Voip Pal Com Inc (VPLM)

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Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No. 9,179,005 1 I. INTRODUCTION Petitioner Apple Inc. (“Petitioner”) requests an Inter Partes Review (“IPR”) of claims 8, 12, 13, 33, 37, 38, 41, 57, 61, 62, 81-82, 86, 90, and 91 (collectively, the “Challenged Claims”) of U.S. Patent No. 9,179,005 (“the ’005 Patent”) issued on November 3, 2015 to Clay Perreault, et al. (“Applicants”). Ex. 1001, ’005 Patent. As demonstrated by Petitioner below, the purportedly distinguishing feature of the ’005 Patent of using attributes about a caller to determine whether a call is routed to a private or public network was present in the prior art. Petitioner notes that certain claims of the ’005 Patent not challenged in the present Petition are the subject of IPR2016-01198. In particular, in IPR2016-01198 Petitioner challenged claims 1, 24-26, 49-50, 73-79, 83-84, 88-89, 92, 94-96, and 98-99 of the ’005 Patent, and the Board instituted the IPR on the challenged claims. IPR2016-01198, Paper 6 at 31 (P.T.A.B. Nov. 21, 2016). The present Petition challenges a different set of claims of the ’005 Patent than challenged in IPR2016-01198. Petitioner notes that because the present Challenged Claims depend from independent or dependent claims otherwise challenged in IPR2016-01198 (e.g., claim 1), Petitioner provides a mapping in Section IV for such independent or intervening dependent claims but does not otherwise challenge such claims in the present Petition.