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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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`DELL INC., EMC CORPORATION, HEWLETT-PACKARD
`ENTERPRISE CO., and HP ENTERPRISE SERVICES, LLC,
`Petitioners,
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`REALTIME DATA LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2017-00176
`Patent No. 7,161,506
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`PARTIES’ JOINT NOTICE REGARDING CONSOLIDATION
`AND REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE FROM THE BOARD
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`The Board requested, by e-mail of August 16, 2017, that Dell Inc., EMC
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`Corp., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., HP Enterprise Services, LLC, Teradata
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`Operations Inc., and Realtime Data LLC (collectively, the Parties) meet and confer
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`to discuss the possibility of coordinating schedules and discovery and
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`consolidating trial in four instituted inter partes reviews:
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`• IPR2017-00176 (the Dell ’506 IPR)
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`• IPR2017-00179 (the Dell ’728 IPR)
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`• IPR2017-00806 (the Teradata ’506 IPR)
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`• IPR2017-00808 (the Teradata ’728 IPR)
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`The Parties conferred on August 17, 2017, and discussed the issues with the
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`Board during a call held on August 18, 2017. The Board instructed the Parties to
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`file a Joint Notice reflecting the agreement reached during those calls.
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`Accordingly, the Parties hereby file this Joint Notice reflecting the extent of
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`their agreement and seeking guidance from the Board on two areas of
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`disagreement. The Parties agree that:
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`• they will proceed according to the schedule entered in the two earlier-
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`filed inter partes reviews, except that in the Dell ’728 and Dell ’506
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`Patent IPRs Due Date 1 will be extended three weeks to September
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`20, 2017, with no other modifications to the schedule currently
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`contemplated (attached Exhibit A reflects the Parties proposed
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`schedule for all four proceedings);
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`• beginning with the Patent Owner Response, the Parties will file joint
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`papers in the pairs of proceedings for each respective challenged
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`patent—i.e., Patent Owner will file one common Patent Owner
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`Response related to the ’506 Patent in both the Dell ’506 and Teradata
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`’506 IPRs (and Petitioners will file one common Reply), and Patent
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`Owner will file one common Patent Owner Response related to the
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`’728 Patent in both the Dell ’728 and Teradata ’728 IPRs (and
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`Petitioners will file one common Reply);
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`• the deposition of Dr. Creusere taken by Patent Owner on August 4,
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`2017, in the Dell ’506 and ’728 IPRs will be treated as having also
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`been taken in the Teradata ’506 and ’728 IPRs, and that Patent Owner
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`will not seek an additional deposition of Dr. Creusere in the later-filed
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`proceedings as to the opinions expressed in his initial declaration in
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`the Teradata ’506 and Teradata ’728 Patent IPRs;
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`• the Parties do not currently seek extra words of briefing, additional
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`time at oral argument, or additional time for questioning at any future
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`deposition as a result of this consolidation, but reserve the right to do
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`so if such need becomes apparent.
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`The Parties seek guidance from the Board on the following two areas of
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`disagreement related to discovery and oral hearings:
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`Discovery
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`Background: Given the overlap of issues, the Dell Petitioners and Patent
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`Owner previously agreed to a single consolidated expert deposition across the Dell
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`’728 and ’506 Patent IPR proceedings. Accordingly, Patent Owner took a single,
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`one-day deposition of Dr. Creusere as to both the Dell ’728 and ’506 Patent IPR
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`proceedings (which, pursuant to the agreement in this notice, will be treated as
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`having been taken in the Teradata ’728 and ’506 Patent IPR proceedings). The Dell
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`Petitioners, in turn, intend to take a single deposition of any expert that Patent
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`Owner relies on in the Patent Owner Response.
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`Patent Owner and Teradata had not discussed such an arrangement at the
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`time the Board asked the parties to confer about coordinating discovery. The
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`Parties now disagree whether coordination of discovery between the Proceedings
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`should include a similar single-deposition limitation as to Teradata.
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`Teradata’s Proposal: Teradata will endeavor to schedule and administrate
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`the deposition of any expert Patent Owner relies on such that only a single
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`deposition is necessary for the Dell ’506 IPR, the Dell ’728 IPR, the Teradata ’506
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`IPR, and the Teradata ’728 IPR. However, it is premature to require Teradata to
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`be limited to a single deposition at this date. For example, Patent Owner has not
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`yet served its Patent Owner Response (which will be due on September 20). Thus,
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`Teradata proposes that it should maintain the right to one deposition of Patent
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`Owner’s expert for each coordinated pair of proceedings (i.e. one deposition for
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`opinions related to the ’728 Patent and one separate deposition for opinions related
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`to the ’506 Patent), to the extent necessary.
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`Dell and EMC’s Proposal: When Patent Owner files its Responses for the
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`’728 and ’506 Patent proceedings, the Petitioners should take a single deposition of
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`each expert for all proceedings. Similarly, if Petitioners rely on new expert
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`opinions in their Petitioners’ Replies then Patent Owner should take a single
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`deposition of each expert across all proceedings.
