GE Lighting Solutions, LLCv.Farlight LLC

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Oct 31, 2014

12780824 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 31, 2014)

Trial@uspto.gov
571-272-7822
Paper No. 23
Date Entered: October 31, 2014

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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GE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC,
Petitioner,

v.

FARLIGHT, LLC,
Patent Owner
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Case IPR2014-00323
Patent 8,220,959 B2
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Before STEPHEN C. SIU, JOSIAH C. COCKS, and
BRIAN J. McNAMARA, Administrative Patent Judges.

McNAMARA, Administrative Patent Judge.

JUDGMENT
TERMINATION OF THE PROCEEDING

37 C.F.R. § 42.73

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The parties have requested that this trial proceeding be terminated pursuant
to a settlement. On September 26, 2014, we authorized the parties to file a Joint
Request To Terminate and a Joint Request to File the Settlement as Business
Confidential under 37 C.F.R. 42.74(c). Paper 17. On October 15, 2014 the parties
filed a Joint Motion Terminate, Paper 20, and a Joint Request to Keep To Keep
Paper Separate as Business Confidential, Paper 21. See 35 U.S.C. § 317(a);
37 C.F.R. § 42.72. With their Motion To Terminate and Seal the parties also filed
a confidential copy of a written settlement agreement. Ex. 2022.
A decision by the Board to institute a trial was entered on June 25, 2014.
Paper 10. Patent Owner has not yet filed a Patent Owner Response and the parties
have not taken any discovery. Paper 20, 1. In a telephone conference on October
23, 2014, the parties confirmed that there are no other written or verbal agreements
between them concerning the patent that is the subject of this proceeding. Under
these circumstances, the Board determines that it is appropriate to enter judgment
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and terminate the trial without rendering a final written decision.
37 C.F.R. § 42.72.
It is, therefore,
ORDERED that the joint motion to terminate the proceeding is GRANTED
and the proceeding is hereby terminated;
FURTHER ORDERED that the parties’ joint request that the settlement
agreement be treated as business confidential information which shall be kept
separate from the file of the involved patents under the provisions of
35 U.S.C. § 317(b) and 37 C.F.R. § 42.74(c), is GRANTED.

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A judgment means a final written decision by the Board, or a termination of a
proceeding. 37 C.F.R. § 42.2.
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PETITIONER:

Michael Jacobs
mjacobs@crowell.com

Michael Songer
msonger@crowell.com

PATENT OWNER:

Matthew Phillips
matthew.phillips@renaissanceiplaw.com

Harold McGurk
claymcgurk@gmail.com