IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS

WACO DIVISION

NORDIC INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES 

LLC, 

Plaintiff,

v.

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. and 

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, 

INC.,

Defendants.

Civil Action No. 6:20-CV-00064 (ADA)

 JURY TRIAL DEMANDED

JOINT CLAIM CONSTRUCTION STATEMENT

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Pursuant to the Court’s Scheduling Order (Dkt. No. 29), Plaintiff Nordic Interactive 

Technologies LLC (“Nordic”) and Defendants Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Samsung 

Electronics America, Inc. (collectively “Samsung”) submit this Joint Claim Construction 

Statement for the asserted claims of United States Patent No. 7,590,097 (“the ’097 Patent”) and

United States Patent No. 6,345,095 (“the ’095 Patent”). Nordic currently asserts claims 19-24 of 

the ’097 Patent and claims 16 and 30 of the ’095 Patent. Concurrent with this submission, the 

Parties are jointly submitting PDF versions of all as-filed briefing and exhibits to the law clerk. 

Pursuant to this Court’s Order Resetting Markman Hearing (Dkt. No. 39), the Markman

hearing by Zoom will occur on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 2:30 PM.

I. PARTY AGREEMENTS

A. Points of Substantive Agreement

The parties agreed to the definitions of a person of ordinary skill in the art (“POSITA”) for 

each of the Patents-in-Suit. 

For the ’095 Patent, a POSITA would have a B.S. in Computer Science or Electrical 

Engineering and two years of post-graduate work experience in telecommunications.

For the ’097 Patent, a POSITA would have a B.S. in Computer Science or Electrical 

Engineering and two years of post-graduate work experience in mobile ad hoc networking.

B. Agreed Constructions

1. ’095 Patent

The parties did not come to an agreement on claim terms in the ’095 Patent.

2. ’097 Patent

The parties agreed to the following constructions:

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Term Agreed Construction 

“an indication that it [the nearby device] 

may include a middleware software”

(claims 19-24)

plain and ordinary meaning

“application and service discovery”

(claims 19-24)

“discovery of available services and/or 

applications” 

“disconnect communication 

establishment”

(claims 19-24)

“stop the establishment of the communication 

session”

II. LIST OF DISPUTED TERMS FOR CONSTRUCTION

A. ’097 Patent Term

Term Nordic’s Proposed 

Construction

Samsung’s Proposed 

Construction

“middleware software”

(Claims 19-24)

“software providing discovery of 

applications and/or services”

“a software layer with an API 

that negotiates the 

communication between two 

applications to help an 

application find a counterpart 

application with the correct role”

“[the] middleware 

layer”*

(claims 20-21)

“software layer that includes 

middleware software”

“[the] middleware software”

*The parties agree that the Court could correct the term to “[the] middleware software” under the 

doctrine of judicial correction.

B. ’095 Patent Term

Term Nordic’s Construction Samsung’s Construction

“call initiation signals” 

(Claims 16, 30)

plain and ordinary meaning

or

“at least part of a telephone 

number”

“any signal indicating that a 

calling party is going to place a 

telephone call”

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Dated: December 18, 2020 Respectfully submitted,

By: /s/ Robert Christopher Bunt

Robert Christopher Bunt

State Bar No. 00787165

Charles Ainsworth

State Bar No. 00783521

PARKER, BUNT & AINSWORTH, P.C.

100 E. Ferguson, Suite 418

Tyler, TX 75702

3903/531-3535

Email: charley@pbatyler.com

Email: rcbunt@pbatyler.com

William Cory Spence

Jason Wejnert

SpencePC

515 N. State St., 14th Floor

Chicago, Illinois 60654

312-404-8882

william.spence@spencepc.com

jason.wejnert@spencepc.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff Nordic Interactive 

Technologies LLC

By: /s/ Jin-Suk Park (with permission)

Jin-Suk Park 

Marc A. Cohn (pro hac vice)

ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP

601 Massachusetts Ave., NW 

Washington, DC 20001-3743

Tel: 202-942-5000

Jin.Park@arnoldporter.com

Marc.Cohn@arnoldporter.com

Ryan J. Casamiquela (pro hac vice)

ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP

Three Embarcadero Center, 10th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94111-4024

Tel: 415-471-3373

Ryan.Casamiquela@arnoldporter.com

Michael E. Jones 

State Bar No. 10929400

POTTER MINTON, P.C.

110 N. College Ave., Suite 500

Tyler, TX 75702

Tel: 903-597-8311

mikejones@potterminton.com

Attorneys for Defendants Samsung Electronics 

Co., Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America, 

Inc.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

The undersigned hereby certifies that on December 18, 2020, I electronically filed this 

document with the Clerk of Court via the Court’s CM/ECF system which will send notification 

of such filing to all counsel of record.

/s/ Robert Christopher Bunt

Robert Christopher Bunt

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