The detailed information for PTAB case with proceeding number IPR2020-00928 filed by NRG Energy, Inc. et al. against Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. et al. on May 27, 2020. This includes filing dates, application numbers, tech centers, patent numbers, and current case status.

Case Details

Proceeding Number
IPR2020-00928
Filing Date
May 27, 2020
Petitioner
NRG Energy, Inc. et al.
Respondent
Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. et al.
Status
Terminated-Settled
Respondent Application Number
12419219
Respondent Tech Center
1700
Respondent Patent Number
8168147
Institution Decision Date
Dec 2, 2020
Termination Date
Jan 22, 2021

Proceeding Documents

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ORDER Granting Request to Treat Settlement Agreement as Business Confidential Information 37 C.F.R. ���� 42.74

Jan 26, 2021PAPERBOARD

Termination Due to Settlement After Institution of Trial Granting Request to Treat Settlement Agreement as Business Confidential Information

Jan 22, 2021PAPERBOARD

Joint Request that Agreements Be Treated as Business Confidential Information

Jan 14, 2021PAPERPETITIONER

Fleetwide License and Supply Agreement (CONFIDENTIAL-BOARD EYES ONLY) effective January 5, 2021

Jan 14, 2021EXHIBITPETITIONER

Term Sheet between ME2C and Talen executed December 15, 2020 (CONFIDENTIAL-BOARD EYES ONLY)

Jan 14, 2021EXHIBITPETITIONER

Joint Motion to Terminate

Jan 14, 2021PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioners Updated Exhibit List

Jan 14, 2021PAPERPETITIONER

Trial Instituted Document

Dec 2, 2020PAPERBOARD

Scheduling Order

Dec 2, 2020PAPERBOARD

Conduct of the Proceeding 37 C.F.R. seC. 42.5

Oct 27, 2020PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner Midwest Energy Emission Corp.'s Sur-reply in Support of Its Preliminary Response

Oct 15, 2020PAPERPATENT OWNER

REPLY TO PATENT OWNER'S PRELIMINARY RESPONSE

Oct 8, 2020PAPERPETITIONER

Order Conduct of the Proceeding

Oct 1, 2020PAPERBOARD

PATENT OWNER MIDWEST ENERGY EMISSION CORP.'S PRELIMINARY RESPONSE

Sep 4, 2020PAPERPATENT OWNER

Granting Joint Motion to Terminate Vistra Corp. as Petitioner Due to Settlement before Institution and Granting Joint Request to Treat Settlement Agreement as Business Confidential Information 37 C.F.R. ¿¿ 42.74

Aug 10, 2020PAPERBOARD

License and Supply Agreement (CONFIDENTIAL) executed July 30, 2020

Aug 6, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

JOINT MOTION TO TERMINATE VISTRA CORP. AS A PETITIONER TO THE PROCEEDING

Aug 6, 2020PAPERPETITIONER

JOINT REQUEST THAT LICENSE AND SUPPLY AGREEMENT BE TREATED AS BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

Aug 6, 2020PAPERPETITIONER

PETITIONER VISTRA CORP.S UPDATED EXHIBIT LIST

Aug 6, 2020PAPERPETITIONER

Declaration of Justin T. Nemunaitis

Jun 30, 2020EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Motion for Admission Pro Hac Vice of Justin T. Nemunaitis

Jun 30, 2020PAPERPATENT OWNER

Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.'s Power of Attorney

Jun 17, 2020PAPERPATENT OWNER

Midwest Energy Emissions Corp.'s Mandatory Notices

Jun 17, 2020PAPERPATENT OWNER

Notice of Accord Filing Date

Jun 4, 2020PAPERBOARD

U.S. Patent No. 8168147 to Olson et al. (147 Patent or Challenged Patent)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Stephen Niksa

