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`U.S. Patent No. 6,807,505
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`IPR2022-01488
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`Joint Request to Keep Separate
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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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`APPLE INC.,
`Petitioner
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`FUTURE LINK SYSTEMS, LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case No. IPR2022-01488
`U.S. Patent No. 6,807,505
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`JOINT REQUEST TO KEEP SEPARATE PURSUANT TO
`35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c)
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`U.S. Patent No. 6,807,505
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`IPR2022-01488
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` Joint Request to Keep Separate
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`Patent Owner Future Link Systems, LLC (“FLS”) and Petitioner Apple Inc.
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`(“Apple”) have reached a settlement. The release agreement resolves the disputes
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`in the above-captioned inter partes review relating to U.S. Patent No. 6,807,505
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`(“Patent-in-Suit”). The parties jointly request that the Board treat the release
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`agreement as business confidential information and keep it separate from the files
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`of this proceeding and the files of the Patent-in-Suit. As set forth in an e-mail dated
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`June 9, 2022, the Board authorized the filing of the requested Joint Motion to
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`Terminate this Petition and the instant request to treat the agreement as business
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`confidential under 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c).
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`I. Statement of Precise Relief Requested
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`The parties jointly request that the Board treat the release agreement as
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`business confidential information and keep it separate from the files of this
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`proceeding and the files of the Patent-in-Suit. The parties request that the release
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`agreement “be made available only to Federal Government agencies on written
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`request, or to any person on a showing of good cause” in accordance with 35
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`U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74.
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`II. Reasons Why Relief Is Appropriate
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`The terms of the release agreement require the parties to treat the release
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`agreement as confidential information and limit their ability to share the release
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`agreement or disclose its content with third parties. The parties have filed a copy
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`of the release agreement with the Board, as required by 35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37
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`C.F.R. § 42.74. The confidential release agreement was filed in the PTAB E2E
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`system to provide availability only to the Board.
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`Dated: June 10, 2022
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/s/ Adam P. Seitz
`Adam P. Seitz, Reg. No. 52,206
`ERISE IP, P.A.
`7015 College Boulevard, Suite 700
`Overland Park, KS 66211
`COUNSEL FOR PETITIONER
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`/Reza Mirzaie /__________________
`Reza Mirzaie (Reg. No. 69,138)
`Russ, August & Kabat
`12424 Wilshire Blvd., 12th Floor
`Los Angeles, CA 90025
`Attorney for Patent Owner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned certifies to 37 C.F.R. §42.6(e) and §42.105 that the above
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`document was served on June 10, 2022, by filing this document through the Patent
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`electronic mail to the following attorneys of record for the Patent Owner:
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