`Tel: 571-272-7822
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`Paper 19
`Entered: October 27, 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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`MEDTRONIC, INC., MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC., AND
`MEDTRONIC COREVALVE, LLC,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`TROY R. NORRED, M.D.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2014-00395
`Patent 6,482,228 B1
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`Before SHERIDAN K. SNEDDEN, BARRY L. GROSSMAN, and
`MITCHELL G. WEATHERLY, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`WEATHERLY, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`CONFERENCE SUMMARY
`Conduct of the Proceeding
`37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`A conference call was conducted on October 24, 2014, among
`Administrative Patent Judges Weatherly, Snedden, and Grossman and
`counsel for Petitioner and Patent Owner. Patent Owner requested the call to
`discuss Patent Owner’s desire to file a Substitute Patent Owner’s Response.
`Before the conference, we instructed the parties via e-mail to prepare to
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`Case IPR2014-00395
`Patent 6,482,228 B1
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`discuss the possible unification of the hearing in this proceeding with the
`hearing in IPR2014-00110 and IPR2014-00111.
`We instructed the parties to confer in more detail on whether a
`Substitute Patent Owner’s Response was required or desirable. We also
`instructed the parties to confer in an effort to coordinate schedules among all
`three instituted proceedings relating to the patent at issue so that a single
`hearing could be conducted for all three proceedings. We also informed the
`parties that we would reconvene the discussion on both issues on Tuesday,
`October 28, 2014, at a time mutually agreeable to the parties and the panel
`members.
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`Case IPR2014-00395
`Patent 6,482,228 B1
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`PETITIONER:
`Jack Barufka
`Evan Finkel
`PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP
`jack.barufka@pillsburylaw.com
`evan.finkel@pillsburylaw.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`James J. Kernell
`ERICKSON KERNELL DERUSSEAU & KLEYPAS, LLC
`jjk@kcpatentlaw.com
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`David L. Marcus
`BARTLE & MARCUS LLC
`dmarcus@bmlawkc.com
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