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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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`ARGOS USA LLC, DOLE FOOD COMPANY, INC., THE GILLETTE
`COMPANY, LLC, MILACRON LLC, PLY GEM INDUSTRIES, INC.,
`REVLON CONSUMER PRODUCTS CORPORATION, CALPINE
`CORPORATION, WATTS WATER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., LIBERTY
`MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, INTERNATIONAL PAPER
`COMPANY, STATE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS CORP., BASSETT
`FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INC.,
`Petitioners,
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`v.
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`GUADA TECHNOLOGIES LLC,
`Patent Owner,
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`Case IPR2021-00771
`Patent 7,231,379
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`JOINT MOTION TO DISMISS PETITION
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`UNDER 35 U.S.C. § 317
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`Proceeding No. IPR2021-00771
`Attorney Docket: 00012-0119IP1
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`EXHIBITS
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`Description
`U.S. Patent 7,231,379 to Parikh et al. (’379 Patent)
`File History of U.S. Patent 7,231,379 to Parikh et al. (’379 File
`History)
`Guada’s Combined Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to
`Dismiss, Guada Techs LLC. v. Netflix, Inc. (Dkt. No. 20, No.
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`U.S. Pat. No. 7,539,656 to Fratkina et al. (“Fratkina”)
`Declaration of Dr. Padhraic Smyth (“Smyth”)
`RESERVED
`Dr. Padhraic Smyth Curriculum Vitae
`JOHN E. HOPCROFT, JEFFREY D. ULLMAN & ALFRED V. AHO,
`DATA STRUCTURE AND ALGORITHMS 75–106, 155–197,
`306–346 (Addison-Wesley 1983)
`Donald, B. Crouch, Carolyn J. Crouch & Glenn Andreas, The
`Use Of Cluster Hierarchies in Hypertext Info. Retrieval,
`HYPERTEXT ‘89 PROC., ACM PRESS, at 225-237, 1989
`Yvan Leclerc, Steven W. Zucker, Denis Leclerc, A Browsing
`Approach to Documentation, IEEE COMPUTER, IEEE PRESS,
`June 1982, at 46–49
`Ricky E. Savage, James K. Habinek, Thomas W. Barnhart,
`The Design, Simulation, and Evaluation of a Menu Driven
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`Daniel Cunliffe, Carl Taylor, and Douglas Tudhope, Query-
`Based Navigation in Semantically Indexed Hypermedia, PROC.
`OF THE EIGHTH ACM CONF. ON HYPERTEXT, ACM PRESS,
`1997, at 87–95
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`Hornstein, Telephone Voice Interfaces on
`PROCEEDINGS OF THE UBLAB ‘94 CONF., 1994, at 134–147.
`Paul De Bra, et al., Info. Retrieval in Distrib. Hypertexts,
`RIAO 1994, at 481–491, 1995
`U.S. Pat. No. 6,198,939 to Holmstrom
`Karen Sparck Jones, A Look Back And A Look Forward,
`PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11TH ACM SIGIR INT’L CONF. ON RSCH.
`AND DEV. IN INFO. RETRIEVAL ACM Press, 1988, 14 pages
`Gerard Salton, Anita Wong, and Chung-Shu Yang, A Vector
`Space Model For Automatic Indexing, COMMC’NS OF THE
`ACM, 1975 18(11), at 613–620
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`And Global Document Analysis, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH
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`RETRIEVAL ACM, 1996, at 4–11
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`RSCH AND DEV. IN INFO. RETRIEVAL, ACM, 1988, at 309–320
`Hinrich Schütze and Jan O. Pedersen, A Cooccurrence-Based
`Thesaurus And Two Applications to Information Retrieval, 1
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`, 1994 at 266–274
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`Gerald Salton, The Evaluation Of Automatic Retrieval
`Procs.—Selected Test Results Using the SMART Sys.,
`AMERICAN DOCUMENTATION, 16(3), 1965, at 209–222
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`306-313
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`CONFIDENTIAL Settlement Agreements
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`Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317(a), Petitioners Argos USA LLC, Dole Food
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`Company, Inc., The Gillette Company, LLC, Milacron LLC, Ply Gem Industries,
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`Inc., Revlon Consumer Products Corporation, Calpine Corporation, Watts Water
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`Technologies, Inc., Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, International Paper
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`Company, State Industrial Products Corp. and Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc.,
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`and Patent Owner Guada Technologies LLC (collectively “Parties”), hereby jointly
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`move to dismiss the petition in the above-captioned proceeding, subject to the
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`terms of the Settlement Agreements dated August 4, August 5, August 6, August 9,
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`August 10, and August 16, 2021, entered into by the Parties.
