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`Paper 59
`Entered: January 29, 2019
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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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`PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`FINJAN, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2016-001511
`Patent 8,141,154 B2
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`Before THOMAS L. GIANNETTI, MIRIAM L. QUINN, and
`PATRICK M. BOUCHER, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`QUINN, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Granting Joint Motion to Terminate as to Symantec Corp.
`37 C.F.R. § 42.74
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`1 In Case IPR2016-01071, Symantec Corp. filed, and we granted, a request
`to join this proceeding as petitioner. Paper 11. Pursuant to this Order,
`Symantec Corp. is dismissed.
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`IPR2016-00151
`Patent 8,141,154 B2
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`Joint Petitioner, Symantec Corp. (“Symantec”), and Patent Owner,
`Finjan, Inc. (“Finjan”), jointly move to terminate the instant inter partes
`review with respect to Symantec in light of the settlement that resolves their
`dispute regarding U.S. Patent No. 8,141,154 B2. Paper 57. Symantec and
`Finjan also filed a true copy of their written settlement agreement in
`connection with the termination as required by 35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37
`C.F.R. § 42.74(b). Ex. 2044. Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c), the parties
`further filed a joint request to treat the Settlement Agreement as business
`confidential information kept separate from the file of the involved patent.
`Paper 58.
`For the reasons set forth below, the Joint Motion to Terminate with
`respect to Symantec, and the Joint Request to File Settlement Agreement as
`Business Confidential Information are granted.
`Under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, settlement between the
`parties to a proceeding is encouraged. Notably, 35 U.S.C. § 317(a), in part,
`provides the following (emphasis added):
`(a) IN GENERAL.—An inter partes review instituted under this
`chapter shall be terminated with respect to any petitioner upon
`the joint request of the petitioner and the patent owner, unless
`the Office has decided the merits of the proceeding before the
`request for termination is filed. If the inter partes review is
`terminated with respect to a petitioner under this section, no
`estoppel under section 315(e) shall attach to the petitioner, or to
`the real party in interest or privy of the petitioner, on the basis of
`that petitioner’s institution of that inter partes review.
`Here, although the instant inter partes review was completed and we
`issued a Final Written Decision, the proceeding is on remand from the
`Federal Circuit, and that Final Written Decision has been vacated. Upon
`review of the procedural posture of this proceeding and the facts before us,
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`we determine that it is appropriate to terminate this proceeding with respect
`Symantec. The proceeding, however, will not be terminated with respect to
`Palo Alto Networks, Inc. and Finjan.
`In consideration of the foregoing, it is hereby:
`ORDERED that the Joint Motion to Terminate, with respect to
`Symantec, is granted;
`FURTHER ORDERED that this review is terminated with respect to
`Symantec only; but this review continues to proceed with Finjan and the
`remaining Petitioner;
`FURTHER ORDERED that the Joint Request to File Settlement
`Agreement as Business Confidential Information and to keep such
`settlement agreement separate from the patent file, and to make it available
`only to Federal Government agencies on written request, or to any person on
`a showing of good cause, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R.
`§ 42.74(c), is granted.
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`IPR2016-00151
`Patent 8,141,154 B2
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`PETITIONER:
`Matthew I. Kreeger
`Jonathan Bockman
`Shouvik Biswas
`MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP
`MKreeger@mofo.com
`FinjanPANMofoTeam@mofo.com
`FinjanPANMofoTeam@mofo.com
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`Nathaniel Hamstra
`Nathanhamstra@quinnemanuel.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`James Hannah
`Jeffrey H. Price
`Michael Kim
`KRAMER LEVIN NAFTALIS & FRANKEL LLP
`jhannah@kramerlevin.com
`jprice@kramerlevin.com
`mkim@finjan.com
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