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 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE Print Table of Contents 1363 OG 58 

OFFICIAL GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

February 15, 2011 Volume 1363 Number 3

CONTENTS

 Patent and Trademark Office NoticesPage 
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Information1363 OG 59
• Notice of Maintenance Fees Payable1363 OG 62
• Notice of Expiration of Patents Due to Failure to Pay Maintenance Fee1363 OG 63
• Patents Reinstated Due to the Acceptance of a Late Maintenance Fee from 1/17/20111363 OG 84
• Reissue Applications Filed1363 OG 85
• Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed1363 OG 88
• Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed1363 OG 90
• Notice of Expiration of Trademark Registrations Due to Failure to Renew1363 OG 92
• 37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication1363 OG 97
• 37 CFR § 1.47 Notice by Publication1363 OG 98
• Registration to Practice1363 OG 101
• Notice of Suspension1363 OG 102
• Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products1363 OG 103
• Notice Regarding Full Implementation of Patent Prosecution Highway Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office1363 OG 104
• Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and IP Australia based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products1363 OG 105
• Continuation of the Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the USPTO and IP Australia1363 OG 106
• Adverse Decisions in Interference1363 OG 107
• Errata1363 OG 108
• Certificates of Correction1363 OG 112
• Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board1363 OG 114

• Mailing and Hand Carry Addresses for Mail to the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Reference Collections of U.S. Patents Available for Public Use in Patent Depository Libraries
• Patent Technology Centers
• Subscription/Copy Information


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Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Information 
                  Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Information

   For information concerning PCT member countries, see the notice
appearing in the Official Gazette at 1350 O.G. 73, on January 12, 2010.

   For information on subject matter under Rule 39 that a particular
International Searching Authority will not search, see Annex D of the PCT
Applicants' Guide.

European Patent Office as Searching and Examining Authority

   The European Patent Office (EPO) may act as the International Searching
Authority (ISA) for an international application filed with the United
States Receiving Office or the International Bureau (IB) as Receiving
Office where at least one of the applicants is either a national or
resident of the United States of America. However, the EPO is no longer
a competent ISA, within the meaning of PCT Article 16(3), for
international applications filed by U.S. residents or nationals on or
after March 1, 2002, in the USPTO or IB as a Receiving Office, and where
the application contains one or more claims directed to the field of
business methods. For the definition of what the EPO considers to be
precluded subject matter in the field of business methods, applicants
should see the "Notice from the President of the European Patent
Office", dated November 26, 2001, and which was published as Annex A in
the "Notice Concerning EPO Competence to Act as PCT Authority" in
the Official Gazette at 1255 O.G. 878, on February 19, 2002.

   The European Patent Office may act as the International Preliminary
Examining Authority (IPEA) for an international application filed in the
United States Receiving Office or the International Bureau as Receiving
Office where at least one of the applicants is either a national or
resident of the United States of America, provided that the European
Patent Office acted as the International Searching Authority. However,
the EPO is no longer a competent IPEA, within the meaning of PCT Article
32(3), for international applications filed by U.S. residents or nationals
in the USPTO or IB as a Receiving Office where the corresponding demand is
filed with the EPO on or after March 1, 2002, and where the application
contains one or more claims directed to the field of business methods.

   The search fee of the European Patent Office was increased, effective
January 1, 2011, and was announced in the Official Gazette at 1361 O.G.
180, on December 28, 2010.

Korean Intellectual Property Office as Searching and Examining Authority

   For use of the Korean Intellectual Property Office as an International
Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority for
international applications filed in the United States Receiving Office,
see the notice appearing in the Official Gazette at 1302 O.G. 1261 on
January 17, 2006.

   The search fee of the Korean Intellectual Property Office was increased,
effective January 1, 2011, and was announced in the Official Gazette at
1361 O.G. 180, on December 28, 2010.

Australian Patent Office as Searching and Examining Authority

   The Australian Patent Office (IP Australia) may act as the International
Searching Authority (ISA) for an international application filed with the
United States Receiving Office or the International Bureau (IB) as
Receiving Office where at least one of the applicants is either a national
or resident of the United States of America. However, IP Australia is not a
competent ISA, within the meaning of PCT Artical 16(3), for international
applications filed by U.S. residents or nationals in the USPTO or IB as a
Receiving Office, and where the application contains one or more claims
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directed to the field of business methods or mechanical inventions.

   IP Australia may act as the International Preliminary Examining
Authority (IPEA) for an international application filed in the United
States Receiving Office or the International Bureau as Receiving Office
where at least one of the applicants is either a national or resident of
the United States of America, provided that IP Australia acted as the
International Searching Authority. However, IP Australia is not a competent
IPEA, within the meaning of PCT Article 32(3), for international
applications filed by U.S. residents or nationals in the USPTO or IB as a
Receiving Office where the corresponding demand is filed with IP Australia
and where the application contains one or more claims directed to the
fields of business methods or mechanical engineering or analogous fields of
technology as defined by specified areas of the International Patent
Classification System, as indicated in Annex A to the agreement between the
USPTO and IP Australia. See the notice appearing in the Official Gazette
at 1337 O.G. 261 on December 23, 2008.

   For use of IP Australia as an International Searching Authority and
International Preliminary Examining Authority for international
applications filed in the United States Receiving Office, see the notice
appearing in the Official Gazette at 1337 O.G. 265 on December 23, 2008.

   The search fee of IP Australia was increased, effective January 1, 2011,
and was announced in the Official Gazette at 1361 O.G. 180, on December 28,
2010.

Fees

   The transmittal fee and search fees for the USPTO were changed,
effective January 12, 2009, and were announced in the Federal Register on
November 12, 2008. The fee for filing a request for the restoration of the
right of priority was established, effective November 9, 2007, and was
announced in the Federal Register on September 10, 2007.

   International filing fees were increased, effective November 1, 2010, and
were announced in the Official Gazette at 1360 O.G. 5, on November 2, 2010.

   The schedule of PCT fees (in U.S. dollars), as of January 1, 2011, is
as follows:

International Application (PCT Chapter I) fees:

   Transmittal fee                                                  $240.00

   Search fee

      U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as
      International Searching Authority (ISA)
         - Search fee                                             $2,080.00
         - Supplemental search fee, per additional
            invention (payable only upon invitation)              $2,080.00

      European Patent Office as ISA                               $2,443.00

      Korean Intellectual Property Office as ISA
         - for international applications filed in English        $1,157.00

      IP Australia as ISA                                         $1,837.00

   International fees

      International filing fee                                    $1,367.00
      International filing fee-filed in paper
         with PCT EASY zip file or
         electronically without PCT EASY zip file                 $1,264.00
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      International filing fee-filed
         electronically with PCT EASY zip files                   $1,161.00
      Supplemental fee for each page over 30                         $15.00

   Restoration of Priority

      Filing a request for the restoration of the
      right of priority under § 1.452                             $1,410.00

   International Application (PCT Chapter II) fees associated
   with filing a Demand for Preliminary Examination:

      Handling fee                                                  $206.00
      Handling fee-90% reduction, if applicants meet criteria
      specified at:
        http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/fees/fee_reduction.pdf            $20.60
      Preliminary Examination Fee
         USPTO as International Preliminary
         Examining Authority (IPEA)
            - USPTO was ISA in PCT Chapter I                        $600.00
            - USPTO was not ISA in PCT Chapter I                    $750.00
            - Additional preliminary examination fee,
              per additional invention
              (payable only upon invitation)                        $600.00

   U.S. National Stage fees (for international applications entering
the U.S. national phase under 35 U.S.C. 371) can be found on the USPTO's
Web site (www.uspto.gov).

December 13, 2010                                            ROBERT W. BAHR
                                              Acting Associate Commissioner
                                              for Patent Examination Policy
                                  United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Notice of Maintenance Fees Payable 
                  Notice of Maintenance Fees Payable

   Title 37 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Section 1.362(d) provides
that maintenance fees may be paid without surcharge for the six-month
period beginning 3, 7, and 11 years after the date of issue of patents
based on applications filed on or after Dec. 12, 1980. An additional
six-month grace period is provided by 35 U.S.C. 41(b) and 37 CFR 1.362(e)
for payment of the maintenance fee with the surcharge set forth in 37 CFR
1.20(h), as amended effective Dec. 16, 1991. If the maintenance fee is
not paid in the patent requiring such payment the patent will expire on
the 4th, 8th, or 12th anniversary of the grant.

   Attention is drawn to the patents that were issued on February 5, 2008
for which maintenance fees due at 3 years and six months may now be paid.
The patents have patent numbers within the following ranges:

        Utility Patents 7,325,254 through 7,328,458
        Reissue Patents based on the above identified patents.

   Attention is drawn to the patents that were issued on February 3, 2004
for which maintenance fees due at 7 years and six months may now be paid.
The patents have patent numbers within the following ranges:

        Utility Patents 6,684,404 through 6,687,908
        Reissue Patents based on the above identified patents.

   Attention is drawn to the patents that were issued on February 1, 2000
for which maintenance fees due at 11 years and six months may now be paid.
The patents have patent numbers within the following ranges:

        Utility Patents 6,018,819 through 6,021,518
        Reissue Patents based on the above identified patents.

   No maintenance fees are required for design or plant patents.

   Payments of maintenance fees in patents may be submitted electronically
over the Internet at www.uspto.gov. Click on the "Site Index" link at the
top of the homepage (www.uspto.gov), and then scroll down and click on the
"Maintenance Fees" link for more information.

   Payments of maintenance fees in patents not submitted electronically
over the Internet should be mailed to "United States Patent and Trademark
Office, P.O. Box 979070, St. Louis, MO 63197-9000".

   Correspondence related to maintenance fees other than payments of
maintenance fees in patents is not to be mailed to P.O. Box 979070,
St. Louis, MO 63197-9000, but must be mailed to "Mail Stop M
Correspondence, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, P.O.
Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450".

   Patent owners must establish small entity status according to 37 CFR
1.27 if they have not done so and if they wish to pay the small entity
amount.

   The current amounts of the maintenance fees due at 3 years and six
months, 7 years and six months, and 11 years and six months are set forth
in the most recently amended provisions in 37 CFR 1.20(e)-(g). To obtain
the current maintenance fee amounts, please call the USPTO Contact Center
at (800)-786-9199 or see the current USPTO fee schedule posted on the USPTO
Internet web site. At the top of the USPTO homepage at www.uspto.gov, click
on the "Site Index" link and then scroll down and click on the "Fees,
USPTO" link to find the current USPTO fee schedule.
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Notice of Expiration of Patents Due to Failure to Pay Maintenance Fee 
                        Notice of Expiration of Patents
                     Due to Failure to Pay Maintenance Fee

   35 U.S.C. 41 and 37 CFR 1.362(g) provide that if the required
maintenance fee and any applicable surcharge are not paid in a patent
requiring such payment, the patent will expire at the end of the 4th, 8th
or 12th anniversary of the grant of the patent depending on the first
maintenance fee which was not paid.
   According to the records of the Office, the patents listed below have
expired due to failure to pay the required maintenance fee and any
applicable surcharge.

                   PATENTS WHICH EXPIRED ON December 29, 2011
                    DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEES

Patent                          Application                         Issue
Number                             Number                            Date

5,852,851                        08/274,383                      12/29/98
5,852,852                        08/871,667                      12/29/98
5,852,855                        08/759,290                      12/29/98
5,852,859                        09/048,973                      12/29/98
5,852,860                        08/786,812                      12/29/98
5,852,861                        08/683,450                      12/29/98
5,852,868                        08/776,163                      12/29/98
5,852,871                        08/570,230                      12/29/98
5,852,890                        08/713,145                      12/29/98
5,852,898                        08/818,661                      12/29/98
5,852,899                        08/833,390                      12/29/98
5,852,900                        08/790,159                      12/29/98
5,852,902                        08/886,386                      12/29/98
5,852,909                        08/943,367                      12/29/98
5,852,912                        08/932,294                      12/29/98
5,852,914                        08/939,582                      12/29/98
5,852,916                        08/826,772                      12/29/98
5,852,923                        08/761,790                      12/29/98
5,852,924                        08/844,399                      12/29/98
5,852,933                        08/809,915                      12/29/98
5,852,934                        08/762,968                      12/29/98
5,852,941                        08/750,582                      12/29/98
5,852,942                        08/707,789                      12/29/98
5,852,945                        08/899,221                      12/29/98
5,852,951                        08/941,217                      12/29/98
5,852,959                        08/662,922                      12/29/98
5,852,960                        08/840,567                      12/29/98
5,852,969                        08/890,890                      12/29/98
5,852,994                        08/602,077                      12/29/98
5,853,001                        08/839,210                      12/29/98
5,853,003                        08/910,981                      12/29/98
5,853,004                        08/867,187                      12/29/98
5,853,008                        09/024,202                      12/29/98
5,853,018                        08/808,557                      12/29/98
5,853,024                        08/892,409                      12/29/98
5,853,028                        08/846,402                      12/29/98
5,853,032                        08/729,150                      12/29/98
5,853,033                        08/892,804                      12/29/98
5,853,045                        08/930,007                      12/29/98
5,853,046                        08/787,507                      12/29/98
5,853,053                        08/716,386                      12/29/98
5,853,056                        08/624,438                      12/29/98
5,853,059                        08/694,484                      12/29/98
5,853,063                        08/690,340                      12/29/98
5,853,083                        08/702,034                      12/29/98
5,853,088                        08/849,601                      12/29/98
5,853,091                        08/825,906                      12/29/98
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5,853,093                        08/861,981                      12/29/98
5,853,095                        08/644,716                      12/29/98
5,853,096                        08/756,113                      12/29/98
5,853,101                        08/047,994                      12/29/98
5,853,104                        08/833,501                      12/29/98
5,853,106                        08/993,761                      12/29/98
5,853,108                        08/698,736                      12/29/98
5,853,109                        09/069,480                      12/29/98
5,853,121                        08/906,709                      12/29/98
5,853,126                        08/795,066                      12/29/98
5,853,128                        08/812,531                      12/29/98
5,853,129                        08/823,475                      12/29/98
5,853,148                        08/767,620                      12/29/98
5,853,156                        08/644,109                      12/29/98
5,853,157                        08/736,958                      12/29/98
5,853,160                        08/996,862                      12/29/98
5,853,166                        08/906,425                      12/29/98
5,853,172                        08/955,689                      12/29/98
5,853,175                        08/723,551                      12/29/98
5,853,178                        08/745,065                      12/29/98
5,853,180                        09/018,988                      12/29/98
5,853,188                        08/932,266                      12/29/98
5,853,192                        08/728,588                      12/29/98
5,853,203                        08/614,600                      12/29/98
5,853,209                        09/056,664                      12/29/98
5,853,214                        08/563,134                      12/29/98
5,853,221                        09/023,311                      12/29/98
5,853,229                        08/762,194                      12/29/98
5,853,230                        08/844,066                      12/29/98
5,853,237                        08/794,265                      12/29/98
5,853,238                        08/865,690                      12/29/98
5,853,252                        08/859,004                      12/29/98
5,853,253                        08/950,646                      12/29/98
5,853,258                        08/854,552                      12/29/98
5,853,264                        08/730,998                      12/29/98
5,853,272                        08/857,692                      12/29/98
5,853,284                        08/926,607                      12/29/98
5,853,288                        08/857,855                      12/29/98
5,853,289                        08/907,344                      12/29/98
5,853,293                        08/834,572                      12/29/98
5,853,301                        08/715,804                      12/29/98
5,853,303                        08/984,184                      12/29/98
5,853,304                        08/623,120                      12/29/98
5,853,307                        08/690,551                      12/29/98
5,853,322                        08/745,030                      12/29/98
5,853,330                        08/620,472                      12/29/98
5,853,334                        08/857,763                      12/29/98
5,853,338                        08/861,987                      12/29/98
5,853,344                        08/675,904                      12/29/98
5,853,346                        08/575,038                      12/29/98
5,853,349                        08/775,928                      12/29/98
5,853,359                        08/873,564                      12/29/98
5,853,366                        08/676,972                      12/29/98
5,853,371                        08/867,978                      12/29/98
5,853,374                        08/540,795                      12/29/98
5,853,376                        08/672,556                      12/29/98
5,853,380                        08/898,016                      12/29/98
5,853,390                        08/743,035                      12/29/98
5,853,401                        08/642,588                      12/29/98
5,853,403                        08/635,816                      12/29/98
5,853,408                        08/457,325                      12/29/98
5,853,419                        08/818,274                      12/29/98
5,853,428                        08/804,776                      12/29/98
5,853,429                        08/893,737                      12/29/98
5,853,435                        08/367,414                      12/29/98
5,853,438                        08/856,305                      12/29/98
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5,853,439                        08/884,294                      12/29/98
5,853,441                        08/770,566                      12/29/98
5,853,444                        08/821,871                      12/29/98
5,853,447                        08/833,201                      12/29/98
5,853,466                        08/884,633                      12/29/98
5,853,473                        08/871,728                      12/29/98
5,853,474                        08/869,286                      12/29/98
5,853,479                        08/759,975                      12/29/98
5,853,486                        08/620,535                      12/29/98
5,853,489                        08/714,154                      12/29/98
5,853,491                        08/827,150                      12/29/98
5,853,500                        08/896,574                      12/29/98
5,853,503                        08/817,947                      12/29/98
5,853,512                        08/804,391                      12/29/98
5,853,526                        08/785,422                      12/29/98
5,853,529                        08/938,861                      12/29/98
5,853,532                        08/698,666                      12/29/98
5,853,533                        09/027,207                      12/29/98
5,853,539                        08/897,327                      12/29/98
5,853,540                        08/836,376                      12/29/98
5,853,550                        08/631,394                      12/29/98
5,853,552                        08/300,552                      12/29/98
5,853,553                        09/003,049                      12/29/98
5,853,557                        08/833,009                      12/29/98
5,853,558                        08/789,913                      12/29/98
5,853,562                        08/765,598                      12/29/98
5,853,564                        08/833,242                      12/29/98
5,853,573                        08/890,808                      12/29/98
5,853,574                        09/053,129                      12/29/98
5,853,585                        08/763,972                      12/29/98
5,853,600                        08/933,989                      12/29/98
5,853,608                        08/879,201                      12/29/98
5,853,614                        08/897,000                      12/29/98
5,853,617                        08/856,439                      12/29/98
5,853,622                        08/704,467                      12/29/98
5,853,623                        08/644,383                      12/29/98
5,853,624                        08/798,685                      12/29/98
5,853,626                        08/950,733                      12/29/98
5,853,628                        08/712,818                      12/29/98
5,853,638                        08/884,656                      12/29/98
5,853,641                        09/063,171                      12/29/98
5,853,646                        08/737,136                      12/29/98
5,853,648                        08/686,321                      12/29/98
5,853,655                        08/747,020                      12/29/98
5,853,661                        08/772,896                      12/29/98
5,853,675                        08/497,104                      12/29/98
5,853,686                        08/695,800                      12/29/98
5,853,691                        08/695,784                      12/29/98
5,853,701                        08/852,504                      12/29/98
5,853,703                        08/588,249                      12/29/98
5,853,714                        08/411,028                      12/29/98
5,853,717                        08/447,356                      12/29/98
5,853,722                        08/575,057                      12/29/98
5,853,725                        08/233,508                      12/29/98
5,853,728                        08/773,596                      12/29/98
5,853,732                        08/958,273                      12/29/98
5,853,736                        08/801,152                      12/29/98
5,853,737                        08/322,979                      12/29/98
5,853,741                        08/696,305                      12/29/98
5,853,744                        08/699,965                      12/29/98
5,853,749                        08/776,481                      12/29/98
5,853,757                        08/854,499                      12/29/98
5,853,760                        08/348,493                      12/29/98
5,853,768                        08/811,276                      12/29/98
5,853,772                        08/657,622                      12/29/98
5,853,778                        08/790,656                      12/29/98
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5,853,779                        08/362,602                      12/29/98
5,853,787                        08/577,147                      12/29/98
5,853,789                        08/819,807                      12/29/98
5,853,791                        08/734,917                      12/29/98
5,853,796                        08/851,090                      12/29/98
5,853,798                        08/928,169                      12/29/98
5,853,803                        08/964,608                      12/29/98
5,853,805                        08/717,930                      12/29/98
5,853,810                        08/793,686                      12/29/98
5,853,812                        08/907,419                      12/29/98
5,853,814                        08/935,328                      12/29/98
5,853,816                        08/794,058                      12/29/98
5,853,829                        08/790,571                      12/29/98
5,853,830                        08/870,575                      12/29/98
5,853,838                        08/862,514                      12/29/98
5,853,842                        08/881,698                      12/29/98
5,853,855                        08/638,194                      12/29/98
5,853,856                        08/764,909                      12/29/98
5,853,857                        08/803,223                      12/29/98
5,853,861                        08/941,808                      12/29/98
5,853,863                        08/778,372                      12/29/98
5,853,864                        08/492,950                      12/29/98
5,853,869                        08/892,155                      12/29/98
5,853,870                        08/881,358                      12/29/98
5,853,872                        08/768,867                      12/29/98
5,853,883                        09/063,086                      12/29/98
5,853,884                        08/825,165                      12/29/98
5,853,889                        08/782,938                      12/29/98
5,853,896                        08/819,245                      12/29/98
5,853,907                        08/793,074                      12/29/98
5,853,921                        08/905,792                      12/29/98
5,853,930                        08/768,233                      12/29/98
5,853,935                        09/041,040                      12/29/98
5,853,937                        08/906,804                      12/29/98
5,853,949                        08/657,773                      12/29/98
5,853,952                        08/705,265                      12/29/98
5,853,954                        08/768,539                      12/29/98
5,853,956                        08/914,742                      12/29/98
5,853,958                        08/732,899                      12/29/98
5,853,961                        08/635,874                      12/29/98
5,853,964                        08/992,741                      12/29/98
5,853,969                        08/980,304                      12/29/98
5,853,972                        08/662,680                      12/29/98
5,853,975                        08/807,861                      12/29/98
5,853,980                        08/792,055                      12/29/98
5,853,981                        08/839,306                      12/29/98
5,853,987                        08/589,711                      12/29/98
5,853,993                        08/735,381                      12/29/98
5,853,999                        08/473,656                      12/29/98
5,854,003                        09/032,475                      12/29/98
5,854,013                        08/858,350                      12/29/98
5,854,014                        08/897,813                      12/29/98
5,854,024                        08/811,369                      12/29/98
5,854,028                        08/814,459                      12/29/98
5,854,030                        08/570,101                      12/29/98
5,854,031                        08/748,947                      12/29/98
5,854,039                        08/914,066                      12/29/98
5,854,043                        08/323,460                      12/29/98
5,854,056                        08/980,441                      12/29/98
5,854,058                        08/789,331                      12/29/98
5,854,061                        08/782,410                      12/29/98
5,854,063                        08/739,380                      12/29/98
5,854,069                        08/844,073                      12/29/98
5,854,075                        08/922,324                      12/29/98
5,854,089                        08/673,263                      12/29/98
5,854,093                        08/976,685                      12/29/98
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 67  

