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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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`NUVASIVE, INC.
`Petitioner
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`WARSAW ORTHOPEDIC, INC.
`Patent Owner
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`Case IPR2013-00206
`Patent No. 8,251,997
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`WARSAW’S REQUEST FOR ORAL ARGUMENT
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`Mail Stop “PATENT BOARD”
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. (“Warsaw” or “Patent Owner”) hereby requests
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`oral argument pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.70. Oral argument is currently scheduled
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`for June 5, 2014. (See Scheduling Order, Paper 18.) Warsaw requests oral
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`argument on the following issues:
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`I. Whether Petitioner has met its burden of proof that claims 9–30 are
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`unpatentable over the combinations of prior art in the instituted grounds
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`of unpatentability, including, but not limited to:
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`A. Whether Petitioner has met its burden of proof that the prior art
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`discloses all the limitations of claims 9–30;
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`B. Whether Petitioner has met its burden of proof that a person of
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`ordinary skill in the art would have combined the various prior
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`art references in the instituted grounds of unpatentability for
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`claims 9–30;
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`II. Warsaw’s Motion to Exclude Evidence pursuant to 37 C.F.R.
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`§ 42.64(c);
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`III. Petitioner’s Motion to Exclude Evidence pursuant to 37 C.F.R.
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`§ 42.64(c); and
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`IV. Additional issues raised by the Board or Petitioner in oral argument.
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`Dated: April 25, 2014
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`Respectfully Submitted,
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`/Thomas H. Martin/
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`Thomas H. Martin
`Registration No. 34,383
`Attorney for Patent Owner
`MARTIN & FERRARO, LLP
`1557 Lake O’Pines Street, NE
`Hartville, Ohio 44632
`Telephone: (330) 877-0700
`Facsimile: (330) 877-2030
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