`571-272-7822
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` Paper 104
` Entered: March 29, 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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`ACRUX DDS PYT LTD., ACRUX LIMITED, and
`ARGENTUM PHARMACEUTICALS LLC,
`Petitioner,
`
`v.
`
`KAKEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. and
`VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
`Patent Owner.
`____________
`
`Case IPR2017-00190
`Patent 7,214,506 B2
`____________
`
`
`Before SCOTT R. BOALICK, Chief Administrative Patent Judge.
`
`
`ORDER
`Lifting of Stay of Examination of Reissue Application
`35 U.S.C. § 315(d); 37 C.F.R. § 42.122(a)
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`
`
`IPR2017-00190
`Patent 7,214,506 B2
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`U.S. Patent 7,214,506 B2 is the subject of Reissue Application
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`15/405,171 (“the 171 Reissue Application”), filed January 12, 2017,
`the examination of which the Board stayed on August 31, 2017.
`Paper 31. Patent Owner’s request to lift the stay of the 171 Reissue
`Application is granted. Accordingly, Patent Owner’s Request for
`Rehearing of the Board’s decision denying authorization to file a
`motion to lift the stay of the 171 Reissue Application (Paper 84) and
`Patent Owner’s request for Precedential Opinion Panel (“POP”)
`review (see Paper 98; Ex. 3001) are both dismissed as moot.
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`
`ORDER
`It is ORDERED that the stay of examination of Reissue
`
`Application 15/405,171, imposed by the Board’s order dated August
`31, 2017 (Paper 31), is herein lifted;
`FURTHER ORDERED that Patent Owner’s Request for
`Rehearing (Paper 84) is dismissed as moot; and
`FURTHER ORDERED that Patent Owner’s request for POP
`review (Paper 98; Ex. 3001) is dismissed as moot.
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`IPR2017-00190
`Patent 7,214,506 B2
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`FOR PETITIONER:
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`Tara Raghavan
`Steven J. Birkos
`RAKOCZY MOLINO MAZZOCHI SIWIK
`traghavan@rmmslegal.com
`sbirkos@rmmslegal.comRobert
`
`
`FOR PATENT OWNER:
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`John Livingstone
`Naoki Yoshida
`Anthony Hartmann
`Barbara R. Rudolph
`Trenton Ward
`FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,
` GARRETT & DUNNER, L.L.P.
`john.livingstone@finnegan.com
`naoki.yoshida@finnegan.com
`hartmana@finnegan.com
`Barbara.rudolph@finnegan.com
`Trenton.ward@finnegan.com
`
`Toan Vo
`BAUSCH HEALTH COMPANIES, INC.
`toan.vo@bausch.com
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