5,854,094                        08/724,429                      12/29/98
5,854,101                        08/825,720                      12/29/98
5,854,103                        08/941,081                      12/29/98
5,854,117                        08/715,059                      12/29/98
5,854,122                        08/816,651                      12/29/98
5,854,124                        08/881,775                      12/29/98
5,854,125                        08/803,809                      12/29/98
5,854,133                        08/698,200                      12/29/98
5,854,140                        08/764,382                      12/29/98
5,854,141                        08/941,447                      12/29/98
5,854,147                        09/062,965                      12/29/98
5,854,148                        08/976,954                      12/29/98
5,854,149                        08/737,016                      12/29/98
5,854,151                        08/887,330                      12/29/98
5,854,157                        08/848,250                      12/29/98
5,854,167                        08/922,043                      12/29/98
5,854,172                        08/785,543                      12/29/98
5,854,190                        08/950,615                      12/29/98
5,854,200                        09/027,884                      12/29/98
5,854,201                        08/817,584                      12/29/98
5,854,204                        08/612,785                      12/29/98
5,854,206                        08/519,196                      12/29/98
5,854,211                        08/464,679                      12/29/98
5,854,214                        08/466,826                      12/29/98
5,854,216                        08/685,357                      12/29/98
5,854,219                        08/956,352                      12/29/98
5,854,224                        08/720,200                      12/29/98
5,854,225                        08/747,334                      12/29/98
5,854,227                        08/473,787                      12/29/98
5,854,229                        08/477,173                      12/29/98
5,854,230                        08/815,485                      12/29/98
5,854,232                        08/737,376                      12/29/98
5,854,233                        08/667,147                      12/29/98
5,854,235                        08/962,798                      12/29/98
5,854,247                        08/849,385                      12/29/98
5,854,249                        08/864,667                      12/29/98
5,854,251                        08/817,971                      12/29/98
5,854,255                        08/843,760                      12/29/98
5,854,264                        08/826,251                      12/29/98
5,854,268                        08/776,024                      12/29/98
5,854,269                        08/640,767                      12/29/98
5,854,278                        08/672,397                      12/29/98
5,854,280                        08/669,441                      12/29/98
5,854,281                        08/676,250                      12/29/98
5,854,287                        08/807,449                      12/29/98
5,854,300                        08/824,735                      12/29/98
5,854,306                        08/875,414                      12/29/98
5,854,309                        08/723,779                      12/29/98
5,854,318                        08/759,435                      12/29/98
5,854,319                        08/565,407                      12/29/98
5,854,323                        08/712,452                      12/29/98
5,854,330                        08/931,709                      12/29/98
5,854,339                        08/761,932                      12/29/98
5,854,340                        08/936,211                      12/29/98
5,854,344                        08/704,866                      12/29/98
5,854,347                        08/463,983                      12/29/98
5,854,349                        08/843,292                      12/29/98
5,854,355                        08/929,052                      12/29/98
5,854,356                        08/449,775                      12/29/98
5,854,359                        09/025,608                      12/29/98
5,854,361                        08/827,433                      12/29/98
5,854,368                        08/774,492                      12/29/98
5,854,369                        08/638,060                      12/29/98
5,854,377                        08/894,747                      12/29/98
5,854,390                        08/875,442                      12/29/98
5,854,391                        08/033,513                      12/29/98
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 68  

5,854,397                        08/782,539                      12/29/98
5,854,410                        08/223,355                      12/29/98
5,854,412                        08/956,708                      12/29/98
5,854,415                        08/882,238                      12/29/98
5,854,419                        07/961,987                      12/29/98
5,854,423                        08/820,149                      12/29/98
5,854,428                        08/801,204                      12/29/98
5,854,430                        08/811,709                      12/29/98
5,854,434                        08/785,087                      12/29/98
5,854,436                        08/614,958                      12/29/98
5,854,443                        08/371,695                      12/29/98
5,854,446                        08/943,228                      12/29/98
5,854,452                        08/901,233                      12/29/98
5,854,455                        08/824,005                      12/29/98
5,854,457                        08/971,680                      12/29/98
5,854,458                        08/811,432                      12/29/98
5,854,464                        08/851,908                      12/29/98
5,854,478                        08/731,274                      12/29/98
5,854,480                        08/678,099                      12/29/98
5,854,486                        08/775,016                      12/29/98
5,854,492                        08/739,307                      12/29/98
5,854,502                        08/897,528                      12/29/98
5,854,507                        09/119,702                      12/29/98
5,854,509                        08/641,819                      12/29/98
5,854,514                        08/693,923                      12/29/98
5,854,524                        08/934,395                      12/29/98
5,854,526                        08/678,757                      12/29/98
5,854,527                        08/812,880                      12/29/98
5,854,528                        08/647,724                      12/29/98
5,854,537                        08/690,892                      12/29/98
5,854,540                        08/782,917                      12/29/98
5,854,542                        08/706,038                      12/29/98
5,854,543                        08/773,969                      12/29/98
5,854,544                        08/817,667                      12/29/98
5,854,573                        08/729,916                      12/29/98
5,854,577                        08/846,376                      12/29/98
5,854,580                        08/856,018                      12/29/98
5,854,584                        08/704,501                      12/29/98
5,854,585                        09/027,174                      12/29/98
5,854,588                        08/736,536                      12/29/98
5,854,592                        08/740,412                      12/29/98
5,854,594                        08/739,521                      12/29/98
5,854,597                        08/787,537                      12/29/98
5,854,598                        08/726,284                      12/29/98
5,854,599                        08/927,533                      12/29/98
5,854,604                        08/854,856                      12/29/98
5,854,606                        08/733,297                      12/29/98
5,854,610                        08/969,270                      12/29/98
5,854,612                        09/020,540                      12/29/98
5,854,619                        08/496,978                      12/29/98
5,854,622                        08/784,495                      12/29/98
5,854,623                        08/558,710                      12/29/98
5,854,628                        08/527,091                      12/29/98
5,854,629                        08/774,560                      12/29/98
5,854,636                        08/931,776                      12/29/98
5,854,637                        08/515,672                      12/29/98
5,854,639                        08/912,826                      12/29/98
5,854,640                        08/846,374                      12/29/98
5,854,644                        08/730,051                      12/29/98
5,854,645                        08/584,360                      12/29/98
5,854,651                        08/659,469                      12/29/98
5,854,654                        08/722,225                      12/29/98
5,854,655                        08/693,684                      12/29/98
5,854,656                        08/558,096                      12/29/98
5,854,657                        08/578,086                      12/29/98
5,854,680                        08/846,122                      12/29/98
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 69  

5,854,684                        08/721,432                      12/29/98
5,854,691                        08/690,562                      12/29/98
5,854,695                        08/679,431                      12/29/98
5,854,696                        08/730,052                      12/29/98
5,854,700                        08/643,098                      12/29/98
5,854,707                        08/611,738                      12/29/98
5,854,715                        08/942,239                      12/29/98
5,854,717                        08/690,905                      12/29/98
5,854,718                        08/842,051                      12/29/98
5,854,728                        08/845,514                      12/29/98
5,854,729                        08/862,983                      12/29/98
5,854,733                        08/989,100                      12/29/98
5,854,746                        08/650,054                      12/29/98
5,854,747                        08/727,900                      12/29/98
5,854,748                        08/475,730                      12/29/98
5,854,755                        08/708,681                      12/29/98
5,854,760                        08/745,403                      12/29/98
5,854,762                        08/961,368                      12/29/98
5,854,767                        08/548,671                      12/29/98
5,854,770                        08/791,746                      12/29/98
5,854,775                        08/740,260                      12/29/98
5,854,776                        08/621,957                      12/29/98
5,854,778                        08/349,487                      12/29/98
5,854,782                        08/556,213                      12/29/98
5,854,791                        08/595,783                      12/29/98
5,854,796                        08/861,344                      12/29/98
5,854,801                        08/894,870                      12/29/98
5,854,802                        08/868,044                      12/29/98
5,854,804                        08/766,018                      12/29/98
5,854,806                        08/837,315                      12/29/98
5,854,810                        08/709,404                      12/29/98
5,854,814                        08/696,938                      12/29/98
5,854,816                        08/950,035                      12/29/98
5,854,818                        08/919,452                      12/29/98
5,854,826                        08/635,217                      12/29/98
5,854,847                        09/015,796                      12/29/98
5,854,849                        08/811,634                      12/29/98
5,854,863                        08/616,576                      12/29/98
5,854,874                        08/717,235                      12/29/98
5,854,876                        08/655,936                      12/29/98
5,854,892                        08/642,328                      12/29/98
5,854,905                        08/707,333                      12/29/98
5,854,909                        08/535,979                      12/29/98
5,854,915                        08/755,202                      12/29/98
5,854,920                        08/835,371                      12/29/98
5,854,926                        08/376,491                      12/29/98
5,854,933                        08/700,034                      12/29/98
5,854,938                        08/614,045                      12/29/98
5,854,940                        08/636,438                      12/29/98
5,854,942                        08/711,695                      12/29/98
5,854,946                        08/893,665                      12/29/98
5,854,950                        08/910,872                      12/29/98
5,854,966                        08/909,651                      12/29/98
5,854,970                        08/730,458                      12/29/98
5,854,974                        08/420,249                      12/29/98
5,854,981                        08/609,422                      12/29/98
5,854,984                        08/576,385                      12/29/98
5,854,993                        08/763,965                      12/29/98
5,855,005                        08/672,111                      12/29/98
5,855,018                        08/733,994                      12/29/98
5,855,019                        08/904,172                      12/29/98

                   PATENTS WHICH EXPIRED ON December 24, 2011
                    DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEES

Patent                          Application                         Issue
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 70  

Number                             Number                            Date

6,496,985                        09/870,231                      12/24/02
6,496,989                        09/889,767                      12/24/02
6,496,991                        09/545,538                      12/24/02
6,496,992                        09/734,313                      12/24/02
6,496,994                        09/613,776                      12/24/02
6,497,004                        09/838,379                      12/24/02
6,497,010                        09/732,932                      12/24/02
6,497,029                        09/654,980                      12/24/02
6,497,031                        09/707,620                      12/24/02
6,497,044                        09/727,267                      12/24/02
6,497,045                        09/812,144                      12/24/02
6,497,060                        09/949,554                      12/24/02
6,497,061                        09/830,545                      12/24/02
6,497,063                        09/595,436                      12/24/02
6,497,064                        09/467,349                      12/24/02
6,497,065                        09/312,205                      12/24/02
6,497,066                        09/965,735                      12/24/02
6,497,067                        09/932,688                      12/24/02
6,497,068                        10/077,115                      12/24/02
6,497,076                        09/552,953                      12/24/02
6,497,077                        09/401,656                      12/24/02
6,497,078                        09/459,433                      12/24/02
6,497,082                        09/524,008                      12/24/02
6,497,089                        09/920,348                      12/24/02
6,497,126                        09/776,902                      12/24/02
6,497,128                        09/811,369                      12/24/02
6,497,133                        09/921,190                      12/24/02
6,497,137                        09/849,746                      12/24/02
6,497,144                        09/628,889                      12/24/02
6,497,148                        09/657,435                      12/24/02
6,497,153                        09/677,183                      12/24/02
6,497,154                        09/582,646                      12/24/02
6,497,155                        09/247,722                      12/24/02
6,497,156                        10/189,668                      12/24/02
6,497,162                        09/816,206                      12/24/02
6,497,165                        09/564,115                      12/24/02
6,497,170                        09/898,376                      12/24/02
6,497,174                        10/127,647                      12/24/02
6,497,186                        09/856,464                      12/24/02
6,497,192                        09/864,404                      12/24/02
6,497,199                        10/040,415                      12/24/02
6,497,201                        09/807,490                      12/24/02
6,497,210                        09/590,180                      12/24/02
6,497,212                        09/778,719                      12/24/02
6,497,213                        09/853,702                      12/24/02
6,497,216                        09/796,630                      12/24/02
6,497,219                        09/826,360                      12/24/02
6,497,220                        09/762,973                      12/24/02
6,497,225                        09/721,223                      12/24/02
6,497,226                        09/778,609                      12/24/02
6,497,231                        09/534,480                      12/24/02
6,497,237                        09/877,889                      12/24/02
6,497,238                        09/723,133                      12/24/02
6,497,245                        09/685,562                      12/24/02
6,497,253                        09/762,731                      12/24/02
6,497,268                        09/715,848                      12/24/02
6,497,269                        10/054,258                      12/24/02
6,497,271                        09/762,515                      12/24/02
6,497,273                        09/964,707                      12/24/02
6,497,280                        09/745,618                      12/24/02
6,497,281                        09/911,322                      12/24/02
6,497,291                        09/650,204                      12/24/02
6,497,298                        09/902,271                      12/24/02
6,497,299                        09/510,694                      12/24/02
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 71  

6,497,300                        09/835,765                      12/24/02
6,497,317                        09/940,214                      12/24/02
6,497,323                        09/735,686                      12/24/02
6,497,335                        09/430,648                      12/24/02
6,497,337                        08/739,503                      12/24/02
6,497,340                        09/865,788                      12/24/02
6,497,344                        09/910,267                      12/24/02
6,497,346                        09/600,682                      12/24/02
6,497,349                        09/813,061                      12/24/02
6,497,351                        09/665,140                      12/24/02
6,497,352                        09/729,903                      12/24/02
6,497,356                        09/886,560                      12/24/02
6,497,357                        09/850,350                      12/24/02
6,497,358                        09/473,138                      12/24/02
6,497,359                        09/530,656                      12/24/02
6,497,374                        09/905,825                      12/24/02
6,497,378                        09/907,927                      12/24/02
6,497,379                        09/842,667                      12/24/02
6,497,383                        09/559,865                      12/24/02
6,497,386                        09/928,658                      12/24/02
6,497,387                        09/929,058                      12/24/02
6,497,388                        09/944,967                      12/24/02
6,497,393                        09/827,832                      12/24/02
6,497,399                        10/156,548                      12/24/02
6,497,407                        10/124,857                      12/24/02
6,497,409                        09/812,527                      12/24/02
6,497,410                        09/911,852                      12/24/02
6,497,413                        09/743,221                      12/24/02
6,497,417                        09/752,776                      12/24/02
6,497,419                        09/426,550                      12/24/02
6,497,421                        09/348,094                      12/24/02
6,497,424                        09/363,268                      12/24/02
6,497,428                        09/971,224                      12/24/02
6,497,431                        09/819,463                      12/24/02
6,497,432                        09/732,052                      12/24/02
6,497,435                        09/469,997                      12/24/02
6,497,439                        10/000,165                      12/24/02
6,497,440                        10/000,342                      12/24/02
6,497,441                        09/723,734                      12/24/02
6,497,447                        09/930,564                      12/24/02
6,497,448                        09/999,088                      12/24/02
6,497,454                        09/763,384                      12/24/02
6,497,455                        09/407,422                      12/24/02
6,497,462                        09/761,990                      12/24/02
6,497,465                        09/666,276                      12/24/02
6,497,476                        09/412,971                      12/24/02
6,497,492                        09/146,475                      12/24/02
6,497,502                        09/880,845                      12/24/02
6,497,504                        09/378,111                      12/24/02
6,497,506                        09/427,084                      12/24/02
6,497,516                        09/555,566                      12/24/02
6,497,522                        09/906,313                      12/24/02
6,497,528                        09/915,008                      12/24/02
6,497,534                        09/896,586                      12/24/02
6,497,535                        09/486,322                      12/24/02
6,497,540                        09/244,415                      12/24/02
6,497,542                        09/719,491                      12/24/02
6,497,545                        09/489,836                      12/24/02
6,497,556                        09/841,748                      12/24/02
6,497,558                        09/516,566                      12/24/02
6,497,559                        09/520,937                      12/24/02
6,497,565                        09/870,794                      12/24/02
6,497,576                        09/694,611                      12/24/02
6,497,580                        09/791,819                      12/24/02
6,497,588                        09/098,277                      12/24/02
6,497,590                        09/939,734                      12/24/02
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 72  

