`Filed: May 22, 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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`MYLAN LABORATIORIES, LTD.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`AVENTIS PHARMA S.A.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2016-00712
`Patent 8,927,592
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`PETITIONER MYLAN LABORATORIES LIMITED’S
`MOTION TO SEAL
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`Patent 8,927,592
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`I.
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`STATEMENT OF PRECISE RELIEF REQUESTED
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.14, Petitioner Mylan Laboratories, Ltd. (“Mylan”
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`or “Petitioner”) respectfully submits Petitioner’s Response to the Patent Owner’s
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`Motion for Observations on the Cross-Examination of Mr. Robert McSorley under
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`seal because it discusses Exhibits 1044, 1065, 1068, 1071, and 2261. Aventis has
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`designated each of these documents confidential subject to the Stipulated
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`Protective Order (Paper 36). Petitioner has not presently filed a redacted version
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`of the Response. Upon confirmation from Aventis that portions of the Response
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`may be filed publicly or an order from the Board permitting the public filing,
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`Petitioner is willing to file a redacted version of the Response.
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`II. GOOD CAUSE MUST EXIST FOR SEALING CONFIDENTIAL
`INFORMATION
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`The record of a proceeding is open and available for access by the public.
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`See 37 C.F.R. § 42.14. The Board must find “good cause” to seal documents.
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`Garmin v. Cuozzo, IPR2012-00001, Paper 36 at 3 (PTAB April 5, 2013). “The
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`rules aim to strike a balance between the public’s interest in maintaining a
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`complete and understandable file history and the parties’ interest in protecting truly
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`sensitive information.” The Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg.
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`48756, 48760 (Aug. 14, 2012).
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`The public’s interest in having access to a party’s confidential business or
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`clinical research information that is only indirectly related to patent validity is
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`“minimal.” Garmin at 8-9 (granting the patent owner’s motion to seal an
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`agreement relating to the “commercializ[ation]” of the patent-at-issue). Here, good
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`cause supports Petitioner’s filing of the Response under seal because Petitioner is
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`thereby complying with the Stipulated Protective Order in this Proceeding.
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`Stipulated Protective Order. Paper 36 at 4 (“Information designated as confidential
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`that is disclosed to another party during discovery or other proceedings before the
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`Board shall be clearly marked as ‘PROTECTIVE ORDER MATERIAL’ and shall
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`be produced in a manner that maintains its confidentiality”).
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`III. CERTIFICATION OF CONFERENCE WITH OPPOSING PARTY
`PURSUANT TO 37 C.F.R. §42.54
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`Counsel for Mylan has conferred with counsel for Aventis regarding the
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`confidentiality of Exhibits 1044, 1065, 1068, 1071, and 2261.
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`IV. CONCLUSION
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`For the reasons provided above, Mylan requests that the Board permit
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`Petitioner to file its Response to the Patent Owner’s Motion for Observations on
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`the Cross-Examination of Mr. Robert McSorley under seal.
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`Date: May 22, 2017
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/ Steven W. Parmelee /
`Steven W. Parmelee
`Reg. No. 31,990
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`This is to certify that I caused to be served a true and correct copy of the
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`foregoing Petitioner Mylan Laboratories Limited’s Motion to Seal, on this 22nd
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`day of May, 2017, on the Patent Owner at the correspondence address of the Patent
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`Owner as follows:
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`Dominick A. Conde
`William E. Solander
`Jason A. Leonard
`Whitney L. Meier
`Daniel J. Minion
`Joshua I. Rothman
`FITZPATRICK, CELLA, HARPER & SCINTO
`1290 Avenue of the Americas
`New York, NY 1014-3800
`Email: dconde@fchs.com
`Email: wsolander@fchs.com
`Email: jleonard@fchs.com
`Email: wmeier@fchs.com
`Email: dminion@fchs.com
`Email: jrothman@fchs.com
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`Dated: May 22, 2017
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/ Steven W. Parmelee /
` Steven W. Parmelee, Lead Counsel
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