`571-272-7822
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`Paper 21
`Date Entered: August 21, 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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`NEST LABS,INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`Vv.
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`ALLURE ENERGY,INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2014-01424
`Patent 8,571,518 B2
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`Before BART A. GERSTENBLITH, CHRISTOPHER L. CRUMBLEY,and
`KEVIN W. CHERRY,Administrative Patent Judges.
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`CHERRY,Administrative Patent Judge.
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`JUDGMENT
`Termination of the Proceeding
`37 CER. § 42.73
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`On August 14, 2015, and pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317 and 37 C.F.R.
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`§ 42.74, the parties filed a joint motion to terminate this proceeding.
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`Paper 20. Aspart of the joint motion to terminate, the parties further request
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`to have their settlement agreementtreated as confidential business
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`IPR2014-01424
`Patent 8,571,518 B2
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`information under 35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c).' Id. at 1
`In the joint motion, the parties represent that the settlement agreement filed
`is a true copy andresolvesall disputes between the parties. Jd.
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`This inter partes review wasinstituted on March 9, 2015. At this
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`juncture of the proceeding, the Board doesnot have beforeit full briefing on
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`the trial issues; oral argument has not been held; and the Board has not
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`entered a final decision. Based on the facts of this case, it is appropriate to
`enter judgment.’ Therefore, the joint motion to terminate the proceeding is
`granted.
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`Accordingly,it is
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`ORDEREDthatthe parties’ joint request that the settlement
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`agreement (Exhibits 1013 and 1014) be treated as business confidential
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`information, to be kept separate from thepatentfile is granted;
`FURTHER ORDEREDthatthe settlement agreement (Exhibits 1013
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`and 1014) shall be made available only pursuantto the provisions of
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`37 CFR. § 42.74(c);
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`' The parties filed two copies of the settlement agreement (Exs. 1013 and
`1014). Exhibit 1013 is unredacted and Exhibit 1014 has certain limited
`information redacted. On a call with the parties held on August 13, 2015,
`the parties represented that both Exhibits 1013 and 1014 have confidential
`business information that they wishedto be treated as such under 37 C.F.R.
`§ 42.74(c). The parties wished to provide the redacted copy in order to
`provide additional protection against disclosure of certain extremely
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`sensitive information in the unredacted copy.
`? The parties’ Joint Request wasfiled as the same paper as their Motion
`(Paper 20), but with restarted page numbers. Accordingly, the Joint Request
`is pages 5—7 of Paper 20.
`3 A judgment meansa final written decision by the Board, or a termination
`of a proceeding. 37 C.F.R. § 42.2.
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`FURTHER ORDEREDthat the joint motion to terminate the
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`proceeding is granted; and
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`FURTHER ORDEREDthat the proceedingis terminated.
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`For Petitioner:
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`John Dragseth
`Stuart Nelson
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`dragseth@fr.com
`IPR36563-0010IP1@fr.com
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`Kevin McGann
`White & Case LLP
`kmcegann@whitecase.com
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`For Patent Owner:
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`John Artz
`Dickinson Wright PLLC
`jsartz@dickinsonwright.com
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