6,497,593                        09/928,277                      12/24/02
6,497,594                        09/621,510                      12/24/02
6,497,601                        10/132,593                      12/24/02
6,497,605                        09/919,245                      12/24/02
6,497,621                        09/984,898                      12/24/02
6,497,625                        09/764,652                      12/24/02
6,497,627                        09/818,506                      12/24/02
6,497,643                        09/623,466                      12/24/02
6,497,649                        09/766,144                      12/24/02
6,497,651                        09/520,850                      12/24/02
6,497,653                        09/902,132                      12/24/02
6,497,654                        09/507,229                      12/24/02
6,497,657                        09/778,799                      12/24/02
6,497,660                        09/691,605                      12/24/02
6,497,661                        09/917,925                      12/24/02
6,497,662                        09/954,642                      12/24/02
6,497,663                        09/912,785                      12/24/02
6,497,667                        09/919,465                      12/24/02
6,497,673                        09/855,603                      12/24/02
6,497,677                        09/947,135                      12/24/02
6,497,678                        09/764,831                      12/24/02
6,497,679                        09/754,329                      12/24/02
6,497,682                        09/637,204                      12/24/02
6,497,699                        09/634,172                      12/24/02
6,497,702                        09/647,511                      12/24/02
6,497,703                        09/518,044                      12/24/02
6,497,710                        09/778,003                      12/24/02
6,497,712                        09/503,433                      12/24/02
6,497,718                        09/851,223                      12/24/02
6,497,730                        09/646,644                      12/24/02
6,497,731                        10/166,723                      12/24/02
6,497,732                        09/795,855                      12/24/02
6,497,733                        09/809,241                      12/24/02
6,497,747                        09/404,724                      12/24/02
6,497,748                        09/860,280                      12/24/02
6,497,758                        09/614,248                      12/24/02
6,497,760                        09/896,751                      12/24/02
6,497,767                        09/570,571                      12/24/02
6,497,771                        09/622,975                      12/24/02
6,497,784                        09/441,862                      12/24/02
6,497,791                        09/942,500                      12/24/02
6,497,795                        09/458,685                      12/24/02
6,497,797                        09/643,038                      12/24/02
6,497,798                        09/727,470                      12/24/02
6,497,805                        09/758,324                      12/24/02
6,497,808                        09/678,841                      12/24/02
6,497,814                        09/883,617                      12/24/02
6,497,838                        09/760,814                      12/24/02
6,497,839                        09/679,010                      12/24/02
6,497,843                        10/091,162                      12/24/02
6,497,844                        09/298,922                      12/24/02
6,497,847                        09/178,793                      12/24/02
6,497,853                        09/403,017                      12/24/02
6,497,866                        09/802,136                      12/24/02
6,497,869                        09/790,307                      12/24/02
6,497,870                        09/576,755                      12/24/02
6,497,874                        09/603,153                      12/24/02
6,497,877                        09/355,522                      12/24/02
6,497,891                        09/971,590                      12/24/02
6,497,896                        09/782,182                      12/24/02
6,497,897                        09/939,705                      12/24/02
6,497,899                        09/764,929                      12/24/02
6,497,904                        09/912,115                      12/24/02
6,497,905                        09/528,624                      12/24/02
6,497,918                        09/319,244                      12/24/02
6,497,927                        09/709,530                      12/24/02
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 73  

6,497,928                        09/571,412                      12/24/02
6,497,930                        09/681,460                      12/24/02
6,497,934                        09/370,483                      12/24/02
6,497,937                        09/623,114                      12/24/02
6,497,938                        09/668,835                      12/24/02
6,497,940                        09/524,495                      12/24/02
6,497,941                        09/626,752                      12/24/02
6,497,945                        09/517,388                      12/24/02
6,497,962                        09/702,742                      12/24/02
6,497,964                        09/621,627                      12/24/02
6,497,972                        09/612,375                      12/24/02
6,497,977                        09/451,478                      12/24/02
6,497,978                        09/445,300                      12/24/02
6,497,994                        09/608,672                      12/24/02
6,497,995                        09/350,323                      12/24/02
6,497,997                        09/874,884                      12/24/02
6,497,998                        09/931,560                      12/24/02
6,498,004                        09/750,855                      12/24/02
6,498,011                        09/768,412                      12/24/02
6,498,015                        08/939,107                      12/24/02
6,498,022                        09/734,674                      12/24/02
6,498,031                        09/578,868                      12/24/02
6,498,032                        09/475,774                      12/24/02
6,498,038                        09/483,019                      12/24/02
6,498,057                        10/092,748                      12/24/02
6,498,058                        09/577,549                      12/24/02
6,498,061                        09/730,674                      12/24/02
6,498,076                        09/593,382                      12/24/02
6,498,077                        09/816,519                      12/24/02
6,498,082                        09/643,730                      12/24/02
6,498,087                        09/998,031                      12/24/02
6,498,094                        09/345,495                      12/24/02
6,498,096                        09/800,911                      12/24/02
6,498,103                        09/903,411                      12/24/02
6,498,113                        09/874,939                      12/24/02
6,498,115                        09/900,908                      12/24/02
6,498,116                        09/564,277                      12/24/02
6,498,117                        09/612,316                      12/24/02
6,498,134                        09/889,634                      12/24/02
6,498,140                        09/589,987                      12/24/02
6,498,143                        09/449,512                      12/24/02
6,498,150                        09/414,071                      12/24/02
6,498,152                        09/674,584                      12/24/02
6,498,155                        09/856,248                      12/24/02
6,498,158                        09/856,626                      12/24/02
6,498,161                        09/543,019                      12/24/02
6,498,163                        09/355,681                      12/24/02
6,498,170                        09/904,158                      12/24/02
6,498,171                        09/927,954                      12/24/02
6,498,176                        09/914,063                      12/24/02
6,498,177                        09/965,944                      12/24/02
6,498,180                        09/979,322                      12/24/02
6,498,185                        09/631,452                      12/24/02
6,498,188                        09/645,427                      12/24/02
6,498,190                        09/506,606                      12/24/02
6,498,191                        09/733,271                      12/24/02
6,498,195                        09/880,296                      12/24/02
6,498,196                        09/460,722                      12/24/02
6,498,201                        09/701,936                      12/24/02
6,498,203                        09/453,477                      12/24/02
6,498,204                        08/827,645                      12/24/02
6,498,209                        09/717,393                      12/24/02
6,498,211                        09/915,845                      12/24/02
6,498,216                        09/701,110                      12/24/02
6,498,230                        09/747,446                      12/24/02
6,498,234                        09/524,643                      12/24/02
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 74  

6,498,235                        09/789,453                      12/24/02
6,498,238                        09/574,225                      12/24/02
6,498,245                        09/725,593                      12/24/02
6,498,247                        09/834,173                      12/24/02
6,498,252                        09/675,935                      12/24/02
6,498,254                        10/021,202                      12/24/02
6,498,255                        09/955,818                      12/24/02
6,498,260                        09/820,549                      12/24/02
6,498,262                        09/764,156                      12/24/02
6,498,263                        10/188,995                      12/24/02
6,498,269                        09/690,614                      12/24/02
6,498,270                        09/984,792                      12/24/02
6,498,273                        09/866,243                      12/24/02
6,498,274                        09/508,055                      12/24/02
6,498,275                        09/700,370                      12/24/02
6,498,282                        09/596,438                      12/24/02
6,498,286                        09/137,130                      12/24/02
6,498,289                        08/904,650                      12/24/02
6,498,291                        10/050,698                      12/24/02
6,498,298                        09/858,567                      12/24/02
6,498,300                        09/811,022                      12/24/02
6,498,301                        08/536,091                      12/24/02
6,498,304                        09/786,677                      12/24/02
6,498,319                        09/631,949                      12/24/02
6,498,334                        09/772,865                      12/24/02
6,498,337                        09/818,522                      12/24/02
6,498,339                        09/597,617                      12/24/02
6,498,340                        09/760,248                      12/24/02
6,498,346                        09/666,296                      12/24/02
6,498,348                        09/736,253                      12/24/02
6,498,349                        09/368,919                      12/24/02
6,498,351                        09/521,599                      12/24/02
6,498,360                        09/516,170                      12/24/02
6,498,390                        09/154,258                      12/24/02
6,498,396                        08/623,082                      12/24/02
6,498,398                        08/995,298                      12/24/02
6,498,402                        09/858,176                      12/24/02
6,498,408                        09/740,008                      12/24/02
6,498,411                        09/969,187                      12/24/02
6,498,412                        09/769,349                      12/24/02
6,498,425                        09/667,141                      12/24/02
6,498,432                        09/645,017                      12/24/02
6,498,433                        09/475,700                      12/24/02
6,498,436                        09/728,866                      12/24/02
6,498,439                        09/838,888                      12/24/02
6,498,442                        09/941,688                      12/24/02
6,498,443                        09/874,824                      12/24/02
6,498,453                        09/703,776                      12/24/02
6,498,465                        09/787,162                      12/24/02
6,498,472                        09/449,636                      12/24/02
6,498,473                        09/677,784                      12/24/02
6,498,480                        09/721,228                      12/24/02
6,498,481                        09/854,377                      12/24/02
6,498,482                        09/764,566                      12/24/02
6,498,483                        09/544,987                      12/24/02
6,498,485                        09/556,924                      12/24/02
6,498,489                        09/849,217                      12/24/02
6,498,490                        09/845,377                      12/24/02
6,498,492                        09/817,598                      12/24/02
6,498,494                        09/803,429                      12/24/02
6,498,498                        09/891,656                      12/24/02
6,498,508                        09/805,115                      12/24/02
6,498,512                        09/796,572                      12/24/02
6,498,514                        09/846,519                      12/24/02
6,498,515                        10/142,969                      12/24/02
6,498,518                        09/617,680                      12/24/02
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 75  

6,498,523                        08/883,615                      12/24/02
6,498,536                        09/568,677                      12/24/02
6,498,539                        09/750,132                      12/24/02
6,498,540                        09/836,933                      12/24/02
6,498,543                        09/883,259                      12/24/02
6,498,547                        09/761,060                      12/24/02
6,498,548                        09/863,443                      12/24/02
6,498,552                        09/582,017                      12/24/02
6,498,554                        09/805,907                      12/24/02
6,498,555                        09/627,777                      12/24/02
6,498,556                        09/828,078                      12/24/02
6,498,557                        09/838,629                      12/24/02
6,498,558                        09/850,701                      12/24/02
6,498,564                        09/736,109                      12/24/02
6,498,566                        09/636,401                      12/24/02
6,498,578                        09/839,810                      12/24/02
6,498,588                        09/719,801                      12/24/02
6,498,589                        09/527,427                      12/24/02
6,498,593                        09/434,114                      12/24/02
6,498,607                        09/240,279                      12/24/02
6,498,618                        09/847,128                      12/24/02
6,498,626                        09/320,346                      12/24/02
6,498,629                        09/229,801                      12/24/02
6,498,632                        09/300,347                      12/24/02
6,498,638                        09/710,788                      12/24/02
6,498,639                        09/625,457                      12/24/02
6,498,643                        09/711,626                      12/24/02
6,498,644                        09/395,429                      12/24/02
6,498,649                        09/821,018                      12/24/02
6,498,673                        09/754,616                      12/24/02
6,498,675                        09/781,351                      12/24/02
6,498,682                        09/340,429                      12/24/02
6,498,686                        09/823,675                      12/24/02
6,498,693                        09/365,429                      12/24/02
6,498,694                        09/596,428                      12/24/02
6,498,696                        09/705,102                      12/24/02
6,498,702                        09/510,339                      12/24/02
6,498,705                        09/585,133                      12/24/02
6,498,712                        10/091,823                      12/24/02
6,498,721                        09/648,170                      12/24/02
6,498,730                        10/016,444                      12/24/02
6,498,739                        09/968,643                      12/24/02
6,498,744                        09/978,034                      12/24/02
6,498,746                        10/004,972                      12/24/02
6,498,749                        09/702,389                      12/24/02
6,498,753                        09/944,792                      12/24/02
6,498,761                        09/983,258                      12/24/02
6,498,765                        09/838,269                      12/24/02
6,498,775                        09/141,063                      12/24/02
6,498,778                        09/215,433                      12/24/02
6,498,781                        09/374,003                      12/24/02
6,498,789                        09/207,718                      12/24/02
6,498,792                        09/325,689                      12/24/02
6,498,794                        09/312,995                      12/24/02
6,498,801                        09/368,525                      12/24/02
6,498,802                        09/475,118                      12/24/02
6,498,804                        09/381,621                      12/24/02
6,498,815                        09/246,663                      12/24/02
6,498,817                        09/555,302                      12/24/02
6,498,821                        09/771,326                      12/24/02
6,498,833                        09/922,858                      12/24/02
6,498,836                        09/294,111                      12/24/02
6,498,840                        09/888,946                      12/24/02
6,498,842                        09/777,170                      12/24/02
6,498,843                        09/295,425                      12/24/02
6,498,844                        09/308,551                      12/24/02
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 76  

6,498,849                        09/678,676                      12/24/02
6,498,862                        09/316,913                      12/24/02
6,498,875                        09/563,601                      12/24/02
6,498,878                        09/656,753                      12/24/02
6,498,881                        09/538,286                      12/24/02
6,498,884                        09/691,988                      12/24/02
6,498,886                        09/784,329                      12/24/02
6,498,903                        10/004,171                      12/24/02
6,498,917                        09/865,520                      12/24/02
6,498,928                        09/720,355                      12/24/02
6,498,929                        08/880,679                      12/24/02
6,498,938                        09/460,164                      12/24/02
6,498,947                        09/791,307                      12/24/02
6,498,963                        09/455,443                      12/24/02
6,498,964                        09/386,231                      12/24/02
6,498,966                        09/508,432                      12/24/02
6,498,967                        10/057,128                      12/24/02
6,498,971                        09/805,487                      12/24/02
6,498,989                        09/453,158                      12/24/02
6,498,991                        09/640,849                      12/24/02
6,498,992                        09/291,260                      12/24/02
6,499,002                        09/494,244                      12/24/02
6,499,008                        09/316,776                      12/24/02
6,499,024                        09/382,057                      12/24/02
6,499,028                        09/282,625                      12/24/02
6,499,033                        09/578,776                      12/24/02
6,499,037                        09/391,991                      12/24/02
6,499,038                        10/023,056                      12/24/02
6,499,051                        09/246,151                      12/24/02
6,499,055                        09/248,892                      12/24/02
6,499,059                        09/310,862                      12/24/02
6,499,071                        09/353,244                      12/24/02
6,499,093                        09/401,335                      12/24/02
6,499,096                        09/406,857                      12/24/02
6,499,102                        09/474,219                      12/24/02
6,499,121                        09/260,463                      12/24/02
6,499,122                        09/265,652                      12/24/02
6,499,126                        09/606,082                      12/24/02
6,499,133                        09/527,474                      12/24/02

                   PATENTS WHICH EXPIRED ON December 26, 2011
                    DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEES

Patent                          Application                         Issue
Number                             Number                            Date

7,152,250                        10/946,898                      12/26/06
7,152,251                        11/044,529                      12/26/06
7,152,253                        10/996,267                      12/26/06
7,152,266                        10/793,375                      12/26/06
7,152,272                        10/619,307                      12/26/06
7,152,279                        09/900,923                      12/26/06
7,152,280                        10/885,540                      12/26/06
7,152,282                        11/039,318                      12/26/06
7,152,285                        11/022,253                      12/26/06
7,152,287                        10/717,181                      12/26/06
7,152,289                        10/254,402                      12/26/06
7,152,296                        10/030,303                      12/26/06
7,152,303                        10/651,123                      12/26/06
7,152,305                        10/601,021                      12/26/06
7,152,315                        10/826,019                      12/26/06
7,152,320                        11/294,671                      12/26/06
7,152,323                        11/116,618                      12/26/06
7,152,325                        10/963,609                      12/26/06
7,152,326                        10/782,117                      12/26/06
7,152,327                        10/911,535                      12/26/06
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 77  

7,152,330                        10/529,607                      12/26/06
7,152,331                        10/761,330                      12/26/06
7,152,333                        11/189,785                      12/26/06
7,152,335                        11/073,210                      12/26/06
7,152,338                        11/069,417                      12/26/06
7,152,341                        10/858,319                      12/26/06
7,152,344                        11/103,841                      12/26/06
7,152,345                        10/733,886                      12/26/06
7,152,348                        11/236,104                      12/26/06
7,152,350                        10/971,058                      12/26/06
7,152,357                        10/797,751                      12/26/06
7,152,360                        11/238,215                      12/26/06
7,152,361                        10/927,878                      12/26/06
7,152,362                        10/974,274                      12/26/06
7,152,363                        11/182,645                      12/26/06
7,152,368                        10/358,367                      12/26/06
7,152,374                        10/690,141                      12/26/06
7,152,376                        10/909,201                      12/26/06
7,152,378                        10/290,118                      12/26/06
7,152,380                        10/703,893                      12/26/06
7,152,383                        10/731,201                      12/26/06
7,152,393                        11/035,764                      12/26/06
7,152,394                        10/484,459                      12/26/06
7,152,406                        10/521,923                      12/26/06
7,152,409                        10/758,879                      12/26/06
7,152,414                        10/473,400                      12/26/06
7,152,425                        10/853,198                      12/26/06
7,152,432                        10/296,883                      12/26/06
7,152,434                        10/418,224                      12/26/06
7,152,452                        10/330,016                      12/26/06
7,152,458                        11/001,410                      12/26/06
7,152,481                        10/907,706                      12/26/06
7,152,491                        11/111,437                      12/26/06
7,152,506                        10/511,689                      12/26/06
7,152,523                        09/888,073                      12/26/06
7,152,525                        10/941,379                      12/26/06
7,152,531                        11/087,668                      12/26/06
7,152,533                        10/773,152                      12/26/06
7,152,535                        10/768,225                      12/26/06
7,152,543                        10/559,875                      12/26/06
7,152,545                        11/003,978                      12/26/06
7,152,551                        11/224,884                      12/26/06
7,152,554                        10/987,043                      12/26/06
7,152,558                        11/029,305                      12/26/06
7,152,562                        11/142,050                      12/26/06
7,152,564                        10/849,013                      12/26/06
7,152,565                        11/158,971                      12/26/06
7,152,572                        10/529,529                      12/26/06
7,152,599                        11/133,774                      12/26/06
7,152,601                        10/450,955                      12/26/06
7,152,606                        09/152,992                      12/26/06
7,152,610                        10/491,915                      12/26/06
7,152,619                        10/894,494                      12/26/06
7,152,631                        11/519,840                      12/26/06
7,152,639                        11/063,340                      12/26/06
7,152,642                        10/381,313                      12/26/06
7,152,643                        10/490,159                      12/26/06
7,152,656                        11/236,498                      12/26/06
7,152,658                        10/636,912                      12/26/06
7,152,665                        10/841,279                      12/26/06
7,152,693                        10/449,382                      12/26/06
7,152,694                        10/365,670                      12/26/06
7,152,699                        10/768,172                      12/26/06
7,152,710                        11/203,835                      12/26/06
7,152,721                        10/980,038                      12/26/06
7,152,728                        11/268,688                      12/26/06
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 78  

7,152,730                        10/963,201                      12/26/06
7,152,732                        10/621,939                      12/26/06
7,152,734                        10/890,117                      12/26/06
7,152,736                        10/838,117                      12/26/06
7,152,739                        10/719,242                      12/26/06
7,152,740                        11/305,321                      12/26/06
7,152,742                        10/466,667                      12/26/06
7,152,747                        11/085,453                      12/26/06
7,152,754                        10/724,247                      12/26/06
7,152,755                        10/611,332                      12/26/06
7,152,759                        10/498,753                      12/26/06
7,152,760                        10/909,956                      12/26/06
7,152,768                        10/606,516                      12/26/06
7,152,774                        11/028,025                      12/26/06
7,152,787                        11/161,831                      12/26/06
7,152,791                        10/708,902                      12/26/06
7,152,792                        10/078,172                      12/26/06
7,152,807                        10/924,517                      12/26/06
7,152,825                        10/376,036                      12/26/06
7,152,833                        10/918,290                      12/26/06
7,152,834                        10/755,891                      12/26/06
7,152,838                        10/774,036                      12/26/06
7,152,843                        10/936,322                      12/26/06
7,152,852                        10/780,690                      12/26/06
7,152,855                        10/820,684                      12/26/06
7,152,858                        10/985,583                      12/26/06
7,152,868                        09/958,973                      12/26/06
7,152,870                        11/342,200                      12/26/06
7,152,871                        10/834,590                      12/26/06
7,152,878                        10/824,284                      12/26/06
7,152,882                        10/397,195                      12/26/06
7,152,883                        10/749,047                      12/26/06
7,152,887                        10/962,114                      12/26/06
7,152,894                        10/817,621                      12/26/06
7,152,898                        10/905,469                      12/26/06
7,152,930                        10/899,737                      12/26/06
7,152,931                        10/615,833                      12/26/06
7,152,932                        10/867,251                      12/26/06
7,152,936                        10/799,791                      12/26/06
7,152,969                        10/733,764                      12/26/06
7,152,974                        10/934,020                      12/26/06
7,152,980                        10/952,836                      12/26/06
7,152,981                        11/021,732                      12/26/06
7,152,982                        10/796,190                      12/26/06
7,152,994                        11/014,180                      12/26/06
7,152,997                        11/242,740                      12/26/06
7,153,010                        10/984,232                      12/26/06
7,153,012                        10/964,424                      12/26/06
7,153,013                        10/640,858                      12/26/06
7,153,014                        11/000,606                      12/26/06
7,153,019                        10/945,895                      12/26/06
7,153,030                        11/019,714                      12/26/06
7,153,046                        11/102,305                      12/26/06
7,153,053                        10/989,804                      12/26/06
7,153,055                        09/554,025                      12/26/06
7,153,056                        11/449,205                      12/26/06
7,153,061                        11/088,650                      12/26/06
7,153,062                        11/346,744                      12/26/06
7,153,077                        10/651,656                      12/26/06
7,153,086                        10/728,183                      12/26/06
7,153,092                        11/023,814                      12/26/06
7,153,100                        11/021,396                      12/26/06
7,153,105                        10/422,268                      12/26/06
7,153,109                        10/922,943                      12/26/06
7,153,110                        10/501,550                      12/26/06
7,153,120                        10/824,332                      12/26/06
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 79  

