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Filed: December 9, 2020
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`_________________
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`_________________
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`PROLLENIUM US INC.,
`Petitioner,
`
`v.
`
`ALLERGAN INDUSTRIE, SAS,
`Patent Owner.
`
`_________________
`
`IPR2019-01505 (Patent 8,450,475)
`IPR2019-01506 (Patent 8,357,795)
`IPR2019-01508 (Patent 9,238,013)
`IPR2019-01509 (Patent 9,358,322)
`IPR2019-01617 (Patent 8,822,676)
`IPR2019-01632 (Patent 8,357,795)
`IPR2020-00084 (Patent 9,089,519)
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`_________________
`
`Petitioner’s Motion to Exclude
`Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(c)1
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`1 Authorization for the use of a joint caption page was received on April 27, 2020.
`Neither party opposes the use of a joint caption page. An identical paper has been
`filed in each case recited in the consolidated caption.
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
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`
`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`I.
`II.
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`INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 1
`ARGUMENT ................................................................................................... 1
`A. Exhibits 2083 and 2084 are inadmissible hearsay .......................................... 1
`B. Multiple exhibits are irrelevant as non-prior art used to argue no expectation
`of success at the time of the priority date ....................................................... 4
`C. Portions of Dr. Prestwich’s deposition testimony are inadmissible because
`Allergan’s questions strayed far beyond the scope of the direct testimony for
`which Prollenium presented him .................................................................... 6
`1. Dr. Prestwich did not offer opinions related to specific grounds in his
`direct testimony .......................................................................................... 8
`2. Dr. Prestwich did not offer opinions regarding the priority date of claims
`in the challenged patents ............................................................................ 9
`3. Dr. Prestwich did not offer testimony regarding the public availability of
`documents submitted to FDA ................................................................... 11
`III. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................. 12
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`i
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
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`
`TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS
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`Abbreviation
`BDDE
`Challenged
`Patents
`HA
`POSITA
`1505 Sur-Reply
`0084 Sur-Reply
`Sur-Replies
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`1505 Response
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`
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`Term
`butanediol diglycidyl ether
`U.S. Patent Nos. 8,450,475; 8,357,795; 9,238,013;
`9,358,322; 8,822,676; and 9,089,519, collectively
`hyaluronic acid
`Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art
`IPR2019-01505, Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply, Paper 52
`IPR2020-00084, Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply, Paper 48
`IPR2019-01505, Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply, Paper 52;
`IPR2019-01506, Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply, Paper 54;
`IPR2019-01508, Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply, Paper 55;
`IPR2019-01509, Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply, Paper 53;
`IPR2019-01617, Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply, Paper 53;
`IPR2019-01632, Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply, Paper 54; and
`IPR2020-00084, Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply, Paper 48,
`collectively
`IPR2019-01505, Patent Owner Response, Paper 41 (cited as
`exemplary of citations for the remaining proceedings)
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`ii
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
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`I.
`
`INTRODUCTION
`
`Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.64(c), Petitioner Prollenium US Inc. (“Prollenium”)
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`moves to exclude certain evidence, submissions, and information presented by
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`Patent Owner Allergan Industrie, SAS (“Allergan”) in the IPRs of the Challenged
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`Patents. A single, combined motion to exclude is filed in each proceeding in the
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`joint caption above, given the overlap in evidence and issues.2
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`II. ARGUMENT
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`As described below, certain of Petitioner’s evidence should be excluded and
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`not considered by the Board under applicable rules of the Federal Rules of
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`Evidence (“FRE”) or rules of the Board. Petitioner timely objected to this evidence
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`in accordance with 37 C.F.R. § 42.64 (whether by filing or on the record during a
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`deposition). See, e.g., Petitioner’s Objections, IPR2019-01505, Paper 42 (filed in
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`each proceeding).
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`A. Exhibits 2083 and 2084 are inadmissible hearsay
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`Statements by a declarant not made in this proceeding offered to prove the
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`truth of the matter asserted in the statement are inadmissible as hearsay. FRE
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`801(c). Allergan’s Exhibits 2083 and 2084 are inadmissible as hearsay without an
