{"id":1075,"date":"2014-07-09T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2014-07-12T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:46:01","slug":"joinder-defeats-the-bar-under-35-u-s-c-%c2%a7-315b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Joinder Defeats the Bar under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 315(b)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Enzymotec Ltd. v. Neptune Technologies &amp; Bioressources Inc., IPR2014-00556, Paper 19, (July 9, 2014) the Board granted Enzymotec&#8217;s motion for joinder of IPR2014-00556 with IPR2014-00003. Absent joinder with the other proceeding, Enzymotec\u2019s Petition for Inter partes review is barred under 35 U.S.C. \u00a7 315(b).<\/p>\n<p>The Board did not believe that the possibility of broadening the scope of issues in IPR2014-00003 was an adequate reason for denying joinder, noting section 315(c) permits joinder of &#8220;any person who properly files a petition under section 311.&#8221; There is no language in either \u00a7 311 or \u00a7 315(c) requiring the Board\u00a0to limit Enzymotec\u2019s Petition to identical issues in IPR2014-00003.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Enzymotec Ltd. v. Neptune Technologies &amp; Bioressources Inc., IPR2014-00556, Paper 19, (July 9, 2014) the Board granted Enzymotec&#8217;s motion for joinder of IPR2014-00556 with IPR2014-00003. Absent joinder with the other proceeding, Enzymotec\u2019s Petition for Inter partes review is barred &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1075\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ZIpB-hl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}