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`Attorney Docket No. 09449.0025-00000
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`SAP AMERICA, INC. ET AL.
`Petitioner
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`V.
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`VERSATA DEVELOPMENT GROUP, INC.
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`Patent Owner
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`Case CBM2012-00001 (MPT)
`Patent 6,553,350
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`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR ORAL HEARING
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`MAIL STOP PATENT BOARD
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`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`US. Patent & Trademark Office
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`PO. Box 1450
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`Alexandria, VA 223 13- 1450
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`Case CBM2012-00001
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`Patent 6,553,350
`Attorney Docket No: 09449.0025-00000
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`Further to 37 C.F.R. § 42.70(a), requiring a separate paper requesting oral
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`hearing and specifying issues to be argued, Petitioner submits this Request for Oral
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`Hearing on the instituted ground of unpatentability for claims 17 and 26-29 of US.
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`Patent No. 6,553,350 under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and associated issues. The Board has
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`already scheduled the Oral Hearing for April 17, 2013. Paper 45, p. 3.
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`Also, during the March 14, 2013 Hearing, the Board asked whether the
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`parties would have any objections or concerns with publicly broadcasting the Oral
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`Hearing via telephone or webcast. VX2098, 20:12—25:17. Petitioner does not
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`object to the Board publicly broadcasting the Oral Hearing.
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`Finally, the Board asked the parties to notify the Board if the total number of
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`spaces required for the Oral Hearing exceeds five. Paper 45, p. 3. Petitioner
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`hereby requests that, in addition to lead and back—up counsel, seven spaces be
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`reserved at the Oral Hearing to accommodate its counsel and corporate
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`representatives.
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`Dated: April 5, 2013
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`Case CBM2012-00001
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`Patent 6,553,350
`Attorney Docket No: 09449.0025-00000
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`By:
`Erika H. Arner, Lead Counsel
`Joseph E. Palys
`Michael V. Young, Sr.
`FINNEGAN, HENDERSON,
`FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER,
`L.L.P.
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`11955 Freedom Drive
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`Reston, VA 20190
`Phone: 571-203-2700
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`Facsimile: 202-408—4400
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`J. Steven Baughman, Back—up Counsel
`ROPES & GRAY L.L.P
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`Prudential Tower
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`800 Boylston Street
`Boston, Massachusetts 02199
`Phone: 202-508—4606
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`Facsimile: 617-235—9492
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`Attorneys for Petitioners SAP America,
`Inc. and SAP AG
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`Case No. CBM2012-00001
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`Attorney Docket No. 09449.0025-00000
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned certifies that the foregoing PETITIONER’S REQUEST
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`FOR ORAL HEARING was served on April 5, 2013, to Nancy J. Linck and
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`Martin M. Zoltick, Lead and Back-up Counsel for Versata, respectively, at the
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`service e-mail address of VERSATA-PGR@rfem.com provided in Versata’s
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`Mandatory Notices. The parties have agreed to electronic service.
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`FINNEGAN, HENDERSON,
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`FARABOW, GARRETT &
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`DUNNER, L.L.P.
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