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`exception.
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`2 The Board authorized this combined motion by email on December 8, 2020.
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`1
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
`
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`These two exhibits contain lab reports submitted by a third-party, Vivacy
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`Laboratories, during its opposition proceedings of European Patent EP2349203
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`(the “Vivacy Reports”). EX2083, 1; EX2084, 1; see also EX2050 ¶¶ 7-8.3 The
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`Vivacy Reports purportedly provide the results of two sets of testing on rheological
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`properties of the HA gels with lidocaine and polyols claimed in those patents,
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`before and after sterilization. Id. The documents are signed by three individuals
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`collectively (some of whose identities cannot even be determined), in 2010 and
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`2014. EX2083, 3; EX2084, 6 (noting “illegible” signatures on original French
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`document at page 12). None of those declarants, whoever they are, have offered
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`testimony in these IPRs.
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`Both Allergan and its declarant Dr. Berkland rely on these declarants’
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`statements—testing supposedly performed by the individuals identified within the
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`documents, as well as those individuals’ conclusions about the testing, contained
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`within the documents—for their truth. Allergan offers the Vivacy Reports to allege
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`“surprise” or “disbelief” at the ability to sterilize an HA filler with lidocaine due to
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`supposed concerns with lidocaine degradation. E.g., 1505 Response 34-35. Dr.
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`Berkland similarly cites the Vivacy Reports because they “showed” that lidocaine
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`3 The opposed patent is the European counterpart of Allergan’s Molliard exhibit.
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`See EX2067, 1(30); see also 1505 Sur-Reply 11.
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`2
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
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`had “deleterious effects” and “degraded” the tested gels. EX2013 ¶ 182.
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`Specifically, the truth they point to is that lidocaine compositions degrade with
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`heat sterilization; indeed, the testing and results described in the documents can
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`only corroborate Allergan’s arguments if they are true. E.g., 1505 Response 35.
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`This is the epitome of hearsay. See, e.g., US Endodontics, LLC v. Gold Std.
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`Instruments, LLC, No. PGR2015-00019, 2016 WL 7985423, at *16 (P.T.A.B. Dec.
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`28, 2016) (excluding test reports relied upon for the truth of their results as
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`hearsay). Nor can Dr. Berkland rely on these hearsay statements made in service of
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`an adversarial proceeding by another party challenging an unrelated patent; the
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`statements were made long after the priority date for expectation of success (in
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`2010 and 2014, respectively) and offered to show “influence of lidocaine in the
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`presence of mannitol.” EX2084, 2 (emphasis added).4
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`Thus, Exhibits 2083-2084 and Dr. Berkland’s testimony relying on them
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`(EX2013 ¶ 182) should be excluded.
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`4 Prollenium also objected and now moves to exclude under FRE 402 on this basis
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`and for the same reasons as the inadmissible exhibits discussed in Section II.B.
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`3
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
`
`
`B. Multiple exhibits are irrelevant as non-prior art used to argue no
`expectation of success at the time of the priority date
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`Exhibits 2059-2060 are not admissible as irrelevant because they are non-
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`prior art improperly relied upon by Allergan to allege a lack of a reasonable
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`expectation of success. Irrelevant evidence is not admissible. FRE 402. Evidence is
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`relevant if “it has any tendency to make a fact more or less probable than it would
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`be without the evidence” and “the fact is of consequence in determining the
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`action.” FRE 401. Reasonable expectation of success is evaluated at or around the
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`priority date, not based on privately conducted, litigation-driven testing years later.
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`See Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Teva Pharms. USA, Inc., 752 F.3d 967, 976 (Fed.
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`Cir. 2014); cf. NantKwest, Inc. v. Lee, 686 Fed. App’x 864, 868 n.2 (Fed. Cir. 2017)
