{"id":974,"date":"2014-06-23T19:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T23:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2014-06-24T19:43:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T23:43:02","slug":"mandatory-discovery-is-only-for-information-shown-to-be-inconsistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Discovery is Only for Information Shown to be Inconsistent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>International Securities Exchange, LLC v. Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated<\/em>, IPR2014-00097,\u00a0Paper 16 (June 23, 2014) the patent owner sought mandatory discovery of the prosecution history of an abandoned patent appliaction by petitioner, arguing that petitioner made arguments about the prior art that were inconsistent with its interpretation of the prior art in the Petition.\u00a0 Petitioner objected that the information had previously been produced in a lawsuit between the parties, and that it was unduly burdensome to produce it again.\u00a0 The Board sidestepped the question finding that there was no proof that there were inconsistent statements, and thus\u00a0the discovery was not mandatory discovery.\u00a0 The Board instructed the Patent Owner to\u00a0investigate other methods of obtaining the information it seeks, including a review of the documents produced in the related litigation, to the extent permitted. If, after doing so, Patent Owner is unable to obtain the necessary information, Patent Owner is authorized to file a motion for additional discovery under 37 C.F.R. \u00a7 42.51(b)(2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Securities Exchange, LLC v. Chicago Board Options Exchange, Incorporated, IPR2014-00097,\u00a0Paper 16 (June 23, 2014) the patent owner sought mandatory discovery of the prosecution history of an abandoned patent appliaction by petitioner, arguing that petitioner made arguments about the prior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=974\">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-974","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-fI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}