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`Filed on behalf of: Senior Pmty Levin
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`By:
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`Gmy J. Gershik
`Registration No. 39,992
`Cooper & Dunham LLP
`30 Rockefeller Plaza, 20th Floor
`New York, New York 10112
`Tel: (212) 278-0400
`Fax: (212) 391-0525
`E-mail: ggershik@cooperdunham.com
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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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`ANDREA PASTORIO
`and PAOLO BETTI
`Junior Pmty,
`(Patent 8,304,559)
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`v.
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`ANATLEVIN
`and MICHAEL GRABARNICK,
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`Senior Party,
`(Application 13/926,3 89)
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`Patent Interference No. 105,995
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`LEVIN LIST OF PROPOSED MOTIONS
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`FINCHIMICA EXHIBIT 2003
`ADAMA MAKHTESHIM v. FINCHIMICA
`CASE IPR2016-00577
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`Your Honor:
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`Interference No. 105,995
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`Pursuant to Part D of the Declaration of Interference (Paper No. 1), 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.120 and
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`41.204(b), and ¶¶ 104.2.1, 120, and 204 of the Standing Order (Paper No. 2), Senior Party Levin
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`identifies below the motions that it presently intends to file.
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`PROPOSED MOTIONS
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`Motion for judgment that claims 1-15 of Junior Party Pastorio are unpatentable under 35
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`U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, because the limitation “where the oxidising agent is
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`selected from the group comprising benzoyl peroxides, sodium peroxides, t-butyl
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`peroxides and/or hydrogen peroxide” recited by claim 1 is an improper Markush group
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`which renders claim 1 and claims depending from claim 1 indefinite.
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`Motion for judgment that claims 4-5 of Junior Party Pastorio are unpatentable under 35
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`U.S.C. § 112, fourth paragraph, for failing to further limit the subject matter of the claims
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`from which they depend. The limitations recited by claims 4-5 are necessarily present in
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`claim 1.
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`Motion for judgment that claims 13-15 of Junior Party Pastorio are unpatentable to
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`Pastorio under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102(e)/103(a) as anticipated by or obvious over Senior Party
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`Levin’s PCT International Application Publication No. WO2012/007938, published
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`January 19, 2012 (Levin et al.). Claims 13-15 of Junior Party Pastorio are anticipated by
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`or obvious over Senior Party Levin’s PCT International Application Publication No.
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`WO2012/007938 because
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`Junior Party Pastorio’s
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`Italian priority application
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`BS2010A0118, filed July 7, 2010, lacks written description of an acid catalyst required
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`Motion for judgment that claims 1-12 of Junior Party Pastorio are unpatentable under 35
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`U.S.C. § 103(a) over PCT International Application Publication No. WO2001/30760,
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`published May 3, 2001 (Clavel et al.) in view of PCT International Application
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`Publication No. WO2007/122440, published November 1, 2007 (Gharda et al.), European
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`Patent No. EP 0 295 117 B1, granted April 5, 2000 (Buntain et al.), Modern Oxidation
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`Methods, J.E. Backvall, ed., WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA (2004), European
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`Patent Application Publication No. 0 565 324 A1, published October 13, 1993 (Aida),
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`U.S. Patent No. 6,013,761, issued January 11, 2000 (Zierer et al.), and PCT International
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`Application Publication No. WO2009/077853, published June 25, 2009 (Yang et al.).
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`Motion for judgment that claims 1-12 of Junior Party Pastorio are unpatentable under 35
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`U.S.C. § 103(a) over PCT International Application Publication No. WO2007/122440,
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`published November 1, 2007 (Gharda et al.) in view of PCT International Application
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`Publication No. WO2001/30760, published May 3, 2001 (Clavel et al.), European Patent
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`No. EP 0 295 117 B1, granted April 5, 2000 (Buntain et al.), Modern Oxidation Methods,
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`J.E. Backvall, ed., WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA (2004), European Patent
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`Application Publication No. 0 565 324 A1, published October 13, 1993 (Aida), U.S.
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`Patent No. 6,013,761, issued January 11, 2000 (Zierer et al.), and PCT International
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`Application Publication No. WO2009/077853, published June 25, 2009 (Yang et al.).
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`Motion for judgment that claims 1-12 of Junior Party Pastorio are unpatentable under 35
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`Contingent motion (contingent on the denial of Motion 2) for judgment that claims 1-15
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`of Junior Party Pastorio are unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph,
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`because the limitation “in the presence of dichloroacetic acid and of an oxidising agent”
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`recited by claim 1 renders claim 1 and claims depending from claim 1 indefinite if “in the
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`presence of” means something more than “in situ.”
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`and 6-15 of Junior Party Pastorio are unpatentable to Pastorio under 35 U.S.C. §§
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`102(e)/103(a) as anticipated by or obvious over Senior Party Levin’s PCT International
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`Application Publication No. WO2012/007938, published January 19, 2012. (Levin et al.).
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`Claims 1-4 and 6-15 of Junior Party Pastorio are anticipated by or obvious over Senior
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`Party Levin’s PCT International Application Publication No. WO2012/007938 because
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`Junior Party Pastorio’s Italian priority application BS2010A0118, filed July 7, 2010, does
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`not provide written description for the full scope of a process in which “in the presence of
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`Any responsive motion necessitated by Junior Party Pastorio’s substantive motions.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/Gary J. Gershik/
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`Gary J. Gershik
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`Registration No. 39,992
`Attorney for Senior Party Levin
`Cooper & Dunham LLP
`30 Rockefeller Plaza, 20th Floor
`New York, New York 10112
`Tel: (212) 278-0400
`Fax: (212) 391-0525
`E-mail: ggershik@cooperdunham.com
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`Norman H. Zivin
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`Registration No. 25,385
`Attorney for Senior Party Levin
`Cooper & Dunham LLP
`30 Rockefeller Plaza, 20th Floor
`New York, New York 10112
`Tel: (212) 278-0400
`Fax: (212) 391-0525
`E-mail: nzivin@cooperdunham.com
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`Date: May 7, 2014
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to S.O. ¶ 105.3, I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing LEVIN LIST OF
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`PROPOSED MOTIONS is being filed via the Interference Web Portal and served via
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`electronic mail at 5:00PM Eastern Time this 7th day of May, 2014 on counsel for Junior Party
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`Pastorio as follows:
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`E. Anthony Figg, Esq.
`R. Danny Huntington, Esq.
`ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C.
`607 14th St., N.W., Suite 800
`Washington, DC 20005
`efigg@rfem.com
`dhuntington@rfem.com
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/Gary J. Gershik/
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`Gary J. Gershik
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`Registration No. 39,992
`Attorney for Senior Party Levin
`Cooper & Dunham LLP
`30 Rockefeller Plaza, 20th Floor
`New York, New York 10112
`Tel: (212) 278-0400
`Fax: (212) 391-0525
`E-mail: ggershik@cooperdunham.com
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`Norman H. Zivin
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`Registration No. 25,385
`Attorney for Senior Party Levin
`Cooper & Dunham LLP
`30 Rockefeller Plaza, 20th Floor
`New York, New York 10112
`Tel: (212) 278-0400
`Fax: (212) 391-0525
`E-mail: nzivin@cooperdunham.com
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