Paper No. 11
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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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`ARRIS Group, Inc.
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`Mobile Telecommunications Technologies, LLC
`Patent Owner.
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`Patent No. 5,915,210
`Issued: June 22, 1999
`Filed: July 24, 1997
`Inventors: Dennis Wayne Cameron, Walter Charles Roehr, Jr., Jai P. Bhagat,
`Masood Garahi, William D. Hays, David W. Ackerman
`Title: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTICARRIER
`SIMULCAST TRANSMISSION
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`Inter Partes Review No. IPR2016-00765
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`PETITIONER’S REPLY
`TO PATENT OWNER’S OPPOSITION TO MOTION FOR JOINDER
`UNDER 35 U.S.C. 315(c) AND 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.22 AND 42.122(b)
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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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`ARRIS Group, Inc.
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`Mobile Telecommunications Technologies, LLC
`Patent Owner.
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`Patent No. 5,915,210
`Issued: June 22, 1999
`Filed: July 24, 1997
`Inventors: Dennis Wayne Cameron, Walter Charles Roehr, Jr., Jai P. Bhagat,
`Masood Garahi, William D. Hays, David W. Ackerman
`Title: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTICARRIER
`SIMULCAST TRANSMISSION
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`Inter Partes Review No. IPR2016-00765
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`PETITIONER’S REPLY
`TO PATENT OWNER’S OPPOSITION TO MOTION FOR JOINDER
`UNDER 35 U.S.C. 315(c) AND 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.22 AND 42.122(b)
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`I.
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`ARGUMENT
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`A. Joinder Is In The Public Interest
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`In instituting IPR2015-01724 and IPR2015-01726 (the “Samsung IPRs”),
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`the Board found that Samsung “has established a reasonable likelihood of pre-
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`vailing on the [challenged] claims” of ’891 and ’210 patents challenged in the
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`petition. No substantive paper has been filed since the Board instituted the
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`Samsung IPRs. Thus, based on the information presently available, the challenged
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`claims of the ’891 and ’210 patents are more likely than not unpatentable. Some of
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`these same challenged claims are now being asserted in ongoing litigation against
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`the Aruba petitioner, users of accused products of the ARRIS petitioner, and third
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`parties. Moreover, the Patent Owner has asserted these claims against other parties
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`in the past (Paper No. 1 at 1-2), and there is no indication that Patent Owner will
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`not do so again.
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`Under these circumstances – both ongoing litigation and possible future
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`litigation involving the challenged claims ’891 and ’210 patents at issue here –
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`there is a strong public interest in obtaining a final written decision on the
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`challenged claims as soon as possible. If joinder is granted, the final written
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`decision will be due on February 16, 2017. If joinder is not granted and the
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`ARRIS and Aruba IPRs continue on the default schedule, the institution decision
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`will not be due until September 29, 2016 (six months from the 3/29/16 Notice of
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`Petitioner’s Motion for Joinder
`IPR2016-00765 (U.S. Patent No. 5,915,210)
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`Filing Date Accorded), and a final written decision will not be due until September
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`29, 2017. This is a difference of more than seven months. An additional seven
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`months of litigation can amount to a significant expense, both for defendants that
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`are already involved in suits by Patent Owner on these patents, and for other
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`defendants that Patent Owner may name in future Eastern District of Texas
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`lawsuits. Additionally, seven months will have passed from the February 16th date
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`of the Board’s Institution Decision in the Samsung IPRs. This length of time will
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`place a burden on the Board as it will have to expend more effort to re-familiarize
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`itself with the technology at issue then would be the case if joinder were granted.
