The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has posted some details regarding Tuesday's oral argument in the Elysium-Chromadex/Dartmouth Inter Partes Review. You can read the PTAB's order here:
The order says that both sides get one hour total, and each side can reserve some time to respond to the other's comments.
The oral argument will be held on October 2, 2018, on the 9th Floor of Madison Building East, 600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
According to the PTAB's Public Hearing Schedule, the oral arguments for our hearing will be held in Hearing Room A.
Hearing Room A is the largest of the four hearing rooms, and has 55 publicly available spaces. In case you want to attend -- I'd love to go but won't be near DC next Tuesday -- the hearing will be open to the public for in-person attendance that will be accommodated on a first-come, first-served basis. Here is some additional guidance from the PTAB:
Members of the public should plan to arrive thirty minutes before the scheduled start of the hearing session. Upon arrival, visitors will come to the lobby level, Madison East Guard Desk to request a hearing badge for the specific hearing room, e.g., A, B, C, or D. Visitors will be screened and required to surrender a picture ID in exchange for a hearing badge.The Guard Desk will only issue a given number of hearing badges for each hearing room on a first come, first served basis. No advance requests for attendance by the public will be permitted.
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DISCLAIMER
I own shares of ChromaDex (NASDAQ:CDXC), and I am a former customer of Elysium Health. I have no official relationship with either company.
I am an attorney, so I have been tracking this litigation, analyzing events, and gathering the litigation documents, mostly as a service to shareholders, journalists, and industry observers who are interested in the dispute.
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