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`Paper 28
`Entered: June 6, 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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`FANDUEL, INC.
`DRAKINGS, INC.
`BWIN.PARTY DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT PLC,
`Petitioners,
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`CG TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2017-00902
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` WEATHERLY, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Authorizing Patent Owner to File a List of Reply Arguments
`It Considers Improper
`Authorizing Petitioner to File a Response
`37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`On June 5, 2018, the parties contacted the Board in a series of three e-
`mails in which they seek authorization to file papers relating to the issue of
`whether Petitioner raised new arguments for the first time in its Reply
`(Paper 25). After conferring, the parties jointly proposed that they follow a
`process similar to that used by the Board in CBM2016-00009 and IPR2017-
`00114. More specifically, the parties propose that:
`(1) Patent Owner will file a listing identifying the portions of
`the Petitioner’s Reply that it believes raise arguments for the first
`time. The listing would only identify those portions by page and line
`number of the Petitioner’s Reply. No other arguments or other
`substantive comments would be included. The listing would be filed
`by June 11.
`(2) In response to Patent Owner’s listing, Petitioner will file a
`response explaining briefly how the argument responds to arguments
`raised by the Patent Owner in the Patent Owner’s Response. The
`response would be filed by June 25.
`Patent Owner may file a numbered list of citations to pages and line
`numbers in Petitioner’s Reply (Paper 25) that Patent Owner contends exceed
`the proper scope of a reply under 37 C.F.R. § 42.23(b). Patent Owner shall
`file its list as a paper entitled “Patent Owner’s List of Improper Reply
`Arguments.”
`Petitioner may file a response citing the location in the Patent Owner
`Response to which each identified portion of the Reply responds along with
`a brief, non-argumentative explanation of how the Reply material responds
`to Patent Owner’s argument and/or where the argument in the Reply was
`raised in the Petition (Paper 1).
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`ORDER
`In view of the foregoing, it is hereby:
`ORDERED that Patent Owner is authorized to file a List of Improper
`Reply Arguments as described above by no later than June 11, 2018;
`FURTHER ORDERED that Petitioner is authorized to file a
`Response, as described above by no later than June 25, 2018.
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`PETITIONER:
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`Eric Buresh
`ERISE IP, P.A.
`Eric.buresh@eriseip.com
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`Jonathan Berschadsky
`FITZPATRICK, CELLA, HARPER
`& SCINTO
`jberschadsky@merchantgould.com
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`Adam Yowell
`BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER
`SCHRECK, LLP
`ayowell@bhfs.com
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`PATENT OWNER:
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`Joshua Goldberg
`James Barney
`Scott Allen
`FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,
`GARRETT & DUNNER, LLP
`Joshua.goldberg@finnegan.com
`James.barney@finnegan.com
`Scott.allen@finnegan.com
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