`571-272-7822
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`Paper No. 20
`Entered: January 8, 2018
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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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`NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS US LLC, and
`NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2017-00660
`Patent 9,241,261 B2
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`Before JENNIFER MEYER CHAGNON,
`MICHELLE N. WORMMEESTER, and CHRISTA P. ZADO,
`Administrative Patent Judges.
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`CHAGNON, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`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)
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`IPR2017-00660
`Patent 9,241,261 B2
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`On December 22, 2017, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 317(a), the parties
`filed a Joint Motion to Terminate this proceeding. Paper 18. Accompanying
`the Motion, the parties filed 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 19; 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.
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`1 Pursuant to our instructions provided in an email sent on December 28,
`2017, the parties submitted a replacement version of Exhibit 1100. The
`version of Exhibit 1100 previously filed on December 22, 2017 will be
`expunged.
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`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
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`PATENT OWNER:
`Robert Devoto
`W. Karl Renner
`Jeremy Monaldo
`Andrew Patrick
`Ayan Roy-Chowdhury
`Richard A. Sterba
`Brian G. Strand
`FISH & RICHARDSON P.C.
`devoto@fr.com
`AXF-PTAB@fr.com
`jjm@fr.com
`patrick@fr.com
`roy-chowdhury@fr.com
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`strand@fr.com
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