`571-272-7822
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`Paper 11
`Entered: November 5, 2015
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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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`SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`NETWORK-1 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case CBM2015-00078
`Patent 6,218,930 B1
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`Before JONI Y. CHANG, JUSTIN T. ARBES, and GLENN J. PERRY,
`Administrative Patent Judges.
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`ARBES, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`DECISION
`Petitioner’s Notice of Basis for Request for Relief
`37 C.F.R. §§ 42.21, 42.71
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`CBM2015-00078
`Patent 6,218,930 B1
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`Petitioner filed a Request for Rehearing (Paper 8, “Req. Reh’g”) of
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`our Decision (Paper 7, “Dec.”) not to institute a covered business method
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`patent review of claims 6 and 8–23 of U.S. Patent No. 6,218,930 B1
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`(Ex. 1001, “the ’930 patent”). Petitioner’s Request for Rehearing was
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`denied. Paper 9. Petitioner subsequently filed a “Notice of Basis for
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`Request for Relief in the Form of a Rehearing by an Enlarged Panel” again
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`requesting rehearing of the Decision and requesting rehearing by an
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`expanded panel. Paper 10, 1 (“Notice”).
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.71(d), “[a] party dissatisfied with a
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`decision may file a single request for rehearing without prior authorization
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`from the Board.”1 Petitioner’s Notice amounts to a second request for
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`rehearing and was not authorized by the Board. As to Petitioner’s request
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`for rehearing by an expanded panel, a panel does not have authority to
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`expand a panel; only the Chief Judge, acting on behalf of the Director, may
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`act to expand a panel. See Standard Operating Procedure 1, rev. 14 § III
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`(PTAB May 8, 2015). In this case, the suggestion to expand the panel has
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`been referred to the Acting Chief Judge and considered, but is not adopted.
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`In consideration of the foregoing, it is hereby:
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`ORDERED that Petitioner’s request for relief in the form of a second
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`rehearing of the Decision not to institute a covered business method patent
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`review is denied.
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`1 See Amendments to the Rules of Practice for Trials Before the Patent Trial
`and Appeal Board, 80 Fed. Reg. 28,561, 28,563 (May 19, 2015) (“To clarify
`that a party may file only a single request for rehearing as of right, the Office
`amends 37 CFR 42.71(d) to add ‘single’ before ‘request for rehearing’ in the
`first sentence.”).
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`CBM2015-00078
`Patent 6,218,930 B1
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`PETITIONER:
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`Lionel M. Lavenue
`Theresa Weisenberger
`FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER, LLP
`lionel.lavenue@finnegan.com
`theresa.weisenberger@finnegan.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Charles F. Wieland III
`Robert G. Mukai
`BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC
`Charles.Wieland@bipc.com
`robert.mukai@bipc.com
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