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BOE Technology Group Co., LTD vs. Optronic Sciences LLC

Explore the PTAB proceeding IPR2024-01132 filed by BOE Technology Group Co., LTD on 2024-07-12. This includes filing dates, application numbers, tech centers, patent numbers, and current case status.

Proceeding Overview

Proceeding Number

IPR2024-01132

Filing Date

2024-07-12

Accorded Filing Date

2024-07-12

Institution Decision Date

2025-01-27

Last Modified Date

2026-09-08

Proceeding Type

IPR

Termination Date

2026-01-26

Trial Status

Final Written Decision

Parties & Counsel

Petitioner

BOE Technology Group Co., LTD

Represented By

Limbach, Alanet al

Patent Owner / Respondent

Optronic Sciences LLC

Represented By

Tong, Qiet al

Tribunal & Venue

Tribunal

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (USPTO)

Technology Center

TC 2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical & Optical Systems

Patent Information

1 Patent Involved

Respondent Application Number 11005648

Respondent Patent Number 7586121

External Links

Espacenet

Google Patents

Respondent Inventor Wein-Town Sun

Respondent Tech Center TC 2800 - Semiconductors, Electrical & Optical Systems

Address and Attorney/Agent Information

4 Registered Practitioners

Power of Attorney & Correspondence

Firm / Entity Name MICHAEL J. CHERSKOV - SZYMON M. GURDA

Customer Number 27197

Address 903 COMMERCE DR, SUITE 310, OAK BROOK, IL, 60523, UNITED STATES

Attorney / Agent Information

Reg #	Name	Phone
30836	Donald Flaynik Jr	815-467-4333
33664	Michael Cherskov	312-621-1330
58451	Szymon Gurda	312-621-1330
84142	Yi Lu	312-621-1330

Proceeding Documents

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ORDER Granting the Parties’ Joint Motion to Expunge 37 C.F.R. § 42.56 ORDER

2026-09-08 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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Joint Motion to Expunge MOTION

2026-04-21 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Request to Withdraw Request for Director Review - Granted Exhibit

2026-04-10 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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Petitioner’s Opposition to Patent Owner’s Request for Director Review OTHER

2026-03-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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3101

Ex. 3101 Counsel email for Authorized Response Exhibit

2026-02-26 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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PATENT OWNER’S REQUEST FOR DIRECTOR REVIEW REQUEST

2026-02-25 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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DECISION Final Written Decision Determining All Challenged Claims Unpatentable 35 U.S.C. § 318(a) FINAL

2026-02-17 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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2026

Exhibit 2026 - Patent Owner's Demonstratives (Public) Exhibit

2026-02-09 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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JOINT NOTICE REGARDING CONFIDENTIALITY OF ORAL HEARING TRANSCRIPT, FINAL WRITTEN DECISION, AND EXHIBITS NOTICE

2026-02-09 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Hearing Transcript, 11/20/25 [Public Version] OTHER

2026-02-09 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1028

Petitioner's Demonstratives (Public Version) Exhibit

2026-02-09 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Order: Granting the Parties Motions to Seal and Joint Motion to Seal and for Entry of the Default Protective Order 37 C.F.R. secs. 42.14, 42.54 ORDER

2026-01-30 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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Order: ORDER Denying Patent Owner’s Motion to Dismiss for Failure to Name all Real Parties-In-Interest 37 C.F.R. § 42.5 ORDER

2026-01-12 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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PATENT OWNER'S SUPPLEMENTARY MANDATORY NOTICES NOTICE

2025-12-09 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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PATENT OWNER'S MOTION TO SEAL MOTION

2025-12-08 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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1036

SDC and BOE Joint Motion to Terminate on the Basis of a Settlement Agreement Exhibit

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1037

Patent Owner Email to the Board seeking leave for supplemental briefing Exhibit

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1032

Intel Press Release Exhibit

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1029

Declaration of Yongqi Zhang Exhibit

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1034

TRIPS Agreement – Article 3 Exhibit

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1031

BOE Website – About Us Exhibit

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1030

BOE Website – Values and Ideas Exhibit

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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PETITIONER’S OPPOSITION TO PATENT OWNER’S MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILING TO DISCLOSE ALL REAL PARTIES IN INTEREST OPPOSITION

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1033

Micron Press Release Exhibit

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1035

Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property Exhibit

2025-12-05 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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2030

BOE Technology Ground Co., LTD. Annual Report 2024 (Summary) Exhibit

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2032

Primer on Important Amendments to the Chinese Company Law, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, https://www.americanbar.org/groups/franchising/resources/franchise-lawyer/2024-winter/primer-important-amendments-chinese-company-law/ (published Aug. 23, 2024) Exhibit

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Legal Representative vs. Actual Controller: Who Really Runs a Chinese Company?, CNBIZINSIGHT, available at https://cnbizinsight.com/legal-representative-vs-actual-controller-who-really-runs-a-chinese-company/ (last accessed Nov. 5, 2025) Exhibit

