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Zhong, Annita
`From:
`Sent:
`To:
`Cc:
`
`Subject:
`
`Trials <Trials@USPTO.GOV>
`Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:00 PM
`Cavanaugh, David; Trials
`Zhong, Annita; Sheasby, Jason; Wells, Maclain; #PanOptisIPRs [Int/Ext]; Kipnis, Jason;
`Haag, Joseph; Goldenberg, Richard; Sooter, Mindy; Deol, Ravi; Nemtzow, Alex
`RE: IPR2020-00642, IPR2020-00465, IPR2020-00466
`
`Counsel,
`
`Patent Owner is authorized to file a 6-page sur-reply in IPR2020-00642 and an 8-page sur-reply in each of IPR2020-
`00465 and IPR2020-00466, due on July 10, 2020. Each sur-reply shall only (1) address the Apple v. Fintiv factors the
`Board considers in determining whether to exercise its discretion to institute review when there is a related proceeding
`pending in district court, and (2) respond to arguments raised in Petitioner’s reply. The parties are reminded that the
`Board will not consider any arguments regarding the merits that were not raised in the Petition or the Preliminary
`Response. This authorization supersedes the Board’s June 25 authorization for sur-replies in these cases. No further
`briefing or expanded page limits will be authorized.
`
`Regards,
`
`Andrew Kellogg,
`Supervisory Paralegal
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`USPTO
`andrew.kellogg@uspto.gov
`(571)272-7822
`
`
`
`From: Cavanaugh, David <David.Cavanaugh@wilmerhale.com>  
`Sent: Friday, July 3, 2020 9:23 PM 
`To: Trials <Trials@USPTO.GOV> 
`Cc: Zhong, Annita <HZhong@irell.com>; Sheasby, Jason <JSheasby@irell.com>; Wells, Maclain <MWells@irell.com>; 
`#PanOptisIPRs [Int/Ext] <PanOptisIPRs@irell.com>; Kipnis, Jason <Jason.Kipnis@wilmerhale.com>; Haag, Joseph 
`<Joseph.Haag@wilmerhale.com>; Goldenberg, Richard <Richard.Goldenberg@wilmerhale.com>; Sooter, Mindy 
`<Mindy.Sooter@wilmerhale.com>; Deol, Ravi <Ravi.Deol@wilmerhale.com>; Nemtzow, Alex 
`<Alex.Nemtzow@wilmerhale.com> 
`Subject: Re: IPR2020‐00642, IPR2020‐00465, IPR2020‐00466 

`Your Honors: 

`Petitioner opposes Patent Owners’ request for additional pages.  Should the Board find it helpful, Petitioner is prepared 
`to explain why it opposes Patent Owners’ request, either in an email or on a conference call. 

`Respectfully, 

`David L. Cavanaugh 
`Counsel for Petitioner 

`David L. Cavanaugh  
`WilmerHale  
`1875 Pennsylvania Ave. NW 
`
`1
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`Optis Cellular Ex 2036-p. 1
`Apple v Optis Cellular
`IPR2020-00465
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`

`

`Washington, DC 20006 
`
`On Jul 3, 2020, at 1:59 PM, Zhong, Annita <HZhong@irell.com> wrote: 
`
`EXTERNAL SENDER
`
`Your Honors:  
`
`Patent Owner requests the Board to authorize 6 additional pages for each of its sur‐replies (for a total of 
`10 pages each) to address improper content in Apple’s replies filed yesterday in IPR2020‐00465, ‐00466 
`and ‐00642.  Patent Owner is available at the Board’s convenience if the Board deems a call is necessary. 
`
`Specifically, when the Board authorized the replies, the Board specifically limited their “scope to the 
`issue addressed in Apple v. Fintiv, i.e., the six factors the Board considers in determining whether to 
`exercise its discretion to institute review when there is a related proceeding pending in district 
`court.”  Petitioner Apple clearly exceeded the scope of reply authorized by Board, using the reply to: (1) 
`address the constitutionality of the Fintiv decision; (2) responding substantively to the POPRs on the 
`technical merits, in effect using the POPRs as a roadmap; (3) creating “new” facts, including announcing 
`that it would alter the grounds of the IPR2020‐00466 petition by dropping one of the asserted grounds 
`in the petition and announcing in a cryptic letter sent less than 30 minutes before it filed the replies that 
`it was going to drop certain grounds of invalidity in the district court for the patents involved in IPR2020‐
`00465 and IPR2020‐00466. 
`
`Patent Owner is entitled to fully address these new arguments, including the attempt to alter the 
`petition long after the 315(b) statutory deadline.   This would, however, require more than the 4 pages 
`that the Board previously authorized.  For example, Patent Owner needs the additional pages to fully 
`explain (i) why Petitioner’s technical counter‐arguments are not found anywhere in the petition, (ii) why 
`they are incorrect, (iii) why the grounds that Petitioner is now trying to abandon in the district court are 
`actually cumulative of the remaining ground(s), (iv) why the tactic that Apple is attempting at the last 
`minute of dropping grounds in the Petition and in the district court  violates both the statute and Board 
`regulations in addition to being ineffectual in the district court, where Patent Owner has not agreed to 
`the removal of the relevant prior art from the case; and (v) why the constitutional argument has no 
`merit.   
`
`Patent Owner has asked Petitioner whether it would object to the request for additional pages, and it 
`has not responded.  Given the deadline for the sur‐replies (7/9/2020), Patent Owner has no choice but 
`to seek Your Honors’ guidance at the earliest opportunity. 
`
`Respectfully, 
`
`H. Annita Zhong
`Irell & Manella LLP
`1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 900
`Los Angeles, CA 90067‐4276
`Telephone: (310) 203‐7183
`Fax:  (310) 556‐5385
`
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`Apple v Optis Cellular
`IPR2020-00465
`
`