7,153,121                        10/885,085                      12/26/06
7,153,131                        11/051,080                      12/26/06
7,153,149                        11/222,878                      12/26/06
7,153,150                        11/326,417                      12/26/06
7,153,157                        11/039,545                      12/26/06
7,153,158                        11/485,881                      12/26/06
7,153,162                        10/478,582                      12/26/06
7,153,182                        10/955,044                      12/26/06
7,153,186                        10/930,695                      12/26/06
7,153,192                        11/252,511                      12/26/06
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7,153,333                        10/415,988                      12/26/06
7,153,342                        10/752,519                      12/26/06
7,153,365                        10/745,275                      12/26/06
7,153,367                        10/898,018                      12/26/06
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7,153,383                        10/450,635                      12/26/06
7,153,384                        10/702,674                      12/26/06
7,153,390                        10/039,237                      12/26/06
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7,153,406                        10/619,718                      12/26/06
7,153,409                        10/456,984                      12/26/06
7,153,416                        11/378,610                      12/26/06
7,153,419                        11/203,591                      12/26/06
7,153,421                        10/916,565                      12/26/06
7,153,424                        10/380,283                      12/26/06
7,153,425                        10/917,881                      12/26/06
7,153,430                        10/506,024                      12/26/06
7,153,436                        10/365,768                      12/26/06
7,153,448                        11/063,203                      12/26/06
7,153,457                        09/976,071                      12/26/06
7,153,460                        10/744,153                      12/26/06
7,153,468                        10/344,772                      12/26/06
7,153,470                        10/094,690                      12/26/06
7,153,475                        11/126,515                      12/26/06
7,153,482                        11/169,681                      12/26/06
7,153,492                        10/474,363                      12/26/06
7,153,494                        10/688,937                      12/26/06
7,153,495                        10/865,397                      12/26/06
7,153,516                        09/897,871                      12/26/06
7,153,517                        10/169,093                      12/26/06
7,153,538                        09/962,624                      12/26/06
7,153,545                        10/867,732                      12/26/06
7,153,564                        10/643,781                      12/26/06
7,153,566                        09/913,725                      12/26/06
7,153,567                        10/070,104                      12/26/06
7,153,568                        11/003,887                      12/26/06
7,153,576                        10/761,714                      12/26/06
7,153,581                        10/354,498                      12/26/06
7,153,599                        10/248,167                      12/26/06
7,153,612                        10/084,656                      12/26/06
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7,153,634                        10/704,957                      12/26/06
7,153,635                        11/234,711                      12/26/06
7,153,641                        11/037,410                      12/26/06
7,153,649                        10/278,920                      12/26/06
7,153,670                        10/960,275                      12/26/06
7,153,682                        10/190,308                      12/26/06
7,153,689                        10/211,623                      12/26/06
7,153,690                        10/278,449                      12/26/06
7,153,691                        10/293,609                      12/26/06
7,153,692                        11/106,369                      12/26/06
7,153,694                        10/304,480                      12/26/06
7,153,695                        10/097,643                      12/26/06
7,153,698                        10/616,138                      12/26/06
7,153,714                        10/838,337                      12/26/06
7,153,738                        10/908,617                      12/26/06
7,153,780                        10/808,793                      12/26/06
7,153,783                        10/886,247                      12/26/06
7,153,797                        10/856,805                      12/26/06
7,153,799                        11/016,292                      12/26/06
7,153,800                        11/074,010                      12/26/06
7,153,806                        10/924,340                      12/26/06
7,153,813                        10/504,743                      12/26/06
7,153,817                        10/204,877                      12/26/06
7,153,819                        10/025,237                      12/26/06
7,153,822                        10/353,549                      12/26/06
7,153,824                        10/817,312                      12/26/06
7,153,827                        09/219,442                      12/26/06
7,153,836                        10/961,982                      12/26/06
7,153,837                        10/481,473                      12/26/06
7,153,849                        10/659,537                      12/26/06
7,153,852                        10/488,834                      12/26/06
7,153,855                        10/468,729                      12/26/06
7,153,857                        10/485,409                      12/26/06
7,153,862                        10/618,414                      12/26/06
7,153,863                        10/530,101                      12/26/06
7,153,865                        10/488,025                      12/26/06
7,153,868                        10/417,360                      12/26/06
7,153,870                        10/895,883                      12/26/06
7,153,871                        10/622,117                      12/26/06
7,153,875                        10/094,142                      12/26/06
7,153,878                        10/505,089                      12/26/06
7,153,884                        10/485,982                      12/26/06
7,153,894                        10/458,173                      12/26/06
7,153,897                        10/749,519                      12/26/06
7,153,901                        10/719,948                      12/26/06
7,153,905                        10/806,025                      12/26/06
7,153,913                        10/506,659                      12/26/06
7,153,920                        11/120,227                      12/26/06
7,153,924                        10/854,722                      12/26/06
7,153,927                        10/451,292                      12/26/06
7,153,928                        10/992,132                      12/26/06
7,153,931                        09/438,460                      12/26/06
7,153,937                        10/253,159                      12/26/06
7,153,942                        09/935,726                      12/26/06
7,153,946                        10/996,848                      12/26/06
7,153,959                        10/374,781                      12/26/06
7,153,962                        11/179,368                      12/26/06
7,153,967                        11/023,021                      12/26/06
7,153,968                        10/517,416                      12/26/06
7,153,977                        10/741,200                      12/26/06
7,153,981                        11/169,102                      12/26/06
7,153,985                        11/333,077                      12/26/06
7,153,989                        11/053,891                      12/26/06
7,153,990                        11/257,346                      12/26/06
7,153,997                        10/520,902                      12/26/06
7,153,999                        10/051,025                      12/26/06
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7,154,002                        10/681,049                      12/26/06
7,154,013                        10/431,101                      12/26/06
7,154,014                        10/946,948                      12/26/06
7,154,015                        10/019,273                      12/26/06
7,154,037                        10/495,857                      12/26/06
7,154,038                        10/513,912                      12/26/06
7,154,041                        11/121,357                      12/26/06
7,154,045                        10/289,178                      12/26/06
7,154,071                        11/211,032                      12/26/06
7,154,073                        11/319,741                      12/26/06
7,154,077                        10/970,984                      12/26/06
7,154,083                        10/784,308                      12/26/06
7,154,087                        11/040,351                      12/26/06
7,154,097                        10/471,734                      12/26/06
7,154,098                        10/780,850                      12/26/06
7,154,102                        10/784,889                      12/26/06
7,154,103                        10/624,319                      12/26/06
7,154,115                        10/508,506                      12/26/06
7,154,117                        10/758,321                      12/26/06
7,154,138                        10/481,278                      12/26/06
7,154,142                        11/158,412                      12/26/06
7,154,154                        10/683,782                      12/26/06
7,154,177                        10/518,267                      12/26/06
7,154,184                        10/725,384                      12/26/06
7,154,201                        10/941,031                      12/26/06
7,154,204                        10/499,362                      12/26/06
7,154,209                        10/737,632                      12/26/06
7,154,211                        11/138,255                      12/26/06
7,154,212                        11/031,948                      12/26/06
7,154,213                        10/945,876                      12/26/06
7,154,222                        10/822,134                      12/26/06
7,154,224                        11/105,451                      12/26/06
7,154,226                        10/517,916                      12/26/06
7,154,234                        11/044,143                      12/26/06
7,154,257                        10/261,055                      12/26/06
7,154,260                        10/969,559                      12/26/06
7,154,278                        11/078,485                      12/26/06
7,154,284                        10/905,482                      12/26/06
7,154,286                        11/172,275                      12/26/06
7,154,288                        11/305,513                      12/26/06
7,154,291                        10/925,025                      12/26/06
7,154,301                        10/811,032                      12/26/06
7,154,312                        11/031,129                      12/26/06
7,154,320                        11/093,643                      12/26/06
7,154,321                        10/485,599                      12/26/06
7,154,330                        10/844,220                      12/26/06
7,154,334                        11/045,935                      12/26/06
7,154,339                        10/514,900                      12/26/06
7,154,341                        10/994,280                      12/26/06
7,154,343                        10/940,646                      12/26/06
7,154,362                        10/712,840                      12/26/06
7,154,379                        10/800,586                      12/26/06
7,154,380                        10/998,247                      12/26/06
7,154,391                        10/627,615                      12/26/06
7,154,398                        10/337,096                      12/26/06
7,154,420                        10/503,957                      12/26/06
7,154,433                        10/830,805                      12/26/06
7,154,452                        10/204,596                      12/26/06
7,154,469                        10/846,080                      12/26/06
7,154,472                        10/813,360                      12/26/06
7,154,474                        09/767,068                      12/26/06
7,154,478                        10/412,186                      12/26/06
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7,154,492                        10/645,669                      12/26/06
7,154,513                        09/988,617                      12/26/06
7,154,517                        10/891,555                      12/26/06
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7,154,529                        10/799,414                      12/26/06
7,154,548                        09/772,267                      12/26/06
7,154,561                        10/352,095                      12/26/06
7,154,566                        10/310,367                      12/26/06
7,154,567                        10/773,150                      12/26/06
7,154,574                        10/186,707                      12/26/06
7,154,576                        10/789,394                      12/26/06
7,154,601                        10/829,325                      12/26/06
7,154,612                        10/420,573                      12/26/06
7,154,614                        09/910,177                      12/26/06
7,154,623                        09/948,396                      12/26/06
7,154,631                        09/852,263                      12/26/06
7,154,648                        11/104,932                      12/26/06
7,154,673                        10/533,946                      12/26/06
7,154,674                        10/510,785                      12/26/06
7,154,676                        10/931,062                      12/26/06
7,154,685                        10/730,790                      12/26/06
7,154,692                        10/955,827                      12/26/06
7,154,695                        10/985,443                      12/26/06
7,154,696                        10/777,522                      12/26/06
7,154,705                        11/315,909                      12/26/06
7,154,717                        10/773,902                      12/26/06
7,154,722                        09/946,232                      12/26/06
7,154,729                        10/485,216                      12/26/06
7,154,730                        10/433,263                      12/26/06
7,154,760                        10/733,289                      12/26/06
7,154,763                        11/135,607                      12/26/06
7,154,771                        11/054,112                      12/26/06
7,154,786                        10/960,996                      12/26/06
7,154,804                        11/377,348                      12/26/06
7,154,818                        10/964,347                      12/26/06
7,154,825                        11/116,180                      12/26/06
7,154,831                        11/174,478                      12/26/06
7,154,834                        10/527,855                      12/26/06
7,154,839                        10/610,995                      12/26/06
7,154,871                        09/810,249                      12/26/06
7,154,880                        10/216,293                      12/26/06
7,154,893                        11/109,057                      12/26/06
7,154,894                        09/723,117                      12/26/06
7,154,898                        09/960,246                      12/26/06
7,154,925                        10/765,877                      12/26/06
7,154,954                        09/618,848                      12/26/06
7,154,956                        10/624,771                      12/26/06
7,154,963                        10/100,921                      12/26/06
7,154,977                        10/404,606                      12/26/06
7,154,979                        10/003,330                      12/26/06
7,154,985                        10/844,506                      12/26/06
7,155,006                        09/960,821                      12/26/06
7,155,016                        09/427,600                      12/26/06
7,155,020                        09/823,222                      12/26/06
7,155,021                        09/803,327                      12/26/06
7,155,030                        11/074,562                      12/26/06
7,155,038                        09/794,126                      12/26/06
7,155,052                        10/164,412                      12/26/06
7,155,062                        09/442,445                      12/26/06
7,155,066                        09/871,408                      12/26/06
7,155,077                        11/158,529                      12/26/06
7,155,098                        10/502,455                      12/26/06
7,155,105                        11/338,930                      12/26/06
7,155,126                        10/084,997                      12/26/06
7,155,158                        10/356,462                      12/26/06
7,155,160                        09/835,518                      12/26/06
7,155,162                        10/240,530                      12/26/06
7,155,181                        10/904,406                      12/26/06
7,155,198                        10/143,359                      12/26/06
7,155,212                        11/203,250                      12/26/06
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7,155,239                        10/856,965                      12/26/06
7,155,244                        10/641,928                      12/26/06
7,155,310                        11/097,513                      12/26/06
7,155,311                        11/097,519                      12/26/06
7,155,312                        11/097,597                      12/26/06
7,155,313                        11/098,896                      12/26/06
7,155,314                        11/098,933                      12/26/06
7,155,317                        10/711,089                      12/26/06
7,155,346                        10/209,041                      12/26/06
7,155,363                        09/199,677                      12/26/06
7,155,366                        10/999,066                      12/26/06
7,155,384                        10/277,827                      12/26/06
7,155,403                        09/815,312                      12/26/06
7,155,404                        09/588,534                      12/26/06
7,155,416                        10/613,481                      12/26/06
7,155,430                        10/451,656                      12/26/06
7,155,435                        09/707,111                      12/26/06
7,155,445                        10/771,327                      12/26/06
7,155,453                        10/154,529                      12/26/06
7,155,455                        10/325,925                      12/26/06
7,155,493                        09/182,303                      12/26/06
7,155,509                        10/082,864                      12/26/06
7,155,530                        09/881,919                      12/26/06
7,155,541                        11/036,827                      12/26/06
7,155,550                        10/159,597                      12/26/06
7,155,571                        10/260,803                      12/26/06
7,155,574                        11/414,541                      12/26/06
7,155,575                        10/323,226                      12/26/06
7,155,592                        10/837,653                      12/26/06
7,155,594                        10/663,732                      12/26/06
7,155,596                        10/773,478                      12/26/06
7,155,600                        10/422,648                      12/26/06
7,155,607                        10/369,644                      12/26/06
7,155,610                        10/020,308                      12/26/06
7,155,629                        10/411,455                      12/26/06
7,155,631                        10/367,758                      12/26/06
7,155,648                        10/666,169                      12/26/06
7,155,657                        10/383,454                      12/26/06
7,155,692                        10/932,452                      12/26/06
7,155,712                        09/729,015                      12/26/06
7,155,717                        09/771,374                      12/26/06
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Patents Reinstated Due to the Acceptance of a Late Maintenance Fee from 1/17/2011 
                 Patents Reinstated Due to the Acceptance of a
                     Late Maintenance Fee from 01/17/2011

Patent            Application        Filing           Issue           Granted
Number            Number             Date             Date               Date

5,674,380         08/517,619         08/22/95         10/07/97       01/21/11
5,698,583         08/339,747         11/15/94         12/16/97       01/18/11
5,727,214         08/703,385         08/26/96         03/10/98       01/21/11
5,819,477         08/714,589         09/16/96         10/13/98       01/20/11
6,156,348         09/135,248         08/17/98         12/05/00       01/21/11
6,176,506         09/183,104         10/30/98         01/23/01       01/17/11
6,371,637         09/477,637         01/03/00         04/16/02       01/18/11
6,375,630         09/071,357         04/28/98         04/23/02       01/21/11
6,392,538         08/748,632         11/13/96         05/21/02       01/17/11
6,439,814         08/978,781         11/26/97         08/27/02       01/20/11
6,458,446         09/396,818         09/14/99         10/01/02       01/20/11
6,459,015         09/068,950         05/21/98         10/01/02       01/21/11
6,464,423         09/256,252         02/23/99         10/15/02       01/20/11
6,474,828         09/942,646         08/31/01         11/05/02       01/19/11
6,505,524         09/114,332         07/13/98         01/14/03       01/21/11
6,817,202         10/628,099         07/28/03         11/16/04       01/21/11
6,899,169         10/884,320         07/02/04         05/31/05       01/19/11
6,928,845         10/299,272         11/18/02         08/16/05       01/21/11
6,963,275         10/449,579         05/30/03         11/08/05       01/18/11
6,972,056         10/135,013         04/25/02         12/06/05       01/22/11
7,057,510         10/777,272         02/11/04         06/06/06       01/21/11
7,059,803         10/645,245         08/21/03         06/13/06       01/20/11
7,068,596         09/699,108         10/26/00         06/27/06       01/22/11
7,070,412         10/909,816         08/02/04         07/04/06       01/19/11
7,082,770         10/746,310         12/24/03         08/01/06       01/20/11
7,121,061         10/725,151         12/01/03         10/17/06       01/22/11
7,134,430         11/010,195         12/09/04         11/14/06       01/21/11
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Reissue Applications Filed 
			  Reissue Applications Filed

   Notice under 37 CFR 1.11(b). The reissue applications listed below are
open to public inspection by the general public through the Image File
Wrapper (IFW) system (http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair) on the
USPTO internet web site (www.uspto.gov), and copies may be obtained by
paying the fee therefor (37 CFR 1.19).