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2028

Excerpts from “Entity List,” Export Administration Regulations, BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, available at https://www.bis.gov/regulations/ear/744#supplement-4-744 (last accessed Nov. 5, 2025) Exhibit

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2031

BOE Technology Ground Co., LTD. Annual Report 2024, available for download at https://www.boe.com/en/investorRelations/regularCompanyAnnouncements (last visited Nov. 6, 2025) Exhibit

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2027

Director Squire’s October 28, 2025 Memorandum Exhibit

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2035

Yangtze Memory Tech. Co. Ltd. v. Micron Tech. Inc., IPR2025-00098, IPR2025-00099, Paper 33 (Nov. 10, 2025) Exhibit

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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PATENT OWNER’S MOTION TO DISMISS FOR BOE’S FAILURE TO DISCLOSE ALL REAL PARTIES IN INTEREST MOTION

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2029

Letter to U.S. International Trade Commission, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE CHINESE PARTY (dated December 18, 2024) Exhibit

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2033

Actual controllers with foreign residency rights and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from private listed companies in China, EMERGING MARKETS REVIEW VOL. 26, available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1566014125001207 (last accessed Nov. 5, 2025) Exhibit

2025-11-26 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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1024

Exhibit 1024 (Corrected) Exhibit

2025-11-24 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Petitioner's Motion to Seal OTHER

2025-11-19 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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PATENT OWNER'S UPDATED EXHIBIT LIST NOTICE

2025-11-19 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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PATENT OWNER'S MOTION TO SEAL MOTION

2025-11-19 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Petitioner's Motion to Seal MOTION

2025-11-11 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Petitioner's Updated Exhibit List NOTICE

2025-11-06 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Claim Construction Order - Docket 157 Exhibit

2025-11-06 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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PATENT OWNER'S MOTION TO SEAL MOTION

2025-11-05 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2015

Exhibit 2015 - “Progress in Polymer Science,” Liaw et al. (2012) Exhibit

2025-11-05 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2020

Exhibit 2020 - “Advantage of ‘UPIA’” as obtained from UBA Corporation’s website Exhibit

2025-11-05 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2017

Exhibit 2017 - Pages from Petitioner’s Reply in IPR2025-00132, filed in Optronic Sciences LLC v. BOE Tech. Group Co., Ltd., No. 2:23-cv-00549-JRG, Dkt. 152-3 (E.D. Tex. Oct. 14, 2025) Exhibit

2025-11-05 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Transcript of October 8, 2025 hearing Exhibit

2025-10-21 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Petitioner's Updated Exhibit List NOTICE

2025-10-21 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Petitioner's Motion to Seal MOTION

2025-10-16 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Petitioner's Motion to Seal MOTION

2025-10-15 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1025

Deposition Transcript, Dr. Adam Fontecchio, September 30, 2025 Exhibit

2025-10-15 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1023

Expert Report of Adam Fontecchio, PH.D. Regarding Infringement Exhibit

2025-10-15 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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PATENT OWNER'S MOTION TO SEAL MOTION

2025-10-15 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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1024

“Progress in Polymer Science,” Liaw et al. (2012) Exhibit

2025-10-15 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Joint Motion for Entry of Default Protective Order and to Seal Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.54 MOTION

2025-10-14 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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REVISED ORDER Setting Oral Argument 37 C.F.R. § 42.70 ORDER

2025-10-14 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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Petitioner's Updated Exhibit List NOTICE

2025-10-14 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1021

Default Protective Order Exhibit

2025-10-14 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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1022

4th Supplemental Response to First Set of Interrogatories (Redacted) Exhibit

2025-10-14 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Order: Setting Oral Argument ORDER

2025-10-02 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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General Order: Related Matters Updates ORDER

2025-09-20 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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PATENT OWNER'S SUR REPLY OTHER

2025-09-17 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2012

Exhibit 2012 - Excerpts from MCGRAW-HILL DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL TERMS (5th Edition) (1994) Exhibit

2025-09-17 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Petitioner's Request for Oral Argument OTHER

2025-09-17 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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2013

Exhibit 2013 - Passivation (chemistry), WIKIPEDIA, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passivation_(chemistry) Exhibit

2025-09-17 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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PATENT OWNER'S REQUEST FOR ORAL ARGUMENT OTHER

2025-09-17 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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U.S. Patent Publication No. 2009/0272977 Exhibit

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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U.S. Patent Publication No. 2007/0002212 Exhibit

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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July 16, 2025, Deposition Transcript of Dr. Eric Bretschneider, IPR2024-01132 Exhibit

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Declaration of Dean Neikirk in Support of Petitioner’s Reply Exhibit

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Petitioner's Reply to Patent Owner's Response to Petition for IPR of U.S.P. 7,586,121 REPLYTOOPP

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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EX2008 in IPR2024-01131 for US Patent 7,226,801 (Bretschneider Declaration) Exhibit

