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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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Case No. 09-CV-02180-SBA 

JOINT ADMINISTRATIVE MOTION FOR LEAVE TO 

DESIGNATE ADDITIONAL TERMS FOR CLAIM 

CONSTRUCTION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER

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Frank E. Scherkenbach (SBN 142549), scherkenbach@fr.com

Fish & Richardson P.C. 

225 Franklin Street 

Boston, MA 02110-2804 

Telephone: (617) 542-5070 

Facsimile: (617) 542-8906 

Christopher S. Marchese (SBN 170239), marchese@fr.com

Seth M. Sproul (SBN 217711), sproul@fr.com

Fish & Richardson P.C. 

12390 El Camino Real 

San Diego, CA 92130 

Telephone: (858) 678-5070 

Facsimile: (858) 678-5099 

Erin E. Kaiser (SBN 259926), kaiser@fr.com

Fish & Richardson P.C. 

500 Arguello Street, Suite 500 

Redwood City, CA 94063 

Telephone: (650) 839-5070 

Facsimile: (650) 839-5071 

Attorneys for Defendants, Counterclaimants and Third-Party Plaintiff 

ViaSat, Inc. and Paradise Datacom, LLC 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

APPLIED SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY, INC. 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

EMERGING MARKETS COMMUNICATIONS, 

INC.; EMC SATCOM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; 

PARADISE DATACOM, LLC; and VIASAT, 

INC., 

 Defendants, 

Case No. 09-CV-02180-SBA 

JOINT ADMINISTRATIVE 

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO 

DESIGNATE ADDITIONAL TERMS 

FOR CLAIM CONSTRUCTION 

AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 

Hon. Saundra B. Armstrong 

AND RELATED CLAIMS. 

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Pursuant to Judge Armstrong’s Patent Standing Order No. 4 and Civil Local Rule 7-11,1

Applied Signal Technology, Inc. (“AST”), Comtech EF Data Corp. (“Comtech”), ViaSat, Inc. 

(“ViaSat”), and Paradise Datacom, LLC (“Paradise”) (collectively, “the Parties”) respectfully 

request that the Court grant leave to designate and argue more than 10 terms for claim 

construction. 

Good cause exists to allow the Parties to brief and argue the construction of more than 10 

terms. At issue are five separate patents—three asserted by ViaSat and two asserted by AST. A 

total of 77 claims are asserted across all five patents. Currently, the Parties dispute 13 terms. For 

each disputed term, there is a genuine disagreement regarding the scope or meaning of the term 

that the Parties cannot resolve. 

Despite the large number of claims at issue, the Parties have worked diligently to minimize 

the number of disputed terms. In the process, the Parties have met and conferred telephonically on 

three different occasions and have exchanged numerous written communications. The Parties 

have made an effort to group related terms and reach compromises, wherever possible. Through 

these efforts, the Parties began with more than 30 terms in dispute and were able to reduce the 

number to 13. 

Although 13 terms exceeds the 10 allowed under Patent L.R. 4-3 and Judge Armstrong’s 

Patent Standing Order No. 3, the number of patents, asserted claims, and parties involved in the 

process justifies granting leave to construe an additional three terms. The Parties will continue to 

make efforts to further reduce the number of disputed terms during the Markman briefing process. 

Nevertheless, the Parties jointly request that the Court grant leave to designate the following 13 

terms for claim construction: 

 

1 The Court’s Standing Order references Civil Rule 7-10(b), but this rule no longer exists. Instead, 

we are thus filing this motion pursuant to Rule 7-11. 

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AST Patents

’641 AND ’104 PATENTS 

1. “tracking variations/tracking” 

2. “signal of interest/generating an error signal from a signal of interest” 

3. “estimating” 

4. “second differences” 

ViaSat Patents

’093 PATENT 

5. “correction signals” 

’017 PATENT 

6. “means for simultaneously transmitting” (includes claim 1 functional language) 

7. “means for receiving” 

8. “means for selectively generating” (includes claim 1 functional language) 

9. “means for combining” (includes claim 1 functional language) 

’952 PATENT 

10. “estimating channel characteristics” 

11. “means...for receiving” 

12. “means for transmitting” 

13. “means for receiving the composite signal” 

Dated: August 24, 2010 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 

By: /s/ Christopher S. Marchese 

Christopher S. Marchese (SBN 170239) 

marchese@fr.com

Attorneys for Defendants, Counterclaimants and 

Third-Party Plaintiff ViaSat, Inc. 

and Paradise Datacom, LLC 

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Dated: August 24, 2010 SANDERS & PARKS P.C. 

By: /s/ James R. Farmer 

James R. Farmer (Admitted Pro Hac Vice)

james.farmer@rocketmail.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff and Third-Party 

Defendants Applied Signal Technology, 

Inc. and Comtech EF Data Corp. 

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DECLARATION OF CONSENT

 Pursuant to General Order No. 45, Section X(B) regarding signatures, I attest under penalty 

of perjury that concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from James R. Farmer. 

 

Date: August 20, 2010 FISH & RICHARDSON P.C. 

 /s/ Christopher S. Marchese________________

 Christopher S. Marchese (SBN 170239) 

marchese@fr.com

 Attorneys for Defendants, Counterclaimants and 

Third-Party Plaintiff, ViaSat, Inc. and Paradise 

Datacom, LLC 

 

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[PROPOSED] ORDER

 IT IS SO ORDERED that the Parties request for leave to designate the 13 terms identified 

above for claim construction is hereby DENIED. 

Dated: August 24, 2010 

By: 

 Honorable Saundra B. Armstrong 

United States District Court Judge 

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