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`B. The Board Has The Authority To Grant Joinder On An Expedited Basis
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`The only obstacle to granting joinder immediately is the Patent Owner’s
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`desire to file a Preliminary Response. However, as discussed on the April 19th
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`conference call, the Board has the authority to expedite Patent Owner’s
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`Preliminary Response under 37 C.F.R. § 42.5(c)(1). Petitioners in the Aruba and
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`ARRIS IPRs have proposed a schedule to allow for Patent Owner’s preliminary
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`response. In particular, the Aruba and ARRIS petitioners proposed the following
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`schedule on the April 19th call (recalling that no motion to amend is possible):
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`Patent Owner Preliminary Response:
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`Due Date 1 (Patent Owner Response)
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`Due Dates 2 and 3 (Petitioner’s Reply)
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`May 20, 2016
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`July 20, 2016
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`September 20, 2016
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`Petitioner’s Motion for Joinder
`IPR2016-00765 (U.S. Patent No. 5,915,210)
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`Due Date 4 (Mot. for Obs., Mots. To Exclude)
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`October 5, 2016
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`Due dates 5-7 would remain unchanged. It should be noted that, under this
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`proposed schedule, even if the Board were to take a month after Patent Owner’s
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`preliminary response to issue its institution decision, Patent Owner would have two
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`months to file its Response, which is almost exactly the time it had left to file its
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`response when it filed its April 14th motion to terminate the Samsung IPRs.
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`C. Joinder Would Neither Punish Nor Unfairly Prejudice Patent Owner
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`Patent Owner’s Opposition asserts that Patent Owner would be “punished”
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`for focusing on settlement with Samsung, and that Patent Owner would be
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`“prejudiced,” if the ARRIS and Aruba IPRs are joined with this case. Opp. at 3-4.
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`This “punishment” and “prejudice” would result because Patent Owner would need
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`to file its Patent Owner Response by June 18th, which is just over two months
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`from the filing of its motion to terminate on April 14th. However, as discussed
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`above, the timing issue is moot in light of the proposed schedule discussed above.
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`Moreover, Patent Owner is not entitled to have its IPR terminated just because it
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`settled with Samsung. Indeed, in IPR2015-00568, Paper No. 12, the Board granted
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`joinder after a settlement had been reached despite Patent Owner’s claim of
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`prejudice. Id. at 3-5. A Patent Owner can always claim some prejudice when IPRs
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`are joined, but the correct inquiry is whether the prejudice is unfair. Under the
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`Petitioner’s Motion for Joinder
`IPR2016-00765 (U.S. Patent No. 5,915,210)
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`proposed schedule set out above, there is neither unfair prejudice nor punishment
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`because patent owner will have more than sufficient time for its filings.
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`D. Patent Owner’s Other Objections To Joinder Are Baseless
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`In section B of its Opposition in IPR2016-00768, Patent Owner claims
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`prejudice because it would be prevented from filing a Primary Patent Owner
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`Response. This issue is moot in light of the proposed schedule discussed above.
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`In Section C, Patent Owner asserts prejudice because the ARRIS and Aruba IPR
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`petitioners had not agreed to consolidate filings. This issue is now moot because
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`those petitioners have now agreed to consolidated filings. Ex. 1022 at 21:22-22:9.
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`In Section D of its Opposition, Patent Owner asserts that the ARRIS and
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`Aruba IPR petitioners are seeking joinder only to improve their bargaining
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`position. Of course, the same can be said of Patent Owner’s motive in opposing
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`joinder. When one considers that a reasonable likelihood of unpatentability has
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`been established, and the public’s interest (which the Opposition admits at 9 is a
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`relevant factor) in avoiding further waste of time and money on patent claims that
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`should not have been granted, the balance of interest clearly favor joinder.
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`In Section E, the Patent Owner relies on the denial of joinder in IPR2015-
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`00271 to argue that joinder should be denied here because of a one month period
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`between the Samsung IPR institution decision and the filing of the ARRIS and
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`Aruba petitions. However, neither the ARRIS nor the Aruba petitioners had any
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`Petitioner’s Motion for Joinder
`IPR2016-00765 (U.S. Patent No. 5,915,210)
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`prior notice that settlement was imminent, and Patent Owner admits that it kept
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`this information a secret. Opp. at 5. Moreover, IPR2015-00271 and this case are
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`very different. Granting joinder in IPR2015-00271 would have involved new
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`substantive grounds and three additional claims. IPR2015-00271, Paper 15, at 4-5.