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`(finding that the post-filing failure of clinical trials was irrelevant to the question of
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`whether there was an expectation of success at the time of the priority date).5
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`Here, Allergan cites Exhibits 2059-2060 as evidence of an alleged lack of
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`expectation of success—however, all these exhibits long post-date the August 2008
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`priority date of the Challenged Patents.
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`5 While non-prior art may be used for some purposes, showing a reasonable
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`expectation of success is not among them. See Yeda Research v. Mylan Pharms.
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`Inc., 906 F.3d 1031, 1041-42 (Fed. Cir. 2018).
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`4
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
`
`
`Exhibit 2059 is an article published in 2016 that analyzes the properties of
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`seven different HA gels with lidocaine that used various crosslinking technologies
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`(NASHA, CPM, 3D Matrix, IPN-Like, RHA, Vycross, and OBT). EX2059, 600.
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`Allergan cites Exhibit 2059 to argue that, among products that use BDDE as the
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`crosslinker, different crosslinking processes result in “vastly different final
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`products.” E.g., 1505 Response 10. However, the analysis detailed in Exhibit 2059
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`was not completed before the priority date—in fact, at least three of the HA gels
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`were not even tested until 2014. EX2059, 602.
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`Exhibit 2060 is an article published in 2018 that examines the rheological
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`properties of several gels with and without lidocaine and concludes that adding
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`lidocaine appeared to “modify their rheological properties … to a variable extent.”
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`EX2060, Abstract, 954. Allergan relies on both Exhibits 2059 and 2060 to argue
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`that the addition of lidocaine to the HA gels tested in Exhibits 2059-2060 modifies
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`the rheological properties of the HA gel. E.g., 1505 Response 15. Again, the 2018
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`information was not available to a POSITA anywhere near the priority date. In fact,
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`the author suggests it was new in that he notes Allergan had “presented” its then-
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`new lidocaine product as “similar to its predecessor … with lidocaine ‘simply’
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`added to the product, associated with strictly the same injectability for both
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`products,” but that he had a “different impression” based on his own clinical
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`experience with the product. EX2060, 952-54; see also id. at 954 (noting his
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`5
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
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`rheological testing showed Juvéderm Ultra 3 product values were “fairly close” to
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`those of the non-lidocaine predecessor). Thus, the reference itself indicates
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`whatever teachings it imparts was not necessarily known closer to the time of the
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`invention.
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`While non-prior art may be relevant to expectation of success if the non-
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`prior art indicates what was expected by a POSITA at the time of the priority date,
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`Allergan has not utilized the evidence in this way. In fact, Allergan explicitly relies
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`on Exhibits 2059 and 2060 to allege expectation of success “several years after the
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`priority date.” E.g., 1505 Response 15. Thus, Allergan cites these exhibits to show
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`a POSITA’s expectation of success at an immaterial point in time. Because non-
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`prior art is irrelevant to the issue of expectation of success, Exhibits 2059-2060
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`should be excluded under FRE 401/402.
`
`C.
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`Portions of Dr. Prestwich’s deposition testimony are inadmissible
`because Allergan’s questions strayed far beyond the scope of the
`direct testimony for which Prollenium presented him
`
`Dr. Prestwich’s direct testimony (EX1105) was narrowly focused on
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`responding to certain factual issues—primarily related to motivation to combine
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`and the reasonable expectation of success—subsidiary to the ultimate conclusion
`
`of obviousness for two groups of Grounds in Prollenium’s IPRs. Prollenium did
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`not present direct testimony or opinions from Dr. Prestwich with respect to all
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`instituted Grounds (or even opinions related to all of the references cited in the
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`6
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`

