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`4 BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`6 FLEX LOGIX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
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`7 Petitioner,
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`8 v.
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`9 VENKAT KONDA,
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`10 Patent Owner.
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`11 __________________
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`12 IPR2020-00260
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`13 IPR2020-00261
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`14 IPR2020-00262
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`15 Patent 8,269,523 B2
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`16 ____________________
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`17 ** T E L E P H O N I C H E A R I N G
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` Friday, May 22, 2020
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`20 BEFORE: Judge Jo-Anne M. Kokoski
` Judge Sally C. Medley
`21 Judge Thomas L. Giannetti
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`23 Reported by:
` Angela M. Shaw-Crockett, CCR, CRR, RMR, CSR
`24 Job No. 180134
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`FLEX LOGIX EXHIBIT 1049
`Flex Logix Technologies v. Venkat Konda
`IPR2020-00261
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`2 A P P E A R A N C E S:
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` PAUL HASTINGS
`4 Attorneys for The Petitioner
` MetLife Building
`5 200 Park Avenue
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` BY: NAVEEN MODI, ESQ.
` PAUL ANDERSON, ESQ.
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`10 VENKAT KONDA
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`2 JUDGE KOKOSKI: This is Judge Kokoski, and
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`3 Judges Medley and Giannetti are on the line
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`4 with me.
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`5 This is call concerns IPR2020-00260, 261
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`6 and 262. Let's start with a roll call.
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`7 Who do we have for Petitioner?
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`8 MR. MODI: Good afternoon, your Honor.
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`9 This is Naveen Modi from the law firm of Paul
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`10 Hastings. With me is Paul Anderson, both on
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`11 behalf of Petitioner, Flex Logix.
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`12 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Thank you. And who do we
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`13 have for Patent Owner?
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`14 MR. KONDA: Good afternoon, your Honor.
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`15 This is Venkat Konda, pro se plaintiff -- pro
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`16 se counsel for the Patent Owner.
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`17 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Thank you. I understand
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`18 that Petitioner engaged a court reporter for
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`19 today's call; is that correct?
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`20 MR. MODI: Yes, your Honor. Kristin, are
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`21 you on?
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`22 THE COURT REPORTER: My name is Angie
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`23 Shaw-Crockett. I am the court reporter.
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`24 MR. MODI: Okay. Sorry. I had the wrong
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`25 name. Hi, Angie.
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`2 (A discussion was held off the record.)
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`3 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Okay. Thank you. If you
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`4 could -- Petitioner, if you could submit a copy
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`5 of the transcript of this call as an exhibit
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`6 and send as soon as it's available, we'd
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`7 appreciate that.
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`8 MR. MODI: Sure, your Honor. Will do.
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`9 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Thank you. So we have a
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`10 few issues to discuss today, but the original
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`11 purpose of the call was Petitioner's request
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`12 for authorization to file reply to Patent
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`13 Owner's preliminary response.
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`14 As an initial matter, we'll just note that
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`15 a request for such reply requires a showing of
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`16 good cause.
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`17 With that in mind, Petitioner, why don't
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`18 you go ahead.
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`19 MR. MODI: Thank you, your Honor. We
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`20 appreciate you making the time today.
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`21 So as the board is aware, Petitioner filed
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`22 three petitions challenging the claims of the
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`23 '523 patent. Patent Owner filed its
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`24 preliminary responses in May after receiving an
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`25 extension due to COVID-19.
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`2 In its preliminary responses, Patent Owner
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`3 argues that the IPR petitions should be denied
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`4 in light of the pending reissued application,
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`5 which is seeking to reissue the '523 patent
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`6 that's at issue in the IPR petitions.
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`7 Petitioner seeks a three-page reply to
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`8 address Patent Owner's arguments in its
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`9 preliminary responses regarding the reissue
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`10 application and to make sure the board has all
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`11 the pertinent facts surrounding the reissue
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`12 application and Petitioner's position regarding
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`13 the reissue application.
