{"id":687,"date":"2014-04-03T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2014-04-05T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T15:25:52","slug":"additional-discovery-is-still-hard-to-come-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Additional Discovery is Still Hard to Come By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><em>GEA Process Engineering, Inc. v. Steuben Foods, Inc.<\/em>, IPR2014-00051, paper 17 (April 3, 2014, the Board authorized Patent Owner to file a motion for additional discovery, directed solely to the real parties in interest in the instant proceedings, no later than April 7, 2014.\u00a0 The Board cautioned the patent owner that a motion for additional discovery is unlikely to be granted if it is unduly broad and is written in the style of a district court litigation request for \u201call documents in the possession, custody, or control of GEA that discuss, refer to or relate to . . . .\u201d Such a request is unlikely to be found sufficiently narrowly tailored under the factors considered in deciding whether discovery is \u201cnecessary in the interest of justice.\u201d\u00a0 The Board directed the patent owner to Garmin Int\u2019l, Inc. et. al. v. Cuozzo Speed Techs. LLS, IPR2012-00001; (\u201cDecision on Motion for Additional Discovery\u201d) (Paper 26); <em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\">Apple <\/span><\/span>Publishing<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\"> v.<\/span>Achates Reference , Inc.<\/em>,<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\"> IPR2013-00080 (Paper 18); <\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\">Broadcom <\/span><\/span><\/i>Corp. v. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\">, IPR2013-00601 (Paper 23); <\/span><\/span>Nichia Corp. v. Emcore Corp. <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: large\">, IPR2012-00005 (Paper 19).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">The Board said that the motion should address what evidence shows that petitioner and the identified entities have discoverable evidence that is relevant to determining whether any of those entities are real parties in interest of Petitioner who have been served with a complaint for patent infringement such that a section 315(b) bar would apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEA Process Engineering, Inc. v. 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