   D. 583,585, Re. S.N. 29/382,271, Dec. 30, 2010, Cl. D06/000, SOFA, Per
Weiss Andersen, Owner of Record: INNOVATION U.S.A., INC., Attorney or
Agent: Michael A. Minter, Ex. Gp.: 2913

   D. 584,083, Re. S.N. 29/381,517, Dec. 20, 2010, Cl. D06/000, UNIVERSAL
MULTIMEDIA TRAY, Britt Claire Nielsen, Owner of Record: SLAM BRANDS, INC.,
Attorney or Agent: Thomas E. Watson, Ex. Gp.: 2913

   RE. 41,765, Re. S.N. 12/891,664, Sept. 27, 2010, Cl. 166/248, VARIABLE
TEMPERATURE SEAT, Christian T. Gregory et. al., Owner of Record: AMERIGON
INC., Attorney or Agent: Theodore G. Papagiannis, Ex. Gp.: 3672

   5,926,116, Re. S.N. 12,875,488, SEP. 03, 2010, Cl. TITLE IN UPPER CASE
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD, Hiroaki Kitano, et.al., Owner
of Record: Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP, Attorney or Agent: James D. Stein,
Ex. Gp.: 2465

   6,098,048, Re. S.N. 12,970,640, DEC. 16, 2010, Cl. 705/010, AUTOMATED
DATA COLLECTION FOR CONSUMER DRIVING-ACTIVITY SURVEY, Donald J. Dashefsky,
et. al., Owner of Record: VNU Marketing Information Services, Inc.,
Attorney or Agent: Mark G. Hanley, Ex. Gp.: 3622

   6,148,354, Re. S.N.: 13/005,501, Jan. 12, 2011, CL: 710/301.000,
ARCHITECTURE FOR A UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS-BASED PC FLASH DISK, Amir Ban, et.
al., Owner of Record: SanDisk IL Ltd., Attorney or Agent: Gary S. Williams,
Ex. GP.: 2111

   6,148,354, Re. S.N.: 13/005,505, Jan./12/2011, CL: 710/301.000, USB
FLASH MEMORY DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED USB CONTROLLER, Amir Ban, et.al.,
Owner of Record: SanDisk IL Ltd., Attorney or Agent: Gary S. Williams, Ex.
GP.: 2111

   6,466,203, Re. S.N. 12/980,454, Dec. 29, 2010, Cl. 345/000, HAND-HELD
WITH AUTO-ZOOM FOR GRAPHICAL DISPLAY OF WEB PAGE, Jan Van Ee, Owner of
Record: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V., Attorney or Agent: Edward W.
Goodman, Ex. Gp.: 2629

   6,738,820, Re. S.N.: 12/964,926, Dec. 10, 2010, CL: 709/203.000, SYSTEM
USING HOME GATEWAY TO ANALYZE INFORMATION RECEIVED IN AN EMAIL MESSAGE FOR
CONTROLLING DEVICES CONNECTED IN A HOME NETWORK, Patrick Hilt, Owner of
Record: Sony Deutschland GmbH, Attorney or Agent: William S. Frommer, Ex.
GP.: 2447

   6,880,259, Re. S.N. 12/883,069, Sep. 15, 2010, Cl. 033/613, PICTURE
LEVELING/POSITIONING TEMPLATE, Erich George Schultz, Owner of Record:
Inventor, Attorney or Agent: K. Brian Bathhurst, Ex. Gp.: 2841

   6,975,553, Re. S.N.: 13/005,225, Jan. 12, 2011, CL: 365/230.010,
NONALIGNED ACCESS TO RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY, Georgiy Shenderovich, Owner of
Record: Faust Communications Holdings, LLC, Attorney or Agent: Jennifer M.
Lane, Ex. GP.: 2181

   7,235,955, Re. S.N. 12/951,716, Nov. 22, 2010, Cl. 323/222, METHOD AND
APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING BOOSTING SYSTEM BUS WHEN CHARGING A BATTERY, Eric
Magne Solie, et al., Owner of Record: Intersil Americas, Inc., Milpitas,
CA, Attorney or Agent: Sarah M. Koniewicz, Ex. Gp.: 2838
 February 15, 2011 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1363 OG 86  

   7,336,850, Re. S.N. 12,713,040, FEB. 25, 2010, Cl. 382/141, METHOD FOR
CONCEALING DARK DEFECT IN IMAGE SENSOR, Wan-Hee Jo, Owner of Record:
Crosstek Capital, LLC, Wilmington, DE, Attorney or Agent: Andrew B. Karp,
Ex. Gp.: 2624

   7,375,282, Re. S.N. 12,631,979, DEC. 07, 2009, Cl. 174/084, STRUCTURED
CABLING SYSTEM AND METHOD, Jason Lee James, et.al., Owner of Record:
Hellermanntyton Data Limited, Northampton, United Kingdom, Attorney or
Agent: Kelly K. Burris, Ex. Gp.: 2835

   7,429,925, Re. S.N. 12,894,806, SEP. 30, 2010, Cl. 340/628, LABEL
PRINTER HAVING AN RFID COMMUNICATION FUNCTION, Makoto Sugiyama, et.al.,
Owner of Record: Toshiba TEC Kabushiki Kaisha, Attorney or Agent: Walter C.
Grollitsch, Ex. Gp.: 2612

   7,440,501, Re. S.N. 12/908,690, Oct. 20, 2010, Cl. 375/240, METHOD AND
APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING LOOP FILTERING OR POST FILTERING IN BLOCK BASED
MOTION COMPENSATIONED VIDEO CODING, Shijun Sun, et al., Owner of Record:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Attorney or Agent: Michael R. Cammarata, Ex. Gp.:
2621

   7,444,306, Re. S.N. 12/913,611, Jan. 12, 2011, Cl. 705/052, METHOD AND
APPARATUS FOR THE RENTAL OR SALE, AND SECURE DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL
CONTENT, Thomas Bryan Varble, Owner of Record: Inventor, Attorney or Agent:
Andrew G. DiNovo, Ex. Gp.: 3621

   7,459,625, Re. S.N. 12,959,249, DEC. 02, 2010, Cl. 084/603, WAVEFORM
PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH VERSATILE DATA BUS, Kazuhisa Okamura, Owner of
Record: Yamaha Corporation, Hamamatsu-shi, JP, Attorney or Agent: Kenneth
X. Xie, Ex. Gp.: 2832

   7,460,466, Re. S.N. 12/959,154, Dec. 02, 2010, Cl. 370/000, APPARATUS
AND METHOD FOR SIGNAL CONSTITUTION FOR DOWNLINK OF OFDMA-BASED CELLULAR
SYSTEM, Sok-Kyu Lee et. al., Owner of Record: ELECTRONICS AND
TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Attorney or Agent: Justin T. Arbes,
Ex. Gp.: 2472

   7,461,958, Re. S.N. 12/962,148, Dec. 07, 2010, Cl. 362/433, LAMP HOLDING
APPARATUS, BACKLIGHT DEVICE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING SAME, DISPLAY
DEVICE INCLUDING SAME AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING BACKLIGHT
DEVICE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE, Yoshiki Takata, et al., Owner of Record: Sharp
Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP, Attorney or Agent: Joseph Keating, Ex. Gp.:
2875

   7,466,533, Re. S.N. 12/970,774, Dec. 16, 2010, Cl. 361/303, NANOFIBER
SURFACE BASED CAPACITORS, Calvin Y. H. Chow, et al., Owner of Record:
Nanosys, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, Attorney or Agent: Samir Elamrani, Ex. Gp.:
2831

   7,472,660, Re. S.N. 12/984,470, Jan. 04, 2011, Cl. 111/174, SEED TUBE
FOR AN AGRICULTURAL SEEDING MACHINE, Nathan A. Mariman et. al., Owner of
Record: DEERE & COMPANY, East Moline, Il., Attorney or Agent: Timothy E.
Levstik, Ex. Gp.: 3641

   7,473,312, Re. S.N. 12/985,939, Jan. 06, 2011, Cl. 106/671, CALCIUM
PHOSPHATE BONE CEMENTS, Jake Barralet, et al., Owner of Record: Ortus
Medical Limited, Bristol, GB, Attorney or Agent: Dorothy P. Whelan, Ex.
Gp.: 1734

   7,531,227, Re. S.N.: 13/006,952, Jan. 14, 2011, CL: 428/043.000, CARD
SHEET CONSTRUCTION, Martin Utz, Owner of Record: AVERY DENNISON
CORPORATION, Attorney or Agent: Mark E. Bandy, Ex. GP.: 1783

   7,534,479, Re. S.N.: 13/006,980, Jan. 14, 2011, CL: 428/043.000,
PRINTABLE SNAP-BREAKABLE POLYMER SHEET, Martin Utz, et.al., Owner of
Record: AVERY DENNISON CORPORATION, Attorney or Agent: Mark E. Bandy, Ex.
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GP.: 1783

   7,676,192, Re. S.N.: 12/930,519, Jan. 07, 2011, CL: 455/165.100, RADIO
SCANNER PROGRAMMED FROM FREQUENCY DATABASE AND METHOD, Wayne K. Wilson,
Owner of Record: RadioShack Corporation, Attorney or Agent: Daniel R.
Brown, Ex. GP.: 2618

   7,807,852, Re. S.N. 12/984,816, Jan. 05, 2011, Cl. 514/246,
POLYMERIZABLE SULFONATE IONIC LIQUIDS AND LIQUID POLYMERS THEREFROM, Holly
L. Ricks-Laskoski et. al., Owner of Record: US GOVERNMENT-NAVY, Attorney or
Agent: Joseph T. Grunkemeyer, Ex. Gp.: 1614
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Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed 
		   Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed

   5,487,069, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,331, Requested Date: November 12, 2010,
Cl. 370/200, Title: WIRELESS LAN, Inventor: John D. O'Sullivan et al.,
Owners of Record: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization, Australia, Attorney or Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney,
PC., Alexandria, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Tracy W. Druce, Novak Druce
& Quigg, LLP., Houston, TX

   5,774,186, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,321, Requested Date: November 9, 2010,
Cl. 348/553, Title: INTERRUPTION TOLERANT VIDEO PROGRAM VIEWING, Inventor:
Marc H. Brodsky et al., Owners of Record: EchoStar Technologies, LLC.,
Englewood, CO, Attorney or Agent: EchoStar Technologies, LLC., Englewood,
CO, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: TiVo, Inc., Babak Redjaian, Irell & Manella,
LLP., Los Angeles, CA

   5,803,101, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,332, Requested Date: November 15, 2010,
Cl. 134/001, Title: PORTABLE DRAIN CLEANING APPARATUS, Inventor: Charles V.
Gallo, Owners of Record: CDC Products, Inc., Blacksburg, VA, Attorney or
Agent: Diederiks and Whitelaw, PLC., Woodbridge, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3991,
Requester: ComStar International, Inc., David Leason, Leason Ellis, LLP.,
White Plains, NY

   5,841,099, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,314, Requested Date: November 3, 2010,
Cl. 219/121, Title: METHOD EMPLOYING UV LASER PULSES OF VARIED ENERGY
DENSITY TO FORM DEPTHWISE SELF-LIMITING BLIND VIAS IN MULTILAYERED TARGETS,
Inventor: Mark D. Owen et al., Owners of Record: Electro Scientific
Industries, Inc., Portland, OR, Attorney or Agent: Stoel Rives, LLP.,
Portland, OR, Ex. Gp.: 3991, Requester: Michael H. Jacobs, Crowell &
Moring, LLP., Washington, DC

   5,903,803, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,340, Requested Date: November 18, 2010,
Cl. 399/116, Title: PROCESS CARTRIDGE, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING
APPARATUS, DRIVING FORCE TRANSMISSION PART, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC
PHOTOSENSITIVE DRUM Inventor: Toshiharu Kawai et al., Owners of Record:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan, Attorney or Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper
& Scinto, New York, NY, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Reece Nienstadt, Mei &
Mark, LLP., Washington, DC

   5,995,947, Reexam. C.N. 90/009,857, Requested Date: December 2, 2010,
Cl. 705/038, Title: INTERACTIVE MORTGAGE AND LOAN INFORMATION AND REAL-TIME
TRADING SYSTEM, Inventor: Stephen K. Fraser et al., Owners of Record: IMX
Mortgage Exchange, San Ramon, CA, Attorney or Agent: Steven A. Swernofsky
Law Group, Mountain View, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Susanne T. Jones,
O'Brian Johns, PLLC., Tysons Corner, VA

   5,996,011, Reexam. C.N. 90/009,858, Requested Date: December 3, 2010,
Cl. 709/225, Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING DATA RECEIVED BY A
COMPUTER SYSTEM, Inventor: Donald Creig Humes, Owners of Record: Symantec
Corporation, Cupertino, CA, Attorney or Agent: Gunnison McKay & Hodgson,
LLP., Monterey, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Mike H. Lee, King & Spalding,
LLP., Redwood City, CA

   6,032,859, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,146, Requested Date: November 24, 2010,
Cl. 235/449, Title: METHOD FOR PROCESSING DEBIT PURCHASE TRANSACTIONS USING
A COUNTER-TOP TERMINAL SYSTEM, Inventor: Karl Muehlberger et al., Owners of
Record: Card Activation Technologies, Inc., Wilmington, DE, Attorney or
Agent: Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP., Kansas City, MO, Ex. Gp.: 3992,
Requester: Patrick J. Lee, Kaye Scholer, LLP., Washington, DC

   6,114,635, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,339, Requested Date: November 18, 2010,
Cl. 174/260, Title: CHIP-SCALE ELECTRONIC COMPONENT PACKAGE, Inventor:
Kenneth Meade Lakin et al., Owners of Record: Triquint Semiconductor, Inc.,
Hillsboro, OR, Attorney or Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP., Portland, OR,
Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Tracy W. Druce, Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP.,
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Houston, TX

   6,208,804, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,319, Requested Date: November 8, 2010,
Cl. 386/125, Title: MULTIMEDIA DIRECT ACCESS STORAGE DEVICE AND FORMATTING
METHOD, Inventor: Hal Hjalmar Ottesen et al., Owners of Record: Echostar
Technologies, LLC., Englewood, CO, Attorney or Agent: Morrison & Foerster,
LLP., Los Angeles, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Greg H. Gardella, Irell &
Manella, LLP., Los Angeles, CA

   6,685,852, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,313, Requested Date: November 2, 2010,
Cl. 252/301, Title: PHOSPHOR BLENDS FOR GENERATING WHITE LIGHT FROM
NEAR-UV/BLUE LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES, Inventor: Anant Achyut Setlur et al.,
Owners of Record: General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, Attorney or
Agent: General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY, Ex. Gp.: 3991, Requester:
Charles A. Wendel, Alexandria, VA,

   6,984,055, Reexam. C.N. 90/009,838, Requested Date: December 6, 2010,
Cl. 362/219, Title: SELECTIVELY-EXTENDABLE MODULAR LIGHTING FIXTURE AND
METHOD, Inventor: Charles A. McCarthy et al., Owners of Record: Kenall
Manufacturing Company, Gurnee, IL, Attorney or Agent: Jansson Shupe &
Munger, LLP., Racine, WI, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: PATENT OWNER

   7,166,692, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,324, Requested Date: November 10, 2010,
Cl. 530/300, Title: INTRACELLULAR DELIVERY OF SMALL MOLECULES, PROTEINS AND
NUCLEIC ACIDS, Inventor: Michael Karas, Owners of Record: Lonza
Walkersville, Inc., Walkersville, MD, Attorney or Agent: Banner & Witcoff,
LTD., Washington, DC, Ex. Gp.: 3991, Requester: Barbara A. McDowell, Rossi
Kimms & McDowell, LLP., Ashburn, VA

   7,192,450, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,330, Requested Date: November 12, 2010,
Cl. 623/023, Title: POROUS MEMBRANES FOR USE WITH IMPLANTABLE DEVICES,
Inventor: James H. Brauker et al., Owners of Record: DexCom, Inc., San
Diego, CA, Attorney or Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP., Irvine,
CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Peter A. Socarras, Esq., Bozicevic Field &
Francis, LLP., East Palo Alto, CA

   7,226,978, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,329, Requested Date: November 12, 2010,
Cl. 521/050, Title: TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE POLYURETHANE MEMBRANES FOR
IMPLANTABLE GLUCOSE SENSORS, Inventor: Mark A. Tapsak et al., Owners of
Record: DexCom, Inc., San Diego, CA, Attorney or Agent: Knobbe Martens
Olson & Bear, LLP., Irvine, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3991, Requester: Peter A.
Socarras, Esq., Bozicevic Field & Francis, LLP., East Palo Alto, CA

   7,333,937, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,334, Requested Date: November 15, 2010,
Cl. 705/002, Title: HEALTH CARE FINANCING SYSTEM AND METHOD, Inventor:
Byron S. Baldwin, Jr. et al., Owners of Record: Transunion Intelligence,
LLC., La Vegas, NV, Attorney or Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP., New York,
NY, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Robert L. Grabarek, Jr., Crowell & Moring,
LLP., Washington, DC

   7,534,879, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,320, Requested Date: November 9, 2010,
Cl. 536/024, Title: MODULATION OF EXON RECOGNITION IN PRE-MRNA BY
INTERFERING WITH THE SECONDARY RNA STRUCTURE, Inventor: Judith C.T. van
Deutekom, Owners of Record: Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden, Netherlands,
Attorney or Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP., Boston, MA, Ex.
Gp.: 3991, Requester: PATENT OWNER

   7,640,048, Reexam. C.N. 90/011,333, Requested Date: November 15, 2010,
Cl. 600/345, Title: ANALYTE SENSOR, Inventor: J. Michael Dobbles et al.,
Owners of Record: DexCom, Inc., San Diego, CA, Attorney or Agent: Knobbe
Martens Olson & Bear, LLP., Irvine, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Oliver R.
Ashe, Jr., ASHE, PC Reston, VA

   7,827,805 Reexam. C.N. 90/011,326, Requested Date: November 12, 2010,
Cl. 062/003, Title: SEAT CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM, Inventor: Brian Comiskey
et al, Owners of Record: Amerigon, Inc., Northville, MI, Attorney or Agent:
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP., Irvine, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester:
W.E.T. Automotive Systems, LTD., John VanOphem, Dobrusin & Thennisch, PC.,
Pontiac, MI
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Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed 
		 Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed

   6,945,013, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,452, Requested Date: November 24, 2010,
Cl.: 053/426, Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASEPTIC PACKAGING, Inventor:
Thomas D. Taggart, Owners of Record: Steuben Foods Incorporated, Jamaica,
NY, Attorney or Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts, Latham, NY, Ex. Gp.: 3993,
Requester: Third Party Requester: KHS USA, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Charles A.
Gaglia, Jr., Gibbons, PC., Philadelphia, PA), Real Party in Interest: Same
As Third Party Requester

   6,983,478, Reexam. C.N.: 95/000,601, Requested Date: December 9, 2010,
Cl.: 725/046, Title: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING NETWORK USE, Inventor:
Edward Rowland Grauch et al., Owners of Record: Attorney or Agent: AT&T
Legal Department - SZ, Bedminster, NJ, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third
Party Requester: TiVo, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Greg H. Gardella, Irell & Manella,
LLP., Los Angeles, CA), Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party
Requester

   7,015,868, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,498, Requested Date: December 3, 2010,
Cl.: 383/001, Title: MULTILEVEL ANTENNAE, Inventor: Carles Puente Baliarda
et al., Owners of Record: Fractus, SA., Spain, Attorney or Agent: Howison &
Arnott, LLP., Dallas, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:
(Att'y Is: Brian W. Oaks, Baker Botts, LLP., Austin, TX), Real Party in
Interest: HTC Corporation and HTC America, Inc.

   7,123,208, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,501, Requested Date: December 3, 2010,
Cl.: 343/800, Title: MULTILEVEL ANTENNAE, Inventor: Carles Puente Baliarda
et al., Owners of Record: Fractus, SA., Spain, Attorney or Agent: Howison &
Arnott, LLP., Dallas, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:
(Att'y Is: Brian W. Oaks, Baker Botts, LLP., Austin, TX), Real Party in
Interest: HTC Corporation and HTC America, Inc.

   7,148,850, Reexam. C.N.: 95/000,598, Requested Date: December 3, 2010,
Cl.: 343/700, Title: SPACE-FILLING MINIATURE ANTENNAS, Inventor: Carles
Puente Baliarda et al., Owners of Record: Fractus, SA., Spain, Attorney or
Agent: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, PLLC, Washington, DC, Ex. Gp.: 3992,
Requester: Third Party Requester: (Att'y Is: Bradley P. Williams, Baker
Botts, LLP., Dallas, TX), Real Party in Interest: HTC Corporation and HTC
America, Inc.

   7,312,762, Reexam. C.N.: 95/000,599, Requested Date: December 3, 2010,
Cl.: 343/752, Title: LOADED ANTENNA, Inventor: Carles Puente Baliarda et
al., Owners of Record: Fractus, SA, Spain, Attorney or Agent: Winstead,
PC., Dallas, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester: (Att'y
Is: Bradley P. Williams, Baker Botts, LLP., Dallas, TX), Real Party in
Interest: HTC Corporation and HTC America, Inc.

   7,394,432, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,500, Requested Date: December 3, 2010,
Cl.: 343/700, Title: MULTILEVEL ANTENNAE, Inventor: Carles Puente Baliarda
et al., Owners of Record: Fractus, SA., Spain, Attorney or Agent: Howison &
Arnott, LLP., Dallas, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:
(Att'y Is: Brian W. Oaks, Baker Botts, LLP., Austin, TX), Real Party in
Interest: HTC Corporation and HTC America, Inc.

   7,397,431, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,497, Requested Date: December 3, 2010,
Cl.: 343/700, Title: MULTILEVEL ANTENNAE, Inventor: Carles Puente Baliarda
et al., Owners of Record: Fractus, SA., Spain, Attorney or Agent: Howison &
Arnott, LLP., Dallas, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:
(Att'y Is: Brian W. Oaks, Baker Botts, LLP., Austin, TX), Real Party in
Interest: HTC Corporation and HTC America, Inc.

