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` Entered: September 14, 2015
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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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`ALTAIRE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`PARAGON BIOTECK, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case PGR2015-00011
`Patent 8,859,623 B1
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`Before ZHENYU YANG, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Conduct of the Proceeding
`37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`The Board has reviewed Patent Owner’s Preliminary Response (Paper
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`7) and seeks additional briefing from Petitioner on whether Sawaya
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`Aquebogue is a real party-in-interest that should have been identified in the
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`Petition pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 322(a)(2). The brief, exclusive of any
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`exhibits and the caption, shall not exceed ten pages. No further briefing is
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`authorized at this time.
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`PGR2015-00011
`Patent 8,859,623 B1
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`Accordingly, it is
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`ORDERED that no later than ten business days after entry of this
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`Order, Petitioner is authorized to file a brief not exceeding ten pages, as
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`authorized by this Order. The brief shall respond to the issue of whether
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`Sawaya Aquebogue is a real party-in-interest, as raised in the Patent
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`Owner’s Preliminary Response;
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`FURTHER ORDERED that no further briefing is authorized at this
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`time.
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`PGR2015-00011
`Patent 8,859,623 B1
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`PETITIONER:
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`Dipu A. Doshi
`DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP
`doshid@dicksteinshapiro.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Michael Rosato
`Steven W. Parmelee
`WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
`mrosato@wsgr.com
`sparmelee@wsgr.com
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