`

`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
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`petitions). Rather, as Dr. Prestwich noted during cross-examination, his direct
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`testimony was provided in “response to the declaration of Dr. Berkland” and thus
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`was limited to “necessary information” relevant to evaluating Dr. Berkland’s
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`opinions. EX2200, 81:23-24; 466:17-21. That “necessary information” included
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`the bases for his opinions, including “the technology and concepts relating to
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`properties of [HA] dermal fillers” and “clarifications” or “corrections of matters
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`represented incompletely or inaccurately by Dr. Berkland.” EX1105 ¶¶ 2-4. A
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`cursory review of even the Table of Contents for his declaration shows the vast
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`majority of his testimony focuses on these technical issues, and even more
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`specifically on the factual question of expectation of success, in response to the
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`similar focus by Allergan and Dr. Berkland on those issues. See, e.g., EX1105, 2-3
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`(Sections VII, IX.A.1, and IX.B.1 addressing motivations comprising 3 pages,
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`while Sections VIII, IX.A.2, and IX.B.2 addressing issues about expectation of
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`success comprising at least 40 pages).
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`During Prestwich’s cross-examination, however, Allergan posed several
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`lines of questions that were outside the scope of his narrow, direct testimony.
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`Prollenium objected on the record, pursuant to 37 C.F.R § 42.64(a), and Prollenium
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`now moves to exclude the improper cross-examination testimony cited in the Sur-
`
`7
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`

`

`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
`
`Replies that is unrelated to the issues for which Dr. Prestwich was offered. See
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`FRE 611(b) and 37 CFR § 42.53(d)(5)(ii).6
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`In particular, the following cross-examination testimony (EX2200) upon
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`which Allergan relies in its Sur-Replies should be excluded: 429:10 to 432:13,
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`432:15 to 433:25, 434:2-20, 434:22 to 436:15, 437:4-16, and 445:13 to 450:2.
`
`1.
`
`Dr. Prestwich did not offer opinions related to specific
`grounds in his direct testimony
`Allergan’s Sur-Replies criticize Dr. Prestwich’s testimony as “incomplete”
`
`because he “did not opine on all references in the grounds,” 1505 Sur-Reply 6-7,
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`citing to Dr. Prestwich’s cross-examination testimony at EX2200, 429:10 to
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`432:13.
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`In the cited passage, Allergan asked numerous questions regarding the
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`composition of the Grounds, including whether Piron 2008 (EX1210), Monheit
`
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`6 Prollenium similarly objected to several other portions of the deposition
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`testimony that Allergan has not cited it in its merits briefing, so there is no cause to
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`move to exclude it at this time. To the extent that Allergan cites any new,
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`previously uncited testimony of Dr. Prestwich (or Dr. DeVore, for that matter) in
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`further papers, Prollenium will address its inadmissibility, if needed, at that time.
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`8
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`

`

`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
`
`(EX1022), and Smith (EX1009) were included in any of the instituted Grounds.7
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`These questions were outside the scope of his direct testimony and pertain to legal
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`conclusions about the structure and selection of Prollenium’s Grounds in the
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`Petition. Cf. SAS Inst., Inc. v. Iancu, 138 S. Ct. 1348, 1355 (2018) (“[T]he
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`petitioner is master of its complaint ….”). Prollenium objected to the line of
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`questions based on scope and form of the question on that basis. In fact, Dr.
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`Prestwich noted that the particular Grounds were a “legal point” that he was “not
`
`clear on” at the time of his testimony. EX2200, 431:9-10. The Board should
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`exclude the cross-examination testimony at 429:10 to 432:13 (cited at, e.g., 1505
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`Sur-Reply 7).
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`2.
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`Dr. Prestwich did not offer opinions regarding the priority
`date of claims in the challenged patents
`Allergan’s Sur-Reply cites Prestwich’s cross-examination testimony at
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`EX2200, 432:15-433:25, 434:2-20, 434:22-436:15, and 437:4-16 to support the
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`contention that Dr. Prestwich “never opined that any of the claims lack priority.”
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`7 E.g., “Are you aware of Smith being a ground of the petition?” and “Do you
`
`understand that there is a distinction between what is in the grounds and what other
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`exhibits are being offered?”
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`9
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`

