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`Paper 10
`Entered: January 30, 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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`HTC CORPORATION and HTC AMERICA, INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`E-WATCH, INC. and E-WATCH CORPORATION,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2014-00989
`Patent 7,643,168 B2
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`Before JAMESON LEE, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`Order
`Conduct of Proceeding
`37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`IPR2014-00989
`Patent 7,643,168 B2
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`In IPR2015-00543 (“’543 case”), another petitioner is seeking inter
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`partes review of U.S. Patent No. 7,643,168, and has moved to join that
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`proceeding with this proceeding (Paper 3 in the ’543 case). The parties are
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`aware of that Motion for Joinder since as early as January 9, 2015. Paper 9.
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`No Notice According Filing date has yet issued in the ’543 case. The parties
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`are authorized to file their opposition, if any, to that Motion for Joinder, as a
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`paper in this proceeding.
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`It is
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`ORDERED that the parties have one week from the date of this Order
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`to file an opposition, if any, to the Motion for Joinder (Paper 3 in the ’543
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`case), as a paper in this proceeding, or a paper to indicate no opposition; and
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the opposition is limited to five pages.
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`IPR2014-00989
`Patent 7,643,168 B2
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`PETITIONER
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`Bing Ai
`Cheng C. (Jack) Ko
`Kevin Patariu
`Babak Tehranchi
`PERKINS COIE LLP
`Ai-ptab@perkinscoie.com
`CKo@perkinscoie.com
`KPatariu@perkinscoie.com
`BTehranchi@perkinscoie.com
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`PATENT OWNER
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`Robert C. Curfiss
`bob@curfiss.com
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`and
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`David O. Simmons
`IVC Patent Agency
`dsimmons1@sbcglobal.net