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`The Board authorized the filing of the instant motion in an email dated
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`August 23, 2021. This motion is being filed prior to a decision on the merits of the
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`petition, and is accompanied by a copy of the settlement agreements between the
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`Parties.
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`The petition was filed April 7, 2021, directed to U.S. Patent No. 7,231,379
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`(the “’379 patent”), and has not yet been instituted.
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`Settlement Agreements
`The Parties have settled their dispute, and Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317(b)
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`and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(b), the Parties’ settlement agreements are in writing, and
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`true and correct copies are being filed concurrently herewith as Exhibit 1030. The
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`Parties are also filing concurrently herewith a request under 35 U.S.C. § 317(b)
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`settlement agreements as business confidential information and keep them separate
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`from the files of the involved patent.
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`The Parties further certify that there are no collateral agreements or
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`understandings made in connection with, or in contemplation of, the dismissal of
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`the present inter partes review.
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`As stated in 35 U.S.C. § 317(a), because Petitioners and Patent Owner
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`jointly request dismissal of the petition, no estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e) shall
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`attach to Petitioners.
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`B. Dismissal is Appropriate
`Dismissal is proper under 35 U.S.C. § 317(a) because the Parties are jointly
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`requesting the petition be dismissed, and the Office has not yet “decided the merits
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`of the proceeding.” Indeed, no decision instituting trial has been entered.
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`Moreover, as noted in the Patent Office Trial Practice Guidelines, “there are
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`strong public policy reasons to favor settlement between the parties to a proceeding
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`. . . . The Board expects that a proceeding will terminate after the filing of a
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`settlement agreement, unless the Board has already decided the merits of the
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`proceeding. 35 U.S.C. 317(a), as amended, and 35 U.S.C. 327.”1
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`1 See Federal Register Vol. 77, No. 157 at 48768.
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`Status of Related District Court Litigation.
`The ’379 Patent is not the subject of any pending administrative proceeding.
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`Litigation concerning the ’379 Patent has been either dismissed or administratively
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`closed pending this proceeding.
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`For the foregoing reasons, the Parties jointly request termination of
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`IPR2021-00771.
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`Date: August 30, 2021
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`Respectfully submitted,
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` /Joshua A. Griswold/
`Joshua Griswold, Reg. No. 46,310
`Ricardo Bonilla, Reg. No. 65,190
`Counsel for Petitioner
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`/s/ Sanjay Pant
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`Sanjay Pant, Reg. No. 64,865
`Gautham Bodepudi, Reg. No. 59,788
`Counsel for Patent Owner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to 37 CFR § 42.6(e), the undersigned certifies that on August 30,
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`2021, a complete and entire copy of this Joint Motion to Dismiss Petition and
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`Exhibit 1030 were provided via email to the Patent Owner by serving the email
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`correspondence addresses of record as follows:
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`Sanjay Pant
`PRA Law
`2800 Bartons Bluff Lane #1902
`Austin, TX, 78746
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`Gautham Bodepudi
`15922 El Dorado Parkway, Suite 500-1572
`Frisco, TX 75035
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`Email: spant@pralawllc.com
`gbodepudi@outlook.com
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`/Diana Bradley/
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`Diana Bradley
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`3200 RBC Plaza
`60 South Sixth Street
`Minneapolis, MN 55402
`(858) 678-5667
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