`Tel: 571-272-7822
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`Paper 7
`Entered: October 1, 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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`RPX CORPORATION
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`APPLICATIONS IN INTERNET TIME, LLC
`Patent Owner
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`Case IPR2015-01750
`Patent 8,484,111 B2
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`Case IPR2015-01751
`Case IPR2015-01752
`Patent 7,356,482 B21
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`Before LYNNE E. PETTIGREW, MITCHELL G. WEATHERLY, and
`JENNIFER MEYER CHAGNON, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`CHAGNON, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`DECISION
`Patent Owner’s Request for Authorization to
`File Motion for Additional Discovery
`37 C.F.R. §§ 42.5, 42.51(b)(2)
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`1 This order addresses issues common to all cases; therefore, we issue a
`single order to be entered in each case. The parties are authorized to use this
`style heading when filing the same paper in multiple proceedings, provided
`that such heading includes a footnote attesting that “the word-for-word
`identical paper is filed in each proceeding identified in the heading.”
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`IPR2015-01750 (Patent 8,484,111 B2)
`IPR2015-01751, IPR2015-01752 (Patent 7,356,482 B2)
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`On October 1, 2015, a conference call was held between counsel for
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`both parties and Judges Pettigrew, Weatherly, and Chagnon. During the
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`call, Patent Owner requested authorization to file a motion for additional
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`discovery directed to evidence regarding whether Salesforce.com, Inc.
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`(“Salesforce”) is a real-party-in-interest in these proceedings.
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`Patent Owner represented that the requests for additional discovery
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`would be directed to agreements and communications between Patent Owner
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`and Salesforce, and information regarding the length of Saleforce’s
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`membership and any membership fees paid to Patent Owner, as well as the
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`role of Mr. Sanford Robertson, who sits on the board both of Petitioner and
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`Salesforce. In response, Petitioner asserted that Patent Owner’s previous
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`requests for such information were not narrowly tailored or reasonable. The
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`parties have conferred, but have been unable to come to an agreement
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`concerning this issue.
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`The panel is persuaded that further briefing would assist the Board in
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`deciding whether to provide Patent Owner with additional discovery in this
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`case. Accordingly, we authorize Patent Owner to file a motion for
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`additional discovery. The motion may not exceed ten pages and should
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`include, as an exhibit, proposed discovery requests. Petitioner is authorized
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`to file an opposition to the motion, also not to exceed ten pages. If Petitioner
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`objects to the scope of Patent Owner’s proposed discovery requests, the
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`opposition should also include, as an exhibit, Petitioner’s alternative
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`proposed discovery requests.
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`Patent Owner is reminded that the discovery requests should be
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`responsibly tailored and restrained in scope, and that an important factor is
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`IPR2015-01750 (Patent 8,484,111 B2)
`IPR2015-01751, IPR2015-01752 (Patent 7,356,482 B2)
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`whether Patent Owner can demonstrate more than a possibility that it will
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`obtain the evidence that it seeks. See Garmin Int’l, Inc. v. Cuozzo Speed
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`Techs. LLC, Case IPR2012-00001, slip op. at 6–7 (PTAB Mar. 5, 2013)
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`(Paper 26) (informative).
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`Accordingly, it is:
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`ORDERED that Patent Owner’s request for authorization to file a
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`motion for additional discovery is granted. Patent Owner is authorized to
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`file a 10-page motion, along with an exhibit including proposed discovery
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`requests, by October 8, 2015; and
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`FURTHER ORDERED that Petitioner is authorized to file a 10-page
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`opposition, along with an exhibit including any alternative proposed
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`discovery requests, no later than five (5) business days after the date on
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`which Patent Owner files its Motion.
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`IPR2015-01750 (Patent 8,484,111 B2)
`IPR2015-01751, IPR2015-01752 (Patent 7,356,482 B2)
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`PETITIONER:
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`Richard F. Giunta
`Elisabeth H. Hunt
`Randy J. Pritzker
`WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C.
`RGiunta-PTAB@wolfgreenfield.com
`EHunt-PTAB@wolfgreenfield.com
`RPritzker-PTAB@wolfgreenfield.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Steven C. Sereboff
`M. Kala Sarvaiya
`SoCal IP Law Group LLP
`ssereboff@socalip.com
`ksarvaiya@socalip.com
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