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Modern Dictionary of Electronics (1999) Exhibit

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Electronic Packaging, Microelectronics, and Interconnection Dictionary (1993) Exhibit

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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U.S. Patent No. 7,226,801 Exhibit

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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The Authoritative Dictionary of IEEE Standards Terms (2000) Exhibit

2025-07-30 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Joint Stipulation to Modify Due Dates 2 & 3 NOTICE

2025-06-25 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Petitioner's Notice of Deposition of Dr. Eric Bretschneider NOTICE

2025-06-24 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Panel Change Order ORDER

2025-06-11 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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Petitioner's Updated Mandatory Notices NOTICE

2025-05-08 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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2005

Ex. 2005 - Bretshneider Declaration Exhibit

2025-05-07 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2011

Ex. 2011 - CVD of Nonmetals - Rees Exhibit

2025-05-07 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2006

Ex. 2006 - Bretschneider CV Exhibit

2025-05-07 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2007

Ex. 2007 - Neikirk 04-17-25 Depo Transcript Exhibit

2025-05-07 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Order: ORDER Granting Petitioner’s Motions for Pro Hac Vice Admission of Zachary Loney 37 C.F.R. § 42.10(c) ORDER

2025-05-07 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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Patent Owner's Response RESPONSE

2025-05-07 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2008

Ex. 2008 - Surface Passivation Approaches - Theeuwes Exhibit

2025-05-07 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2010

Ex. 2010 - Wiley Eletrical & Electronics Engineering Dictionary Exhibit

2025-05-07 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2009

Ex. 2009 - Capping Tools Tame Electromigration Exhibit

2025-05-07 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Motion for Pro Hac Vice Admission of Zachary Loney MOTION

2025-04-15 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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Declaration of Zachary Loney in Support of Motion for Pro Hac Vice Admission Exhibit

2025-04-15 FILING PARTY: PETITIONER

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JOINT STIPULATION TO MODIFY DUE DATE 1 OTHER

2025-04-14 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Denying Patent Owner’s Request for Authorization to File Motion for Reconsideration of Decision Granting Institution 37 C.F.R. § 42.5 ORDER

2025-04-14 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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ORDER Granting Patent Owner’s Motions for Admission Pro Hac Vice of Paul A. Kroeger 37 C.F.R. § 42.10 ORDER

2025-04-02 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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2004

Exhibit 2004 - Declaration of Paul A. Kroeger Exhibit

2025-03-28 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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OPTRONIC SCIENCES, LLC’S MOTION FOR PRO HAC VICE ADMISSION OF PAUL A. KROEGER MOTION

2025-03-28 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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PATENT OWNER'S SUPPLEMENTAL POWER OF ATTORNEY NOTICE

2025-03-27 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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PATENT OWNER'S SUPPLEMENTARY MANDATORY NOTICES NOTICE

2025-03-27 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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PATENT OWNER’S NOTICE OF DEPOSITION OF DEAN NEIKIRK NOTICE

2025-03-18 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Institution Decision: Grant DECISION

2025-01-27 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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SCHEDULING ORDER ORDER

2025-01-27 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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ORDER Granting Patent Owner’s Motions for Admission Pro Hac Vice of Christian W. Conkle 37 C.F.R. § 42.10 ORDER

2024-12-10 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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ORDER Granting Patent Owner’s Motions for Admission Pro Hac Vice of Benjamin T. Wang 37 C.F.R. § 42.10 ORDER

2024-12-10 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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ORDER Granting Patent Owner’s Motions for Admission Pro Hac Vice of Andrew D. Weiss 37 C.F.R. § 42.10 ORDER

2024-12-10 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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2002

Exhibit 2002 - Declaration of Andrew D. Weiss Exhibit

2024-11-25 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2001

Exhibit 2001 - Declaration of Benjamin T. Wang Exhibit

2024-11-25 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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OPTRONIC SCIENCES, LLC’S MOTION FOR PRO HAC VICE ADMISSION OF ANDREW D. WEISS MOTION

2024-11-25 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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2003

Exhibit 2003 - Declaration of Christian W. Conkle Exhibit

2024-11-25 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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OPTRONIC SCIENCES, LLC’S MOTION FOR PRO HAC VICE ADMISSION OF BENJAMIN T. WANG MOTION

2024-11-25 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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OPTRONIC SCIENCES, LLC’S MOTION FOR PRO HAC VICE ADMISSION OF CHRISTIAN W. CONKLE MOTION

2024-11-25 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Patent Owner's Supplementary Mandatory Notices NOTICE

2024-10-29 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Patent Owner's Preliminary Response POPR

2024-10-29 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Notice : Mandatory Notice NOTICE

2024-08-02 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Notice : Power of Attorney NOTICE

2024-08-02 FILING PARTY: PATENT OWNER

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Notice: Notice filing date accorded NOTICE

2024-07-29 FILING PARTY: BOARD

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