`571-272-7822
`
`
`
`Paper No. 18
`Entered: January 17, 2018
`
`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`____________
`
`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
`____________
`
`NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS US LLC, and
`NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY,
`Petitioner,
`
`v.
`
`HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.,
`Patent Owner.
`____________
`
`Case IPR2017-00657
`Patent 8,031,677 B1
`____________
`
`Before TREVOR M. JEFFERSON, MICHELLE N. WORMMEESTER, and
`CHRISTA P. ZADO, Administrative Patent Judges.
`
`ZADO, Administrative Patent Judge.
`
`
`DECISION
`Granting Joint Motion to Terminate
`35 U.S.C. § 317(a); 37 C.F.R. § 42.72
`Granting Request to Treat Settlement Document
`as Confidential Business Information
`35 U.S.C. § 317(b); 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c)
`
`
`
`On December 22, 2017, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317(a), the parties
`filed a Joint Motion by Petitioners and Patent Owner to Terminate
`Proceeding. Paper 16, “Joint Motion.” Accompanying the Motion, the
`
`
`
`IPR2017-00657
`Patent 8,031,677 B1
`
`parties filed what they assert is a true copy of a settlement agreement along
`with a Joint Request to treat the settlement agreement as confidential, to be
`kept separate from the patent file under 35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R.
`§ 42.74. Paper 17, “Joint Request”; Ex. 11001. The filing of these papers
`was authorized in an email sent on December 22, 2017.
`We entered a Decision to Institute an inter partes review in this case
`on July 28, 2017. Paper 8. The parties have filed several papers in this case,
`but we have not yet held an oral hearing, nor have we decided the merits of
`the proceeding. Based on these facts, it is appropriate to terminate the
`proceeding. Thus, the Joint Motion to Terminate the proceeding is granted.
`Accordingly, it is:
`ORDERED that the parties’ Joint Motion to Terminate the proceeding
`is granted;
`FURTHER ORDERED that the parties’ Joint Request that the
`settlement agreement (Ex. 1100) be treated as business confidential
`information and kept separate from the patent file, under the provisions of
`35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c), is granted; and
`FURTHER ORDERED that the version of Exhibit 1100 filed on
`December 22, 2017 is expunged.
`
`
`
`1 Pursuant to our instructions provided in an email sent on December 28,
`2017, the parties submitted a replacement version of Exhibit 1100 on
`December 28, 2017. The version of Exhibit 1100 previously filed on
`December 22, 2017 is expunged per this Order.
`
`
`
`IPR2017-00657
`Patent 8,031,677 B1
`
`PETITIONER:
`S. Benjamin Pleune
`Ross R. Barton
`Samuel C. Merritt
`John D. Haynes
`Scott Stevens
`Robert J. Caison
`J. Ravindra Fernando
`Christopher Douglas
`Derek S. Neilson
`Michael Deane
`ALSTON & BIRD
`ben.pleune@alston.com
`ross.barton@alston.com
`sam.merritt@alston.com
`john.haynes@alston.com
`scott.stevens@alston.com
`robert.caison@alston.com
`ravi.fernando@alston.com
`christopher.douglas@alston.com
`derek.neilson@alston.com
`Michael.deane@alston.com
`
`PATENT OWNER:
`Michael T. Hawkins
`Robert Devoto
`W. Karl Renner
`Jeremy Monaldo
`Stuart A. Nelson
`Kevin K. Su
`Conrad A. Gosen
`FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.
`hawkins@fr.com
`devoto@fr.com
`AXFPTAB@fr.com
`jjm@fr.com
`snelson@fr.com
`su@fr.com
`gosen@fr.com
`
`
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