`Trials@uspto.gov
`Paper 31
`Tel: 571-272-7822
`Entered: April 24, 2019
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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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`GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY,
`Petitioner,
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`UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2016-01289
`Patent 7,060,360 B2
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`Before GRACE KARAFFA OBERMANN, CHRISTOPHER M. KAISER,
`and MICHELLE N. ANKENBRAND, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`OBERMANN, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Authorizing Reply and Surreply Briefs on Remand
`37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`IPR2016-01289
`Patent 7,060,360 B2
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`On April 5, 2019, pursuant to a remand procedure agreed upon by the
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`parties, we authorized Petitioner to file a Remand Brief by April 15, 2019,
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`and Patent Owner to file a Responsive Remand Brief by April 22, 2019.
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`Paper 28. The Board is in receipt of those briefs. Papers 29, 30.
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`Based on our review of those briefs, we determine that additional
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`briefing may be helpful to the Board. Accordingly, we authorize Petitioner
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`to file a Reply Brief on Remand by close of business on May 8, 2019. We
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`authorize Patent Owner to file a Surreply Brief on Remand by close of
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`business on May 22, 2019. Both briefs shall be limited to five (5) pages of
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`text, excluding the caption, signature block, and table of contents, if any. No
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`new evidence may be filed with either brief. The Reply Brief on Remand
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`shall be confined to responding to arguments and evidence raised in Patent
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`Owner’s Responsive Remand Brief (Paper 30). The Surreply Brief on
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`Remand shall be confined to responding to arguments and evidence raised in
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`any Reply Brief on Remand that is filed pursuant to this Order.
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`It is
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`ORDERED that Petitioner is authorized to file a Reply Brief on
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`Remand by close of business no later than May 8, 2019;
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`FURTHER ORDERED that Patent Owner shall file a Surreply Brief
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`on Remand no later than May 22, 2019;
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the Reply Brief on Remand and the
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`Surreply Brief on Remand each shall be limited to five (5) pages of text,
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`excluding the caption, signature block, and table of contents, if any;
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`FURTHER ORDERED that no new evidence may be filed with the
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`Reply Brief on Remand or the Surreply Brief on Remand;
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the Reply Brief on Remand shall be
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`confined to addressing arguments and evidence raised in Patent Owner’s
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`Responsive Remand Brief (Paper 30);
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the Surreply Brief on Remand shall be
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`confined to addressing arguments and evidence raised in any Reply Brief on
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`Remand filed pursuant to this Order; and
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`FURTHER ORDERED that no other remand procedure or briefing is
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`authorized at this time.
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`IPR2016-01289
`Patent 7,060,360 B2
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`PETITIONER:
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`Anish Desai
`Ge.wgm.service@weil.com
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`Brian Ferguson
`Brian.ferguson@weil.com
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`Megan Wantland
`Megan.wantland@weil.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`W. Karl Renner
`Axf-ptab@fr.com
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`Timothy Riffe
`riffe@fr.com
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`Lauren Degnan
`degnan@fr.com
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`David L. Holt
`Holt2@fr.com
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