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. v. Vistra Energy Corp. et al., Case No. 1:19-cv-01334, Dkt. No. 1 (D. Del. July 17, 2019)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,878,358 to Vosteen et al. (Vosteen)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Proposed National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Electric Utility Steam Generating Units, 69 Fed. Reg. 4652-4752 [Volume 69, No. 20] (Jan. 30, 2004) (EPA-Proposal)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Sharon Sjostrom, Full Scale Evaluations of Mercury Control Technologies with PRB Coals, Track A, Session A3 (Mercury Control), Presentation A3b, EUEC: 8TH ELECTRIC UTILITIES ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE (Tucson, Arizona: January 25, 2005) (Sjostrom)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2008/0107579 to Downs et al. (Downs-Boiler)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2004/0003716 to Nelson (Nelson Publication)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Vitali Lissianski, Integrated Approach to Multi-Pollutant Control, Track B, Session B3 (Mercury Control), Presentation B3.5, EUEC: 9TH ELECTRIC UTILITIES ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE (Tucson, Arizona: January 24, 2006) (Lissianski-Presentation)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,953,494 to Nelson (Nelson)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2006/0048646 to Olson et al. (Olson-646)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Pub. No. 2007/0180990 to Downs et al. (Downs-Halogenation)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Family Tree of 114 and 147 Patents, Showing Parent Patent Applications

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

File History for U.S. Patent No. 8,168,147 (147 Patent File History)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

File History of U.S. Patent Prov. App. No. 60/605640 (Provisional)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

File History of U.S Patent Application No. 11/209,163 (163 Application File History)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

File History of U.S Patent Application No. 12/201,595 (595 Application File History)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Babcock & Wilcox, STEAM: ITS GENERATION AND USE, 40th ed. (The Babcock & Wilcox Company: 1992) (B&W: Steam) PART 1 OF 4

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Babcock & Wilcox, STEAM: ITS GENERATION AND USE, 40th ed. (The Babcock & Wilcox Company: 1992) (B&W: Steam) PART 2 OF 4

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Babcock & Wilcox, STEAM: ITS GENERATION AND USE, 40th ed. (The Babcock & Wilcox Company: 1992) (B&W: Steam) PART 3 OF 4

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Babcock & Wilcox, STEAM: ITS GENERATION AND USE, 40th ed. (The Babcock & Wilcox Company: 1992) (B&W: Steam) PART 4 OF 4

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

J. Bustard, S. Sjostrom, et al., Full Scale Evaluation of Sorbent Injection for Mercury Control on Coal-Fired Power Plants, International Conference on Air Quality III, Paper No. A5-4 (Sept. 9-12, 2002: Arlington, VA) (Bustard)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 1,984,164 to Stock et al. (Stock)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Electric Utilities Environment Conference 2005 Handout (2005 EUEC Handout)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Scan of CD mailed to conference attendees from EUEC: 8th Electric Utilities Environmental Conference (Tucson, Arizona: January 23-26, 2005) (2005 EUEC CD Scan)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

37 C.F.R. Sec 1.121 (2009)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

35 U.S.C. Sec 111 (2006)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Paul Chu, Power Plant Evaluation of the Effect of SCR Technology on Mercury, Paper No. 106, COMBINED POWER PLANT AIR POLLUTANT CONTROL MEGA SYMPOSIUM (MEGA) (Washington, DC: May 19-22, 2003) (Power Plant Evaluation)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Evan J. Granite et al., Sorbents for Mercury Removal from Flue Gas, DOE/FETC/TR 98-01, U.S. Department of Energy (Jan. 1998) (Granite)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Thomas J. Feeley, et al., A Review of DOE/NETLs Mercury Control Technology R&D Program for Coal-Fired Power Plants, DOE/NETL &g R&D Program Review (April 2003) (Feeley)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Oxtoby et al., PRINCIPLES OF MODERN CHEMISTRY, 4th ed (Saunders College Publishing: 1999) (Oxtoby)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw, CHEMISTRY OF THE ELEMENTS, 2nd ed. (Butterworth-Heinemann: 1997) (Greenwood)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

B.R. Puri, Surface Complexes on Carbons, in CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF CARBON 191 (Philip L. Walker, ed.) (Marcel Dekker: 1970) (Puri) PART 1 OF 4

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

B.R. Puri, Surface Complexes on Carbons, in CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF CARBON 191 (Philip L. Walker, ed.) (Marcel Dekker: 1970) (Puri) PART 2 OF 4

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

B.R. Puri, Surface Complexes on Carbons, in CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF CARBON 191 (Philip L. Walker, ed.) (Marcel Dekker: 1970) (Puri) PART 4 OF 4

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Frank E. Huggins et al., XAFS Examination of Mercury Sorption on Three Activated Carbons, Energy & Fuels 1999(13), p. 114-121 (1999) (XAFS)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Electric Utilities Environment Conference 2006 Handout (2006 EUEC Handout)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Scan of CD mailed to conference attendees from EUEC: 9th Electric Utilities Environmental Conference (Tucson, Arizona: January 22-25, 2006) (2006 EUEC CD Scan)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