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`14 Petitioner believes that there is good
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`15 cause for a short reply here. And let me
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`16 explain why. So first, as respect to the facts
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`17 that we believe the board really needs to be
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`18 aware of:
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`19 Number one, there is an overlap in the
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`20 claims at issue in the IPR proceedings and the
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`21 reissue application. In fact, Patent Owner is
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`22 seeking to amend the claims in the reissue
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`23 application that are also at issue in the IPRs.
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`24 Number two, Patent Owner does not appear
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`25 to have informed the examiner of the reissue
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`2 application about the existence of these IPR
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`3 proceedings. So the examiner, as far as we
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`4 know, does not know that there are these
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`5 co-pending IPR proceedings. Patent Owner
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`6 certainly has filed IDSs in the reissue
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`7 application, but none of those IDSs make the
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`8 examiner aware of the IPR proceedings.
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`9 Additionally, Patent Owner did not inform
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`10 the district court that the -- about the
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`11 reissue application when it sued Petitioner for
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`12 infringement of the patent at issue. And
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`13 that's pretty important, your Honor, and here's
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`14 why.
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`15 The complaint in the district court was
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`16 filed in December of 2018. Patent Owner,
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`17 again, did not tell district court or
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`18 Petitioner that it had actually filed a reissue
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`19 application prior to or after filing of the
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`20 lawsuit. To the contrary, he actually
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`21 represented to the district court that the
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`22 patent was valid and enforceable while at the
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`23 same time telling the PTO in the reissued
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`24 application that there's a defect that needs to
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`25 be cured through the reissue.
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`2 And why this is a problem? Because the
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`3 Petitioner was not aware of the reissue
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`4 application until earlier this year,
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`5 specifically on January 6, 2020, when the
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`6 Patent Owner filed his mandatory notices in
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`7 each IPR. So Petitioner did not become aware
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`8 of the reissue until after it had filed the IPR
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`9 petitions.
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`10 You'll actually see, if you go back and
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`11 look at our petitions, in each petition,
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`12 Petitioner certainly noted that Application
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`13 Number 162020607, which is -- which we now know
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`14 is the reissue application, that that claim
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`15 filed prior to the '523 patent, but nowhere
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`16 were we -- nowhere did the -- so the
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`17 application history indicated a resolution. We
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`18 were not able to access the reissue application
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`19 until recently.
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`20 And an initial fact is that Petitioner had
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`21 no choice but to file IPRs here given the
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`22 one-year bar under Section 315E. The reissue
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`23 application is still awaiting first office
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`24 action on the merits.
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`25 And then finally, Patent Owner can seek to
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`2 withdraw the reissue application before
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`3 issuance which, as your Honor may know, may
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`4 restore the initial patent.
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`5 So we believe all of these facts are
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`6 pertinent and we would like to make sure that
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`7 the board has them in the form of a reply.
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`8 And then also we believe the appropriate
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`9 course of action would be consolidation of the
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`10 reissue application with these IPR proceedings
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`11 or at a minimum stay of the reissue application
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`12 pending the outcome of the IPR proceedings.
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`13 As you can see, there's a lot going on
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`14 here between -- in terms of what the Patent
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`15 Owner has done. And in this type of situation,
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`16 the board -- the statute and the board's rules
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`17 certainly enable the board to exercise
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`18 exclusive jurisdiction over a later proceeding
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`19 such as the reissue application.
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`20 And Petitioner believes in a situation
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`21 like this one, the board normally considers
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`22 consolidating or staying the reissue
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`23 application to simplify and to avoid
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`24 duplication of efforts within the office, to
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`25 avoid waste of the office and party resources,
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`2 to avoid potentially inconsistent results, and
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`3 to avoid prejudice to the Petitioner. And we
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`4 believe all of those are applicable here given
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`5 the facts.
