2. o Portable low-cost aerial drone that can be used for reconnaissance o Relay real-time video and data, like location, heading, battery life o Take high-resolution pictures of the ground in flight o Store photos and some flight data in non- volatile memory, á la “blackbox” system. o Control drone manually via a control unit

4.  Major Functions Analyzed:  The UAV is controlled manually via the ground using a controller  It will relay real-time video to the ground station  It collects data like GPS coordinates and relays them to base station  First look at 3 patents with possible infringements, then look at competing products.

5.  Navigating a UAV under remote control and manual control with three dimensional flight depiction  US Patent #6856894  Filing Date : 10/23/2003  Similarities:  Navigating a UAV using remote control device  GPS sends data to ground, which is shown as a 3D model  Doctrine of Equivalents  Has significant differences in algorithm, defined in great detail in patent document.  We never do pixel mapping to GUI to get waypoints

6.  Navigating UAVs with an on-board digital camera  US Patent Application #20100004802/A1  Filing Date : 01/25/2005  Similarities  Talks about using an on-board digital camera for navigation of UAV  Doctrine of Equivalents  Significant algorithm changes, we never change “resolution of image” or focus on “required number of pixels”

7.  Enabling Services on a UAV  US Patent #7509212  Filing Date : 01/24/2005  Similarities:  Outlines a method to get data like current position from a UAV  Doctrine of Equivalents  We do not use the data collected to select a “service module”/upload the module to the UAV and use it to select flight patterns etc  Infact, we have manual control throughout.

8.  Robota Triton  Has the same functions as our UAV (GPS coordinates, XBEE RX/TX with base station, high res camera in payload bay, Battery management, custom software for base station, ground remote control)  Closest form to literal infringement (We do not have autopilot)  Retails for 9000$

9.  Microdrone MD4-200  Similar Functions to our UAV  Remote controlled selectable (autonomous flight available)  Can be configured to take real-time video and send it back to base station  Falls under literal infringement (We do not have autopilot, no hover capability)

10.  Confirm that the US Patents are no threats, if they are, change the design accordingly  As for the more serious literal infringements:  Check if Robota/Microdrone have patents on this technology  If they do, buying a license or paying royalty fees may be the only viable alternative  No such patents found yet

11.  Questions?