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`Paper 19
` Entered: September 21, 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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`TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION,
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`BLITZSAFE TEXAS, LLC,
`Patent Owner
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`Case IPR2016-00421
`Patent 7,489,786 B2
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`Before JAMESON LEE, THOMAS L. GIANNETTI,
`and MIRIAM L. QUINN, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`LEE, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`Conduct of Proceedings
`37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`In a conference call held on July 29, 2016, counsel for Patent Owner
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`indicated that lead counsel or Patent Owner will not be available on the then
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`scheduled date of oral hearing, February 9, 2017. Paper 16. Counsel for
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`Patent Owner, however, was unable to commit to an alternative date at that
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`time. Id. We authorized Patent Owner to renew a request to reset the
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`IPR2016-00421
`Patent 7,489,786 B2
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`hearing date when it is certain of the availability of its counsel. Id. Since
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`that time, the parties have jointly proposed several alternative dates,
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`including February 2, 2017. Both parties also have indicated that a
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`consolidated oral hearing for IPR2016-00418 and IPR2016-00421 is
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`acceptable.
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`It is
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`ORDER
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`ORDERED that the oral hearing for this proceeding, if requested by
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`the parties and further if the request is granted, will be held not on
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`February 9, 2017, as originally scheduled, but on February 2, 2016, at
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`10:00 AM, Eastern Time, and will be consolidated with the oral hearing for
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`IPR2016-00418 if any request for oral hearing in IPR2016-00418 is granted.
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`IPR2016-00421
`Patent 7,489,786 B2
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`PETITIONER:
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`William H. Mandir
`John F. Rabena
`Brian K. Shelton
`Sughrue Mion PLLC
`wmandir@sughrue.com
`jrabena@sughrue.com
`bshelton@sughrue.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Peter Lambrianakos
`Brown Rudnick LLP
`plambrianakos@brownrudnick.com
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