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`RUSS AUGUST & KABAT
`Marc A. Fenster, SBN 181067
`Email: mfenster@raklaw.com
`Bruce D. Kuyper, SBN 144969
`Email: bkuyper@raklaw.com
`Andrew D. Weiss, SBN 232974
`Email: aweiss@raklaw.com
`12424 Wilshire Boulevard, 12th Floor
`Los Angeles, California 90025
`Tel: (310) 826-7474
`Fax: (310) 826-6991
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`Attorneys for Plaintiff
`Proxyconn, Inc.
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`KARIN G. PAGNANELLI (SBN
`174763)
`kgp@msk.com
`MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP
`LLP
`11377 West Olympic Boulevard
`Los Angeles, California 90064-1683
`Telephone: (310) 312-2000
`Facsimile:
`(310) 312-3100
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`STEPHEN J. JONCUS (pro hac vice)
`stephen.joncus@klarquist.com
`SALUMEH R. LOESCH (pro hac vice)
`salumeh.loesch@klarquist.com
`JOHN D. VANDENBERG (pro hac vice)
`john.vandenberg@klarquist.com
`KLARQUIST SPARKMAN, LLP
`121 SW Salmon Street, Suite 1600
`Portland, Oregon 97204
`Telephone: (503) 595-5300
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`Attorneys for Defendants Microsoft
`Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company,
`Dell Inc., and Acer America Corporation
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`UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
`SOUTHERN DIVISION
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`CASE NO. SACV11-1681 DOC
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`CONSOLIDATED
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`JOINT REQUEST FOR A STATUS
`CONFERENCE AND REPORT
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`The Honorable David O. Carter
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`Courtroom: 9D
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`PROXYCONN, INC.,
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` Plaintiff,
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`MICROSOFT CORPORATION, et
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`The Parties1 hereby provide a report on the pending inter partes review
`(“IPReview”) and request a status conference with the Court.
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`On September 18, 2012, Microsoft filed a Petition for IPReview with the
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`U.S. Patent and Trademark's Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”)
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`seeking inter partes review of nine claims of the patent-in-suit. Inter partes review
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`is a new administrative procedure that first became available under the America
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`Invents Act (35 U.S.C. §§ 311-19) on September 16, 2012. (See Dkt. 90.)
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`On November 2, 2012, the Parties filed a Joint Stipulation Requesting Stay
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`of Case Pending Inter Partes Review (the “IPR Stay Stipulation”). (Id.)
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`On December 21, 2012, the PTAB agreed to institute an inter partes review
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`on claims 1, 3, 10, 22, 23, and 24 as requested by Microsoft but declined to
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`institute an inter partes review of claims 11, 12 and 14.
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`On January 3, 2013, Microsoft filed in the PTAB a motion for rehearing of
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`the PTAB’s decision denying inter partes review of claims 11, 12 and 14.
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`On January 11, 2013, Microsoft expects to file a new request for inter partes
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`review asserting prior art against claims 11, 12 and 14 as well as additional claims
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`6, 7, and 9. As part of that new request, Microsoft will move to consolidate the
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`new request for inter partes review with the original request.
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`The Parties continue to agree that a stay is still appropriate while the inter
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`partes review is pending and request that the Court enter the IPR Stay Stipulation.
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`The IPReview will simplify, or outright resolve, at least some of the issues in this
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`case. For example, the IPReview will likely resolve Defendants’ invalidity
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`allegations based on the prior art. Under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) (2011), after a final
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`written decision from an IPReview, a petitioner “may not assert…in a civil
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`action…that the claim is invalid on any ground that the petition raised or
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`1 Plaintiff Proxyconn, Inc. (“Proxyconn”) and Defendants Microsoft Corporation
`(“Microsoft”), Hewlett-Packard Company, Acer America Corporation, and Dell
`Inc. (collectively, “Defendants”) (Proxyconn and Defendants collectively, the
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`reasonably could have raised during the inter partes review.” In the IPR Stay
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`Stipulation, all Defendants have agreed to be estopped in this action to the same
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`extent that Microsoft becomes estopped by a PTAB written decision under 35
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`U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) (2011). Thus, the estoppel effect of the PTAB decision
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`resulting from the IPReview will apply to all parties thereby reducing the issues to
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`be addressed in the litigation.
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`In light of the proceedings in the PTAB, the Parties request a status
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`conference to discuss how best to proceed with the case in light of the proceedings
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`in the PTAB.
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`Dated: January 8, 2013
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`Respectfully submitted,
`RUSS AUGUST & KABAT
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`By:
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`/s/ Andrew D. Weiss (w/ permission)
`Andrew D. Weiss
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`Marc A. Fenster, State Bar No. 181067
`Andrew D. Weiss, State Bar No. 232974
`12424 Wilshire Boulevard, 12th Floor
`Los Angeles, California 90025
`Tel: (310) 826-7474
`Fax: (310) 826-6991
`Email: mfenster@raklaw.com
`Email: aweiss@raklaw.com
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`Attorneys for Plaintiff
`Proxyconn, Inc.
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`By: /s/ Karin G. Pagnanelli
`Karin G. Pagnanelli
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`KARIN G. PAGNANELLI
`MITCHELL SILBERBERG & KNUPP LLP
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`STEPHEN J. JONCUS
`SALUMEH R. LOESCH
`JOHN D. VANDENBERG
`KLARQUIST SPARKMAN, LLP
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`Attorneys for Defendants
`Microsoft Corporation, Hewlett-Packard
`Company, Dell Inc., and Acer America
`Corporation
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`Attestation Regarding Signatures
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`I, Karin G. Pagnanelli, attest that all signatories listed, and on whose behalf
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`the filing is submitted, concur in the filing’s content and have authorized the filing.
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`DATED: January 8, 2013
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` /s/ Karin G. Pagnanelli
`Karin G. Pagnanelli
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