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`Patent Owner’s Proposal: To the extent Patent Owner relies on expert
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`opinion to support arguments made in the Patent Owner Response, Petitioners
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`should coordinate to take a single deposition of each such expert, consistent with
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`Patent Owner’s single deposition of Dr. Creusere. Similarly, should Dell or
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`Teradata rely on new expert opinion in their Petitioner Replies, Patent Owner
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`should take a single deposition of each expert across the four proceedings.
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`Oral Hearing
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`Teradata’s Proposal: Teradata expects that the oral arguments for the four
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`proceedings will be conducted on the same day before the same panel. Further,
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`Teradata agrees that the Teradata ‘506 IPR and the Teradata ‘728 IPR may be
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`considered together in a single oral hearing. Teradata will endeavor to work with
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`the other Parties such that only a single oral hearing is necessary for the four
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`proceedings. However, Teradata submits it is premature to require Teradata to be
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`limited to a single, consolidated oral hearing and require that Petitioners share a
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`single opening and rebuttal presentation at this date. For example, Patent Owner
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`has not yet served its Patent Owner Response (which will be due on September
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`20). Thus, Teradata proposes that it should maintain the right to an oral hearing for
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`the Teradata ‘506 IPR and the Teradata ‘728 IPR, separate from the oral hearing
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`for the Dell IPRs. If such separate hearings are necessary, Teradata agrees to work
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`with the other Parties to eliminate any duplicative arguments.
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`Dell and EMC’s Proposal: Dell and EMC leave to the Board to determine
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`the appropriate number of oral hearings. Dell and EMC’s concern is that they have
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`at least 45 minutes of oral argument time combined between the ’728 and ’506
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`Patent proceedings.
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`Patent Owner’s Proposal: Given the overlap of issues, a single oral hearing
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`should be held across all four proceedings on February 26, 2018. At that hearing,
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`the Petitioners should make a single opening and rebuttal presentation, but may
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`divide the time between the challenged patents and various Petitioner Parties as
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`they see fit; similarly, Patent Owner will give a single response, but may divide its
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`time between the challenged patents and Petitioner arguments as it sees fit. To the
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`extent the Board wishes to allocate additional oral hearing time, Patent Owner does
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`not object provided that Patent Owner receive corresponding additional time.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/s/ William P. Rothwell
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`William P. Rothwell, Reg. No. 72,522
`NOROOZI PC
`2245 Texas Drive, Suite 300
`Sugar Land, TX 77479
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`Counsel for Patent Owner
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`/s/Eliot D. Williams/
`Eliot D. Williams (Reg. No. 50,822)
`1001 Page Mill Road, Bld. 1, Suite 200
`Palo Alto, California 94304-1007
`650.739.7511
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`Attorney for Petitioner Teradata Operations, Inc.
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`/s/Andrew R. Sommer/
`Andrew R. Sommer (Reg. No. 53,932)
`WINSTON &STRAWN LLP
`1700 K Street NW
`Washington, DC 20006
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`Lead Counsel for Petitioner Dell Inc., EMC
`Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., and HP
`Enterprise Services LLC
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`Date: August 29, 2017
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`EXHIBIT A – Proposed Schedule
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`DUE DATE 1 ....................................................................September 20, 2017
`Patent Owner’s response to the Petition
`Patent Owner’s motion to amend the patent
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`DUE DATE 2 ................................................................... November 30, 2017
`Petitioner’s reply to Patent Owner’s response to the Petition
`Petitioner’s opposition to motion to amend
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`DUE DATE 3 ..........................................................................January 2, 2018
`Patent Owner’s reply to Petitioner’s opposition to motion to amend
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`DUE DATE 4 ........................................................................January 22, 2018
`Motion for observation regarding cross-examination of reply witness
`Motion to exclude evidence
`Request for oral argument
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`DUE DATE 5 ........................................................................February 5, 2018
`Response to observation Opposition
`to motion to exclude
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`DUE DATE 6 ......................................................................February 12, 2018
`Reply to opposition to motion to exclude
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`DUE DATE 7 ......................................................................February 26, 2018
`Oral argument (if requested)
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`CERTIFICATION OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that the foregoing PARTIES’ JOINT
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`NOTICE REGARDING CONSOLIDATION AND REQUEST FOR
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`GUIDANCE FROM THE BOARD was served electronically via e-mail on
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`August 29, 2017, in its entirety on the following counsel of record for Petitioners:
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`IPR2017-00176 and -179
`Andrew R. Sommer
`Thomas M. Dunham
`Garth A. Winn
`Vivek V. Krishnan
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`IPR2017-00806 and -808
`Eliot D. Williams
`Jamie R. Lynn
`Andrew Wilson
`Michelle Eber
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`IPR2017-00176@winston.com
`IPR2017-00179@winston.com
`garth.winn@klarquist.com
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`eliot.williams@bakerbotts.com
`jamie.lynn@bakerbotts.com
`andrew.wilson@bakerbotts.com
`michelle.eber@bakerbotts.com
`DLTeradata@bakerbotts.com
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/s/ William P. Rothwell
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`William P. Rothwell, Reg. No. 72,522
`NOROOZI PC
`2245 Texas Drive, Suite 300
`Sugar Land, TX 77479
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`Counsel for Patent Owner
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`Date: August 29, 2017
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