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` Paper No. 17
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` Entered: April 26, 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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`SIRIUS XM RADIO INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERNUNG DER
`ANGEWANDTEN E.V.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2018-00681 (Patent 7,061,997 B1)
`IPR2018-00682 (Patent 6,931,084 B1)
`IPR2018-00689 (Patent 6,993,084 B1)
`IPR2018-00690 (Patent 6,314,289 B1)
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`Before JEFFREY S. SMITH, STACEY G. WHITE,
`MICHELLE N. WORMMEESTER, and GARTH D. BAER,
`Administrative Patent Judges.
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`BAER, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Conduct of the Proceeding
`37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`IPR2018-00681 (Patent 7,061,997 B1)
`IPR2018-00682 (Patent 6,931,084 B1)
`IPR2018-00689 (Patent 6,993,084 B1)
`IPR2018-00690 (Patent 6,314,289 B1)
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`In each of the above captioned cases, Sirius XM Radio Inc. (“Petitioner”)
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`filed a Request for Rehearing of our decision denying institution of inter partes
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`review based on Petitioner’s failure to identify Sirius XM Holdings as a real party
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`in interest (RPI). We invite Petitioner to file a brief, limited to no more than 7
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`pages and due within 10 days of the entry date of this order, addressing the Board’s
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`recently designated precedential decisions in Proppant Express Investments, LLC
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`v. Oren Technologies, LLC, Case IPR2017-01917 (PTAB Feb. 13, 2019) (Paper
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`86), and Adello Biologics LLC v. Amgen Inc., Case PGR2019-00001 (PTAB Feb.
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`14, 2019) (Paper 11). In Particular, we invite Petitioner to address those cases’
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`impact on Petitioner’s Request for Rehearing. Patent Owner Fraunhofer-
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`Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V (“Patent Owner”) may
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`file a response to Petitioner’s brief. Patent Owner’s response is also limited to 7
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`pages and is due within 10 days after Petitioner files its brief. The parties should
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`file the same brief in each of the above captioned cases.
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`SO ORDERED.
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`IPR2018-00681 (Patent 7,061,997 B1)
`IPR2018-00682 (Patent 6,931,084 B1)
`IPR2018-00689 (Patent 6,993,084 B1)
`IPR2018-00690 (Patent 6,314,289 B1)
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`PETITIONER:
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`Jonathan Caplan
`jcaplan@kramerlevin.com
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`Jeffrey Price
`jprice@kramerlevin.com
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`Shannon Hedvat
`shedvat@kramerlevin.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Ben Yorks
`byorks@irell.com
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`Babak Redjaian
`bredjaian@irell.com
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`David McPhie
`dmcphie@irell.com
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