`

`From: Trials <Trials@USPTO.GOV>  
`Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 12:40 PM 
`To: Zhong, Annita <HZhong@irell.com>; Cavanaugh, David <David.Cavanaugh@wilmerhale.com>; Trials 
`<Trials@USPTO.GOV> 
`Cc: Sheasby, Jason <JSheasby@irell.com>; Wells, Maclain <MWells@irell.com>; #PanOptisIPRs [Int/Ext] 
`<PanOptisIPRs@irell.com>; Kipnis, Jason <Jason.Kipnis@wilmerhale.com>; Haag, Joseph 
`<Joseph.Haag@wilmerhale.com>; Goldenberg, Richard <Richard.Goldenberg@wilmerhale.com>; 
`Sooter, Mindy <Mindy.Sooter@wilmerhale.com>; Deol, Ravi <Ravi.Deol@wilmerhale.com>; Nemtzow, 
`Alex <Alex.Nemtzow@wilmerhale.com> 
`Subject: RE: Petitioner’s Request for Reply to POPR in IPR2020‐00642, IPR2020‐00465, IPR2020‐00466 
`
`  
`Counsel,  
`
`
` call is not necessary at this time. In light of the designation of the decision in Apple v. Fintiv as
`precedential, Petitioner is authorized to file an 8-page Reply to Patent Owner’s Preliminary Response in
`each case on or before Thursday, July 2, 2020. Patent Owner is authorized to file a 4-page Sur-Reply in
`each case on or before Friday, July 10, 2020. Both the Reply and Sur-Reply shall be limited in scope to
`the issue addressed in Apple v. Fintiv, i.e., the six factors the Board considers in determining whether to
`exercise its discretion to institute review when there is a related proceeding pending in district court. 

`
`Regards, 

`
`Andrew Kellogg, 
`Supervisory Paralegal  
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board 
`USPTO 
`andrew.kellogg@uspto.gov 
`(571)272-7822 
`  
`  

`
`From: Zhong, Annita <HZhong@irell.com>  
`Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 12:20 PM 
`To: Cavanaugh, David <David.Cavanaugh@wilmerhale.com>; Trials <Trials@USPTO.GOV> 
`Cc: Sheasby, Jason <JSheasby@irell.com>; Wells, Maclain <MWells@irell.com>; #PanOptisIPRs [Int/Ext] 
`<PanOptisIPRs@irell.com>; Kipnis, Jason <Jason.Kipnis@wilmerhale.com>; Haag, Joseph 
`<Joseph.Haag@wilmerhale.com>; Goldenberg, Richard <Richard.Goldenberg@wilmerhale.com>; 
`Sooter, Mindy <Mindy.Sooter@wilmerhale.com>; Deol, Ravi <Ravi.Deol@wilmerhale.com>; Nemtzow, 
`Alex <Alex.Nemtzow@wilmerhale.com> 
`Subject: RE: Petitioner’s Request for Reply to POPR in IPR2020‐00642, IPR2020‐00465, IPR2020‐00466 
`
`  
`Dear Board, 
`
`  
`As Patent Owner informed Petitioner, Fintiv factors were not new.  This is made clear by the Fintiv 
`decision, which cites to Consolidated Trial Practice Guide November 2019, NHK and a number of other 
`cases issued before the petition filing date when summarizing the six factors.  IPR2020‐00019, Paper 11 
`at 5 (“When the patent owner raises an argument for discretionary denial under NHK due to an earlier 
`trial date, the Board’s decision have balanced the following factors . . . .”) & n.7.  Thus, it was 
`foreseeable at the time of filing that such factors should be fully addressed.  And Petitioner did attempt 
`to address them, though half‐heartedly.  See IPR2020‐00465 Pet. 8‐9; IPR2020‐00466 Pet. 5‐6; IPR2020‐
`00642 Pet. 6‐7.   
`  
`In its email, Petitioner does not assert that any changed circumstance in the parallel proceeding justifies 
`its request—as was the case in Fintiv.  Nor can it, because if anything, the accelerated trial schedule 
`
` A
`
`3
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`Optis Cellular Ex 2036-p. 3
`Apple v Optis Cellular
`IPR2020-00465
`
`

