In re Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson

*586ON PETITION

ORDER

LOURIE, Circuit Judge.

These petitions for writs of mandamus arise out of ongoing inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”). Broadcom Corp. brought the petitions challenging three of Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson (“Ericsson”)’s U.S. patents. Ericsson moved for additional discovery concerning whether Broadcom’s petitions were barred under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b) because, Ericsson asserts, Broadcom is a privy * of defendants to litigation filed more than one year before the inter partes review petitions.

In denying Ericsson’s request for…