PDF copy of the attendee list from the 2006 EUEC (2006 EUEC Attendee List)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

EUEC 2006 home page, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20060204211859/http:/euec.com/ (EUEC 2006 Home Page)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. EPA, AP-42: External Combustion Sources, Chapter 1: Fifth Edition, Volume I (Sep. 1998), (last visited Apr 10, 2020) (Chapter 1 of AP-42)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Clean Air Mercury Rule: Basic Information, (Clean Air Mercury Rule)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

35 U.S.C. Sec 122 (2006)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

37 C.F.R. Sec 1.57 (July 1, 2005)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 7,514,052 to Lissianski et al. (Lissianski-Patent)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

S. Niksa et al., Predicting Complete Hg Speciation Along Coal-Fired Utility Exhaust Systems, MEGA SYMPOSIUM, Paper # 45 (Washington, DC: 2004) (Hg Speciation)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

D.L. Laudal et al., Evaluation of Mercury Speciation at Power Plants Using SCR and SNCR NOx Control Technologies, Paper No. A5-01, INTL CONF. ON AIR QUALITY III (Arlington, VA: Sept. 9-12, 2002) (Laudal)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. DOE, Mercury Emissions Control - Regulatory Drivers (Jan. 24, 2003), (Mercury Emissions Control)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Sharon Sjostrom et al., Field Studies of Mercury Control Using Injected Sorbents, AWMA ANNUAL MEETING, Session Ae-1b (2002) (Field Studies of Mercury Control)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

EPA Newsroom, EPA Announces First-Ever Rule to Reduce Mercury Emissions from Power Plants (Mar. 15, 2005), (3/15/2005 EPA Press Release)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

EPA Newsroom, Public Comment Period Begins for Proposed Power Plant Regulations (Jan. 29, 2004), (1/29/2004 EPA Press Release)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

EPA Newsroom, EPA Supplements Proposal to Reduce Power Plant Mercury Emissions, (Feb. 24, 2004), (2/24/2004 EPA Press Release)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

EPA, Mercury Study Report to Congress Volume VIII: An Evaluation of Mercury Control Technologies and Costs, EPA Report No. EPA-452/R-97-010 (Dec. 1997), (EPA 1997 Mercury Study Report Vol. VIII)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

EUEC 2005 home page, (EUEC 2005 Home Page)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Charlene R. Crocker et al., Mercury Control with the Advanced Hybrid Particulate Collector Technical Progress Report, U.S. DOE-NETL (Nov. 2003) (Crocker)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Roop Chand Bansal, et al., ACTIVE CARBON (Marcel Dekker:1988) 1988. 482 pages (scan received from Library of Congress via Baker Botts) (Bansal)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

B.R. Puri, Surface Complexes on Carbons, in CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS OF CARBON 191 (Philip L. Walker, ed.) (Marcel Dekker: 1970) (Puri) PART 3 OF 4

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex Parte Jacobson, No. 2009-003022, Decision on Appeal, Slip op. (B.P.A.I. Feb. 1, 2010)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

E. S. Olson, et al. Chemical Mechanism in Mercury Emission Control Technologies. Volume 107. May 2003. Volume 2. Pages. 979-982. EDP Sciences, edited by C. Boutron and C. Ferrari (copy received from MIT Libraries) (Olson-Paper)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Power of Attorney

May 27, 2020PAPERPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,435,980 to Felsvang (Felsvang)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Radovic, Ljubisa R., et al., What (Exactly) is on the Edges of Graphene Layers in Carbon: the Unfolding Story, Fuel Chemistry Div. Preprints, 428 (2002) (Radovic)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Prov. App. No. 60/555,281 (filed Mar. 22, 2004) (Downs-Halogenation-Provisional)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Redline comparison between Downs-Halogenation, Ex. 1006 and Downs-Halogenation-Provisional, Ex. 1007, using Downs-Halogenation-Provisional as the original version (Downs-Halogenation-Redline)

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

PETITIONERS EXPLANATION REGARDING THE NECESSITY OF MULTIPLE PETITIONS

May 27, 2020PAPERPETITIONER

Declaration of Dr. Stephen Niksa

May 27, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petition for Inter Partes Review

May 27, 2020PAPERPETITIONER