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`Date Entered: September 24, 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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`MERCEDES-BENZ USA LLC,
`Petitioner,
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`ANTENNATECH LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2015-01576
`Patent 8,180,279 B2
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`Before SALLY C. MEDLEY, KERRY BEGLEY, and
`JACQUELINE T. HARLOW, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`MEDLEY, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`JUDGMENT
`Termination of the Proceeding
`37 C.F.R. § 42.73
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`On September 15, 2015, and pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317 and
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`37 C.F.R. § 42.74, the parties filed a joint motion to terminate the
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`proceeding. Paper 6. The parties also filed a joint request to have their
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`settlement agreement treated as confidential business information under
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`35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c). Paper 7. In the joint motion,
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`and in subsequent correspondence with the Board, the parties represent that
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`the settlement agreement filed is a true copy and resolves all disputes
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`between the parties.
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`This proceeding is in an early stage and no decision whether to
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`institute inter partes review has been made. Based on the facts of this case,
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`it is appropriate to enter judgment.1 Therefore, the joint motion to terminate
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`the proceeding is granted.
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`Accordingly, it is
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`ORDERED that the parties’ joint request that the settlement
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`agreement be treated as business confidential information, to be kept
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`separate from the patent file, is granted; and
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the joint motion to terminate the
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`proceeding is granted; and
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the proceeding is terminated.
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`1 A judgment means a final written decision by the Board, or a termination
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`IPR2015-01576
`Patent 8,180,279 B2
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`For Petitioner:
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`Jim Glass
`Marc Kaplan
`Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
`jimglass@quinnemanuel.com
`marckaplan@quinnemanuel.com
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`For Patent Owner:
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`Shakher Vyas
`Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC
`vyas@swdelaw.com
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