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`Paper: 19
`Entered: May 4, 2018
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`Trials@uspto.gov
`571-272-7822
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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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`ELITE PERFORMANCE FOOTWEAR, LLC,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`REEBOK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED,
`Patent Owner.
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`IPR2017-01676 (Patent 7,637,035 B1)
`IPR2017-01680 (Patent 8,505,221 B2)
`IPR2017-01689 (Patent 8,020,320 B2)
`____________
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`
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`Before MEREDITH C. PETRAVICK, KEVIN W. CHERRY, and
`JAMES A. WORTH, Administrative Patent Judges.
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`PETRAVICK, Administrative Patent Judge.
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`ORDER
`Conduct of the Proceeding
`37 C.F.R. § 42.5
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`IPR2017-01676 (Patent 7,637,035 B1)
`IPR2017-01680 (Patent 8,505,221 B2)
`IPR2017-01689 (Patent 8,020,320 B2)
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`Pursuant to our Order of May 1, 2018, the parties filed a joint
`proposal for modifying the briefing and schedule in light of our modification
`to institute on all of the challenged claims and all of the grounds presented in
`the Petitions. Paper 17.1 The parties propose that we expunge the Patent
`Owner’s Responses and Motion to Amend already of record in these
`proceedings and propose an adjusted schedule
`The parties’ joint proposal is reasonable under the circumstances. The
`schedule is adjusted as follows:
`DUE DATE 1 May 22, 2108
`DUE DATE 2
`August 22, 2018
`DUE DATE 3
`September 14, 2018
`DUE DATE 4
`October 2, 2018
`DUE DATE 5
`October 12, 2018
`DUE DATE 6
`October 19, 2018
`DUE DATE 7
`October 25, 2018
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`In consideration of the foregoing, it is hereby:
`ORDERED that in IPR2017-01676, the Patent Owner’s Response
`(Paper 15) and Motion to Amend (Paper 16) is expunged from the record;
`ORDERED that in IPR2017-01680, the Patent Owner’s Response
`(Paper 15) is expunged from the record;
`ORDERED that in IPR2017-01689, the Patent Owner’s Response
`(Paper 15) is expunged from the record; and
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`1 The joint proposal is filed as Paper 17 in each proceeding.
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`IPR2017-01676 (Patent 7,637,035 B1)
`IPR2017-01680 (Patent 8,505,221 B2)
`IPR2017-01689 (Patent 8,020,320 B2)
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`FURTHER ORDERED that in each of these proceedings, the DUE
`DATES 1–7 are modified as set out above.
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`FOR PETITIONER:
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`Richard LaCava
`Michael Scarpati
`ARENT FOX, LLP
`richard.lacava@arentfox.com
`michael.scarpati@arentfox.com
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`FOR PATENT OWNER:
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`Mitchell G. Stockwell
`Matias Ferrario
`KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP
`mstockwell@kilpatricktownsend.com
`mferrario@kilpatricktownsend.com
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