`571-272-7822
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`Paper 25
`Entered: September 4, 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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`GOOGLE INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`TLI COMMUNICATIONS LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2015-00283
`Patent 6,038,295
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`Before TRENTON A. WARD, BART A. GERSTENBLITH, and
`JO-ANNE M. KOKOSKI, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`WARD, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Conduct of Proceeding
`37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`IPR2015-00283
`Patent 6,038,295
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`On August 28, 2015, the Board issued a decision instituting inter
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`partes review against the same patent at issue in this proceeding, U.S. Patent
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`No. 6,038,295 (“the ’295 patent”). See Facebook Inc. and Instagram LLC,
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`Case IPR2015-00778 (Paper 17) (“’778 Institution Decision”). In the
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`’778 Institution Decision, the Board determined that “it is uncertain what the
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`step of ‘storing the compressed recognized speech’ in claim 18 refers.” Id.
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`at slip op. 23. Accordingly, the Board denied institution of the proposed
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`challenge against claim 18 of the ’295 patent. Id. at slip op. 24.
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`On June 1, 2015, we instituted review in this proceeding on claim 18
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`of the ’295 patent, among other claims. Paper 21. The ambiguity in
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`claim 18, however, has not been addressed in this proceeding. Accordingly,
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`we instruct Patent Owner to file a Supplemental Patent Owner Response on
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`or before September 11, 2015, not to exceed 5 pages, to address issues
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`regarding the ambiguity in claim 18 of the ’295 patent identified in the
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`’778 Institution Decision. Similarly, we enlarge the number of pages
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`permitted for Petitioner’s Reply to Patent Owner’s Response by 5 pages to a
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`total of 30 pages. See 37 C.F.R. § 42.24(c)(1).
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`It is therefore
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`ORDER
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`ORDERED that Patent Owner is to file a Supplemental Patent Owner
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`Response on or before September 11, 2015, not to exceed 5 pages, to
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`address issues regarding the ambiguity in claim 18 of the ’295 patent
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`identified in the ’778 Institution Decision; and
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`IPR2015-00283
`Patent 6,038,295
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the number of pages permitted for
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`Petitioner’s Reply to Patent Owner’s Response is enlarged by 5 pages to a
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`total of 30 pages.
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`PETITIONER:
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`Andrew V. Trask
`David M. Krinsky
`WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY LLP
`atrask@wc.com
`dkrinsky@wc.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Tarek N. Fahmi
`ASCENDA LAW GROUP, PC
`tarek.fahmi@ascendalaw.com
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