   7,411,556, Reexam. C.N.: 95/000,600, Requested Date: December 3, 2010,
Cl.: 343/702, Title: MULTI-BAND MONOPOLE ANTENNA FOR A MOBILE
COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE, Inventor: Alfonso Sanz et al., Owners of Record:
Fractus, SA., Spain, Attorney or Agent: Winstead, PC., Dallas, TX, Ex. Gp.:
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3992, Requester: Third Party Requester: (Att'y Is: Bradley P. Williams,
Baker Botts, LLP., Dallas, TX), Real Party in Interest: HTC Corporation and
HTC America, Inc.

   7,528,782, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,499, Requested Date: December 3, 2010,
Cl.: 343/700, Title: MULTILEVEL ANTENNAE, Inventor: Carles Puente Baliarda
et al., Owners of Record: Fractus, SA., Spain, Attorney or Agent: Howison &
Arnott, LLP., Dallas, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:
(Att'y Is: Brian W. Oaks, Baker Botts, LLP., Austin, TX), Real Party in
Interest: HTC Corporation and HTC America, Inc.

   7,588,048, Reexam. C.N.: 95/001,477, Requested Date: November 29, 2010,
Cl.: 137/231, Title: AIR PUMP NOZZLE, Inventor: Ying-Che Huang, Owners of
Record: Ying-Che Huang, Taiwan, Attorney or Agent: Lin & Associates,
Saratoga, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Third Party Requester: Jiun-Wei
Chang; (Att'y Is: Alan D. Kamrath, Kamrath & Associates, PA., Golden
Valley, MN) Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party Requester
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Notice of Expiration of Trademark Registrations Due to Failure to Renew 
                Notice of Expiration of Trademark Registrations
                            Due To Failure to Renew

   15 U.S.C. 1059 provides that each trademark registration may be renewed for
periods of ten years from the end of the expiring period upon payment of
the prescribed fee and the filing of an acceptable application for renewal.
This may be done at any time within one year before the expiration of the
period for which the registration was issued or renewed, or it may be done
within six months after such expiration on payment of an additional fee.
   According to the records of the Office, the trademark registrations
listed below are expired due to failure to renew in accordance with 15
U.S.C. 1059.

                    TRADEMARK REGISTRATIONS WHICH EXPIRED
                               January 21, 2011
                            DUE TO FAILURE TO RENEW

Reg. Number                      Serial Number                      Reg. Date

  892,642                         72/312,254                        06/16/1970
2,360,618                         75/397,640                        06/20/2000
2,359,244                         75/509,976                        06/20/2000
2,360,892                         75/519,811                        06/20/2000
2,359,277                         75/527,441                        06/20/2000
2,359,523                         75/586,168                        06/20/2000
2,359,716                         75/637,199                        06/20/2000
2,359,824                         75/673,645                        06/20/2000
2,359,945                         75/714,484                        06/20/2000
2,360,299                         75/783,322                        06/20/2000
1,137,089                         73/147,685                        06/17/1980
1,602,916                         73/698,643                        06/19/1990
1,544,293                         73/724,805                        06/20/1989
1,602,819                         73/832,744                        06/19/1990
1,602,751                         73/833,608                        06/19/1990
2,358,930                         74/202,704                        06/20/2000
2,360,448                         74/295,038                        06/20/2000
2,360,457                         74/648,820                        06/20/2000
2,360,458                         74/653,078                        06/20/2000
2,358,944                         74/802,406                        06/20/2000
2,358,946                         75/010,024                        06/20/2000
2,360,476                         75/094,203                        06/20/2000
2,358,958                         75/130,712                        06/20/2000
2,358,964                         75/155,634                        06/20/2000
2,360,484                         75/157,763                        06/20/2000
2,358,969                         75/165,698                        06/20/2000
2,360,496                         75/219,031                        06/20/2000
2,360,498                         75/224,281                        06/20/2000
2,360,515                         75/265,296                        06/20/2000
2,359,025                         75/311,868                        06/20/2000
2,360,544                         75/324,661                        06/20/2000
2,359,030                         75/325,535                        06/20/2000
2,360,545                         75/329,469                        06/20/2000
2,360,547                         75/331,656                        06/20/2000
2,360,548                         75/331,657                        06/20/2000
2,359,035                         75/335,820                        06/20/2000
2,360,557                         75/344,128                        06/20/2000
2,360,565                         75/351,808                        06/20/2000
2,360,566                         75/352,876                        06/20/2000
2,360,571                         75/358,121                        06/20/2000
2,360,869                         75/362,129                        06/20/2000
2,359,049                         75/362,130                        06/20/2000
2,360,574                         75/364,244                        06/20/2000
2,360,588                         75/374,176                        06/20/2000
2,360,600                         75/383,398                        06/20/2000
2,360,604                         75/385,763                        06/20/2000
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2,359,059                         75/386,576                        06/20/2000
2,360,607                         75/388,760                        06/20/2000
2,360,610                         75/390,342                        06/20/2000
2,359,065                         75/391,513                        06/20/2000
2,360,613                         75/394,041                        06/20/2000
2,359,070                         75/394,351                        06/20/2000
2,360,873                         75/401,448                        06/20/2000
2,360,625                         75/403,663                        06/20/2000
2,359,090                         75/416,641                        06/20/2000
2,360,636                         75/421,575                        06/20/2000
2,359,093                         75/422,392                        06/20/2000
2,360,637                         75/423,102                        06/20/2000
2,359,103                         75/427,552                        06/20/2000
2,359,117                         75/439,513                        06/20/2000
2,360,654                         75/442,434                        06/20/2000
2,359,134                         75/448,379                        06/20/2000
2,360,658                         75/450,385                        06/20/2000
2,360,660                         75/451,639                        06/20/2000
2,359,143                         75/451,891                        06/20/2000
2,360,667                         75/457,673                        06/20/2000
2,360,880                         75/459,638                        06/20/2000
2,360,677                         75/463,858                        06/20/2000
2,360,882                         75/464,137                        06/20/2000
2,359,180                         75/476,646                        06/20/2000
2,359,184                         75/476,973                        06/20/2000
2,359,185                         75/478,120                        06/20/2000
2,359,187                         75/478,122                        06/20/2000
2,360,698                         75/478,243                        06/20/2000
2,359,188                         75/478,674                        06/20/2000
2,359,190                         75/479,309                        06/20/2000
2,360,699                         75/479,837                        06/20/2000
2,359,194                         75/480,642                        06/20/2000
2,359,196                         75/482,789                        06/20/2000
2,359,198                         75/485,867                        06/20/2000
2,359,202                         75/491,701                        06/20/2000
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2,359,871                         75/687,617                        06/20/2000
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2,360,011                         75/733,008                        06/20/2000
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37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication 
		       37 CFR 1.47 Notice of Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of an application with a petition
under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application without the
signature of the sole inventor. The petition has been granted. A notice has
been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor. The
inventor whose signature is missing (Zhi LI) may join in the application by
promptly filing an appropriate oath or declaration complying with 37 CFR
1.63. The international application number is PCT/CN2007/070357 and was
filed 26 July 2007 in the name of Zhi LI for the invention entitled A
BLUETOOTH EARPHONE AND A MAIN MACHINE DEVICE APPLYING THEREOF. The national
stage number is 12/670,674 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c) date of 20 November
2010.

		       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of a national stage application
with a petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application
without the signature of all inventors. The petition has been granted. A
notice has been sent to the last known address of the non-signing inventor.
The inventor whose signature is missing (John Michael Walker) may join in
the application by promptly filing an appropriate oath or declaration
complying with 37 CFR 1.63. The international application number is
PCT/EP2006/069469 and was filed on 08 December 2006 in the names Fredrik
Lindholm; David Castellanos; and John Michael WALKER and for the invention
entitled METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TERMINATING AN IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM
SERVICE WHEN IP ADDRESS IS NO LONGER ALLOCATED TO THE USER. The national
stage application number is 12/518,022 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371 date of 11
November 2010.
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37 CFR § 1.47 Notice by Publication 
		      37 CFR § 1.47 Notice by Publication

   Notice is hereby given of the filing of the following applications with
a petition under 37 CFR § 1.47 requesting the acceptance of the application
without the signature of all inventors or, if the inventor is deceased, the
legal representative of the deceased inventor. The petition in each
application has been granted. A notice has been sent to the last known
address of the non-signing inventor or legal representative. The inventors
or legal representatives whose signatures are missing may join in the
application by promptly filing an oath or declaration complying with 37 CFR
§ 1.63.

                          Non-Signing
                          Inventor(s)
Application Filing        or Legal               Title of
No.         Date          Representative(s)      Invention

29/316,128  Aug. 26, 2009 Brian Abrams           Sleeping Bag
                          Eric Sachs

29/316,129  Aug. 26, 2009 Brian Abrams           Mobility Sleeping Bag
                          Eric Sachs

29/316,151  Aug. 28, 2009 Brian Abrams           Bivouac Bag
                          Eric Sachs

29/316,392  Sep. 21, 2009 James Watters          Stackable Chair

29/340,340  Jul. 16, 2009 Xiaojian James Chen    Bottom Mount Style
                                                 Refrigerator

29/350,246  Nov. 13, 2009 Lisa Tweardy           Rehabilitative Vest
                                                 Component

29/350,250  Nov. 13, 2009 Lisa Tweardy           Rehabilitative Vest
                                                 Component

29/350,257  Nov. 13, 2009 Lisa Tweardy           Rehabilitative Vest
                                                 Component

11/311,509  Dec. 19, 2005 Kevin Kwak             Coding Method For Digital
                                                 To Analog Converter Of A
                                                 SAR Analog To Digital
                                                 Converter

11/392,239  Mar. 29, 2006 Mario Bedard           Hose Construction

11/627,671  Jan. 26, 2007 Timothy Silvera        Performance Optimization

11/627,687  Jan. 26, 2007 Timothy Silvera        Performance Optimization

11/744,012  May 3, 2007   Boris Radovanovic      Stretch Wrap Machine With
                                                 Top Corner Film Transfer

11/896,483  Aug. 31, 2007 Kevin W. Lawter        Lighting Fixture With
                                                 Adjustable Reflector

12/367,482  Feb. 6, 2009  Michael Libes          Operator Cloud For Mobile
                                                 Internet Services

12/385,846  Apr. 21, 2009 Anthony Virtuoso       System And Method For
                                                 Secure Remote Computer
                                                 Task Automation

12/397,881  Mar. 4, 2009  Cole A. Giller         System And Method For
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                                                 Pre-Planning A Radiation
                                                 Treatment

12/432,154  Apr. 29, 2009 Mark Germagian         Systems And Methods For
                          John Prunier           Closed Loop Heat
                                                 Containment With Cold
                                                 Aisle Isolation For Data
                                                 Cooling

12/488,137  Jun. 19, 2009 Peter R. Nuytkens      Device Cavity Organic
                                                 Package Structures And
                                                 Methods Of Manufacturing
                                                 Same

12/488,257  Jun. 19, 2009 Peter R. Nuytkens      Precision
                                                 Micro-Electromechanical
                                                 Sensor (MEMS) Mounting
                                                 In Organic Packaging

12/495,680  Jun. 30, 2009 Ronald A. Gerbasi, III Managing And Editing
                                                 Stored Media Assets

12/507,235  Jul. 22, 2009 Dennis H. Giesing      Urethral Suppositories For
                                                 Overactive Bladder

12/533,524  Jul. 31, 2009 Miguel Pizzuto         Process For Refining Lead
                                                 Bullion

12/537,098  Aug. 6, 2009  Jim Jian Lin           Apparatus And Method For A
                                                 Data Cache Optimized For
                                                 Streaming Memory Loads
                                                 And Stores

12/548,408  Aug. 26, 2009 Alton Keel             Magnitude-Squared
                                                 Coherence Filtering In A
                                                 Time Difference Of
                                                 Arrival (TDOA) Or Group
                                                 Delay Interferometric
                                                 Geolocation System

12/549,905  Aug. 28, 2009 Johann Niehaus         PV Module Frame, PV Module
                                                 And Installing System
                                                 Thereof

12/557,222  Sep. 10, 2009 Zdenko Grajcar         Light And Process Of
                                                 Manufacturing A Light

12/566,469  Sep. 24, 2009 Chang Sob Lee          Circuit Board Retainer
                                                 With Insertion And
                                                 Extraction Lever

12/590,911  Nov. 16, 2009 Bernard P. O'Kane      Method And Apparatus For
                                                 Controlling The Powering
                                                 Of A Transformer

12/607,566  Oct. 28, 2009 Marty E. Binder        Solute-Dispensing Closure
                          Brian P. Masterson

12/637,316  Dec. 14, 2009 Mithun Sheshagiri      Web Application Script
                                                 Migration

12/639,448  Dec. 16, 2009 Robert J. Starr        Apparatus, Method, And
                                                 Computer Readable Medium
                                                 For Securely Providing
                                                 Communications Between
                                                 Devices And Networks
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12/640,073  Dec. 17, 2009 Robert J. Starr        Apparatus And Method For
                                                 Providing Emergency And
                                                 Alarm Communications

12/648,805  Dec. 29, 2009 Ryan Hanau             Interactive Display
                                                 Systems, Methods, And
                                                 Computer Program Products

12/650,851  Dec. 31, 2009 Benny M. Chan          Self-Expanding Bone
                                                 Stabilization Devices

12/659,550  Mar. 12, 2010 Ji-Su Ahn              Thin Film Transistor
                                                 Method Of Fabricating The
                                                 Same, And Organic Light
                                                 Emitting Diode Display
                                                 Device Having The Same

12/683,986  Jan. 7, 2010  Jack Guasta            Food Product Steamer

12/701,693  Feb. 8, 2010  Wayne Stevens          System And Process For
                                                 Battery Recycling
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Registration to Practice 
			   Registration to Practice

   The following list contains the names of persons seeking for
registration to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark
Office. Final approval for registration is subject to establishing to the
satisfaction of the Director of the Office of Enrollment and Discipline
that the person seeking registration is of good moral character and repute.
37 CFR § 11.7 Accordingly any information tending to affect the eligibility
of any of the following persons on moral ethical or other grounds should be
furnished to the Director of Enrollment and Discipline on or before March
4, 2011 at the following address: Mail Stop OED United States Patent and
Trademark Office P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria VA 22314

Aggarwal, Ankit, 21347 Village Green Circle, Germantown, MD 20876

Andrea, Adam Richard, 5734 S. Walnut Avenue, Apartment #2B, Downers Grove,
IL 60516

Chuang, Abraham Wenhai, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, 2040 Main
Street, Fourteenth Floor, Irvine, CA 92614

Hahm, Sang Hyuk, Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C., 11730 Plaza America
Drive, Suite 600, Reston, VA 20190

Hammarberg, Philip August, 236 Lawrence Avenue, Oakhurst, NJ 07755

Hsieh, Ho-Mu Holm, 122 East Court Lane, Foster City, CA 94404

Josef, Timothy Charles, 2601 Gramercy, Apartment 1206, Houston, TX 77025

Judd, Paul Kevin, 11265 Baltimore Street NE, Unit E, Blaine, MN 55449

Kennedy, Brandon Jacob, 4950 N. Western Avenue, Unit 2G, Chicago, IL 60625

Kim, Austin Hakjin, Fish & Richardson P.C., 225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA
02110

Ma, Michelle Chih-Hui, 45782 Bridgeport Drive, Fremont, CA 94539

Marando, Christopher Thomas, 1021 N Garfield Street, Apartment 541,
Arlington, VA 22201

Nicholls, Jennifer Emily, 910 Westhaven Blvd., Morehead City, NC 28557

Pianetto, Ryan John, 1504 W. Altgeld, Chicago, IL 60614

Rubin, Kim Torrey, 825 Cambridge Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Singh, Himanshu, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP, 2040 Main Street, 14th
Floor, Irvine, CA 92614

Sun, Bin, Foley & Lardner LLP, 975 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Tan, Ashley Elaine, 2142 Pauline Blvd., Apartment 201, Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Wang, Chi, 325 North End Avenue, Apartment 11-I, New York, NY 10282

Whalen, Nicholas Julian, McInnes Cooper, Suite 700, 7th Floor, TD Place,
140 Water Street, St. John's, NL, A1C 6H6 Canada

Wilson, Sherri Alice, 802 Cumberland Road, Austin, TX 78704

Yoshida, Masako, Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C, 225 South Sixth
Street, Suite 2650, Minneapolis, MN 55402

Zhou, YingYing, 645 Breconshire Lane, Coralville, IA 52241

January 18, 2011                                             HARRY I. MOATZ
                                        Director of Enrollment & Discipline
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Notice of Suspension 
			     Notice of Suspension

   Sung I. Oh of West Covina, California, registered patent attorney
(Registration No. 45,583). Mr. Oh has been suspended for sixty (60) months
by the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO" or "Office") for
violating 37 C.F.R. §10.62(a), 10.66(a), 10.66(b), 10.68(a)(1), and
10.112(c)(4). Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Mr. Oh is
eligible to request reinstatement after serving eighteen (18) months of his
60-month suspension subject to certain conditions and, if reinstated, Mr.
Oh will be permitted to practice before the Office unless the stay of any
remaining portion of his suspension is subsequently lifted.

   Mr. Oh represented clients referred to him from the Patent and Trademark
Institute of America ("PTI"), a defunct invention development and promotion
company. Prior to representing the PTI-referred clients, Mr. Oh did not
obtain the requisite consent after full disclosure from the referred
clients to represent their interests in light of his business ties to PTI
and other potential conflicts of interests. Nor did Mr. Oh obtain the
requisite consent after full disclosure to accept compensation from one
other than the referred client, i.e., the invention development and
promotion company. Mr. Oh also did not promptly pay to the PTI-referred
clients that portion of advance fees for patent legal services not yet
completed and to which the PTI-referred clients were entitled to receive.

   This action is taken pursuant to a settlement agreement between Mr. Oh
and the USPTO pursuant to the provisions of 35 U.S.C. §§ 2(b)(2)(D) and 32,
and 37 C.F.R. §§ 11.26 and 11.59. Disciplinary decisions regarding
practitioners are posted at the Office of Enrollment and Discipline's
Reading Room electronically located at:
http://des.uspto.gov/Foia/OEDReadingRoom.jsp.

January 18, 2011                                           WILLIAM R. COVEY
                                     Deputy General Counsel for General Law
                                  United States Patent and Trademark Office
                                                               on behalf of
                                                            DAVID M. KAPPOS
                                            Under Secretary of Commerce for
                                  Intellectual Property and Director of the
                                  United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products

Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products

I. Background

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland (NBPR) began a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program on July 6, 2009. Under the PPH pilot program, an applicant receiving a determination from the NBPR that at least one claim in an application filed in Finland is allowable/patentable may request that a corresponding application filed in the USPTO be accorded special status and be advanced out of turn for examination. The PPH pilot program is limited to the utilization of search and examination results of national applications between cross filings under the Paris Convention.

In order to expand the potential of the PPH pilot program, the USPTO recently implemented a new PPH pilot program with our Trilateral partners (the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Japan Patent Office (JPO)), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the Austrian Patent Office (APO), the Federal Service on Intellectual Property, Patents & Trademarks (Rospatent), and the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) based on Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) work products (PCT-PPH pilot program). The USPTO had discussions with the NBPR to launch a PCT-PPH pilot program similar to the PCT-PPH pilot programs identified above. The USPTO and NBPR agreed that consistency between PCT-PPH pilot programs should be maintained to the extent possible, to avoid creating burdens on applicants and offices, and to ensure maximum work-sharing potential.

II. PCT-PPH Pilot Program

The PCT-PPH pilot program was established to enable an applicant, who has received

(1) a Written Opinion from an International Searching Authority (WO/ISA) (ISA must be the NBPR or the USPTO), or

(2) a Written Opinion from an International Preliminary Examining Authority (WO/IPEA) (IPEA must be the NBPR or the USPTO), or

(3) an International Preliminary Examination Report (IPER) from an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA must be the NBPR or the USPTO), that indicates at least one claim in the PCT application has novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability, to file a request to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program in a corresponding U.S. application and petition to make the U.S. application special under the PCT-PPH pilot program. Note that the procedures for a petition to make special under the accelerated examination program set forth in MPEP 708.02(a) do NOT apply to a petition to make special under the PCT-PPH pilot program. The procedures and requirements for filing a request in the USPTO for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program are set forth below.

