EXPEDIA, INC.; HOMEAWAY.COM, INC.; HOTELS.COM L.P.; HOTWIRE, INC.; and ORBITZ, LLC Petitioners
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD ____________ EXPEDIA, INC.; HOMEAWAY.COM, INC.; HOTELS.COM L.P.; HOTWIRE, INC.; AND ORBITZ, LLC Petitioners v. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. Patent Owner ____________ Case No. Unassigned Patent 6,374,359 ____________ PETITION FOR INTER PARTES REVIEW OF CLAIMS 1-16 OF U.S. PATENT NO. 6,374,359 Petition for IPR of U.S. Patent 6,374,359 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................... 1 Summary of Unpatentability Grounds .................................................. 1 II. MANDATORY NOTICES, STANDING, AND FEES .............................. 1 Mandatory Notices ................................................................................ 1 Certification of Grounds for Standing ................................................... 3 Fees ........................................................................................................ 3 III. OVERVIEW OF THE ’359 Patent .............................................................. 3 Subject Matter of the ’359 Patent .......................................................... 3 Claims of the ’359 Patent ...................................................................... 5 Prosecution History of the ’359 Patent ................................................. 6 Ordinary Skill in the Art ........................................................................ 8 IV. SUMMARY OF PRIOR ART ...................................................................... 9 Reiche .................................................................................................... 9 Spinning the Web by Yuval Fisher ......................................................16 Stubbs ..................................................................................................19 Goodman .............................................................................................24 LDAP Draft and RFCs ........................................................................25 V. CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ........................................................................ 28 VI. THE CHALLENGED CLAIMS ARE UNPATENTABLE ..................... 35 Ground 1 ..............................................................................................35 Ground 2 ..............................................................................................45 Ground 3 ..............................................................................................58 Ground 4 ..............................................................................................64 Ground 5 ..............................................................................................72 i Petition for IPR of U.S. Patent 6,374,359 Ground 6 ..............................................................................................75 VII. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................ 77 ii Petition for IPR of U.S. Patent 6,374,359 LIST OF EXHIBITS1 1001 U.S. Patent No. 6,374,359 to Shrader et al. (“the ’359 Patent”) 1002 Expert Declaration of B. Keith Moore 1003 CV of B. Keith Moore 1004 File History of U.S. Patent No. 6,374,359 to Shrader et al. 1005 U.S. Patent No. 6,092,196 to Reiche (“Reiche”) 1006 Yuval Fisher, Spinning the Web (1996) (“Fisher”) 1007 Nesta Stubbs, One-time authentication for multiple Web servers?, post to the comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc group on July 3, 1996 (“Stubbs”) 1008 D. Kristol et al., “HTTP State Management Mechanism,” Internet RFC 2109 (Feb. 1997) (“RFC 2109”) 1009 R. Fielding et al., “Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1,” Internet RFC 2068 (Jan. 1997) (“RFC 2068”) 1010 Danny Goodman, JavaScript Handbook, 1996 (“Goodman”) 1011 T. Howes et al., “The C LDAP Application Program Interface”, IETF Working Draft (Jul. 29, 1997) (“LDAP Draft”) 1012 Expert Declaration of James L. Mullins, Ph.D 1013 CV of James L. Mullins 1014 Memorandum in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment of Defendant Groupon, Inc., International Business Machines Corp. v. Groupon Inc., 1:16-cv-122, Dkt. 241, March 13, 2018 1 Citations in the Petition to Exhibits are made to native page numbering on the exhibits wherever possible. iii Petition for IPR of U.S. Patent 6,374,359 1015 Collected posts to the comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc group in thread with One-time authentication for multiple Web servers? 