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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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`HOPEWELL PHARMA VENTURES, INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`MERCK SERONO SA,
`Patent Owner.
`____________________________________________
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`Case IPR2023-00481
`U.S. Patent No. 8,377,903
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`NOTICE OF JOINT STIPULATION
`TO MODIFY THE SCHEDULING ORDER
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`IPR2023-00481
`Notice of Joint Stipulation to Modify the Scheduling Order
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`On September 22, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) issued
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`a Scheduling Order for this inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 8,377,903
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`(IPR2023-00481, Paper 11) setting forth due dates for the parties.
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`The Scheduling Order provides that the “parties may stipulate different dates
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`for DUE DATES 1, 5, and 6, as well as the portion of DUE DATE 2 related to
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`Petitioner’s reply (earlier or later, but no later than DUE DATE 3 for Patent
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`Owner’s sur-reply) and the portion of DUE DATE 3 related to Patent Owner’s sur-
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`reply (earlier or later, but no later than DUE DATE 7).” Paper 11 at 8.
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`The Parties hereby stipulate to modify DUE DATES 1, 2, and 3 as follows:
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`Due Date 1
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`Due Date 2
`Due Date 3
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`Filing
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`Original Due Date
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`Modified Date
`Pursuant to
`Stipulation
`December 15, 2023 December 22, 2023
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`Patent Owner’s
`Response
`Petitioner’s Reply March 8, 2024
`Patent Owner’s
`April 19, 2024
`Sur-Reply
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`March 22, 2024
`May 3, 2024
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`Additionally, Patent Owner states that it will not file a motion to amend the
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`claims, so the deadlines pertaining to motion to amend are not applicable.
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`All other due dates remain unchanged. For the Board’s convenience, below
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`is a table identifying the original dates set forth in the Scheduling Order (Paper 11)
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`for DUE DATES 4-8:
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`Original Due Date
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`Due Date 4 May 10, 2024
`Due Date 5 May 31, 2024
`Due Date 6
`June 7, 2024
`Due Date 7
`June 14, 2024
`Due Date 8
`June 25, 2024
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`Modified Date Pursuant
`to Stipulation
`Unchanged
`Unchanged
`Unchanged
`Unchanged
`Unchanged
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`Date: November 6, 2023
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`By: /Emily R. Whelan/
`Emily R. Whelan (Reg. No. 50,391)
`Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
`60 State Street
`Boston, MA 02109
`Tel. (617) 526-6567
`E-mail: Emily.Whelan@wilmerhale.com
`Lead Counsel for Patent Owner
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`By: /Eldora L. Ellison/
`Eldora L. Ellison, Ph.D., Esq. (Reg. No.
`39,967)
`Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
`1101 K Street NW, 10th Floor
`Washington, DC 20005
`Tel. (202) 371-2600
`E-mail: eellison-PTAB@sternekessler.com
`Lead Counsel for Petitioner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
`I hereby certify that, on November 6, 2023, I caused a true and correct copy
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`of the following document:
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`Notice of Joint Stipulation to Modify the Scheduling Order
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`to be served via e-mail, as consented to by Petitioner, on the following attorneys of
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`record:
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`eellison-PTAB@sternekessler.com
`opartington-PTAB@sternekessler.com
`cvira-PTAB@sternekessler.com
`jcrozendaal-PTAB@sternekessler.com
`PTAB@sternekessler.com
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`By: /Cindy Kan/
`Cindy Kan (Reg. No. 76,385)
`Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
`7 World Trade Center
`250 Greenwich Street
`New York, NY 10007
`Tel: (212) 295-6470
`E-mail: cindy.kan@wilmerhale.com
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