A. Trial Period for the PCT-PPH Pilot Program

USPTO and NBPR agreed that the PCT-PPH pilot program will commence on January 24, 2011, for a period of two years ending on January 23, 2013. The trial period may be extended if necessary until the USPTO and the NBPR receive a sufficient number of PCT-PPH requests to adequately assess the feasibility of the PCT-PPH pilot program. The USPTO and the NBPR may also terminate the PCT-PPH pilot program early if the volume of participation exceeds a manageable level, or for any other reasons. Notice will be published if the PCT-PPH pilot program will be terminated before the January 23, 2013 date.

B. Requirements for Requesting Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program in the USPTO

In order to be eligible to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program, the following conditions must be met:

(1) The relationship between the corresponding U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested and the PCT application satisfies one of the following requirements (note that RO/-- as used in the diagrams below refers to an international application filed under the PCT in any competent receiving office):

    (a) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application. See diagrams (A), (A’) and (A”) below.
    (A) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application.
    (A’) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application. (The corresponding PCT application claims priority to a national application filed anywhere.)
    (A”) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application. (The corresponding PCT application claims priority to another PCT application.)
    (b) The U.S. application is a national application which forms the basis for the priority claim in the corresponding PCT application. See diagram (B) below.
    Provisional applications, plant applications, design applications, reissue applications and applications subject to a secrecy order (35 U.S.C. 181) are excluded and not subject to participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program.
    (B) The U.S. application is a national application which forms the basis for the priority claim in the corresponding PCT application.
    (c) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of another PCT application (which can be filed in any competent receiving office) which claims priority to the corresponding PCT application. See diagram (C) below.
    (C) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of a PCT application which claims priority to the corresponding PCT application.
    (d) The U.S. application is a national application claiming foreign/domestic priority to the corresponding PCT application. See diagram (D) below.
    Design applications and applications subject to a secrecy order (35 U.S.C. 181) are excluded and not subject to participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program.
    (D) The U.S. application is a national application claiming foreign/domestic priority to the corresponding PCT application.
    (e) The U.S. application is a continuing application (continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part) of the U.S. application which satisfies one of the above (a) through (d) scenarios. See diagrams (E1) and (E2) below.
    Plant applications, design applications and applications subject to a secrecy order (35 U.S.C. 181) are excluded and not subject to participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program.
    (E1) The U.S. application is a continuing application of an application which satisfies requirement (a).
    (E2) The U.S. application (US2) is an application claiming Domestic priority to an application (US1) which satisfies requirement (b).

In diagram (E2), US2 application may be a non-provisional application claiming benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) to a provisional application (US1).

(2) The latest work product in the international phase of the PCT application corresponding to the U.S. application, namely, the WO/ISA, WO/IPEA, or the IPER, indicates at least one claim in the PCT application has novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. In case any observation is described in Box VIII of the WO/ISA, WO/IPEA, or IPER which forms the basis for the PCT-PPH request, applicant must identify and explain why the claim(s) is/are not subject to any observation described in Box VIII irrespective of whether an amendment is submitted to correct the observation described in Box VIII. The U.S. application will not be eligible to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program if applicant does not identify and explain why the claim(s) is/are not subject to the observation described in Box VIII.

Note that the ISA and the IPEA which produced the WO/ISA, WO/IPEA and the IPER are limited to the NBPR or the USPTO.

Applicant may not file a request to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program on the basis of an International Search Report (ISR) only.

(3) Claim Correspondence

    (a) All of the claims in each U.S. application for which a request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is made must sufficiently correspond to or be amended to sufficiently correspond to one or more of those claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and be free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application.
    (b) Claims are considered to “sufficiently correspond” where, accounting for differences due to translations and claim format requirements, the claims in the U.S. application are of the same or similar scope as the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application, or the claims in the U.S. application are narrower in scope than the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application.
    (c) In this regard, a claim that is narrower in scope occurs when a claim indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application is amended to be further limited by an additional feature that is supported in the written description of the U.S. application. The claim(s) with the narrower scope must be written in dependent form in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested.

(4) Substantive examination of the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested has not begun.

(5) Applicant must file a request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and a request that the U.S. application be advanced out of turn for examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). A sample request form (PTO/SB/20PCT-FI) will be available from the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov on January 24, 2011. Applicants are encouraged to use the USPTO request form. A petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(h) is NOT required. See Notice Regarding the Elimination of the Fee for Petitions To Make Special Filed Under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programs, 75 FR 29312 (May 25, 2010).

(6) Unless already filed in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested, applicant must submit a copy of the latest international work product, WO/ISA, WO/IPEA or IPER, which indicated that the claim(s) has/have novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability along with an English translation thereof if the copy of the latest international work product is not in the English language. A statement that the English translation is accurate is not required. Where the required documents have been previously filed in the U.S. application, applicant may simply refer to these documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when these documents were previously filed in the U.S. application. Where the U.S. application and the corresponding PCT application satisfy the relationship noted in B.(1)(a) above, applicant need not submit a copy of the latest international work product along with an English translation thereof since a copy of these documents is already contained in the file wrapper of the U.S. application.

(7) Unless already filed in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested, applicant must submit a copy of the claims from the corresponding PCT application which were indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest work product of the PCT application along with an English translation thereof and a statement that the English translation is accurate if the claims are not in the English language. Where the required documents have been previously filed in the U.S. application, applicant may simply refer to these documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when these documents were previously filed in the U.S. application. If the claims in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested are identical to the claims from the corresponding PCT application, and are in the English language, applicant may just indicate such in the PCT-PPH request and it will not be necessary for applicant to submit a copy of the claims from the corresponding PCT application.

(8) Applicant is required to submit a claims correspondence table in English. The claims correspondence table must indicate how all the claims in the U.S. application sufficiently correspond to the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest international work product.

(9) Applicant must submit an information disclosure statement (IDS) listing the documents cited in the international work products (ISR, WO/ISA, WO/IPEA, IPER) of the PCT application corresponding to the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested (unless such an IDS has already been filed in the U.S. application, in which case applicant may simply refer to the previously filed IDS and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when the IDS was previously filed in the U.S. application). Applicant must submit copies of all the documents cited in the international work products of the PCT application corresponding to the U.S. application (unless the copies have already been filed in the U.S. application, in which case applicant may simply refer to the previously filed copies of the documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when the copies were previously filed in the U.S. application) except U.S. patents or U.S. patent application publications.

(10) The request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and all the supporting documents must be submitted to the USPTO via EFS-Web and indexed with the following document description: “Petition to make special under PCT-Patent Pros Hwy.” Information regarding EFS-Web is available at http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/efs_help.html. Any preliminary amendments and IDS submitted with the PCT-PPH documents must be separately indexed as a preliminary amendment and IDS, respectively.

Where the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and special status are granted, applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. In those instances where the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program does not meet all the requirements set forth above, applicant will be notified and the defects in the request will be identified. Applicant will be given one opportunity to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation (which must be submitted via EFS-Web and indexed accordingly as noted above). Note that action on the application by the examiner will NOT be suspended (37 CFR 1.103) awaiting a reply by the applicant to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation. That is, if the application is picked up for examination by the examiner after applicant has been notified of the defects in the request, any renewed request will be dismissed. If the renewed request is perfected and examination has not begun, the request and special status will be granted, applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. If not perfected, applicant will be notified and the application will await action in its regular turn.

Request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and special status granted in a parent application will not carry over to a continuing application. Applicant must fulfill all the conditions set forth above in order for special status to be granted in the continuing application.

C. Special Examining Procedures

Once the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and special status have been granted to the U.S. application, the U.S. application will be taken up for examination by the U.S. examiner before all other categories of applications except those clearly in condition for allowance, those with set time limits, such as examiner’s answers, and those that have been granted special status for “accelerated examination.”

Any claims amended or added after the grant of the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program must “sufficiently correspond” to the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application. See the definition of “sufficient correspondence” in II.B.(3) above. Applicant is required to submit a claims correspondence table along with the amendment (see II.B.(8) above). If the amended or newly added claims do not sufficiently correspond to the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application, the amendment will not be entered and will be treated as a non-responsive reply.

The PCT-PPH program does not absolve applicants of all their duties under 37 CFR 1.56 and 37 CFR 11.18. By complying with requirements II.B.(6) and (9) identified above, applicants would be considered to have complied with their duties to bring to the attention of the USPTO any material prior art cited in the corresponding PCT application (see MPEP § 2001.06(a)). Applicants still have a duty of candor and good faith, including providing to the USPTO other information known to them to be material to patentability.

Any inquiries concerning this notice may be directed to Magdalen Greenlief, Office of the Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, at 571-272-8140 or at magdalen.greenlief@uspto.gov.

  DAVID J. KAPPOS
  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Notice Regarding Full Implementation of Patent Prosecution Highway Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office

Notice Regarding Full Implementation of Patent Prosecution Highway Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office

I. Background

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has conducted a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) from January 28, 2008, to January 28, 2011. For a complete description of the PPH pilot program, see “Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office,” published on February 5, 2008, at 1327 OG 45. The results of the pilot program showed that (1) applicants have been able to expeditiously obtain a patent in the Office of second filing (OSF) at an early stage, by utilizing the petition to make special procedures currently available in the OSF, based on claims that have been allowed in the Office of first filing (OFF); (2) the OSF has been able to reduce duplication of search efforts by exploiting the search and examination results of the OFF to a maximum extent practicable; and (3) the OSF has been able to reduce the examination workload since the scope of the claims in the OSF application has been clarified through the OFF’s examination prosecution.

II. Full Implementation of the Patent Prosecution Highway Program

The USPTO and the CIPO agreed to fully implement the PPH program on a permanent basis starting on January 29, 2011.

Note that the procedures for a petition to make special under the accelerated examination program set forth in MPEP 708.02(a) do NOT apply to a PPH request for expedited examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). The procedures and requirements for filing a request in the USPTO for participation in the PPH program are set forth below.

A. Requirements for Requesting Participation in the PPH Program in the USPTO

In order to be eligible to participate in the PPH program, the following conditions must be met:

(1) The U.S. application is

    (a) a Paris Convention application which either
    (i) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(a) and 37 CFR 1.55 to one or more applications filed in the CIPO, or
    (ii) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)/365(a) to a PCT application that contains no priority claims,
    or
   
(b) a national stage application under the PCT (an application which entered the national stage in the U.S. from a PCT international application after compliance with 35 U.S.C. 371), which PCT application
    (i) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 365(b) to an application filed in the CIPO, or
    (ii) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 365(b) to a PCT application that contains no priority claims, or
    (iii) contains no priority claim,
    or
   
(c) a so-called bypass application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) which validly claims benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120 to a PCT application, which PCT application
    (i) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 365(b) to an application filed in the CIPO, or
    (ii) validly claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 365(b) to a PCT application that contains no priority claims, or
    (iii) contains no priority claim.

Examples of U.S. applications that fall under requirement (1) are:

(1)(a)(i):

- US application with single Paris Convention priority claim to a Canadian (CA) application

US application with single Paris Convention priority claim to a Canadian (CA) application

- US application with multiple Paris Convention priority claims to CA applications

US application with multiple Paris Convention priority claims to CA applications

- Paris route and domestic priority

Paris route and domestic priority

- Paris route and divisional application

Paris route and divisional application

(1)(a)(ii):

- US application claims Paris Convention priority to a PCT application

US application claims Paris Convention priority to a PCT application

* DO   Designated Office

(1)(b)(i):

- US application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to a CA application

US application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to a CA application

- PCT Route

PCT Route

(1)(b)(ii):

- US application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

US application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

- Direct PCT and PCT Route

US application is a national stage of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

(1)(b)(iii):

- US application is a national stage of a PCT application without priority claim

US application is a national stage of a PCT application without priority claim

(1)(c)(i):

- US application is a 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to a CA application

US application is a 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to a CA application

(1)(c)(ii):

- US application is a 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

US application is a 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which claims Paris Convention priority to another PCT application

(1)(c)(iii):

- US application is a 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which contains no priority claim

US application is a 111(a) bypass of a PCT application which contains no priority claim

The CA application whose claims are determined to be allowable/patentable does not have to be the application for which priority is claimed in the U.S. application (the basic application). The CA application can be an application explicitly derived from the basic application, e.g., a divisional application of the basic application, a converted application of the basic application or an application which claims domestic priority to the basic application. Note that where the CA application that contains the allowable/patentable claims is not the same application for which priority is claimed in the U.S. application, applicant must identify the relationship between the CA application that contains the allowable/patentable claims and the CA priority application claimed in the U.S. application (e.g., CA application X that contains the allowable/patentable claims, claims domestic priority to CA application Y, which is the priority application claimed in the U.S. application).

Provisional applications, plant and design applications, reissue applications, reexamination proceedings, and applications subject to a secrecy order are excluded and not subject to participation in the PPH program.

(2) The CA application(s) have at least one claim that was determined by the CIPO to be allowable/patentable. Applicant must submit a copy of the allowable/patentable claims from the CA application(s) along with an English translation thereof and a statement that the English translation is accurate if the claims are not in the English language.

(3) All the claims in each U.S. application for which a request for participation in the PPH program is made must sufficiently correspond or be amended to sufficiently correspond to the allowable/patentable claims in the CA application(s). Claims will be considered to sufficiently correspond where, accounting for differences due to translations and claim format requirements, the claims are of the same or similar scope. Applicant is also required to submit a claims correspondence table in English. The claims correspondence table must indicate how all the claims in the U.S. application correspond to the allowable/patentable claims in the CA application(s).

(4) Examination of the U.S. application for which participation in the PPH program is requested has not begun.

(5) Applicant must file a request for participation in the PPH program and a request that the U.S. application be advanced out of turn for examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). A sample request form (PTO/SB/20CA) is available at the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov/patents/init_events/pph/pph_cipo.jsp. Applicants are encouraged to use the USPTO request form. A petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(h) is NOT required. See Notice Regarding the Elimination of the Fee for Petitions To Make Special Filed Under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programs, 75 FR 29312 (May 25, 2010).

(6) Applicant must submit a copy of all the Office actions (which are relevant to patentability) from each of the CA application(s) containing the allowable/patentable claims that are the basis for the request, along with an English translation thereof and a statement that the English translation is accurate if the Office actions are not in the English language. In addition, applicant must submit copies of any Office actions (which are relevant to patentability) from the CA application(s) issued after the grant of the request for participation in the PPH program in the USPTO (especially where CIPO might have reversed a prior holding of allowability).

(7) Applicant must submit an information disclosure statement (IDS) listing the documents cited by the CIPO examiner in the CIPO office action (unless such an IDS has already been filed in the U.S. application). Applicant must submit copies of all the documents cited in the CIPO office action (unless the copies have already been filed in the U.S. application) except U.S. patents or U.S. patent application publications.

The request for participation in the PPH program and all the supporting documents must be submitted to the USPTO via EFS-Web and indexed with the following document description: “Petition to make special under Patent Pros Hwy.” Information regarding EFS-Web is available at http://www.ustpo.gov/ebc/efs_help.html. Any preliminary amendments and IDS submitted with the PPH documents must be separately indexed as a preliminary amendment and IDS, respectively.

Where the request for participation in the PPH program and special status are granted, applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. In those instances where the request for participation in the PPH program does not meet all the requirements set forth above, applicant will be notified and the defects in the request will be identified. Applicant will be given one opportunity to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation (which must be submitted via EFS-Web and indexed accordingly as noted above). Note that action on the application by the examiner will NOT be suspended (37 CFR 1.103) awaiting a reply by the applicant to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation. That is, if the application is picked up for examination by the examiner after applicant has been notified of the defects in the request, any renewed request will be dismissed. If the renewed request is perfected and examination has not begun, the request and special status will be granted, applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. If not perfected, applicant will be notified and the application will await action in its regular turn.

(8) Request for participation in the PPH program and special status granted in a parent application will not carry over to a continuing application. Continuing applications must separately fulfill the conditions set forth above.

If any of the documents identified in items (2), (6) and (7) above have already been filed in the U.S. application prior to the request for participation in the PPH program, it will not be necessary for applicant to resubmit these documents with the request for participation. Applicant may simply refer to these documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PPH program when these documents were previously filed in the U.S. application.

B. Special Examining Procedures

Once the request for participation in the PPH program and special status have been granted to the U.S. application, the U.S. application will be taken up for examination by the U.S. examiner before all other categories of applications except those clearly in condition for allowance, those with set time limits, such as examiner’s answers, and those that have been granted special status for “accelerated examination.”

Any claims amended or added after the grant of the request for participation in the PPH program must sufficiently correspond to one or more allowable/patentable claims in the CA application(s). Applicant is required to submit a claims correspondence table along with the amendment (see A.(3) above). If the amended or newly added claims do not sufficiently correspond to the allowable/patentable claims in the CA application(s), the amendment will not be entered and will be treated as a non-responsive reply.

The PPH program does not absolve applicants of all their duties under 37 CFR 1.56 and 37 CFR 11.18. By complying with requirements A.(6) and (7) identified above, applicants would be considered to have complied with their duties to bring to the attention of the USPTO any material prior art cited in the corresponding foreign application(s) (see MPEP § 2001.06(a)). Applicants still have a duty of candor and good faith, including providing to the USPTO other information known to them to be material to patentability.

Any inquiries concerning this notice may be directed to Magdalen Greenlief, Office of the Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, at 571-272-8140, or at magdalen.greenlief@uspto.gov.

  DAVID J. KAPPOS
  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and IP Australia based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products

Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and IP Australia based on Patent Cooperation Treaty Work Products

I. Background

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and IP Australia (IPAU) began a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program on April 14, 2008. Under the PPH pilot program, an applicant receiving a determination from the IPAU that at least one claim in an application filed in Australia is allowable/patentable may request that a corresponding application filed in the USPTO be accorded special status and be advanced out of turn for examination. The PPH pilot program is limited to the utilization of search and examination results of national applications between cross filings under the Paris Convention.

In order to expand the potential of the PPH pilot program, the USPTO recently implemented a new PPH pilot program with our Trilateral partners (the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Japan Patent Office (JPO)), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the Austrian Patent Office (APO), the Federal Service on Intellectual Property, Patents & Trademarks (Rospatent), and the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) based on Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) work products (PCT-PPH pilot program). The USPTO had discussions with the IPAU to launch a PCT-PPH pilot program similar to the PCT-PPH pilot programs identified above. The USPTO and IPAU agreed that consistency between PCT-PPH pilot programs should be maintained to the extent possible, to avoid creating burdens on applicants and offices, and to ensure maximum work-sharing potential.

II. PCT-PPH Pilot Program

The PCT-PPH pilot program was established to enable an applicant, who has received

(1) a Written Opinion from an International Searching Authority (WO/ISA) (ISA must be the IPAU or the USPTO), or

(2) a Written Opinion from an International Preliminary Examining Authority (WO/IPEA) (IPEA must be the IPAU or the USPTO), or

(3) an International Preliminary Examination Report (IPER) from an International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA must be the IPAU or the USPTO), that indicates at least one claim in the PCT application has novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability, to file a request to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program in a corresponding U.S. application and petition to make the U.S. application special under the PCT-PPH pilot program. Note that the procedures for a petition to make special under the accelerated examination program set forth in MPEP 708.02(a) do NOT apply to a petition to make special under the PCT-PPH pilot program. The procedures and requirements for filing a request in the USPTO for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program are set forth below.

A. Trial Period for the PCT-PPH Pilot Program

USPTO and IPAU agreed that the PCT-PPH pilot program will commence on January 24, 2011, and end on April 13, 2012. The trial period may be extended if necessary until the USPTO and the IPAU receive a sufficient number of PCT-PPH requests to adequately assess the feasibility of the PCT-PPH pilot program. The USPTO and the IPAU may also terminate the PCT-PPH pilot program early if the volume of participation exceeds a manageable level, or for any other reasons. Notice will be published if the PCT-PPH pilot program will be terminated before the April 13, 2012 date.