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`6 So -- and I think the final point I'll
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`7 make here your Honor and then I'll stop, is
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`8 that Petitioner wants to make sure the board
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`9 appreciates that the denial of the IPRs, as the
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`10 Patent Owner has argued in light of the
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`11 reissue, really would let the Patent Owner use
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`12 the reissue application both as a sword and a
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`13 shield. And we think that's highly
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`14 prejudicial. If the board were to deny the
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`15 IPRs in light of the reissue application,
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`16 which, again, we were not even aware of until
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`17 after filing of the IPRs, the Patent Owner here
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`18 can simply drop the reissue application and
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`19 keep the '523 patent as is, which, again, would
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`20 severely prejudice Petitioner.
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`21 So for all of these reasons, Petitioner
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`22 believes good cause certainly exists and we're
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`23 only asking for a short three-page reply. And
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`24 I can sort of go over the schedule if -- what
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`25 we would propose in terms of a schedule.
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`2 Your Honor, but let me stop there and see
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`3 if you have questions.
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`4 JUDGE KOKOSKI: I think that that's a good
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`5 place to stop right now and let's see Patent
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`6 Owner make a response.
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`7 Patent Owner, would you like to go ahead?
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`8 MR. KONDA: Thank you, your Honor. Thank
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`9 you, your Honor, for your time. The board
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`10 should not alert the Petitioner to file a
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`11 motion to consolidate that Patent Owner's
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`12 co-pending 067 reissue applications for three
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`14 Number one, it is premature because the
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`15 board has not instituted any IPR -- any of
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`16 those three.
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`17 Number two, Petitioner has failed to show
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`18 that any claim is obvious over the prior art,
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`19 so the IPR should not be instituted rendering
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`20 the consolidation as stay of the reissue
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`21 application, not takable.
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`22 And I have several reasons which I
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`23 notified in the preliminary response. Here are
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`24 a few. I'll list them here:
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`25 One, Petitioner used unqualified person of
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`2 ordinary skill in the art who made many errors
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`4 Number two, Petitioner falsely claiming
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`5 that only amendment made on the '523 patent
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`6 filed on May 8, 2012, introduced a new subject
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`7 matter and lacked enablement, so the effective
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`8 priority date of -- just prior to 2008,
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`9 November 22, 2009.
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`10 Number three, Petitioner falsely claimed
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`11 that publication of the co-pending same parts
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`12 as PCT by the Patent Owner made the '394
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`13 application public on September 12, 2008.
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`14 Number four, ignoring the fact that the
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`15 same prior art and arguments were previously
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`17 prosecution of the '523 patent.
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`18 Number five, knowing that they are
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`19 introducing, rather intentionally concealing,
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`20 the fact that Petitioner's co-founders Wong and
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`21 Markovic admitted it in their own publication,
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`22 that Wong first made previous unsuccessful
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`23 attempts and commercial liquid migration of the
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`24 two -- the layouts of the two -- '523 patent
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`25 and barely knowing the known evidence second
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`2 reconsideration.
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`3 Number six --
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`4 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Patent Owner, could I
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`5 break in here for a minute? I think we're kind
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`6 of getting a little bit off of the point here.
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`7 I'd like you to focus on why you oppose
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`8 Petitioner filing a reply to your Patent Owner
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`9 response. That's really just what we're
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`10 talking about right now, is whether Petitioner
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`11 could -- should be able to file a reply to your
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`12 Patent Owner response.
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`13 So what are your reasons for opposing that
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`14 request?
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`15 MR. KONDA: Yes, your Honor. Thank you.
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`16 So basically I have listed several things
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`17 why it should be denied. So it is premature.
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`18 JUDGE KOKOSKI: That is why that the
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`19 petition should be denied? Yes, I understand
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`20 that.
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`21 And that you think that the -- any request
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`22 to consolidate or stay the reissue should be
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`23 denied, as well.
