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`Paper No. 17
` Entered: April 11, 2019
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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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`INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`ETHICON LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2018-00933 (Patent 9,084,601 B2)
`Case IPR2018-00934 (Patent 8,998,058 B2)
`Case IPR2018-00935 (Patent 8,991,677 B2) 1
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`Before JOSIAH C. COCKS, BENJAMIN D. M. WOOD, and
`MATTHEW S. MEYERS, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`WOOD, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Granting Motion to File Corrected Motions
`35 U.S.C. § 42.5
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`1 This Order applies to all of the listed cases. We exercise our discretion to
`issue one Order to be filed in each proceeding. The parties are not
`authorized to use this caption in any subsequent papers.
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`Case IPR2018-00933 (Patent 9,084,601 B2)
`Case IPR2018-00934 (Patent 8,998,058 B2)
`Case IPR2018-00935 (Patent 8,991,677 B2)
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`By email dated March 8, 2019, Patent Owner submitted an unopposed
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`request to file a corrected motion to amend in IPR2018-00933 and corrected
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`contingent motions to amend in IPR2018-00934 and IPR2018-00935. Ex.
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`3001. Patent Owner asserts that it timely filed a motion to amend in the
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`-00933 proceeding and contingent motions to amend in the -00934 and
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`-00935 proceedings, and each of these motions set forth written-description
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`support for the proposed amended claims in the claim listings appended to
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`each motion. Id. Patent Owner requests to file corrected versions of these
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`motions, however, in light of a recent precedential Board decision2 that
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`interprets 37 C.F.R. § 42.121 to require written-description support for
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`proposed amended claims to be set forth in a motion to amend itself rather
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`than in the claim listing. Id. Accordingly, Patent Owner seeks leave to file
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`corrected motions that conform to that interpretation.
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`Having considered Patent Owner’s unopposed request and its stated
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`reasons therefor, we determine that good cause exists to grant Patent
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`Owner’s request.3
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`Accordingly, it is:
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`ORDERED that Patent Owner’s unopposed request to file a corrected
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`motion to amend in IPR2018-00933 is granted, and
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`2 Lectrosonics, Inc. v. Zaxcom, Inc., IPR2018-01129, -0030 (PTAB Feb. 25,
`2019) (Paper 15).
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`3 We informed the parties that this request was granted by email dated April
`4, 2019.
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`2
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`Case IPR2018-00933 (Patent 9,084,601 B2)
`Case IPR2018-00934 (Patent 8,998,058 B2)
`Case IPR2018-00935 (Patent 8,991,677 B2)
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`FURTHER ORDERED that Patent Owner’s unopposed request to file
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`corrected contingent motions to amend in IPR2018-00934 and IPR2018-
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`00935 is granted.
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`PETITIONER:
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`John C. Phillips
`Steven R. Katz
`Ryan P. O’Connor
`Fish & Richardson
`phillips@fr.com
`katz@fr.com
`oconnor@fr.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Anish R. Desai
`Elizabeth Stotland Weiswasser
`Adrian Percer
`Christopher T. Marando
`Christoper M. Pepe
`Weil, Gotschal & Manges LLP
`anish.desai@weil.com
`elizabeth.weiswasser@weil.com
`adrian.percer@weil.com
`christopher.marando@weil.com
`christopher.pepe@weil.com
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