Most Conduct of Proceeding Orders issued by the Board are unremarkable, but in Mobotix Corp. v, e-Watch, Inc., [IPR2013-00499], Paper 16 (Feburary 28, 2014), the patent owner sought a six month delay in the proceedings because it was involved in a total of eight inter partes review proceedings (only one other involving the currently challenged patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,228,429 (IPR2013-00335)).  The Board rejected the delay, noting that delaying the trial for 6 months would mean it could not be completed within the one-year time period required by statute.

The same trick also did not work in Mobotix Corp. v, e-Watch, Inc., [IPR2013-00498], Paper 13 (Feburary 28, 2014), involving U.S. Patent No. 7,023,913, which is also the subject of IPR2013-00337.