`571-272-7822
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`Paper 15
`Entered: December 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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`CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`SPHERIX PORTFOLIO ACQUISITION II, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Cases
`IPR2015-00999 (Patent 7,397,763 B2)
`IPR2015-01001 (Patent 8,607,323 B2)1
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`Before JUSTIN BUSCH, LYNNE E. PETTIGREW, and
`MATTHEW R. CLEMENTS, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`CLEMENTS, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`DECISION
`Joint Motion to Terminate
`35 U.S.C. § 317; 37 C.F.R. § 42.74
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`1 This order addresses issues that are the same in both cases. 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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`IPR2015-00999 (Patent 7,397,763 B2)
`IPR2015-01001 (Patent 8,607,323 B2)
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`On December 3, 2015, Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Petitioner”) and Spherix
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`Portfolio Acquisition II, Inc. (“Patent Owner”) filed a “Joint Motion to
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`Terminate Proceedings” based on a settlement agreement that resolves the
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`parties’ disputes related to the challenged patents. Paper 13.2 The parties
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`concurrently filed a copy of the settlement agreement between Petitioner and
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`Patent Owner (Ex. 1013) and a “Joint Request to File Agreement as
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`Business Confidential Information Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317” (Paper 14).
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`See 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c) (“A party to a settlement may request that the
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`settlement be treated as business confidential information and be kept
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`separate from the files of an involved patent or application.”).
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`Under 35 U.S.C. § 317(a), “[a]n inter partes review instituted under
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`this chapter shall be terminated with respect to any petitioner upon the joint
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`request of the petitioner and patent owner, unless the Office has decided the
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`merits of the proceeding before the request for termination is filed.”
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`These proceedings are in their early stages. For example, Patent
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`Owner has not filed a Patent Owner Response. As a result, we have not yet
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`decided the merits of these proceedings. Under these circumstances, we
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`determine that it is appropriate to terminate these proceedings as to both
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`Petitioner and Patent Owner without rendering a final written decision. See
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`37 C.F.R. §§ 42.72, 42.74.
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`2 Citations are to the filings in IPR2015-00999, unless otherwise noted.
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`IPR2015-00999 (Patent 7,397,763 B2)
`IPR2015-01001 (Patent 8,607,323 B2)
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`ORDER
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`Accordingly, it is
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`ORDERED that the Joint Motion to Terminate Proceedings is
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`granted; and
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`FURTHER ORDERED that the settlement agreements (Exhibit 1013
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`in IPR2015-0999 and Exhibit 1046 in IPR2015-01001) be treated as
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`business confidential information and be kept separate from the files of the
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`involved U.S. Patent Nos. 7,397,763 B2 and 8,607,323 B2.
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`IPR2015-00999 (Patent 7,397,763 B2)
`IPR2015-01001 (Patent 8,607,323 B2)
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`For PETITIONER:
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`David L. McCombs
`Theodore M. Foster
`Michael S. Parsons
`HAYNES AND BOONE LLP
`david.mccombs.ipr@haynesboone.com
`ipr.theo.foster@haynesboone.com
`ipr.michael.parsons@haynesboone.com
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`For PATENT OWNER:
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`Donald McPhail
`Carl B. Wischhusen
`COZEN O’CONNOR
`DMcphail@cozen.com
`CWischhusen@cozen.com
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