`

`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
`
`0084 Sur-Reply 24.8 Allergan is free argue in its brief—correctly—that Dr.
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`Prestwich offered no testimony related to the lack-of-priority arguments raised in
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`the IPR challenging the ’519 patent. Prollenium’s Reply does not rely on any reply
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`declarant for that issue. See IPR00084, Reply 39-41.
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`So it is improper to question and cite Dr. Prestwich’s testimony on an issue
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`Allergan concedes was not part of his direct testimony. In these passages,
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`Allergan’s counsel asked questions about the priority applications to which the
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`Challenged Patents claim priority as well as about the Weinkle, Juvéderm Ultra
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`Plus XC PMA Memo, and the 2010 Lebreton ’438 publications (EX1070, EX1060,
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`and EX1072) that are only used in the anticipation Grounds 1-3 of the petition
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`challenging the ’519 patent. Allergan then cites five pages of deposition testimony
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`for the simple, indisputable proposition that Prestwich never opined on priority.
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`Thus, this testimony is outside of the scope of Dr. Prestwich’s direct testimony and
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`relates to legal conclusions, as Prollenium objected on the record. The testimony at
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`EX2200, 432:15-433:25, 434:2-20, 434:22-436:15, and 437:4-16 (cited at 0084
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`Sur-Reply 24) should be excluded.
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`8 While denominated as four separate citations, in reality, these citations encompass
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`all but about 11 lines of the testimony between 432:15 to 437:16—five pages
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`worth of testimony.
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`10
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
`
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`3.
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`Dr. Prestwich did not offer testimony regarding the public
`availability of documents submitted to FDA
`In its Sur-Replies, Allergan contends that Elevess required modifications
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`(the details of which were not publicly available) to address shelf-life issues. E.g.,
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`1505 Sur-Reply 18. Allergan seeks to support this allegation by citing Dr.
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`Prestwich’s Cross-Examination Testimony at EX2200, 445:13-450:2. Id.
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`In this portion of testimony, Allergan asked numerous questions regarding a
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`PMA supplement (EX2123). Allergan then cites five pages of deposition testimony
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`to support the contention that the manufacturing modifications underlying a PMA
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`supplement were not publicly available. Allergan’s citation is a transparent attempt
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`to bolster its positions using improper cross-examination outside the scope of Dr.
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`Prestwich’s direct. But both Allergan’s own witness and DeVore had previously
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`testified a POSITA would not have had access to the underlying details associated
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`with such a submission. See, e.g., EX1200, 333:25-334:23; EX2100, 248:10-19.
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`Whatever modifications Anika may have chosen to make after Elevess was
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`approved by FDA in 2006 are separate from Dr. Prestwich’s limited testimony
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`regarding Elevess—that a POSITA would have known that Elevess was approved
`
`by FDA for use as a dermal filler and stable. EX1105 ¶ 162. Thus, the cited cross-
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`examination testimony is outside of the scope of Dr. Prestwich’s direct testimony.
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`11
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`

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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
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`Therefore, the Board should exclude the cross-examination testimony at EX2200,
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`445:13-450:2 (cited at, e.g., 1505 Sur-Reply 18).
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`III. CONCLUSION
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`For the foregoing reasons, the challenged evidence does not meet the
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`threshold for admissibility and should be excluded from the record.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`
`
`/Warren Thomas/
`Warren J. Thomas
`Reg. No. 70,581
`Meunier Carlin & Curfman, LLC
`999 Peachtree St. NE
`Suite 1300
`Atlanta, GA 30309
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`12
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`IPR2019-01505, IPR2019-01506, IPR2019-01508, IPR2019-01509,
`IPR2019-01617, IPR2019-01632, IPR2020-00084
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`
`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`
`
`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.6(e)(4) and consent of the Patent Owner, I certify
`that on December 9, 2020, a copy of Petitioner’s Motion to Exclude under 37
`C.F.R. § 42.64(c) was served on the counsel of record by email to:
`aminsogna@jonesday.com
`tweisser@jonesday.com
`cplatt@jonesday.com
`sgeers@jonesday.com
`jhartjes@jonesday.com
`
`
`
`
`
`/Laura Heidt/
`Laura Heidt
`Meunier Carlin & Curfman, LLC
`999 Peachtree St. NE
`Suite 1300
`Atlanta, GA 30309
`
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