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`Inventor: Jeffery Bruce McGeorge
`United States Patent No.: 7,941,357
`Formerly Application No.: 10/451022
`Issue Date: January 25, 2011
`PCT Filing Date: October 26, 2001
`Former Examiner: Ella Colbert
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`§ Attorney Docket No.: FOR-2012411
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`53‘ Case No: CBM2013-00005
`§ Patent Owner: Market-Alerts Pty Ltd
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`For: Trading System
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`MAIL STOP PATENT BOARD
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`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`United States Patent and Trademark Office
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`Post Office Box 1450
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`Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450
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`MARKETS—ALERT’S MOTION FOR
`PRO IIAC VICE ADNHSSION OF ADRIAN PRUETZ
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`I.
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`Relief Requested
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.10 and Patent Owner’s Request for Authorization to file for
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`Pro Hac Vice admission filed concurrently herewith and dated November 8, 2012, Patent Owner,
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`Markets-Alert Pty Ltd requests that the Board admit Adrian Pruetzpro hac vice in this
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`proceeding.
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`II.
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`Statement of Facts Showing Good Cause for the Board to Recognize Counsel Pro
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`Hac Vice During the Proceeding
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`In accordance with 37 C.F.R. § 42.10(c), the Board may recognize counsel pro hac vice
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`during a proceeding upon a showing of good cause, subject to the condition that lead counsel be
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`a registered practitioner and to any other conditions as the Board may impose. § 42.10(c)
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`indicates that, “where lead counsel is a registered practitioner, a motion to appear pro hac vice
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`may be granted upon a showing that counsel is an experienced litigating attorney and has an
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`established familiarity with the subject matter at issue in the proceeding.” The facts here
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`establish good cause for the Board to recognize Adrian Pruetz pro hac vice during this
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`proceeding.
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`1.
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`2.
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`Lead counsel, Andrew Choung, is a registered practitioner.
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`Counsel, Adrian Pruetz, is an experienced litigator and has an established
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`familiarity with the subject matter at issue in the proceeding. Accompanying this motion is the
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`Declaration of Adrian Pruetz in Support of this Motion for Admission Pro Hac Vice of Adrian
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`Pruetz (“Pruetz Dec”). In her declaration, Ms. Pruetz attests, inter alia, that: “I am a member in
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`good standing of the Bar of the State of California and am admitted to practice before the United
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`States Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal for the Seventh, Ninth and Federal Circuits, and United
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`States District Courts for the Central, Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of California, the
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`Northern District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Texas, the District of Colorado, the Eastern
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`and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the Eastern District of Michigan and all California state
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`courts.
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`I am a member of the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association (LAIPLA), and
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`the American, Federal and California Bar Associations. 1 have been in private practice and
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`litigating patent cases May, 1982....” Pmetz Dec., 112-4. Ms. Pruetz also attests that: “I am
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`familiar with the subject matter at issue in this proceeding.
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`I am lead counsel in each of the
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`following proceedings, which are related to and involve the same patent at issue in this
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`proceeding:
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`i.)
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`ii.)
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`Markets—Alert Pty. Ltd. 12. Bloomberg Finance LP. or al, Civil Action No. 1:12-
`CV-00780-GMS, D. Del. (filed June 20, 2012).
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`Markets—Alert Pty. Ltd. v. The Charles Schwab Corporation 61‘ al., Civil Action
`No. 1:12-CV-00781-GMS, D. De]. (filed June 20, 2012).
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`iii.)
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`Markers—Alert Pty. Ltd. v. E*TRADE CLEARING LLC at 01., Civil Action
`No. 1:12-CV-00782-GMS, D. De]. (filed June 20, 2012).
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`iv.) Markets-Alert Pry. Ltd v. TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. et al., Civil Action
`No. 1:12-CV-00783-GMS, D. Del. (filed June 20, 2012).
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`Markets-Alert Ply. Ltd. v.0M Securities LLC et al., Civil Action No.
`1:12-CV-00784-GMS, D. Del. (filed June 20, 2012).
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`Markets—Alert Pty. Ltd. V. eSignal.com Inc. at al. , Civil Action No.
`1:12-CV-00785-GMS, D. De]. (filed June 20, 2012).
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`v.)
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`Vi.)
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`Id., 11 10.
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`3.
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`In her declaration, Ms. Prue-t2 also attests to each of the listed items required by 37 CPR.
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`§42.10(c). See Pruetz Dee., 1111 1-11.
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`III.
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`Conclusion
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`For the foregoing reasons, Markets—Alert Pty Ltd respectfully requests that the Board
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`admit Adrian Pruetz pro hac vice in this proceeding.
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`Respectfully Submitted,
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`ls/ Andrew Choun
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`Andrew Chonng, Lead Counsel
`USPTO Reg. No. 46622
`GLASER WEIL FINK JACOBS HOWARD
`AVCHEN & SHAPIRO LLP
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`10250 Constellation Boulevard, 19th Floor
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`Los Angeles, CA 90067
`achoung@glaserwei1.com
`Tel: 310-553-3000
`Fax: 310-785-3506
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`November 8, 2012
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`I certify that a copy of the foregoing PATENT OWNER MARKETS-ALERTS
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`MOTION FOR ADMISSION PRO MC VICE OF ADRIAN PRUETZ was served on
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`November 9, 2012 by causing it to be deposited in the United States Postal Service as Express
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`Mail (Label No. E: 37' 5 2 C9 0‘ 1 '2 8
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`J postage pre-paid in an envelope addressed to
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`counsel for petitioner at the following address:
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`Michael T. Rosato, Lead Counsel
`USPTO Reg. No. 52,182
`WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
`701 Fifth Avenue
`Suite 5100
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`Seattle, WA 98104—7036
`Tel.: 206-883-2529
`Fax: 206-883-2699
`Email: mrosato@wsgr.com
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`Brian D. Range, Back-up Counsel
`USPTO Reg. No. 48,437
`WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
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`900 South Capital of Texas Hwy Las Cimas IV, Fifth Floor
`Austin, TX 78746-5546
`Tel: 512—338—5478
`Fax: 512-338—5499
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`Email: brange@wsgr.com
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