`571-272-7822
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` Paper No. 15
` Entered: December 21, 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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`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 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der
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`angewandten Forschung e.V (“Patent Owner”) to file a response to Petitioner’s
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`rehearing requests. Should it wish to file a response to Petitioner’s rehearing
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`requests, we encourage Patent Owner to address the Board’s Institution Decision in
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`Google LLC v. Seven Networks, LLC, Case No. IPR2018-01117, Paper No. 20
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`(November 19, 2018). In particular, we encourage Patent Owner to address
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`whether the Google panel’s framework for determining whether a party is an RPI
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`is correct, and, in any case, whether Sirius XM Holdings meets the RPI criteria set
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`forth in that decision. If it wishes to file a Response, Patent Owner should file the
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`same paper in each of the four cases captioned above. In addition, Patent Owner’s
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`Response should be limited to no more than 10 pages, and should be filed no later
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`than three weeks from the entry date of this order.
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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
`Jeffrey Price
`Shannon Hedvat
`KRAMMER LEVIN NAFTALIS & FRANKEL LLP
`jcaplan@kramerlevin.com
`jprice@kramerlevin.com
`shedvat@kramerlevin.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Ben Yorks
`Babak Redjaian
`David McPhie
`IRELL & MANELLA LLP
`byorks@irell.com
`bredjaian@irell.com
`dmcphie@irell.com
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