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`Paper 10
`Date: January 19, 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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`AMNEAL PHARMACUTICALS LLC,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`HOSPIRA INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2016-01579
`Patent 8,455,527 B1
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`Before MICHAEL J. FITZPATRICK, SHERIDAN K. SNEDDEN, and
`ZHENYU YANG, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`FITZPATRICK, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Management of the Record
`37 C.F.R. § 42.7
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`IPR2016-01579
`Patent 8,455,527 B1
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`Petitioner, Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC filed a Petition (Paper 2) to
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`institute an inter partes review of claims 1–9 of U.S. Patent No. 8,648,106
`B2, along with several exhibits. Patent Owner, Hospira Inc., filed a
`Preliminary Response (Paper 9) to the Petition along with several of its own
`exhibits. In at least three instances, Patent Owner’s exhibit filings are in
`violation of 37 C.F.R. § 42.6(d), which prohibits duplicate filings. See id.
`(“A document already in the record of the proceeding must not be filed
`again, not even as an exhibit or an appendix, without express Board
`authorization.”). More specifically, Exhibits 2001, 2002, and 2003 are
`duplicates of Exhibits 1047, 1053, and 1001, respectively.
`Accordingly, it is
`ORDERED that Exhibits 2001, 2002, and 2003 are expunged.
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`IPR2016-01579
`Patent 8,455,527 B1
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`For Petitioner:
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`Paul Tully
`Kevin Noonan
`Andrea Orth
`MCDONNELL BOEHNEN HULBERT & BERGHOFF LLP
`tully@mbhb.com
`noonan@mbhb.com
`orth@mbhb.com
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`For Patent Owner:
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`Sandra Lee
`Eliot Williams
`Stephen Hash
`BAKER BOTTS L.L.P.
`sandra.lee@bakerbotts.com
`eliot.williams@bakerbotts.com
`stephen.hash@bakerbotts.com
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