`571-272-7822
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`Paper No. 20
` Entered: September 18, 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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`LG ELECTRONICS, INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`E-WATCH, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2015-00404 (Patent 7,365,871B2)
`Case IPR2015-00408 (Patent 7,643,168 B2) 1
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`Before JAMESON LEE, GREGG I. ANDERSON, and
`MATTHEW R. CLEMENTS, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`PER CURIAM,
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`AMENDED DECISION
`Joint Motion to Terminate
`37 C.F.R. § 42.74
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`1 This order addresses issues that are the same in all cases. We exercise our
`discretion to issue one order to be filed in each case. The parties, however,
`are not authorized to use this style heading in subsequent papers.
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`IPR2015-00404 (Patent 7,365,871 B2)
`IPR2015-00408 (Patent 7,643,168 B2)
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`On September 11, 2015, the parties filed a “Joint Motion to
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`Terminate” based on a settlement agreement that resolves the parties’
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`disputes related to the challenged patent. Paper 18.2 The parties
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`concurrently filed a copy of the settlement agreement (Ex. 1027). The Joint
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`Motion to Terminate also requested that Exhibit 1027 be “treated as
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`confidential business information and kept separate from the files of the
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`involved patent.” Paper 18, 3; see also 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c) (“A party to a
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`settlement may request that the settlement be treated as business confidential
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`information and be kept separate from the files of an involved patent or
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`application.”).
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`We granted the Joint Motion to Terminate in our Decision dated
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`September 17, 2015. However, that Decision states incorrectly that we have
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`not yet instituted trial when we have. See Decision on Institution (Paper 12
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`in IPR2015-00404 and Paper 12 in IPR2015-00408). We also cited to 37
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`C.F.R. §§ 42.71(a) regarding dismissing the Petition when, as discussed
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`above, trial was instituted. This Amended Decision corrects those errors.
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`We have not yet entered a final decision. Under these circumstances,
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`we determine that it is appropriate to terminate the trial. See 37 C.F.R. §§
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`42.5(a), 42.72. This paper does not constitute a final written decision
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`pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 318(a).
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`Accordingly, it is
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`ORDER
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`ORDERED that the Joint Motion to Terminate is granted pursuant to
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`this Amended Decision; and
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`2 All citations are to the filings in IPR2015-00404, unless otherwise noted.
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`IPR2015-00404 (Patent 7,365,871 B2)
`IPR2015-00408 (Patent 7,643,168 B2)
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`FURTHER ORDERED that, pursuant to the Decision (Paper 19 in
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`IPR2015-00404 and Paper 18 in IPR2015-00408), the settlement agreement
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`(Exhibit 1027 in IPR2015-00404 and Exhibit 1029 in IPR2015-00408) be
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`treated as business confidential information and be kept separate from the
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`files of the involved U.S. Patent Nos. 7,635,871 B2 and 7,643,168 B2.
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`IPR2015-00404 (Patent 7,365,871 B2)
`IPR2015-00408 (Patent 7,643,168 B2)
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`For PETITIONER:
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`David L. Witcoff
`Richard J. Johnson
`Matthew W. Johnson
`JONES DAY
`dlwitcoff@jonesday.com
`jjohnson@jondesday.com
`mwjohnson@jonesday.com
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`For PATENT OWNER:
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`Robert C. Curfiss
`bob@curfiss.com
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`David O. Simmons
`IVC Patent Agency
`dsimmons1@sbcglobal.net