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`Paper 39
`Entered: February 5, 2016
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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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`STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case CBM2015-00101
`Patent 6,105,103
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`Before TREVOR M. JEFFERSON, MITCHELL G. WEATHERLY, and
`KERRY BEGLEY, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`WEATHERLY, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`JUDGMENT
`Termination of the Proceeding
`35 U.S.C. § 327(a) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.72
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`All remaining parties in this proceeding have requested that this trial
`be terminated pursuant to a settlement. On February 2, 2016, the parties
`filed a joint motion to terminate this proceeding and to file the settlement
`agreement as business confidential information under 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c).
`Paper 38. The joint motion briefly states why termination is appropriate. Id.
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`CBM2015-00101
`Patent 6,105,103
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`at 2–3. With their joint motion to terminate, the parties also filed a copy of a
`written settlement agreement, Ex. 1026, that they request be kept
`confidential, Paper 38, 3.
`Since we instituted a trial in this proceeding on October 2, 2015, the
`remaining parties have filed no papers other than the joint motion to
`terminate. Thus, this proceeding is in its initial stages. The parties indicate
`that they have agreed to resolve all disputes between them related to the
`challenged patent including the related district court litigation. Id. (citing
`Ex. 1025). Under these circumstances, we determine that it is appropriate to
`enter judgment and terminate the trial without rendering a final written
`decision. 37 C.F.R. § 42.72.
`Accordingly, it is
`ORDERED that the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
`Company’s, and Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.’s Corrected Joint Motion
`to Terminate Proceeding with Respect to State Farm Mutual Automobile
`Insurance Company Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 327 is granted;
`FURTHER ORDERED that the parties’ joint request that the Board
`treat their settlement agreement as business confidential information
`pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 327(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c), is granted; and
`FURTHER ORDERED that this case is terminated pursuant to
`37 C.F.R. § 42.72.
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`CBM2015-00101
`Patent 6,105,103
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`PETITIONER:
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`William F. Long
`DENTONS US LLP
`bill.long@dentons.com
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`Truman Fenton
`SLADEN GRUBERT BEARD PLLC
`tfenton@sgbfirm.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Kenneth J. Weatherwax
`Nathan Lowenstein
`LOWENSTEIN & WEATHERWAX LLP
`weatherwax@lowensteinweatherwax.com
`lowenstein@lowensteinweatherwax.com
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