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`24 Now, do you oppose them filing a
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`25 three-page reply to the Patent Owner
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`2 preliminary response in these proceedings?
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`3 MR. KONDA: Yes, your Honor. I have
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`4 several reasons. The board has denied the
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`5 institution of the IPR, but indefinitely made
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`6 issues and they're not able to reclaim
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`7 construction since IPR addresses only U.S.C.
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`8 102 and 103 grounds. So that hasn't been
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`9 determined yet.
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`10 Number two, it's not right because
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`11 Petitioner has not and cannot identify any
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`12 claim that is uncommon with the petition.
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`13 Number three, there are no claims pending
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`14 in the reissue application which are not
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`15 delivered to claims challenge in the IPR.
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`16 Number four, reissue application contains
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`17 20 claims. And no claims there indicate there
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`18 were 48 claims at issue in the IPR. Patent
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`19 Owner has already matter with the only
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`20 independent claim of the '523 patent in '067
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`21 reissue application. Because there's only one
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`22 independent claim in the '523 patent, the IPR
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`23 would preclude Patent Owner from obtaining the
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`24 new claims it has been seeking in the '067
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`25 reissue application.
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`2 Staying the issue would cut off Patent
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`3 Owner's right if the IPR moved forward and the
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`4 reissues stay.
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`5 Number five, Patent Owner has
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`6 appropriately brought the reissue matter as
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`7 implemented by the Congress in Section 251.
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`8 Where the financial resources that Petitioner
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`9 has enlisted, there are -- follows a Patent
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`10 Owner's right to claim his invention to the
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`11 full extent allowed by the law.
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`12 Number six, the examiner of '067 reissue
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`13 application will enable issue or resist the
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`14 claims, or they will result in one or more
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`15 different claims than originally challenged in
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`16 the IPR if it was on a larger scale patent
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`17 being reissued, after a petition for IPR
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`18 reasons.
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`19 Five. Number seven --
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`20 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Excuse me. Patent Owner,
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`21 could we just cut this off right here.
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`22 It seems that you're trying to argue the
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`23 merits of patent's institution question and the
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`24 propriety of the reissue application.
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`25 So we're getting a little bit far afield
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`2 of kind of what we need to be focusing on here.
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`3 So if you don't have anything else that's
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`4 directed just to the question of whether
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`5 Petitioner should be allowed to file this
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`6 three-page reply, I think we are going to have
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`8 MR. KONDA: Okay, your Honor. One last
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`9 thing. IPR2014-41, IPR2014-1002,
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`10 IPR-2016-1690, IPR-2017-190 are denied
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`11 consolidation of staying of the reissue
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`12 application, your Honor.
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`13 This is Petitioner's request to
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`14 consolidate will not prejudice the Petitioner
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`15 as it is premature now to the contrary staying
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`16 or consolidating the issue will severely
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`17 prejudice Patent Owner. Thank you, your Honor.
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`18 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Okay. Thank you.
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`19 Petitioner, do you have anything else that
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`20 you needed to point out to us at this point?
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`21 MR. MODI: Your Honor, maybe give you like
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`22 a 15-second response. I really haven't heard
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`23 anything that would -- we believe show that we
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`24 shouldn't get a reply, a short reply. We're
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`25 only asking for three pages.
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`2 And as you know, I pointed out, we're
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`3 really only going to bring the facts and
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`4 circumstances surrounding the reissue
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`5 application to the board's attention so the
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`6 board is fully informed.
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`7 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Okay. Thank you. Based
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`8 on what we've heard here, we are going to go
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`9 ahead and authorize Petitioner to file the
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`10 requested three-page reply that's just focusing
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`11 on these -- this reissue issue that you've
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`13 I understand, Petitioner, you said that
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`14 you could get that filed within about a week or
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`15 so; is that correct?
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`16 MR. MODI: Yes, your Honor. We would be
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`17 willing to do that.
