{"id":1489,"date":"2014-09-25T12:38:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T16:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2014-09-28T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T17:01:20","slug":"the-boards-disjointed-view-of-joinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"The Board&#8217;s Disjointed View of Joinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Target Corporation v. Destination Maternity<\/em>,\u00a0IPR2014-00508,\u00a0Paper 20 IPR2014-00509,\u00a0Paper 19 (September 25, 2014), the Board denied the petitions as barred\u00a0under\u00a035 USC 315(b),finding that Target could not &#8220;join&#8221; its later filed petitions with its\u00a0prior, timely filed petitions.\u00a0 The Board found that joinder only allows parties to join, and a party cannot join a proceeding\u00a0to which it is already a\u00a0party.\u00a0 The Board separately denied Target motion for joinder in IPR2014-00508,\u00a0Paper 18, IPR2014-00509,\u00a0Paper 18.<\/p>\n<p>The Board provided a detailed analysis of Joinder under 35 U.S.C. 315(c), acknowledging prior decisions of the Board that reached a different result, allowing a party to &#8220;join itself&#8221; in <em>Ariosa Diagnostics v. Isis Innovation Ltd.<\/em>,\u00a0IPR2012-00022 (September 2, 2014) (Paper 66); <em>Samsung Elecs. Co. v. Virgina Innovation Scis., Inc.<\/em>,\u00a0IPR2014-00557 (June 13, 2014); <em>Microsoft Corp. v. Proxyconn, Inc.<\/em>,\u00a0IPR2013-00109 (Feb. 25, 2013) (Paper 15); <em>ABB Inc. v. Roy-G-Biv Corp.<\/em>, IPR2013-00286 (August 9, 2013) (Paper 14); <em>Sony Corp. v. Yissum Research Dev. Co. of the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem<\/em>, IPR2013-00327 (September 24, 2013) (Paper 15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Target Corporation v. Destination Maternity,\u00a0IPR2014-00508,\u00a0Paper 20 IPR2014-00509,\u00a0Paper 19 (September 25, 2014), the Board denied the petitions as barred\u00a0under\u00a035 USC 315(b),finding that Target could not &#8220;join&#8221; its later filed petitions with its\u00a0prior, timely filed petitions.\u00a0 The Board found that joinder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1489\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","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-o1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","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=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}