{"id":849,"date":"2014-04-22T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2014-04-24T10:12:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T14:12:05","slug":"even-limited-discovery-remains-elusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Even Limited Discovery Remains Elusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">In <em>GEA Process Engineering, Inc. v. Steuben Foods, Inc.<\/em>, IPR2014-00041,Paper 23; \u00a0IPR2014-00043, Paper 25; IPR2014-00051,\u00a0Paper 22; IPR2014-00054,\u00a0Paper 19; IPR2014-00055, Paper 15\u00a0(April 22, 2014), the board denied patent owner&#8217;s request for additional discovery\u00a0regarding the real party in interest, finding that\u00a0the patent owner had not\u00a0met the burden of proving\u00a0what the requested discovery would prove.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">However, in <em>Unified Patents, Inc. v. Clouding IP, LLC<\/em>, IPR2013-00586, Paper 12 (April 22, 2014), the patent owner sougth to propound five interrogatories about the real party in interest.\u00a0 The Board appeared include to allow the discovery in view fo the information the patent owner was able to muster, but wanted to see the five interrogatories first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">The\u00a0Board flatly rejected the petitioner&#8217;s argument that the right to discovery was waived since the patent owner did not seek it prior to institution, noting that: &#8220;Not\u00a0having asked for additional discovery prior to institution of trial does not waive Patent Owner\u2019s opportunity to ask for additional discovery after institution of trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In GEA Process Engineering, Inc. v. Steuben Foods, Inc., IPR2014-00041,Paper 23; \u00a0IPR2014-00043, Paper 25; IPR2014-00051,\u00a0Paper 22; IPR2014-00054,\u00a0Paper 19; IPR2014-00055, Paper 15\u00a0(April 22, 2014), the board denied patent owner&#8217;s request for additional discovery\u00a0regarding the real party in interest, finding that\u00a0the patent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=849\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","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-dH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}