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`571-272-7822
`Entered: November 17, 2014
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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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` RELOADED GAMES, INC.,
`Petitioner
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` PARALLEL NETWORKS LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2013-00136
`Patent 7,188,145 B2
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`Before KRISTEN L. DROESCH, BRIAN J. McNAMARA, and
`HYUN J. JUNG, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`McNAMARA, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Conduct of the Proceeding
`37C.F.R. § 42.5
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`IPR2014-00136
`Patent 7,188,145 B2
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`On October 31, 2014, Reloaded Games, Inc. (“Petitioner”) filed Petitioner’s
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`Reply to the Patent Owner Response. Paper 24 (“Petitioner’s Reply”). On
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`November 7, 2014, Parallel Networks LLC (“Patent Owner”) contacted the Board
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`via e-mail to request a conference to clarify the status of claims 1 and 15 and to
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`request that the Board consider striking the portions of Petitioner’s Reply that
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`request cancellation of claims 1 and 15 of U.S. Patent 7,188,145 B2 (“the ’145
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`Patent”). Patent Owner’s e-mail expressed concern that Petitioner’s Reply
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`addressed claims 1 and 15, although we declined to institute a trial on Petitioner’s
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`challenge to claims 1 and 15 in this proceeding, and declined to institute a second
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`proceeding to be joined with this proceeding to address other challenges to claims
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`1 and 15.
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`A conference is not necessary at this time. As Patent Owner correctly points
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`out, we did not institute a trial on Petitioner’s challenges to claims 1 and 15.
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`Therefore, a final written decision in this proceeding will not address the
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`patentability of claims 1 and 15 of the ’145 Patent. The Board will consider
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`Petitioner’s Reply only as it applies to the claims at issue, which does not include
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`claims 1 and 15. Thus, we will consider all, part, or none of Petitioner’s Reply, as
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`we deem appropriate in deciding the patentability of the claims at issue in this
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`proceeding, i.e., claims 2-4, 6, 7, 10, 16-18, 20, 21, 24, and 29-36 .
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`IPR2014-00136
`Patent 7,188,145 B2
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`PETITIONER:
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`Eric A. Buresh
`Mark C. Lang
`ERISE IP, P.A.
`eric.buresh@eriseip.com
`mark.lang@eriseip.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Darren W. Collins
`Robert C. Hilton
`Aaron J. Pickell
`MCGUIRE WOODS, LLP
`patents@mcguirewoods.com
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