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`Here, there are no new grounds and no additional claims. In IPR2015-00271, the
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`proceeding to be joined had already progressed past the oral argument (id. at 6),
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`whereas not even patent owner response has been filed in the Samsung IPR.
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`Finally, in IPR2015-00271, the grounds being asserted by the petitioner seeking
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`joinder could have been raised in an earlier petition filed by that same petitioner
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`(id. at 8) whereas there are no such earlier petitions here. In contrast, the Board’s
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`decision to grant joinder even after motions to terminate in IPR2015-00568, Paper
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`No. 12 is much more relevant to this case, and the only distinctions drawn in the
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`Opposition at 5 are either moot (ARRIS and Aruba will consolidate filings) or
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`irrelevant (timing of motion to terminate and opposition to joinder).
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`Patent Owner raises the specter of “legal extortion” and “IPR trolls” in
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`Section F. Beyond noting the irony given Patent Owner’s assertion of patents for
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`which a reasonable likelihood of unpatentability has been shown, Petitioners
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`submit that any such likelihood of joinder as a mechanism for “legal extortion” is
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`remote. Finally, with regard to Section G, any scheduling conflict is mooted by
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`Petitioners’ proposed schedule set out above.
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`Petitioner’s Motion for Joinder
`IPR2016-00765 (U.S. Patent No. 5,915,210)
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`II. CONCLUSION
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`Joinder should be granted for the reasons discussed above.
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`Date: April 25, 2016
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` /Charles W. Griggers/
`Charles W. Griggers
`Registration No. 47,283
`THOMAS | HORSTEMEYER, LLP
`400 N. Interstate Pkwy, Suite 1500
`Atlanta, GA 30339
`Phone: (770) 933-9500
`Fax: (770) 951-0933
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`Dan Gresham
`Registration No. 41,805
`THOMAS | HORSTEMEYER, LLP
`400 N. Interstate Pkwy, Suite 1500
`Atlanta, GA 30339
`Phone: (770) 933-9500
`Fax: (770) 951-0933
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`Attorneys for Petitioner
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`Petitioner’s Motion for Joinder
`IPR2016-00765 (U.S. Patent No. 5,915,210)
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.6(e) and 42.105(b), I hereby certify that on this
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`25th day of April, 2016, that a true and correct copy of this Motion for Joinder and
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`supporting material was electronically mailed in its entirety to:
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`john.kasha@kashalaw.com
`kelly.kasha@kashalaw.com
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`In addition, a copy of this Motion for Joinder and supporting material is being
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`electronically served in its entirety on counsel for Petitioner and counsel for Patent
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`Owner in related Case No. IPR2015-01724:
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`PETITIONER:
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`Heath Briggs
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`Patrick J. McCarthy
`GREENBERG TRAURIG, LLP
`BriggsH@gtlaw.com
`McCarthyP@gtlaw.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`John R. Kasha
`Kasha Law LLC
`john.kasha@kashalaw.com
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`Craig Steven Jepson
`Reed & Scardino LLP
`Kirk D. Dorius
`cjepson@reedscardino.com
`kdorius@reedscardino.com
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`Dated: April 25, 2016
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` /Charles W. Griggers/
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`Charles W. Griggers
`Registration Number 47,283
`Thomas|Horstemeyer, LLP
`400 N. Interstate Pkwy, Suite 1500
`Atlanta, GA 30339
`Phone: (770) 933-9500
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`Attorneys for Petitioner
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`Petitioner’s Motion for Joinder
`IPR2016-00765 (U.S. Patent No. 5,915,210)
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