{"id":291,"date":"2013-01-22T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T16:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2013-02-03T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T17:11:37","slug":"the-ptab-actively-polices-improper-ex-parte-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"The PTAB Actively Polices Improper Ex Parte Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Nissan North America, Inc. v. Collins<\/em>, IPR2012-00035, Paper 24 (January 22, 2013), the PTAB rebuked Nissan for an ex parte email that it send to a Judge asking to \u201cknow the proper procedure for <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">requesting judicial notice <\/span><\/span>of [a]\u00a0false statement.\u201d\u00a0 The email included substantive arguments regarding the patent owner&#8217;s preliminary response.\u00a0 In addition to admonishing Nissan, the PTAB allowed the patent owner the chance to responde to the email.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRACTICE TIP: Do not make ex parte conctacts with the PTAB except to set up\u00a0a conference call, and\u00a0do not\u00a0include substantive infomrtion or argument in such a request.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Nissan North America, Inc. v. Collins, IPR2012-00035, Paper 24 (January 22, 2013), the PTAB rebuked Nissan for an ex parte email that it send to a Judge asking to \u201cknow the proper procedure for requesting judicial notice of [a]\u00a0false &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=291\">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":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipr","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ZIpB-4H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}