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`Trials@uspto.gov
`571-272-7822
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`Paper11
`Entered: May 12, 2014
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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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`ENZYMOTEC LTD. and ENZYMOTEC USA,INC.
`Petitioner
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`V.
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`NEPTUNE TECHNOLOGIES ANDBIORESOURCES, INC.
`Patent Owner
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`Case IPR2014-00586 ©
`~ Patent 8,278,351
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`Before LORA M. GREEN, JACQUELINE WRIGHT BONILLA,and
`SHERIDAN K. SNEDDEN,Administrative Patent Judges.
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`GREEN,Administrative Patent Judge.
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`JUDGMENT
`Termination of the Proceeding
`37 CFR. § 42.73
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`Case IPR2014-00586
`Patent 8,278,351
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`On May7, 2014, and pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74,
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`the parties filed a copy of a settlement (Ex. 2001) agreement along with a joint
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`request to treat the settlement agreementas business confidential, to be separate
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`from thepatentfile. Paper 9. Theparties filed also a joint motion to terminate the
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`proceeding pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317. Paper10.
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`This case is in the preliminary proceeding’ stage; no institution ofa trial has
`been made. Based onthefacts ofthis case,it is appropriate to enter judgment.’
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`Therefore, the joint motion to terminate the proceeding is GRANTED.
`| Accordingly,it is
`ORDEREDthatthe parties’ request that the settlement agreementbe treated
`_ as business confidential information, to be kept separate from the patentfile,is
`GRANTED;
`FURTHER ORDEREDthatthe joint motion to terminate the proceeding is
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`GRANTED;
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`FURTHER ORDEREDthatthe proceeding is TERMINATED.
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`' A preliminary proceeding beginswith thefiling ofa petition for institutingatrial
`and ends with a written decision as to whethertrial will be instituted.
`37 C.F.R. § 42.2.
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`? A judgment meansa final written description by the Board, or a termination of a
`proceeding. 37 C.F.R. § 42.2.
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`Case IPR2014-00586
`Patent 8,278,351
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`For PETITIONER:
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`Elizabeth J. Holland
`Cynthia Lambert Hardman
`KENYON & KENYON LLP
`eholland@kenyon.com
`chardman@kenyon.com
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`For PATENT OWNER:
`Stephen L. Altieri, Ph.D.
`J. Dean Farmer, Ph.D.
`Cooley LLP
`saltieri@cooley.com
`dfarmer@cooley.com
`zpatdcdocketing@cooley.com
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