`571-272-7822
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`Paper No. 9
`Entered: September 20, 2017
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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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`MYLAN PHARMACEUTICALS INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`V.
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`COSMO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED,
`Patent Owncr.
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`Case IPR2017-01034
`Patent 8,784,888 B2
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`Before SUSAN L. C. MITCHELL, ZHENYU YANG,and
`KRISTI L. R. SAWERT, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`SAWERT,Administrative Patent Judge.
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`DECISION
`Granting Joint Motion to Terminate
`Dueto Settlement Prior to Institution
`37 CFR. §§ 42.72, 42.74
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`IPR2017-01034
`Patent 8,784,888 B2
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`On September20, 2017, the parties filed a joint motion to terminate
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`the instant proceeding (Paper 7), accompanied bya true copy of a settlement
`agreement (Ex. 2001), and a joint requestto treat the agreementas business
`confidential information, to be kept separate from the patentfile, pursuantto
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`35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c) (Paper8).
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`Theparties indicate in their joint motion to terminate that they have
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`reached an agreementresolving their current dispute involving U.S. Patent
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`No.8,784,888 B2 (“the ’888 patent”). Paper 7, 2. The parties request
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`termination,stating that “[t]he settlement agreement wasenteredinto in
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`contemplation of termination of this proceeding.” Jd. at 5. Additionally, the
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`parties state that “[u]nder the terms of the settlement agreement, Patent
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`Owneragreesto dismissits infringement claim of[the ’888 patent] against
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`Petitioner following termination of this IPR proceeding.” Jd. at 2.
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`This proceedingis in a preliminary stage. Patent Ownerdid notfile a
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`Preliminary Response, and no decision on whetherto institute trial has been
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`issued. Underthe circumstances presented here, we determinethatit is
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`appropriate to terminate this preliminary proceeding with respect to both
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`Petitioner and Patent Owner. Accordingly, we grant the parties’ joint
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`motion to terminate. Wealso grant the parties’ joint request to treat their
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`agreementas business confidential information, to be kept separate from the
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`patentfile.
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`Accordingly,it is
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`IPR2017-01034
`Patent 8,784,888 B2
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`ORDEREDthatthe joint motion to terminate the proceedingsis
`GRANTED;
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`FURTHER ORDEREDthatthe joint request to treat the parties’
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`agreementas business confidential information, to be kept separate from the
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`patentfile, is GRANTED; and
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`FURTHER ORDEREDthatthe instant proceeding is TERMINATED.
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`IPR2017-01034
`Patent 8,784,888 B2
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`PETITIONER:
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`Jitendra Malik
`H. James Abe
`Lance Soderstrom
`Joseph Janusz
`ALSTON & BIRD LLP
`jitty.malik@alston.com
`james.abe@alston.com
`lance.soderstrom@alston.com
`joe janusz@alston.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Gary Frischling
`Yite Lu
`Irell & Manella LLP
`gfrischling@irell.com
`yjlu@irell.com
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