{"id":1401,"date":"2014-09-05T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2014-09-06T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T14:46:28","slug":"no-right-to-cross-examine-a-declarant-not-under-the-proponents-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"No Right to Cross-Examine a Declarant Not Under the Proponent&#8217;s Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong>Mexichem Amanco Holding S.A. de C.V. v.Honeywell International, Inc.<\/strong>, IPR2013-00576,\u00a0Paper 36 (September\u00a05, 2014), the\u00a0Board denied patent owner&#8217;s request for additional discovery &#8212;\u00a0the deposition of Dr. Takashi Shibanuma, who provided previously prepared testimony relied on by Petitioner in its Reply to Patent Owner\u2019s Response.\u00a0 This\u00a0previously prepared testimony was\u00a0a declaration originally submitted in reexaminations of a different, but related, patent.\u00a0 The Board denied the additional discovery relying on the Fifth Garmin Factor &#8212; that the request is not overly burdensome to answer.\u00a0 The Board said that it wold not compel petitioner to provide Dr. Shibanuma for cross-examination in a deposition, noting that\u00a0the witness was not\u00a0under Petitioner\u2019s control, and\u00a0may reside in Japan, and that such\u00a0such action may require a court subpoena\u00a0and\/or invoke the Hague Convention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mexichem Amanco Holding S.A. de C.V. v.Honeywell International, Inc., IPR2013-00576,\u00a0Paper 36 (September\u00a05, 2014), the\u00a0Board denied patent owner&#8217;s request for additional discovery &#8212;\u00a0the deposition of Dr. Takashi Shibanuma, who provided previously prepared testimony relied on by Petitioner in its Reply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1401\">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-1401","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-mB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","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=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}