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`Paper 96
`Entered: March 20, 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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`AMNEAL PHARMACEUTICALS, LLC
`Petitioner
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`SUPERNUS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
`Patent Owner
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`IPR2013-00368 (Patent 8,206,740)
`IPR2013-00371 (Patent 8,394,405)
`IPR2013-00372 (Patent 8,394,406)
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`Before SCOTT E. KAMHOLZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`DECISION
`Joint Motions to Expunge Confidential Information
`37 C.F.R. § 42.56
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`IPR2013-00368, IPR2013-00371, IPR2013-00372
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`Amneal and Supernus filed a joint motion to expunge Supernus’s
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`confidential information from each of the above-referenced proceedings. E.g.,
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`IPR2013-00368, Paper 95 (“Mot.”).
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`In particular, the parties seek expungment of Supernus’s Patent Owner
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`Response (unredacted version),1 Supernus’s Opposition to Amneal’s Motion to
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`Exclude Evidence (unredacted version),2 and Exhibits 2016, 2017, 2027, 2028,
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`2029, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2036, 2037, 2039, 2040, 2041, 2042, 2045, 2046, 2048,
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`2049, 2050, 2059, 2060, 2063, 2064, 2102, 2146, 2147, 2148, 2149, 2150, 2151,
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`2152, 2153, 2154, 2155, 2157, 2186, 2193, 2195, 2203, 2207, 1046, 1047, 1048,
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`1053, 1054, 1055, 1066, 1067, 1071, 1075, 1076, 1077, 1078, 1079, 1080, 1081,
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`1082, 1083, 1084, 1088, 1096, 1097, 1098, 1106, and 1116. Mot. 2–5 (table).
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`Each of these documents contains Supernus information designated as confidential.
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`Id. The parties indicate that of these documents, only the Patent Owner Response,
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`the Opposition to the Motion to Exclude Evidence, and Exhibits 2016, 2193, and
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`1066 were cited in the final written decisions, but that the cited passages are visible
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`in redacted versions of these documents. Id. at 5–6.
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`Upon consideration of the motion and review of the documents in question,
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`each motion is granted in full. The above-listed documents shall be expunged
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`from the respective record of each proceeding.
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`It is so ordered.
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`1 IPR2013-00368, Paper 39; IPR2013-00371, Paper 40; IPR2013-00172, Paper 38.
`2 IPR2013-00368, Paper 83; IPR2013-00371, Paper 85; IPR2013-00172, Paper 81.
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`IPR2013-00368, IPR2013-00371, IPR2013-00372
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`FOR PETITIONER:
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`Eldora L. Ellison
`Jonathan Tuminaro
`Ralph Powers
`David Holman
`H. Keeto Sabharwal
`Paul Ainsworth
`Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
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`FOR PATENT OWNER:
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`Stephen B. Maebius
`Sunit Talapatra
`Andrew S. Baluch
`Gregory Morris
`Gerald Flattmann
`Evan Diamond
`Foley & Lardner LLP
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