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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`WEATHERFORD INTERNATIONAL, LLC,
`Petitioner,
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`BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS, LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2019-00708
`Patent RE46,137
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`PATENT OWNER’S MOTION TO EXCLUDE EX. 1012’S
`2011-USE STATEMENT AS HEARSAY
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`IPR2019-00708
`Patent RE46,137
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`I.
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`Introduction
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`Patent Owner objected to Ex. 1012’s statement that an “operator … began
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`incorporating [Ex. 1012’s] valve in the second quarter of 2011” (“2011-Use
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`Statement”) (Ex. 1012 at 4) as hearsay. Paper 10 at 1. Petitioner offered no
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`supplemental evidence to cure that objection.
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`Petitioner relies on the 2011-Use Statement to argue that Ex. 1012 is evidence
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`of simultaneous invention (Petition at 65-66), but that statement is hearsay to which
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`no exception applies. The Board should therefore exclude it.
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`II. Ex. 1012 Cannot Be Evidence of Simultaneous Invention Without Its
`2011-Use Statement
`Petitioner sets the required “comparatively short space of time” within which
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`the alleged simultaneous inventions were made at a few months. Geo M. Martin Co.
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`v. Alliance Mach. Sys. Int’l LLC, 618 F.3d 1294, 1305 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (cited in
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`Petition at 65). That space of time cannot be as long as twenty-two months:
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`“[b]ecause [Ex. 1009] was so much earlier”—twenty-two months (Ex. 1009 at 1)—
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`“I do not view it as simultaneous invention.” Chambers at ¶ 53 (cited in Petition at
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`65-66). It also cannot be as long as 9-10 months in view of Petitioner’s and Mr.
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`Chambers’s reliance on Ex. 1011 to establish a May 2011 priority date for Ex. 1010
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`despite its May 2012 filing date. Petition at 65-66; Chambers at ¶ 54 (“Thus, the
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`provisional application was filed nearly three months before the earliest filing date
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`for the ’137 Patent” and discussing only Ex. 1011 in any detail (emphasis added))
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`(cited in Petition at 65-66). Petitioner and Mr. Chambers eschewed reliance on Ex.
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`1012’s alleged October-November 2012 publication date—fifteen months after the
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`’137 Patent’s invention—in favor of its 2011-Use Statement, which allegedly places
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`Ex. 2012’s valve within a few months of the ’137 Patent’s invention. Petition at 65-
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`66; Chambers at ¶ 55 (Ex. 1012 “was presented … from October 30, 2012 to
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`November 1, 2012[; h]owever, it describes [second quarter, 2011] fracturing jobs
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`run with [its] hydraulically actuated sleeve” (emphasis added)) (cited in Petition at
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`55-56).
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`Absent the 2011-Use Statement, Ex. 1012 does not fit Petitioner’s
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`simultaneous invention case.
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`III. The 2011-Use Statement Is Hearsay
`The 2011-Use Statement is hearsay because it was made out of court, and
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`Petitioner offers it to prove that what it asserts is true. FRE 802; Petition at 65-66
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`(characterizing Ex. 1012 as “a substantially similar sleeve used in the second quarter
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`of 2011” (emphasis added)); Chambers at ¶ 55 (introducing the 2011-Use Statement
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`with “[i]n fact” and concluding based on the same that “[t]his operator thus began
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`using the RDV in wells in the second quarter of 2011.”) (cited in Petition at 65-66)).
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`IV. Conclusion
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`The 2011-Use Statement is both relied on by Petitioner and is hearsay to
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`which no exception applies. The Board should therefore exclude it.
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`Dated: May 20, 2020
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/Mark T. Garrett/
` Mark T. Garrett (Reg. No. 44,699)
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.6(e), the undersigned certifies that on May 20,
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`2020, a copy of Patent Owner’s Motion to Exclude Ex. 1012’s 2011-Use Statement
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`as Hearsay was served on Lead and Backup Counsel for Petitioner via email (by
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`consent) to:
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`Lead Counsel: Douglas R. Wilson (Reg. No. 54,542)
`doug.wilson@armondwilson.com
`ipr@armondwilson.com
`Backup Counsel: Boone Baxter (Reg. No. 69,363)
`bbaxter@hpcllp.com
`Michelle Armond (Reg. No. 53,954)
`michelle.armond@armondwilson.com
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`/Mark T. Garrett/
` Mark T. Garrett (Reg. No. 44,699)
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