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`18 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Okay. With the holiday on
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`19 Monday, why don't we go ahead and -- why don't
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`20 you get that on file by Monday, June 1. I
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`21 think that's --
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`22 MR. MODI: We really appreciate that.
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`23 Thank you, your Honor.
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`24 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Yeah, Monday, June 1. And
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`25 Patent Owner, we're going to go ahead and also
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`2 allow you to do a three-page sur-reply that
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`3 only replies to whatever Petitioner says in
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`4 their papers. And you'll get to do that a week
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`5 after you get their filing.
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`6 We will set forth the parameters of these
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`7 papers in an order that will issue after this
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`8 call. Again, we're just going to focus it on
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`9 the reissue application points that the
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`10 Petitioner has brought up from the Patent Owner
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`11 preliminary response.
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`12 We don't need you to be talking about any
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`13 potential motions for consolidation or stays at
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`14 this point. That's premature. If we get to a
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`15 point where any of these cases are instituted,
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`16 we can revisit the question of consolidation
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`17 and/or stays with the reissue.
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`18 Is that clear? Any questions, Petitioner?
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`19 MR. MODI: No, your Honor. It's clear.
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`20 Thank you.
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`21 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Patent Owner, do you have
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`22 any questions?
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`23 MR. KONDA: Your Honor, I did not
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`24 understand the last point -- you said
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`2 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Right. So Petitioner
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`3 noted in the remarks and I think in their email
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`4 that they believe that consolidating these
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`5 cases with the reissue application or staying
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`6 the reissue application is a course of action
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`7 that they would like to seek going forward.
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`8 At this point, because there is no
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`9 instituted case yet here, there's nothing to
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`10 talk about consolidating and there's no reason
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`11 yet to ask for a stay of the reissue.
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`12 So we will revisit that question should it
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`13 become necessary if any of these cases are
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`16 the reissue unless and until any or all of
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`17 these cases are instituted.
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`18 MR. KONDA: Thank you, your Honor.
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`19 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Okay.
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`20 MR. MODI: Your Honor, this is that Naveen
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`21 Modi. Can I just make a point that just
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`22 occurred to me?
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`23 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Sure.
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`24 MR. MODI: So as I pointed out, as far as
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`25 we know, the examiner that's examining the
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`2 reissue application does not even know about
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`3 the IPRs. So we would request -- I know the
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`6 notifying the examining core of pending cases,
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`7 you know, we would ask that either the board do
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`9 be required to notify the examiner, because we,
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`10 of course, don't want to let these two
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`14 decide whether it wants to institute.
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`15 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Thank you for reminding
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`17 Patent Owner, have you notified the
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`20 MR. KONDA: No, your Honor. Possible
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`21 further, examiner hasn't even looked at the
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`22 application. There is no office action so far.
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`23 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Okay. Well, I believe
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`24 under the rules, that you were required to do
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`25 that, but we will make sure that the examiner
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`2 knows about the reissue so that way we can put
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`3 that concern, Petitioner, to the side and make
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`4 sure that everyone in the office is on the same
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`5 page with what's going on here.
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`6 Does that address your concern?
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`7 MR. KONDA: Yes, your Honor. If that's
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`8 the rule, I will do it.
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`9 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Okay. So if that clears
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`10 up that first point, we've got a couple other
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`12 First, we got another email from
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`13 Petitioner shortly before this call asking to
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`14 talk -- to address the motions to exclude that
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`15 Patent Owner filed in each of these
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`17 What I can say about that is Patent Owner,
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`18 at this point of the proceedings, a motion to
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`19 exclude is not allowed. So what we're going to
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`21 Just for your information going forward,
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`22 our rules provide that you would be able to or
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`23 any party can object to evidence submitted
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`3 you would preserve that objection later by
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`4 filing a motion to exclude, which the timing of
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`5 which would be set forth in a scheduling order
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`6 that would issue along with the institution
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`7 should we institute in any of these cases.
