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`Paper No. 10
`Entered: July 11, 2016
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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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`WTS PARADIGM, LLC
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`EdgeAQ, LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2016-00199
`Patent 7,805,461
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`Before JAMESON LEE, LYNNE E. PETTIGREW, and
`JOHN F. HORVATH, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`HORVATH, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Granting Joint Motion to Terminate
`35 U.S.C. § 317; 37 C.F.R. § 42.72
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`IPR2016-00199
`Patent 7,805,461
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`On June 28, 2016, the parties filed a Joint Motion to Terminate Inter
`Partes Review. Paper 9. The parties’ Joint Motion requests termination of
`this Inter Partes Review because the parties have reached an agreement
`settling their dispute, including an agreement to jointly request termination
`of this Inter Partes Review. Id. at 1. The parties concurrently filed a copy
`of their Settlement Agreement with their request to terminate this review.
`Id.; Ex. 1014.
`This proceeding is at an early stage. Petitioner filed a Petition for
`Inter Partes Review of claims 1–11 of U.S. Patent No. 7,805,461 (“the ’461
`patent”) on November 17, 2015, and Patent Owner filed a Preliminary
`Response on February 17, 2016. We granted the Petition for Inter Partes
`Review of claims 1–11 of the ’461 patent on May 11, 2016, and instituted
`trial. Patent Owner’s Response is not yet due, and we have not yet decided
`the merits of this proceeding.
`Under the foregoing circumstances, we determine it is appropriate to
`terminate this proceeding. See 35 U.S.C. § 317; 37 C.F.R. § 42.72. This
`paper does not constitute a final written decision pursuant to 35 U.S.C.
`§ 318(a).
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`Accordingly, it is hereby:
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`ORDERED that the Joint Motion to Terminate Inter Partes Review is
`GRANTED; and
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`Patent 7,805,461
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the trial instituted for Inter Partes
`Review of U.S. Patent No. 7,805,461 is TERMINATED as to both Petitioner
`and Patent Owner.
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`IPR2016-00199
`Patent 7,805,461
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`For PETITIONER:
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`Michael Jaskolski
`Louis A. Klapp
`QUARLES & BRADY LLP
`michael.jaskolski@quarles.com
`loius.klapp@quarles.com
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`For PATENT OWNER:
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`W. Edward Ramage
`Samuel F. Miller
`BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN,
`CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, P.C.
`eramage@bakerdonelson.com
`smiller@bakerdonelson.com
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