`571-272-7822
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`Paper 12
`Entered: December 15, 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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`ENFORA, INC., NOVATEL WIRELESS SOLUTIONS, INC., and
`NOVATEL WIRELESS, INC.,
`Petitioners,
`v.
`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`IPR2015-01670 (Patent 8,648,717 B2)
`IPR2015-01672 (Patent 8,648,717 B2)
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`SIERRA WIRELESS AMERICA, INC., SIERRA WIRELESS, INC.,
`and RPX CORP.,
`Petitioners,
`v.
`M2M SOLUTIONS LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`IPR2015-01823 (Patent 8,648,717 B2)
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`Before KALYAN K. DESHPANDE, JUSTIN T. ARBES, and
`DANIEL J. GALLIGAN, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`GALLIGAN, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`IPR2015-01670 (Patent 8,648,717 B2)
`IPR2015-01672 (Patent 8,648,717 B2)
`IPR2015-01823 (Patent 8,648,717 B2)
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`ORDER
`Conduct of the Proceedings
`37 C.F.R. §§ 42.5, 42.20
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`Petitioners filed three Petitions challenging claims of U.S. Patent
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`No. 8,648,717 B2 (“the ’717 patent”), and Patent Owner filed a Preliminary
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`Response in each proceeding. After reviewing the parties’ papers, we have
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`determined that additional briefing would be helpful on the narrow issue of
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`whether or not the limitation of independent claims 1, 24, and 29 reciting “a
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`processing module for authenticating one or more wireless transmissions
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`sent from a programming transmitter and received by the programmable
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`communicator device by determining if at least one transmission contains a
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`coded number” should be interpreted as a means-plus-function limitation
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`under 35 U.S.C. § 112, ¶ 6 and Williamson v. Citrix Online, LLC, 792 F.3d
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`1339 (Fed. Cir. 2015), and if so, how the limitation should be interpreted.
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`See 37 C.F.R. §§ 42.5(a), 42.20(d).
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`Accordingly, it is
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`ORDERED that the group of Petitioners in IPR2015-01670 and
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`IPR2015-01672, the group of Petitioners in IPR2015-01823, and Patent
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`Owner are each authorized to file one supplemental brief addressing only the
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`issue identified above and limited to five pages no later than January 6,
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`2015.
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`IPR2015-01670 (Patent 8,648,717 B2)
`IPR2015-01672 (Patent 8,648,717 B2)
`IPR2015-01823 (Patent 8,648,717 B2)
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`For PETITIONERS:
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`Jennifer Hayes
`jenhayes@nixonpeabody.com
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`Robert Krebs
`rkrebs@nixonpeabody.com
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`For PATENT OWNER:
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`Jeffrey Costakos
`jcostakos@foley.com
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`Michelle Moran
`mmoran@foley.com
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