{"id":1539,"date":"2014-09-30T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T18:33:02","slug":"possibility-of-joinder-does-not-justify-making-the-patent-owner-respond-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1539","title":{"rendered":"Possibility of Joinder Does Not Justify Making the Patent Owner Respond Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">In <em>SkyHawke Technologies, LLC v. L and\u00a0H Concepts, L.L.C.<\/em>, IPR2014-01485, Paper 6 (September 30, 2014), the petitioner submitted a request for joinder of the proceeding with IPR214-00438 that it previously filed, also challenging U.S. Patent No. 5,779,566.\u00a0 Petitioner wanted the patent owner to file its preliminary response early, to facilitate catching the later filed proceeding with the earlier one.\u00a0 The Board saw\u00a0no reason why\u00a0the Patent Owner should be required to submit its Preliminary Response in this proceeding earlier than what is required by 37 C.F.R. \u00a7 42.107(b). The Board did indicate that if the motion for joinder is granted, it will\u00a0direct the parties to discuss the scheduling issue and attempt to agree on reasonable adjustments to the schedule for synchronizing this proceeding with the two related proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">The Board did not\u00a0mention the rift between some\u00a0of the panels that have construed 35 USC 315 as not permitting joinder between proceeding filed by the same party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In SkyHawke Technologies, LLC v. L and\u00a0H Concepts, L.L.C., IPR2014-01485, Paper 6 (September 30, 2014), the petitioner submitted a request for joinder of the proceeding with IPR214-00438 that it previously filed, also challenging U.S. Patent No. 5,779,566.\u00a0 Petitioner wanted the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1539\">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-1539","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-oP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}