`571-272-7822
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` Paper 58
`Entered: July 21, 2014
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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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`APOTEX CORP.
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`ALCON RESEARCH, LTD
`Patent Owner.
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`Cases IPR2013-00428 (Patent 8,268,299 B2)
`IPR2013-00429 (Patent 8,323,630 B2)
`IPR2013-00430 (Patent 8,388,941 B2) 1
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`Before LORA M. GREEN, FRANCISCO C. PRATS, and
`RAMA G. ELLURU, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`GREEN, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`JUDGEMENT
`Termination of the Proceedings
`37 C.F.R. § 42.73
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`The parties have requested that these trial proceedings be terminated
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`pursuant to a settlement. On July 10, 2014, we authorized the parties to file
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`joint requests to terminate and to file the settlement agreement as business
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`1 We exercise our discretion to issue one order to be filed in each case. The
`parties, however, are not authorized to use this style heading in subsequent
`papers
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`IPR2013-00428 (Patent 8,268,299 B2)
`IPR2013-00429 (Patent 8,323,630 B2)
`IPR2013-00430 (Patent 8,388,941 B2)
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`confidential information under 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c). Papers 56, 54, and 54.2
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`On July 14, 2014, the parties filed a joint motion to terminate, as well as a
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`joint motion requesting that the joint settlement agreement be treated as
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`business confidential information and sealed. Papers 57, 58; 55, 56; and 55,
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`56; see also 35 U.S.C. § 317; 37 C.F.R. § 42.72. With their motion to
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`terminate and seal, the parties also filed a copy of a written settlement
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`agreement. Exs. 1020, 1020, and 1020.
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`A decision by the Board to institute a trial was entered on January 2,
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`2014. Papers 9, 8, and 9. The briefing and discovery processes have not
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`been completed in these proceedings, and the panel has not yet decided the
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`merits of the proceedings. The parties have identified other related matters
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`involving the patents at issue between Alcon Research, Ltd. (“Alcon”), and
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`other parties, but indicate that there are no other related proceedings between
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`the Patent Owner, Alcon, and Petitioner, Apotex Corp., and the patents at
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`issue in these proceedings. Papers 57, 2; 55, 2; and 55, 2. Under these
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`circumstances, we determine that it is appropriate to enter judgment3 and
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`terminate the trials without rendering a final written decision. 37 C.F.R.
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`§ 42.72.
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`It is, therefore,
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`ORDERED that the joint motions to terminate the proceedings are
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`GRANTED and the proceedings are hereby terminated;
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`2 The listed paper numbers refer to the paper numbers of the proceedings in
`numerical order, that is, the first paper number is the paper number in
`IPR2013-00428, the second paper number is the paper number in IPR2013-
`00429, and the third paper number is the paper number in IPR2013-00430.
`3 A judgment means a final written decision by the Board, or a termination of
`a proceeding. 37 C.F.R. § 42.2
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`IPR2013-00428 (Patent 8,268,299 B2)
`IPR2013-00429 (Patent 8,323,630 B2)
`IPR2013-00430 (Patent 8,388,941 B2)
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the parties’ joint requests that the
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`settlement agreement be treated as business confidential information and
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`shall be kept separate from the file of the involved patents under the
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`provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c), are GRANTED.
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`For PETITIONER:
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`Eldora Ellison
`eellison-PTAB@skgf.com
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`Ralph Powers
`tpowers-PTAB@skgf.com
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`David Holman
`dholman-PTAB@skgf.com
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`H. Keeto Sabharwal
`keetos-PTAB@skgf.com
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`Paul Ainsworth
`painsworth@skgf.com
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`For PATENT OWNER:
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`Stanley Fisher
`sfisher@wc.com
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`Barry Copeland
`barry.copeland@alcon.com
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`David Krinsky
`dkrinsky@wc.com
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`Adam Perlman
`aperlman@wc.com
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