`571-272-7822
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`Paper 9
`Date: December 1, 2020
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE, AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT &
`BMW OF NORTH AMERICA, LLC,
`Petitioner,
`v.
`PAICE LLC & THE ABELL FOUNDATION, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`IPR2020-01386
`Patent 7,237,634 B2
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`Before SALLY C. MEDLEY, KALYAN K. DESHPANDE, and
`ARTHUR M. PESLAK, Administrative Patent Judges.
`PESLAK, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Conduct of the Proceeding
` 37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`Patent 7,237,634 B2
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`In the Patent Owner Preliminary Response (Paper 8), Patent Owner
`requests that we exercise our discretion under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a) to deny
`institution because this is the 27th Petition filed against the ’634 patent.
`Paper 8, 8; Paper 1, 76. It appears from the record that 17 of the 38
`challenged claims have been previously challenged. Paper 1, 5. Under these
`circumstances, the Board would benefit from further briefing on the issue of
`discretionary denial under 35 U.S.C. § 314 (a).
`It is:
`ORDERED that Petitioner may file a seven-page Reply brief limited
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`to legal argument responding to the discretionary denial issues raised in the
`Patent Owner Preliminary Response no later than December 9, 2020;
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`FURTHER ORDERED that Patent Owner may thereafter file a seven-
`page Sur-Reply brief limited to legal argument responding to Petitioner’s
`Reply no later than December 16, 2020; and
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`FURTHER ORDERED that neither party is authorized to file any
`evidence in connection with the aforementioned briefs.
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`IPR2020-01386
`Patent 7,237,634 B2
`FOR PETITIONER:
`Jeffrey D. Sanok
`Vincent J. Galluzzo
`Scott L. Bittman
`Jacob Z. Zambrzycki
`CROWELL & MORING LLP
`jsanok@crowell.com
`vgalluzzo@crowell.com
`sbittman@crowell.com
`jzambrzycki@crowell.com
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`FOR PATENT OWNER:
`Ruffin B. Cordell
`Indranil Mukerji
`Brian J. Livedalen
`FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.
`cordell@fr.com
`mukerji@fr.com
`livedalen@fr.com
`IPR36351-0004IP1@fr.com
`PTABInbound@fr.com
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