`

`would put the final written decisions even further after the end of the trial: Currently the trial is to start 
`on August 3, 2020, making the FWDs due 13 months after the end of trial.   
`
`  
`Nor is it fair for to Patent Owner that Petitioner should be able to give short shrift to the factors already 
`enumerated in the trial practice guide and NHK (which was designated precedential long before the 
`petitions were filed) and then give 8 pages to address those shortfalls.  This would encourage petitioners 
`to withhold arguments, review Patent Owner’s responses and then craft answers to them.  In this 
`particular case, it would also allow Petitioner to add 8 pages to each of its petitions whose word counts 
`were all near the 14,000 limit (13,995; 13,998; 13914 respectively).  That is not how the whole IPR 
`framework is intended to work. 
`
`  
`Nevertheless, if the Board grants Petitioner’s request, Patent Owner requests that it be also given the 
`same page numbers in each proceeding to address Petitioner’s arguments raised in the Replies.   
`
`  
`Respectfully, 
`
`  
`H. Annita Zhong 
`Irell & Manella LLP 
`1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 900 
`Los Angeles, CA 90067‐4276 
`Telephone: (310) 203‐7183 
`Fax:  (310) 556‐5385 
`
`  
`From: Cavanaugh, David <David.Cavanaugh@wilmerhale.com>  
`Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 7:42 AM 
`To: Trials <Trials@USPTO.GOV> 
`Cc: Zhong, Annita <HZhong@irell.com>; Sheasby, Jason <JSheasby@irell.com>; Wells, Maclain 
`<MWells@irell.com>; #PanOptisIPRs [Int/Ext] <PanOptisIPRs@irell.com>; Kipnis, Jason 
`<Jason.Kipnis@wilmerhale.com>; Haag, Joseph <Joseph.Haag@wilmerhale.com>; Cavanaugh, David 
`<David.Cavanaugh@wilmerhale.com>; Goldenberg, Richard <Richard.Goldenberg@wilmerhale.com>; 
`Sooter, Mindy <Mindy.Sooter@wilmerhale.com>; Deol, Ravi <Ravi.Deol@wilmerhale.com>; Nemtzow, 
`Alex <Alex.Nemtzow@wilmerhale.com>; Cavanaugh, David <David.Cavanaugh@wilmerhale.com> 
`Subject: Petitioner’s Request for Reply to POPR in IPR2020‐00642, IPR2020‐00465, IPR2020‐00466 
`
`  
`Dear Honorable Board: 
`
`  
`The Patent Owner recently filed Patent Owner Preliminary Responses (POPRs) in the identified IPRs.  In 
`light of the recent precedential decision in Apple Inc. v. Fintiv, Inc., IPR2020‐00019, Paper 11 (PTAB, 
`March 20, 2020) (precedential), Petitioner respectfully requests leave to submit replies to the POPRs in 
`the following proceedings to address the issue of discretionary institution denials under 35 U.S.C. § 
`314(a): 
`  
`
`
`
`
`
`IPR2020‐00642 
`IPR2020‐00465 
`IPR2020‐00466 
`
`  
`
`Petitioner has good cause for a Reply to address the Fintiv decision, which was decided and designated 
`precedential after the Petitions were filed.  Because Petitioner could not predict that the Board would 
`issue such an intervening decision, basic fairness and due process provides good cause for a 
`response.  The Board has already permitted Replies to address Fintiv in other proceedings, and 
`Petitioner believes the Board would benefit from supplemental briefing here.  
`  
`
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`Apple v Optis Cellular
`IPR2020-00465
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`

`

`Patent Owners oppose Petitioner’s request, and state that the Fintiv factors were not new and 
`Petitioner knew or should have known the need to address these factors.  In addition, Patent Owners 
`allege that the request amounts to a surreptitious attempt to evade the word limit on the Petitions.  
`
`  
`Petitioner requests 8 pages, which would be due 5 business days after the request is authorized.  
`  
`If the Board would like to schedule a conference call relating to this request, counsel for Petitioner and 
`Patent Owner are available on Thursday, June 25th from 10:00 a.m. ‐ 11:30 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m. 
`and  Friday, June 26th from 10:00 a.m. ‐ 12:00 p.m. (all Eastern Time). 
`
`  
`Respectfully, 
`
`  
`David Cavanaugh 
`Counsel for Petitioner 
`
`  
`David L. Cavanaugh | WilmerHale 
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