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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`APEX TOOL GROUP, LLC,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case No. PGR2020-00056
`Patent 10,422,617
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`JOINT REQUEST TO TREAT SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AS
`BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PURSUANT TO 35 U.S.C. §
`327(b) AND 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c)
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`Joint Request re: Business Confidential Information
`PGR2020-00056
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`Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 327(a) and 327(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c),
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`Petitioner, Apex Tool Group, LLC, and Patent Owner, Milwaukee Electric
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`Tool Corporation, hereby jointly request that the settlement agreement
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`between the parties, filed separately as Exhibit 2013 in Case No. PGR2020-
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`00056, be treated as business confidential information that is kept separate
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`from the file of the involved patent and made available only to Federal
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`Government agencies on written request, or to any person on a showing of
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`good cause.
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`Joint Request re: Business Confidential Information
`PGR2020-00056
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`The parties sought, and received via email on October 6, 2020,
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`authorization from the Board to file this request.
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`DATED this 6th day of October, 2020.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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` / Alexander B. Stein /
`Alexander B Stein, Reg. No. 71,397
`Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
`1400 Page Mill Road
`Palo Alto, CA, 94304
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`Jason C. White, Reg. No. 42,223
`Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
`77 West Wacker Drive
`Chicago, IL, 60601
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`Attorneys for Patent Owner,
`Milwaukee Electric Tool
`Corporation
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` / Bradley W. Micsky /
`Bradley W. Micsky
`Nathan D. Louwagie
`Carlson Caspers Vandenburgh &
`Lindquist, PA
`Capella Tower, Suite 4200
`225 South Sixth Street
`Minneapolis, MN 55402 USA
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`Counsel for Petitioner, Apex Tool
`Group, LLC
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`Joint Request re: Business Confidential Information
`PGR2020-00056
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.6(e), it is hereby certified that on October 6,
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`2020, a copy of this JOINT REQUEST TO TREAT SETTLEMENT
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`AGREEMENT AS BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PURSUANT
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`TO 35 U.S.C. § 327(b) AND 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c), as well as the settlement
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`agreement filed in Exhibit 2013, was/were sent via email to Petitioner’s counsel of
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`record:
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`Bradley W. Micsky
`(bmicsky@carlsoncaspers.com)
`Nathan D. Louwagie
`(nlouwagie@carlsoncaspers.com)
`apex617pgr@carlsoncaspers.com
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`Dated: October 6, 2020
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`Respectfully Submitted,
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` / Marilyn Doris /
`Marilyn Doris
`Legal Secretary at Morgan, Lewis &
`Bockius LLP
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