`571-272-7822
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`Paper 11
`Entered: February 4, 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, GREGG I. ANDERSON, and
`MATTHEW R. CLEMENTS, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`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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`On February 3, 2015, a telephone conference call was held. During
`the conference call, counsel for Patent Owner explained that it would need a
`40-day extension of time to file its Patent Owner Response, because there is
`a Motion for Joinder pending in IPR2015-00543, where Patent Owner has
`not yet filed a preliminary response. The point made was that Patent Owner
`should not have to file two responses. Initially, counsel for Petitioner
`opposed any extension of the due date for the Patent Owner Response in this
`proceeding, despite the possibility that IPR2015-00543 may be joined with
`this proceeding. Nevertheless, after discussion and compromise, the parties
`agreed to an extension of 15 days, to reset Due Date 1 to February 20, 2015.
`Under the circumstances, resetting Due Date 1 to February 20, 2015,
`is appropriate. We also postpone Due Date 2 by 15 days, so as not to
`shorten Petitioner’s time to prepare a reply. Due Date 3, however, will
`remain unchanged, because Patent Owner had indicated (Paper 9, 3) that it
`did not anticipate filing a motion to amend claims.
`It is
`ORDERED that Due Date 1 is reset to February 20, 2015, and Due
`Date 2 is reset to April 20, 2015.
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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
`ai-ptab@perkinscoie.com
`cko@perkinscoie.com
`kpatariu@perkinscoie.com
`btehranchi@perkinscoie.com
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`PATENT OWNER
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`Robert Curfiss
`David Simmons
`bob@curfiss.com
`dsimmons1@sbcglobal.net
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