{"id":1328,"date":"2014-08-28T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2014-08-30T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T16:26:54","slug":"cross-examination-is-not-limited-to-documents-cited-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Examination is Not Limited to Documents Cited in Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Medtronic, Inc. v. Endotach LLC<\/em>, IPR2014-00100, Paper 32 (August 28, 2014), the petioner filed\u00a0a Supplemental Notice of Deposition of patent owner&#8217;s witness, indicating that its cross-examination of the witness &#8220;may rely on,&#8221; among other things, a prior\u00a0declaration by the witness\u00a0filed in district court and three U.S. patents.\u00a0 The patent owner requested a conference with the Board because such cross- examination\u00a0necessarily would be outside the scope of the\u00a0direct testimony set forth in his IPR Declaration.<\/p>\n<p>The Board disagreed with the Patent Owner, noting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We contemplate multiple scenarios in which other documents may be used for cross-examining a witness, while staying within the scope of his or her direct testimony. The fact that a document is not cited or discussed in a declaration is not dispositive for purposes of enforcing \u00a7 42.53(d)(5)(ii).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Medtronic, Inc. v. Endotach LLC, IPR2014-00100, Paper 32 (August 28, 2014), the petioner filed\u00a0a Supplemental Notice of Deposition of patent owner&#8217;s witness, indicating that its cross-examination of the witness &#8220;may rely on,&#8221; among other things, a prior\u00a0declaration by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1328\">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":[4],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipr","tag-discovery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ZIpB-lq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","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=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}