PAGE 4: Defense started their cross –exam of Norris. I’m pretty sure it was Mr. Collins, but if not, it was Mr. Featherstone. Collins asked Norris where in the 774 patent the term “RAM” appears. Norris said it didn’t but that it is obvious to any person skilled in the art that RAM must be present to process the received electrical signals. Collins then asked what “DSP” means. Norris answered “Digital Signal Processor”. Collins then pointed out places in the 774 patent where DSP is defined as “Digital Support Processor” and Norris said his patent attorney must have either misunderstood or it was a typo. He said the actual patent as it’s written was written by his patent attorney, Vaughn North, not Norris.

Collins asked about different articles submitted to USPTO and if any used any other term than “flash memory”. He was trying to show the term “RAM” didn’t appear in any of these articles. Norris answered no to this again citing the obviousness of needing RAM to do what the 774 patent does.

Collins asked why in claim 1 of the 774 patent that the phrase “received processed signals” doesn’t differentiate between partial or fully processed. Norris answered his block diagram, which is part of the patent, obviously shows fully processed means the signal goes completely through all of the various processing circuits before ending up in flash memory. Collins explained that claim 10 of the 774 patent is a dependent claim of claim 1, meaning it depends on language in claim 1 to be valid. Claim 10 talks about compression which is a form of processing. So Collins then argued claim 1 can’t mean fully processed. Norris disagreed and said that was a “narrow view” of the claim.

Collins asked another question but I can’t remember it now.

Redirect of Norris by Jameson at 11:31.

Jameson asked Norris if he intended his invention to just be used for commercial devices. Norris said no.

Jameson asked questions about DSP and whether Norris thought DSP to mean “digital signal processor” when he wrote the patent. Norris said yes. This is key testimony in my opinion as it has the inventor correct the digital support processor error in the patent.

Jameson discussed the microphone element of the patent. He asked Norris if someone could store an analog signal as digital data. Norris laughed and said no (very emphatic).

Norris said after processing the sound into electrical signals, then converting to a digital signal, it was compressed by the DSP. Then the data is stored in the flash memory. Norris said emphatically it wasn’t possible to do all this processing before storage in flash without RAM.

(TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW – TOO TIRED TO DO ANYMORE TONIGHT)