Order Granting Motion For Preliminary Injunction - United States ...

United States District Court
For the Northern District of California
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results as the user types his or her query,” because “[b]y the time of the invention, consumer access
to broadband Internet connections was widespread.” Carbonell Decl. 144. Dr. Carbonell’s
explanation for the supposed obviousness is a non sequitur, and furthermore does not even attempt
to address any of the relevant secondary considerations identified in KSR. See Polish Reply Decl.
99-101 (pointing out deficiencies in Dr. Carbonell’s declaration). Samsung’s evidence in
support of its obviousness defense thus falls far short of raising a substantial question of invalidity
sufficient to overcome the presumption of validity.
In sum, Apple has shown that claims 6 and 19 of the ’604 Patent are likely both valid and
infringed. Apple has therefore shown a likelihood of prevailing on the merits of the ’604 Patent.
2. U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 (Links for Structures)
U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 (“the ’647 Patent”), entitled “System and Method for Performing
an Action on a Structure in Computer-Generated Data,” was filed on February 1, 1996, and issued
on August 31, 1999. The ’647 Patent is directed to a computer-based system and method for
detecting structures, such as phone numbers, post-office addresses, and dates, and performing
actions on the detected structures. See ’647 Patent Abstract, 1:8-16. The ’647 Patent sought to
overcome certain deficiencies in the prior art that inhibited a user’s ability to easily perform
different desired actions on information encountered in a given application. Conventional systems
existed to help search a file or document for information using pattern analysis, but upon
identifying such information, the user would have to copy-and-paste that information into whatever
field or application the user wished in order to use the information. ’647 Patent 1:42-50.
The ’647 system relies on an “analyzer server” component that is programmed to recognize
a wide range of data patterns (called “structures” in the patent) in data from a wide range of files,
such as text messages, emails, and web pages. Client applications (e.g., word processors) submit
documents to the analyzer server for detection of structures. After the analyzer server recognizes
structures in a document, it links each structure to operations (called “actions”) commonly
performed on data of that type (such as linking phone numbers to the functions for calling or
storing phone numbers in the address book). It then returns the list of detected structures and links
to the client application.
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Case No.: 12-cv-00630-LHK
ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION