{"id":1353,"date":"2014-08-29T10:15:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T14:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2014-08-31T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T14:25:11","slug":"board-declines-to-issue-final-written-decision-without-a-petitioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Board Declines to Issue Final Written Decision without a Petitioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Xerox Corp. v. RR Donnelley &amp; Sons Co.<\/em>, IPR2013-00529, Paper 21, IPR2013-00538, Paper 20 (August 29, 2014), the Board terminated the proceedings on the joint motion of the parties, declining the patent owners request that the proceeding continue to final written decision despite the settlement.\u00a0 In the joint motion to terminate, the patent owner requested: \u201cPatent Owner does not request dismissal of the review and requests that these proceedings advance to final written decision after Patent Owner is heard at final argument.\u201d\u00a0 The Board noted that \u201c[g]enerally, the Board expects that a proceeding will terminate after the filing of a settlement agreement.\u201d\u00a0 The Board said &#8220;The joint motion to terminate with respect to Petitioner does not persuade us that deviating from the general expectation of termination via settlement is warranted in this situation. At this stage in the proceeding, the record lacks full briefing, including Petitioner\u2019s reply, and accordingly lacks \u201cstreamlin[ed,] and converg[ed]\u201d issues, as necessary to render a decision in a \u201ctimely, fair, and efficient manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Xerox Corp. v. RR Donnelley &amp; Sons Co., IPR2013-00529, Paper 21, IPR2013-00538, Paper 20 (August 29, 2014), the Board terminated the proceedings on the joint motion of the parties, declining the patent owners request that the proceeding continue to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1353\">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-1353","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-lP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","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=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}