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`Your Honors, 
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`Malik, Jitty <jitty.malik@katten.com>
`Tuesday, February 25, 2020 1:55 PM
`Trials
`Fisher, Stanley; Genderson, Bruce; Berniker, Jessamyn; Mahaffy, Shaun; Pacchioli, Alissa
`M.; Sheh, Anthony; West, Christopher W.; Radeke, Heike Simone
`IPR2020-00040
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`Follow up
`Flagged
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`I am lead counsel for Petitioner Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Mylan” or “Petitioner”) in IPR2020‐00040.  Mylan would 
`like to request a conference call with the Panel respectfully seeking its permission to submit a 15 page Reply to the 
`issues raised in Patent Owner’s Preliminary Response (“POPR”).  Patent Owner Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. (“Merck” or 
`“Patent Owner”) objects to the breadth of Mylan’s request and is amenable to the Board’s granting Mylan a 5‐page 
`Reply and Merck a 5‐page Surreply, both limited to the issue of whether WO ‘498 is available as prior art as asserted in 
`Mylan’s obviousness Grounds 3 and 4.  The parties have met and conferred regarding Petitioner’s request, but have 
`been unable to reach an agreement. 
`
`Petitioner requests two weeks to file its Reply after the Board grants permission (should the Board be inclined to do 
`so).  Patent Owner requests two weeks thereafter to file its Surreply.   
`
`Patent Owner’s and Petitioner’s counsel are generally available any time next week for a conference with the Panel 
`except Monday (March 2nd) and Friday (March 6th).  Counsel for both parties are generally available any time the week of 
`March 9th.   
`
`The parties’ respective positions are set forth below: 
`
`Petitioner (Mylan): 
`The issues in the 54 page POPR include alleged antedating evidence (with four separate declarations), 325(d) arguments, 
`314(a) arguments, and anticipation‐related arguments.  Petitioner’s requested 15 pages represent a near 75% decrease 
`in page count when compared to the 54 page POPR.   
`
`In the cases cited in Merck’s POPR dealing with antedating evidence (Associated British Foods plc v. Cornell Research 
`Foundation, Inc.; FreeBit AS v. Bose Corp.;  LG Elecs. Inc. v. Wi‐LAN Inc (POPR at 45)), those petitioners were granted 4‐5 
`pages to respond to that issue only.  Furthermore, when a patent owner raises only 325(d) and 314(a) arguments in a 
`POPR, the PTAB has previously granted 10 pages to address those issues (even if the petitioner was able to devote some 
`space in its original petition to 325(d) and 314(a) issues).  IPR2019‐00400, Order (Paper 12), Petition at 64‐66 (Paper 3); 
`IPR2019‐00207, Decision at 1 (Paper 13), Petitioner’s Reply (Paper 10), Petition at 63‐64 (Paper 3).   
`
`Patent Owner (Merck): 
`Mylan has no reply as a matter of right and “[a]ny such request must make a showing of good cause.”  37 C.F.R. § 
`42.108.  Merck objects to Mylan’s request insofar as no good cause supports Mylan’s request for a reply concerning the 
`Board’s discretion under 35 U.S.C. §§ 325(d) and 314(a)—or any other merits issues aside from the availability of WO 
`’498 as prior art for obviousness.  Many of the issues raised in Merck’s POPR were reasonably foreseeable, and the 
`arguments that Mylan seeks to raise in reply should have been set forth in the Petition.   
`IPR2020-00040
`Ex. 3001 p. 1 of 2
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`Relevant to § 325(d), and as Mylan has acknowledged, see Pet. at 2–3, WO ’498 is discussed at the very beginning of the 
`challenged patent, and Mylan is party to the parallel litigation underlying the POPR’s discussion of the Board’s § 314(a) 
`discretion.  See Instrumentation Lab. Co. v. Hemosonics LLC, IPR2018‐00264, Paper 7 at 3–4 (P.T.A.B. Mar. 9, 
`2017).  Moreover, Mylan has already addressed the Board’s discretion under both statutory provisions, see Pet. at 66–
`69, without exhausting the Petition’s 14,000 word limit.  See Mylan Pharms. Inc. v. Sanofi‐Aventis Deutschland GmbH, 
`IPR2017‐01526, Paper 8 at 4 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 6, 2017).  In short, Mylan is not entitled to a reply to address arguments with 
`respect to both the Board’s discretion and the merits that could and should have been raised in the Petition itself.   
`
`Petitioner (Mylan) Position’s on Patent Owner’s Requested Sur‐Reply: 
`
`Mylan appreciates that Merck is “amenable to the Board’s granting Mylan a 5‐page Reply,” however, Mylan objects to 
`Patent Owner’s 5 page Surreply.  Put simply, Patent Owner has already addressed the alleged antedating evidence 
`(including submitting no less than four declarations), see POPR. at 32–44, without exhausting the POPR’s 14,000 word 
`limit, and all of its alleged arguments should have been raised in its POPR.   For that matter, no automatic right (or good 
`cause) exists to a Surreply to a Reply that has not even been submitted, including whether 5 pages for such a Surreply 
`without any corresponding page reduction is excessive. 
`
`Counsel for Patent Owner has been copied on this email. 
`
`Respectfully, 
`
`Jitendra Malik 
`
`Jitendra (“Jitty”) Malik Ph.D.
`Partner
`Katten
`Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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