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`8 For further information and guidance on
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`10 IPR proceedings, Patent Owner, we're going to
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`11 direct you to our Consolidated Trial Practice
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`12 Guide. Pages 78 to 80, in particular, discuss
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`13 how to challenge the admissibility of evidence
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`14 during trial. But, again, those are -- it's
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`17 Petitioner, we will not need you to respond in
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`19 Patent Owner, do you have any questions
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`20 about that?
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`21 MR. KONDA: Thank you, your Honor, for
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`22 clarification.
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`23 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Petitioner, anything else
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`25 MR. MODI: No, your Honor. Thank you.
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`2 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Okay. And then we do have
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`3 one third -- or a third issue that we need to
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`5 As you noted, Petitioner, you did file
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`6 three petitions here challenging the same
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`7 patent. And as I'm sure you are aware at this
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`14 petitions in the order that you would like the
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`16 why the three petitions -- or the multiple
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`17 petitions, the differences -- what the
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`20 I'm sure you've seen that in some of your
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`21 other cases. You did not file that here, did
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`22 you, Petitioner?
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`23 MR. MODI: No, we did not, your Honor. We
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`24 discussed, I think, in the petition, there was
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`25 some discussion of the different proceedings,
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`2 the co-pending proceedings, but we did not file
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`3 such a paper, but we're certainly happy to do,
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`4 your Honor, if you'd like.
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`5 JUDGE KOKOSKI: We are going to need you
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`6 to file a paper with the rankings.
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`7 Can you explain to us kind of briefly
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`8 right now why you think you need three
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`10 MR. MODI: Sure. I can certainly do that.
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`11 And then I may have even my colleague,
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`12 Mr. Anderson, jump in on this.
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`13 But briefly, if you look at two of the
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`14 petitions, your Honor, they are directed to
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`15 attacking the priority of the '523 patent and
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`16 then using an intervening application. And so
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`17 that's the 260 IPR and the 261 IPR.
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`18 And the reason we had to do two petitions
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`19 is because of the numerosity of claims, but
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`20 they go to the same prior art in terms of, you
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`21 know, the prior art positions.
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`22 And then the second -- the third petition,
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`23 which is the 262 IPR, is directed to
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`24 non-intervening art, which is the Wong
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`25 reference. And that addresses all of the
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`2 claims that are at issue. I would say the
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`3 first two -- actually no, the 260, 261, that is
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`4 the two petitions and 262, the claim overlap is
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`5 the same, the 262 just uses a different prior
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`6 art reference because it's a non-intervening
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`7 reference. And the reason we filed the
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`8 petitions, as you can tell now, the 260, 261
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`9 are the same reference, just a lot of claims,
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`10 and we had to address the priority issue.
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`11 That's why we had to split that into two
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`13 And the 262, we wanted to have a separate
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`16 prior art that was not intervening, if that
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`18 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Yes, I think that I do
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`19 understand what you are saying there. I
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`20 appreciate that explanation.
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`21 We are going to go ahead and request that
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`22 you file the ranking paper. We'll set forth
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`23 the parameters of that in the order that
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`24 follows, but it will probably be pretty similar
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`3 Guide. And we will also give Patent Owner an
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`4 opportunity to respond to that paper.
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`5 And as I said, we'll set all of that forth
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`6 in the order that's to come.
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`7 MR. MODI: Thank you, your Honor.
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`8 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Is there anything else
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`9 that we need to discuss today, Petitioner?
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`10 MR. MODI: Not from us, your Honor. Thank
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`12 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Patent Owner, do you have
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`14 MR. KONDA: You've covered everything,
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`15 your Honor. Thank you.
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`16 JUDGE KOKOSKI: Okay. Give me a minute.
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`17 Okay. Well, then I think that we have
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`21 And with that, this call is adjourned.
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`22 Thank you.
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