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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`APOTEX INC.,
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`NOVO NORDISK A/S,
`PATENT OWNER
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`CASE IPR2024-00631
`U.S. PATENT NO. 10,335,462
`ISSUED: JULY 2, 2019
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`TITLE:
`USE OF LONG-ACTING GLP-1 PEPTIDES
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`APOTEX’S THIRD MOTION TO SEAL
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`I.
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`INTROUDCTION
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`Pursuant to the protective order and 37 C.F.R. § 42.14, Petitioner Apotex
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`Inc. (“Apotex”) hereby moves to seal (1) Patent Owner’s (“Novo’s”) Patent Owner
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`Preliminary Response (the “POPR”), Paper No. 15, (2) Apotex’s Reply to the
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`POPR (the “Reply”), and (3) Ex. 2010.1 Good cause exists for sealing those
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`documents. That is because those documents contain Apotex’s confidential
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`business information, which, if disclosed, would likely cause competitive harm to
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`Apotex.
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`Apotex requested entry of the Board’s default protective order in its First
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`Motion. Novo has consented to the default protective order. Ex. 3001.
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`II. GOOD CAUSE EXISTS TO SEAL THE OPPOSITION AND REPLY
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`Pursuant to the protective order and 37 C.F.R. § 42.14, Apotex moves to seal
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`the POPR, the Reply, and Ex. 2010. As the Board has found in similar cases,
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`“good cause” exists to seal those documents because they contain Apotex’s
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`business information that has not been made public. Celltrion, Inc., v. Genentech,
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`Inc., IPR2016-01667, Paper No. 20 at 4 (PTAB Aug. 18, 2017) (granting motion to
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`1 Apotex previously filed a motion to seal (“First Motion”), Paper No. 3, (1) its
`Motion for Joinder Under 35 U.S.C. § 315(c) and 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.22 and
`42.122(b) to Inter Partes Review of IPR2023-00724 (the “Joinder Motion”) and
`(2) the Declaration of Robert Shapiro (the “Shapiro Declaration”), Ex. 1507.
`Novo did not oppose the First Motion.
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`seal non-public business information, including information about drug
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`development and regulatory strategies), Paper No. 31 at 4 (PTAB July 23, 2018)
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`(granting motion to expunge that information from the record); Unified Patents
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`Inc. v. Dragon Intellectual Prop., LLC, IPR2014-00216, Paper No. 40, 6-7 (PTAB
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`Feb. 27, 2015) (granting motion to seal non-public business information, including
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`information relating to business strategies); see also 37 C.F.R. § 42.54.
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`Specifically, certain portions of the POPR, the Reply, and Ex. 2010 contain
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`confidential information that describes Apotex’s confidential drug development
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`and regulatory approval strategies. Those portions of the documents are those that
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`reference or incorporate confidential information from the Shapiro Declaration, the
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`Joinder Motion, the POPR, or Ex. 2010. See First Motion (describing confidential
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`information in the Shapiro Declaration and the Joinder Motion). If the confidential
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`information in POPR, the Reply, and Ex. 2010 were publicly disclosed, it would
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`likely cause competitive business harm to Apotex.
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`The versions of the POPR and Ex. 2010 that Novo filed are unredacted and
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`nonpublic. Because the entirety of Ex. 2010 contains confidential information,
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`Apotex has not filed a redacted version. Concurrently with this motion, Apotex
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`has filed a public version of the POPR redacting the limited portions of the motion
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`that reference or incorporate confidential information from the Shapiro
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`Declaration, the Joinder Motion, or Ex. 2010.
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`Apotex has filed a unredacted, nonpublic version of the Reply concurrently
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`with this motion. Apotex has also concurrently filed a redacted, public version of
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`its Reply redacting the limited portions of the motion that reference or incorporate
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`confidential information from the Shapiro Declaration, the Joinder Motion, the
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`POPR, or Ex. 2010.
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`III. CONCLUSION
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`For the foregoing reasons, Apotex respectfully requests that the Board grant
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`this motion to seal.
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`Dated: July 1, 2024
`STEPTOE LLP
`1114 Avenue of the Americas
`New York, NY 10036
`Telephone: 212-506-3900
`Fax: 212-506-3950
`Email: Semaglutide@Steptoe.com
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/John J. Molenda/
`John J. Molenda
`Reg. No. 47,804
`Lead Counsel for Apotex
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned certifies that, in accordance with 37 C.F.R. § 42.6(e) and 37
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`C.F.R. § 42.105, and with Patent Owner’s consent, electronic service of APOTEX’S
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`THIRD MOTION TO SEAL was made on Patent Owner to the following email
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`addresses:
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`J. Steven Baughman
`Megan Raymond
`Michael F. Milea
`Joshua Reich
`GROOMBRIDGE, WU, BAUGHMAN & STONE LLP
`steve.baughman@groombridgewu.com
`megan.raymond@groombridgewu.com
`mike.milea@groombridgewu.com
`joshua.reich@groombridgewu.com
`Novo-Semaglutide-IPR@groombridgewu.com
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`/s/ John J. Molenda
`John J. Molenda (Reg. No. 47,804)
`Lawrence Kass (Reg. No. 40,671)
`Tyler Doh (Reg. No. 80,274)
`Michael I. Green (Reg. No. 80,436)
`STEPTOE LLP
`1114 Avenue of the Americas
`New York, NY 10036
`Tel: (212) 506-3900
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`Counsel for Apotex
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`Dated: July 1, 2024
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