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` Paper No. 18
` Entered: February 14, 2018
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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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`WATSON LABORATORIES, INC.
`Petitioner,
`v.
`UNITED THERAPEUTICS, CORP.
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2017-01621 and IPR2017-016221
`Patents 9,358,240 B2 and 9,339,507 B2
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`Before LORA M. GREEN, ERICA A. FRANKLIN, and DAVID COTTA,
`Administrative Patent Judges.
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`COTTA, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Conduct of the Proceedings
`37 C.F.R. § 42.7
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`1 This order addresses issues that are the same in the identified cases. We
`exercise our discretion to issue one order to be filed in each case. The
`parties are authorized to use this style heading when filing a single paper in
`the listed proceedings, provided that such heading includes a footnote
`attesting that “the word-for-word identical paper is filed in each proceeding
`identified in the heading.”
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`IPR2017-01621 (Patent 9,358,240 B2)
`IPR2017-01622 (Patent 9,339,507 B2)
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` ANALYSIS
`On February 9, 2018, Watson Laboratories, Inc. (“Petitioner”) filed
`Requests for Rehearing in IPR2017-01621 and IPR2017-01622. On
`February 13, 2018, the Board received an email in which Petitioner
`requested that the Board expunge both Requests from the record and deem
`them withdrawn. Ex. 3002. In that email, Petitioner’s counsel represented
`that he had conferred with Patent Owner’s counsel and that Patent Owner
`did not oppose its request. Id.
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`II. ORDER
`In consideration of the foregoing, it is hereby ORDERED that the
`Requests for Rehearing filed by Petitioner on February 9, 2018 in IPR2017-
`01621 and IPR2017-01622 shall be expunged from the record and deemed
`withdrawn.
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`IPR2017-01621 (Patent 9,358,240 B2)
`IPR2017-01622 (Patent 9,339,507 B2)
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`PETITIONER:
`Michael K. Nutter
`Andrew R. Sommer
`WINSTON & STRAWN LLP
`mnutter@winston.com
`asommer@winston.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
`Stephen B. Maebius
`George Quillin
`FOLEY & LARDNER LLP
`smaebius@foley.com
`gquillin@foley.com
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`Shaun R. Snader
`UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORP.
`ssnader@unither.com
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`Douglas Carsten
`Richard Torczon
`Robert Delafield
`Veronica Ascarrunz
`WILSON, SONSINI, GOODRICH & ROSATI
`dcarsten@wsgr.com
`rtorczon@wsgr.com
`bdelafield@wsgr.com
`vascarrunz@wsgr.com
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