1016 Exhibit 1 to Mullins Declaration 1017 Exhibit 2 to Mullins Declaration 1018 RESERVED 1019 RESERVED 1020 S. Bradner, “The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3,” Internet RFC 2026 (Oct. 1996) (“RFC 2026”) 1021 M. Horton, “Standard for Interchange of USENET Message,” Internet RFC 1036 (Dec. 1987) (“RFC 1036”) 1022 B. Reid, “USENET Readership Summary Report for July 1995,” (Aug. 6, 1995), available at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/news.lists/bt_reRadXYo/- 9tq-mbefFYJ 1023 B. Reid, “USENET Readership Report for July 1995,” (Aug. 6, 1995). available at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/news.lists/zCfHkoXchIg/ N41pFcwrUTQJ 1024 J. Linn, “Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I: Message Encipherment and Authentication Procedures,” Internet RFC 989 (Feb. 1987) (“RFC 989”) 1025 N. Borenstein, N .Freed. “MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies,”. Internet RFC 1341 (June 1992) (“RFC 1341”) 1026 T. Berners-Lee et al., “Uniform Resource Locators,” Internet RFC 1738 (Dec. 1994) (“RFC 1738”) 1027 T. Berners-Lee, D. Connolly, “Hypertext Markup Language – 2.0,” iv Petition for IPR of U.S. Patent 6,374,359 Internet RFC 1866 (Nov. 1995) (“RFC 1866”) 1028 “An Exploration of Dynamic Documents,” captured June 14, 1997, available at https://web.archive.org/web/19970614044340/http://home.netscape.co m/assist/net_sites/pushpull.html 1029 “Common Gateway Interface,” captured Dec. 10, 1998, available at https://web.archive.org/web/19971210170704/http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc. edu/cgi/intro.html 1030 M. Horton, R. Adams, “Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages,” Internet RFC 1036 (Dec. 1987) (“RFC 1036”) 1031 J.S. Quarterman, The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide, 1990 (“Quarterman”) 1032 “Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com,” captured Feb. 16, 2001, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20010216202357/http://www.google.com /press/pressrel/pressrelease48.html 1033 “Google Acquires Deja’s Usenet Archive: Google Releases Beta Service in Transition,” captured Feb. 17, 2001, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20010217005302/http://groups.google.co m:80/ 1034 Google Groups Beta, captured May 12, 2001, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20010512173704/http://groups.google.co m:80/ 1035 “Full Usenet Archive Now Available,” Google Groups Beta, Captured May 7, 2012, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20010507171811/http://groups.google.co m/googlegroups/archive_announce.html 1036 “Google Groups Archive Information,” Dec. 21, 2001, available at https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=news.admin.misc /1GuWaOCDgMc/x7PnQ5BQ7G0J. v Petition for IPR of U.S. Patent 6,374,359 1037 “20 Year Usenet Archive Now Available,” captured on Dec. 12, 2001, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20011212191924/http://www.google.com /googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html 1038 IETF Mail Archive, RFC 2068 publication, Jan. 2, 1997, available at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?q=subject%3A%28RFC+206 8%29 1039 E. Raymond, This is the Jargon File, Version 2.9.6, Aug. 16, 1991, available at http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.9.6.dos.txt 1040 V. Khera, Using Set-cookie and Location in the same header?, post to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi group on June 13, 1996 1041 M. Budash, HTTP Header Syntax, post to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi group on July 30, 1997 1042 D. Crichton, Setting a cookie and redirecting in the same perl script, post to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi group on Feb. 3, 1998 1043 C. Saia, Make clients forget passwords, post to the comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix group on Dec. 26, 1997 vi Petition for IPR of U.S. Patent 6,374,359 I. INTRODUCTION Petitioners request inter partes review (“IPR”) under 35 U.S.C. §§ 311-319 and 37 C.F.R. § 42.100 et seq. of Claims 1-16 (“the Challenged Claims”) of U.S. Patent No. 6,374,359 (“the ’359 Patent”). Petitioners assert the Challenged Claims are unpatentable and request review and cancellation of the Challenged Claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Summary of Unpatentability Grounds Ground Summary 1 Claims 1, 5, and 6 are obvious in view of Reiche and Fisher 2 Claims 2, 3 and 4 are obvious in view of Reiche, Fisher, and Stubbs 3 Claims 7, 8, and 9 are obvious in view of Reiche, Fisher, and the LDAP Draft 4 Claim 10 is obvious in view of Reiche, Fisher, and Goodman 5 Claims 11, 12, and 13 are obvious in view of Reiche, Fisher, Goodman, and Stubbs 6 Claims 14, 15, and 16 are obvious in view of Reiche, Fisher, Goodman, and the LDAP Draft II. MANDATORY NOTICES, STANDING, AND FEES Mandatory Notices Real Party in Interest: The real parties in interest are the Petitioners (Expedia, Inc.; Homeaway.com, Inc.; Hotels.com L.P.; Hotwire, Inc.; and Orbitz, LLC) and Expedia Group, Inc.; Hotels.com GP, LLC; HRN 99 Holdings; Travelscape LLC.; HomeAway Holdings, Inc., Orbitz Worldwide, Inc.; Orbitz Worldwide, LLC; and Orbitz, Inc. 1 Petition