`Date: August 19, 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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`US ENDODONTICS, LLC,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`GOLD STANDARD INSTRUMENTS, LLC
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2015-00632
`Patent 8,727,773 B2
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`Before JOSIAH C. COCKS, HYUN J. JUNG, and
`TIMOTHY J. GOODSON, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`COCKS, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`DECISION
`Motion for Pro Hac Vice Admission
`37 C.F.R. § 42.10
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`IPR2015-00632
`Patent 8,727,773
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`As authorized by the Notice of Filing Date Accorded to the Petition (Paper
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`3), Gold Standard Instruments, LLC (“Patent Owner”) filed a “Motion for Pro Hac
`Vice Admission of Derek F. Dahlgren.” Paper 23.1 US Endodontics, LLC
`(“Petitioner”) has filed no opposition to the motion. The motion is granted. See
`37 C.F.R. § 42.10(c); see also Unified Patents, Inc. v. Parallel Iron, LLC,
`IPR2013-00639, Paper 7(PTAB October 15, 2013)2 (setting forth requirements for
`pro hac vice admission).
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`It is
`ORDERED that Patent Owner’s Motion for pro hac vice admission is
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`granted, and Mr. Dahlgren is authorized to represent Patent Owner as back-up
`counsel in IPR2015-00632;
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`FURTHER ORDERED that Patent Owner is to continue to have a registered
`practitioner as lead counsel in this inter partes review proceeding; and
`FURTHER ORDERED that Mr. Dahlgren is to comply with the Office
`Patent Trial Practice Guide and the Board’s Rules of Practice for Trials, as set forth
`in Title 37, Part 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and that Mr. Dahlgren is
`subject to the Office’s disciplinary jurisdiction under 37 C.F.R. § 11.19(a), and the
`USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct set forth in 37 C.F.R. §§ 11.101 et seq.
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`1 Patent Owner also has submitted a “Declaration of Dahlgren in Support of Patent
`Owner’s Motion for Admission Pro Hac Vice.” Paper 24.
`2 Available at http://www.uspto.gov/ip/boards/bpai/ptab_trials.jsp, “Representative
`Orders, Decisions, and Notices,” “Other Representative Orders and Decisions”).
`Supersedes IPR2013-00010, “Order – Authorizing Motion for Pro Hac Vice
`Admission.” Paper 8.
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`IPR2015-00632
`Patent 8,727,773
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`For PETITIONER:
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`Jeffrey Ginsberg
`Matthew Berkowitz
`Eric Schreiber
`KENYON & KENYON LLP
`jginsberg@kenyon.com
`mberkowitz@kenyon.com
`eschreiber@kenyon.com
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`For PATENT OWNER:
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`Joseph Hynds
`Randy Brenner-Leifer
`ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C.
`jhynds@rfem.com
`Ebrenner@rothwellfigg.com
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