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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`LIQUIDIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
`Petitioner
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`UNITED THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION,
`Patent Owner
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`Case No. IPR2021-00406
`U.S. Patent No. 10,716,793
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`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR ORAL HEARING
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.70(a), Petitioner Liquidia Technologies, Inc.
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`requests an oral hearing on all grounds of unpatentability raised in this proceeding.
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`Petitioner also requests oral hearing on any issues raised by Patent Owner in its
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`Request for Oral Hearing, any procedural or evidentiary issues raised by the
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`parties, and any additional issues or questions raised by the Board or the parties
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`before or during the oral argument.
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`Petitioner requests 30 minutes total to address all of the issues involved in
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`this proceeding. To the extent the Board schedules the hearing to last more than 60
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`minutes total, however, Petitioner requests that it should be given half the length of
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`the hearing to address these issues.
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`Petitioner further requests that it be permitted to speak first at oral argument
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`as the party bearing the burden of showing the unpatentability of the challenged
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`claims, and that it be permitted to reserve time for rebuttal following Patent
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`Owner’s allotted argument time.
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`Unless the March 13 Order requiring all oral arguments to occur
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`telephonically is still in effect, Petitioner requests that the oral hearing be held at
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`the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, rather than as currently
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`scheduled at the USPTO headquarters in Denver, Colorado, to the extent
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`practicable including the capacity of the hearing room. Petitioner believes that
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`there will be no more than four attorneys and clients present for this oral hearing.
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`Should arguments take place in person, Petitioner also requests that its
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`attorneys be allowed to use computers at the hearing (in addition to the counsel
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`making the argument using his or her computer to show the demonstratives) to
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`avoid the need for the parties to bring entire paper copies of the record into the
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`hearing room and to facilitate efficient answering of panel questions. Petitioner
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`further requests the use of audio-visual equipment suitable to display papers of
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`record and demonstrative exhibits, including a computer-connectable projector, an
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`ELMO, and a screen.
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`Petitioner further requests the services of a court reporter to transcribe the
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`proceeding.
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`Dated: March 30, 2022
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`COOLEY LLP
`ATTN: Patent Group
`1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
`Suite 700
`Washington, DC 20004
`Tel: (212) 479-6840
`Fax: (212) 479-6275
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`By:
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`/Ivor R. Elrifi/
`Ivor R. Elrifi
`Reg. No. 39,529
`Counsel for Petitioner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§42.6(e)(4)(i) et seq., a complete copy of the attached
`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR ORAL HEARING, and related documents
`are being served via email on the 30th day of March 2022, upon Patent Owner’s
`attorneys of record:
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`UT-793@foley.com
`Stephen B. Maebius (smaebius@foley.com)
`FOLEY & LARDNER
`UTCvLiquidia-IPR@mwe.com
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`Dated: March 30, 2022
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`COOLEY LLP
`ATTN: Patent Group
`1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
`Suite 700
`Washington, DC 20004
`Tel: (212) 479-6840
`Fax: (212) 479-6275
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`By:
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`/Ivor R. Elrifi/
`Ivor R. Elrifi
`Reg. No. 39,529
`Counsel for Petitioner
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