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`Entered: April 27, 2017
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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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`ARGENTUM PHARMACEUTICALS LLC,
` MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS INC.,
` BRECKENRIDGE PHARMACEUTICAL, INC., and
`ALEMBIC PHARMACEUTICALS, LTD.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`RESEARCH CORPORATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2016-002041
`Patent RE38,551 E
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`Before JACQUELINE WRIGHT BONILLA, Vice Chief Administrative
`Patetn Judge, FRANCISCO C. PRATS, and
`CHRISTOPHER G. PAULRAJ, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`PRATS, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Lifting Stay of Reexamination Control No. 90/013,709
`35 U.S.C. § 315(d) and 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.3, 42.122
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`1 Case IPR2016-01101, Case IPR2016-01242, and Case IPR2016-01245
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`IPR2016-00204
`Patent RE38,551 E
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`In an Order entered January 25, 2017, the panel stayed Reexamination
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`Control No. 90/013,709, the co-pending ex parte reexamination of U.S.
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`Patent No. RE38,551 E (“the ’551 patent”), the patent under challenge
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`herein, “until the until the issuance of the final written decision in this
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`proceeding, or until issuance of the decisions on any requests for rehearing
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`of that decision, should such requests be filed.” Paper 83, 4.
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`On March 22, 2017, the panel entered a Final Written Decision
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`holding that Argentum Pharmaceuticals LLC (“Petitioner”) had not shown
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`claims 1–13 of the ’551 patent to be unpatentable. Paper 85, 54.
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`Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.71(d)(2), a party dissatisfied with a final
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`decision of the Board must file its request for rehearing within 30 days. The
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`30-day deadline for filing a request for rehearing has passed, and neither
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`party has filed such a request. Accordingly, it is now appropriate to lift the
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`stay of Reexamination Control No. 90/013,709.
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`It is
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`ORDERED that the stay of Reexamination Control No. 90/013,709 is
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`hereby lifted; and
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`FURTHER ORDERED that all time periods in Reexamination
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`Control No. 90/013,709 are restarted.
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`IPR2016-00204
`Patent RE38,551 E
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`For PETITIONER:
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`Matthew Dowd
`mjdowd@dowdpllc.com
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`Justin Crotty
`justincrotty@andrewskurth.com
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`For PATENT OWNER:
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`Andrea Reister
`areister@cov.com
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`Jennifer Robbins
`jrobbins@cov.com
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`Enrique Longton
`rlongton@cov.com
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