path -Yes. -- would be Motorola sets a royalty.
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Microsoft 10:30:03
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part of that proceeding, the court finds that Motorola's 10:30:09 royalty is -- is too high and sets a -- sets the royalty 10:30:12 itself. A That's correct. MS. BERRY: BY MR. LOVE: Q For the first option, if Microsoft made an Objection to form.
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Orange Book offer, you don't know what Mo- -- what offer 10:30:22 Motorola would have accepted; correct? A Q Pure speculation. For the second option, you don't know what
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royalty Motorola would have set, do you? A Q Of course not, no. And on the third option, you don't know what
facts and as I didn't hear all the evidence, which would 10:30:50 come into play, of course I cannot give a -- give you a number, certainly not. Q So in November of 2012, there was a trial, as
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part of this case, to determine a RAND royalty for Motorola's patents. Are you aware of that? No. MS. BERRY: BY MR. LOVE: Q So I'll represent to you that at that trial, Objection; form.
economic experts about the appropriate RAND royalty, but 10:31:18 you haven't reviewed the transcript of that trial; correct? A Q No, I haven't reviewed it. So you don't know whether the evidence
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this case was in any way comparable to the evidence that 10:31:31 would be considered by a German court that was setting a 10:31:35 royalty? A I have no opinion on that.
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when you have a good time for a break. MR. LOVE: Sure, we can take a break. This concludes Video 2,
THE VIDEOGRAPHER:
Volume 1 in the deposition of Maximilian Haedicke. Going off the record, the time is 11:14. (Recess taken.) THE VIDEOGRAPHER: This begins Video 2,
Volume 1 in the deposition of Maximilian Haedicke. Going back on the record, it's 11:37. BY MR. LOVE: Q You are a judge in the patent division of the
the Regional Court of Dusseldorf? A Court. Q Okay. It's the Court of Appeal for the Regional
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(Exhibit 6 was marked for identification by the 11:37:57 Court Reporter.) MR. LOVE: I've marked, as Exhibit 6, a
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translation of a March 21st, 2013 decision for the Regional Court of Dusseldorf. Q Are you familiar with this decision?
questions that are numbered 1 through 5. A Q Yes. These are questions that the Dusseldorf court
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of Justices what to do about standard essential patents? 11:38:31 A Because this is a matter of European law, and
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if a German court applies European law, such as European 11:38:43 antitrust law, it is obliged to -- to do this in accordance with European law, and so if a German court does -- has doubts as to how to interpret European antitrust law, it can -- or the highest instance is obliged to ask for a preliminary judgment of the European Court of Justice, so the European Court of
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Justices can give guidance as to how to interpret a -- a 11:39:19 provision of European law. Q Let's take a look at Question 1. So at the -11:39:23 11:39:25 11:39:29 11:39:32
it's on the first page, and what the court asks is, "Is the holder of a standard-essential patent who has
negotiate such a license," then there's an "or," and the 11:39:51 second part is, "is an abuse of the dominant position to 11:39:55 be assumed only if the patent infringer has presented the holder of the standard-essential patent an acceptable unconditional offer to enter into a license agreement, which the patent holder may not refuse without unfairly impeding the patent infringer or violating the ban on discrimination, and the patent infringer is satisfying his contractual obligations in anticipation of the license to be granted for prior use?" Did you see that? Yes.
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asking is whether the proper analysis is that set forth by the European Commission which involves a willing licensee, or is the Orange Book process satisfactory? Is that what this question is asking? A Basically, yes. However, if you read the
differences, and further on in the text, criticizes some 11:41:22 of the approaches of the European Commission. So the
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term "willingness to negotiate" comes from this state press release. Q Would it be accurate to say the Dusseldorf
court is uncertain whether the Orange Book procedure satisfies the European antitrust law? MS. BERRY: THE WITNESS: Objection; form. I'm not a member of the
Dusseldorf lower court, so I cannot say that, but I don't understand it this way.
in such a way that it wants to get -- it wants to defend 11:41:55 the Orange Book procedure towards the -- this very lenient approach of the European Commission. BY MR. LOVE: Q The European Court of Justice could respond to
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this question by saying that the Commission is right and 11:42:14 the Dusseldorf court is wrong; right?
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(Exhibit 7 was marked for identification by the 11:42:27 Court Reporter.) MR. LOVE: marked as Exhibit 7. I'm going to hand you what's been Exhibit 7 is a document bearing
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the Bates stamp MS-MOTO_1823_00002271028. Q A Q Have you read this document before? No. How did you familiarize yourself with the
history of the General Instrument versus Microsoft cases 11:42:51 in Mannheim? A Q Some -- can you repeat the question. Sure.
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How did you -- in preparing to file your expert 11:42:58 report, how did you familiarize yourself with the proceedings in Mannheim between General Instrument and Microsoft? A Well, the -- the decision is in public -- is
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publicly available, and the documents which I -- which I 11:43:14 mention in my expert report have been produced to me. Q But you haven't seen this document, the
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that enforcing injunctions on standard essential patents 11:47:46 against a willing licensee is an abuse of antitrust law; 11:47:49 is that correct? MS. BERRY: THE WITNESS: MR. LOVE: Objection; form. Please repeat.
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Sure.
that enforcing injunctions on standard essential patents 11:48:00 against a willing licensee is an abuse of antitrust law; 11:48:02 correct? A Q These are the wordings used, yes. Would you agree that Judge Robart in the
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Ninth Circuit helped Motorola avoid exposing itself to additional antitrust liability? MS. BERRY: Objection to form, outside the
Microsoft's decision to relocate its German facility? A Q the move? A Q No. Did you review the deposition transcripts of No. Did you review any documents associated with
and had begun implementing the relocation out of Germany 11:48:59 in March of 2012? A Q No. If Motorola had enforced the injunction in
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Mannheim, could Microsoft have continued to distribute H.264-compliant products in Germany? A If they fall under the patent and if there has