B. Requirements for Requesting Participation in the PCT-PPH Pilot Program in the USPTO

In order to be eligible to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program, the following conditions must be met:

(1) The relationship between the corresponding U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested and the PCT application satisfies one of the following requirements (note that RO/-- as used in the diagrams below refers to an international application filed under the PCT in any competent receiving office):

    (a) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application. See diagrams (A), (A’) and (A”) below.
    (A) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application.
    (A’) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application. (The corresponding PCT application claims priority to a national application filed anywhere.)
    (A”) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of the corresponding PCT application. (The corresponding PCT application claims priority to another PCT application.)
    (b) The U.S. application is a national application which forms the basis for the priority claim in the corresponding PCT application. See diagram (B) below.
    Provisional applications, plant applications, design applications, reissue applications and applications subject to a secrecy order (35 U.S.C. 181) are excluded and not subject to participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program.
    (B) The U.S. application is a national application which forms the basis for the priority claim in the corresponding PCT application.
    (c) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of another PCT application (which can be filed in any competent receiving office) which claims priority to the corresponding PCT application. See diagram (C) below.
    (C) The U.S. application is a national stage entry of a PCT application which claims priority to the corresponding PCT application.
    (d) The U.S. application is a national application claiming foreign/domestic priority to the corresponding PCT application. See diagram (D) below.
    Design applications and applications subject to a secrecy order (35 U.S.C. 181) are excluded and not subject to participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program.
    (D) The U.S. application is a national application claiming foreign/domestic priority to the corresponding PCT application.
    (e) The U.S. application is a continuing application (continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part) of the U.S. application which satisfies one of the above (a) through (d) scenarios. See diagrams (E1) and (E2) below.
    Plant applications, design applications and applications subject to a secrecy order (35 U.S.C. 181) are excluded and not subject to participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program.
    (E1) The U.S. application is a continuing application of an application which satisfies requirement (a).
    (E2) The U.S. application (US2) is an application claiming Domestic priority to an application (US1) which satisfies requirement (b).

In diagram (E2), US2 application may be a non-provisional application claiming benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e) to a provisional application (US1).

(2) The latest work product in the international phase of the PCT application corresponding to the U.S. application, namely, the WO/ISA, WO/IPEA, or the IPER, indicates at least one claim in the PCT application has novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability. In case any observation is described in Box VIII of the WO/ISA, WO/IPEA, or IPER which forms the basis for the PCT-PPH request, applicant must identify and explain why the claim(s) is/are not subject to any observation described in Box VIII irrespective of whether an amendment is submitted to correct the observation described in Box VIII. The U.S. application will not be eligible to participate in the PCT‑PPH pilot program if applicant does not identify and explain why the claim(s) is/are not subject to the observation described in Box VIII.

Note that the ISA and the IPEA which produced the WO/ISA, WO/IPEA and the IPER are limited to the IPAU or the USPTO.

Applicant may not file a request to participate in the PCT-PPH pilot program on the basis of an International Search Report (ISR) only.

(3) Claim Correspondence

    (a) All of the claims in each U.S. application for which a request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is made must sufficiently correspond to or be amended to sufficiently correspond to one or more of those claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and be free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application.
    (b) Claims are considered to “sufficiently correspond” where, accounting for differences due to translations and claim format requirements, the claims in the U.S. application are of the same or similar scope as the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application, or the claims in the U.S. application are narrower in scope than the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application.
    (c) In this regard, a claim that is narrower in scope occurs when a claim indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability and free of any observation described in Box VIII in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application is amended to be further limited by an additional feature that is supported in the written description of the U.S. application. The claim(s) with the narrower scope must be written in dependent form in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested.

(4) Substantive examination of the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT‑PPH pilot program is requested has not begun.

(5) Applicant must file a request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and a request that the U.S. application be advanced out of turn for examination by order of the Director to expedite the business of the Office under 37 CFR 1.102(a). A sample request form (PTO/SB/20PCT-AU) will be available from the USPTO Web site at http://www.uspto.gov on January 24, 2011. Applicants are encouraged to use the USPTO request form. A petition fee under 37 CFR 1.17(h) is NOT required. See Notice Regarding the Elimination of the Fee for Petitions To Make Special Filed Under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programs, 75 FR 29312 (May 25, 2010).

(6) Unless already filed in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested, applicant must submit a copy of the latest international work product, WO/ISA, WO/IPEA or IPER, which indicated that the claim(s) has/have novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability along with an English translation thereof if the copy of the latest international work product is not in the English language. A statement that the English translation is accurate is not required. Where the required documents have been previously filed in the U.S. application, applicant may simply refer to these documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when these documents were previously filed in the U.S. application. Where the U.S. application and the corresponding PCT application satisfy the relationship noted in B.(1)(a) above, applicant need not submit a copy of the latest international work product along with an English translation thereof since a copy of these documents is already contained in the file wrapper of the U.S. application.

(7) Unless already filed in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested, applicant must submit a copy of the claims from the corresponding PCT application which were indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest work product of the PCT application along with an English translation thereof and a statement that the English translation is accurate if the claims are not in the English language. Where the required documents have been previously filed in the U.S. application, applicant may simply refer to these documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when these documents were previously filed in the U.S. application. If the claims in the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested are identical to the claims from the corresponding PCT application, and are in the English language, applicant may just indicate such in the PCT-PPH request and it will not be necessary for applicant to submit a copy of the claims from the corresponding PCT application.

(8) Applicant is required to submit a claims correspondence table in English. The claims correspondence table must indicate how all the claims in the U.S. application sufficiently correspond to the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest international work product.

(9) Applicant must submit an information disclosure statement (IDS) listing the documents cited in the international work products (ISR, WO/ISA, WO/IPEA, IPER) of the PCT application corresponding to the U.S. application for which participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program is requested (unless such an IDS has already been filed in the U.S. application, in which case applicant may simply refer to the previously filed IDS and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when the IDS was previously filed in the U.S. application). Applicant must submit copies of all the documents cited in the international work products of the PCT application corresponding to the U.S. application (unless the copies have already been filed in the U.S. application, in which case applicant may simply refer to the previously filed copies of the documents and indicate in the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program when the copies were previously filed in the U.S. application) except U.S. patents or U.S. patent application publications.

(10) The request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and all the supporting documents must be submitted to the USPTO via EFS-Web and indexed with the following document description: “Petition to make special under PCT-Patent Pros Hwy.” Information regarding EFS-Web is available at http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/efs_help.html. Any preliminary amendments and IDS submitted with the PCT-PPH documents must be separately indexed as a preliminary amendment and IDS, respectively.

Where the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and special status are granted, applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. In those instances where the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program does not meet all the requirements set forth above, applicant will be notified and the defects in the request will be identified. Applicant will be given one opportunity to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation (which must be submitted via EFS-Web and indexed accordingly as noted above). Note that action on the application by the examiner will NOT be suspended (37 CFR 1.103) awaiting a reply by the applicant to perfect the request in a renewed request for participation. That is, if the application is picked up for examination by the examiner after applicant has been notified of the defects in the request, any renewed request will be dismissed. If the renewed request is perfected and examination has not begun, the request and special status will be granted, applicant will be notified and the U.S. application will be advanced out of turn for examination. If not perfected, applicant will be notified and the application will await action in its regular turn.

Request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and special status granted in a parent application will not carry over to a continuing application. Applicant must fulfill all the conditions set forth above in order for special status to be granted in the continuing application.

C. Special Examining Procedures

Once the request for participation in the PCT-PPH pilot program and special status have been granted to the U.S. application, the U.S. application will be taken up for examination by the U.S. examiner before all other categories of applications except those clearly in condition for allowance, those with set time limits, such as examiner’s answers, and those that have been granted special status for “accelerated examination.”

Any claims amended or added after the grant of the request for participation in the PCT‑PPH pilot program must “sufficiently correspond” to the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application. See the definition of “sufficient correspondence” in II.B.(3) above. Applicant is required to submit a claims correspondence table along with the amendment (see II.B.(8) above). If the amended or newly added claims do not sufficiently correspond to the claims indicated as having novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability in the latest work product of the corresponding PCT application, the amendment will not be entered and will be treated as a non-responsive reply.

The PCT-PPH program does not absolve applicants of all their duties under 37 CFR 1.56 and 37 CFR 11.18. By complying with requirements II.B.(6) and (9) identified above, applicants would be considered to have complied with their duties to bring to the attention of the USPTO any material prior art cited in the corresponding PCT application (see MPEP § 2001.06(a)). Applicants still have a duty of candor and good faith, including providing to the USPTO other information known to them to be material to patentability.

Any inquiries concerning this notice may be directed to Magdalen Greenlief, Office of the Associate Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, at 571-272-8140 or at magdalen.greenlief@uspto.gov.

  DAVID J. KAPPOS
  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Continuation of the Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the USPTO and IP Australia 
         Continuation of the Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program
                    between the USPTO and IP Australia

   On April 14, 2008, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
commenced a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program which enabled an
applicant whose claims have been determined allowable/patentable in an
application filed in IP Australia to have the corresponding application
filed in the USPTO advanced out of turn for examination. See notice
entitled "Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the United
States Patent and Trademark Office and IP Australia," 1329 Off. Gaz. Pat.
Office 165 (April 22, 2008). The USPTO indicated that the pilot program
would last for a period of one year ending on April 14, 2009, but may be
extended for an additional time period thereafter.

   On April 10, 2009, the USPTO indicated that the pilot program would be
extended in its current state. See notice entitled "Continuation of the
Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between the USPTO and IP
Australia," 1342 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 99 (May 12, 2009).

   The USPTO and IP Australia have agreed to extend the pilot until April
13, 2012, in order to collect more information before any formal decision
on the program is made.

   Please continue to direct inquiries on the PPH pilot program to Magdalen
Greenlief at 571-272-8140 or via e-mail addressed to
Magdalen.greenlief@uspto.gov.

                                                            DAVID J. KAPPOS
                                            Under Secretary of Commerce for
                                  Intellectual Property and Director of the
                                  United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Adverse Decisions in Interference 
		       Adverse Decisions in Interference

   In the designated interferences involving the following patents, final
decisions have been rendered that the respective patentees are not entitled
to patents containing the claims listed.

   Errata - With regard to the December 28, 2010, listing of Adverse
Decisions in Interference in 1361 OG 238, the listing of Patent No.
6,071,077, in the Official Gazette was erroneous.  The final judgment for
Patent No. 6,071, 077, Paul A. Rowlands, SWEPT FAN BLADE, Interference No.
105,195, was not adverse to the patentee.
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Errata 
				    Errata

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,865,993 to Frank J. Prineppi of FT.
Lauderdale, FL for ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSHES appearing in the Official Gazette
of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,866,094 to Burke A. Herron of Fort
Thomas, KY for CONSTRUCTION BLOCK appearing in Official Gazette of January
11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,866,489 to Stephen N. Hardy of Wadsworth,
OH for PRODUCT MANAGEMENT DISPLAY SYSTEM appearing in the Official Gazette
of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,866,804 to Yasuhiko Kachi of Kanagawa,
Japan for LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND LIQUID RESTORATION METHOD appearing
in the Official Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no
patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,867,090 to Gary M. Zalewski, et al of
Oakland, CA for MULTI-INPUT GAME CONTROL MIXER appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,867,380 to Renaud Galeazzi, et al of
Paris, France for HYDRO-DESULFURISATION METHOD COMPRISING A STRIPPING
SECTION AND A VACUUM FRACTIONATION SECTION appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,867,875 to Jacobus Bernardus Giesberg, et
al of Eindhoven, Netherlands for METHODS OF MANUFACTURING A FLEXIBLE
ELECTRONIC AND FLEXIBLE DEVICE appearing in the Official Gazette of January
11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,867,987 to Christopher John Montague
Meade, et al of Maselheim, Germany for MEDICAMENTS FOR INHALATION
COMPRISING AN ANTICHOLINERGIC AND STEROID appearing in the Official Gazette
of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,868,091 to Thomas Arndt, et al of
Lutzelbach, Germany for POLYMER MIXTURE CONSISTING OF AN IMPACT-RESISTANCE
MODIFIED POLY (METH) ACRYLATE AND A FLUOROPOLYMER appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,868,293 to Oliver Edwards of Occee, FL
for RADIANT ENERGY IMAGER USING NULL SWITCHING appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,868,444 to Horst Theuss, et al of
Wenzenbach, Germany for SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH WILLOW STRUCTURE
appearing in the Official Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,868,491 to Shunsuke Komori, et al of
Hikone, Japan for VIBRATORY LINEAR ACTUATOR appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,868,876 to Martin J. Vos of Minneapolis,
MN for SELF-TUNING DRIVE SOURCE EMPLOYING INPUT IMPEDANCE PHASE DETECTION
appearing in the Official Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,868,939 to Vladimir Berezin of Pasadena,
CA for ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR WITH MIXED ANALOG AND DIGITAL SIGNAL INTEGRATION
appearing in the Official Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."
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   "All reference to Patent No. 7,868,978 to Hyuk Yoon, et al of Gyunggi-Do
Korea, Republic of For VERY THIN ACHROMATIC QUARTER WAVE FILM LAMINATE FOR
TRANSFLECTIVE LCD AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME appearing in the
Official Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,868,981 to Hiroyasu Inoue, et al of
Kawasaki, Japan for LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,869,254 to Myoung-Jae Lee, et al of
Yongin-Si Korea, Republic of for RESISTANCE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY DEVICE AND
A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME appearing in the Official Gazette of
January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,869,581 to Toshikazu Houmura, et al of
Kawasaki, Japan for COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND DIAL REGISTRATION METHOD
AND DIAL REGISTRATION PROGRAM THEREFOR appearing in the Official Gazette of
January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,869,584 to Flemming S. Andreasen, et al
of Marlboro, NJ for POLICY-BASED CONTROL OF CONTENT INTERCEPT appearing in
the Official Gazette of January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent
was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,869,812 to Yerachmiel Yeshayahu of
Ra'Anana, Israel for METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING LOCATION USING
HYBRID SOLUTION appearing in the Official Gazette of January 11, 2011
should be deleted since no was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,869,831 to Toshikazu Houmura, et al of
Kawasaki, Japan for COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND DIAL REGISTRATION METHOD
AND DIAL REGISTRATION PROGRAM THEREFOR appearing in the Official Gazette of
January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted,"

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,870,015 to Michael G. Mikurak of
Hamilton, NJ for TECHNOLOGY SHARING DURING DEMAND AND SUPPLY PLANNING IN A
NETWORK-BASED SUPPLY CHAIN ENVIRONMENT appearing in the Official Gazette of
January 11, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,870,795 to Yasushi Shimomoto, et al of
Kyoto, Japan for ARRAY TYPE CAPACITANCE SENSOR appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,870,861 to Jaron M. Acker, et al of
Madison, WI for METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING BREATHING TUBE OCCLUSION
appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,870,963 to Hsiao-Chyang Liu of Hsin-Chu,
Taiwan for VENTILATED FRONT-OPENING UNIFIED POD appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,871,101 to Shawn David Noble, et al of
Naperville, IL for ELASTOMERIC SPRING VEHICLE SUSPENSION appearing in the
Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,871,273 to Christopher George Daily, et
al of Harrisburg, PA For BOARD-TO-BOARD CONNECTOR SYSTEM appearing in the
Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,871,284 to Christopher Scott Hertzler, et
al of Carlisle, PA for ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HAVING A LOCKING COLLAR
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appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 shoud be deleted
since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,871,310 to Alain Duboust, et al of
Sunnyvale, CA for MULTI-LAYER POLISHING PAD FOR LOW-PRESSURE POLISHING
appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,871,541 to Regina Mueller-Mach, et al of
San Jose, CA for ILLUMINATION SYSTEM COMPRISING A RADIATION SOURCE AND A
FLUORESCENT MATERIAL appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011
should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,871,567 to Terry A. Beaty, et al of
Indianapolis, IN for SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CODING INFORMATION ON A
BIOSENSOR TEST STRIP appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011
should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,871,726 to Euy-Young Jung, et al of
Yongin-Si Korea, Republic Of for ELECTRODE FOR RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY
AND RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY INCLUDING SAME appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,871,757 to Sok Won Noh, et al of Seoul
Korea, Republic of for LASER INDUCED THERMAL IMAGING APPARATUS AND LASER
INDUCED THERMAL IMAGING METHOD appearing in the Official Gazette of January
18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,871,844 to Takashi Kyono, et al of
Itami-shi, Japan for METHOD OF FABRICATING NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LASER
appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,872,238 to Kelvin Lynn, et al of Pullman,
WA for SEMICONDUCTIVE MATERIALS AND ASSOCIATED USES THEREOF appearing in
the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent
was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,872,342 to Risto Tuominen of Helsinki,
Finland for METHOD FOR EMBEDDING A COMPONENT IN A BASE appearing in the
Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,872,525 to Raymond Sydney Pengelly of
Durham, NC for PROGRESSIVE POWER GENERATING AMPLIFIERS appearing in the
Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,872,687 to Taketoshi Yamashita of
Kagoshima, Japan for SCANNING-LINE INTERPOLATING CIRCUIT, SCANNING-LINE
INTERPOLATING METHOD TO BE USED IN SAME CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE
PROVIDED WITH SAME CIRCUIT appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18,
2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,872,732 to Yasufumi Nishii, et al of
Kumagaya-shi, Japan for STAGE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND EXPOSURE
METHOD WITH RECOVERY DEVICE HAVING LYOPHILIC PORTION appearing in the
Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was
granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,872,859 to Neil Baird, et al of
Kitchener, Canada for SEALED CIRCUIT BREAKER appearing in the Official
Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,872,882 to Hiroyasu Kitamura, et al of
Hirakata, Japan for POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM appearing
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in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no
patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,873,013 to Ahmed Tariq, et al of Port
Coquitlam, Canada for GENERAL ACCESS NETWORK CONTROLLER BYPASS TO
FACILITATE USE OF STANDARD CELLULAR HANDSETS WITH GENERAL ACCESS NETWORK
appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,873,030 to Jonathan Rosenberg, et al of
Freehold, NJ for VOIP CALL ROUTING INFORMATION REGISTRY INCLUDING HASH
ACCESS MECHANISM appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011
should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,873,306 to Yusuke Yamada, et al of
Ibaraki-Ken, Japan for SEALING MEMBER, TONER ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER AND
IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18,
2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,873,307 to Yusuke Yamada, et al of
Ibaraki-Ken, Japan for SEALING MEMBER, TONER ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER AND
IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18,
2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,873,713 to Shimon Edelhaus of Sharon, MA
for COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR OBTAINING AN APPLICATION IMAGE OR
CONFIGURATION FROM A SERVICE PROVIDER appearing in the Official Gazette of
January 18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,873,888 to Tapan Chakraborty, et al of
Princeton Junction, NJ for APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DYNAMIC
MODIFICATION OF A SCAN PATH appearing in the Official Gazette of January
18, 2011 should be deleted since no patent was granted."

   "All reference to Patent No. 7,873,924 to Tapan J. Chakraborty, et al of
Princeton Junction, NJ for METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESCRIBING COMPONENTS
ADAPTED FOR DYNAMICALLY MODIFYING A SCAN PATH FOR SYSTEM-ON-CHIP TESTING
appearing in the Official Gazette of January 18, 2011 should be deleted
since no patent was granted."
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Certificates of Correction 
                          Certificates of Correction
                             for January 25, 2011

5,873,359C1             7,650,353            7,765,996                 7,821,878
6,018,774C1             7,651,368            7,766,483                 7,822,028
6,101,554               7,652,041            7,767,158                 7,822,055
6,330,274               7,652,204            7,767,225                 7,822,589
6,510,448               7,653,491            7,767,277                 7,824,398
6,611,925               7,653,637            7,767,391                 7,824,659
6,789,201               7,653,638            7,767,773                 7,824,732
6,921,089               7,653,881            7,767,788                 7,824,966
6,947,737               7,653,896            7,769,132                 7,824,976
6,957,298               7,653,916            7,770,017                 7,825,090
6,963,892               7,653,944            7,770,099                 7,825,212
6,968,319               7,654,734            7,770,142                 7,826,394
6,994,987               7,657,476            7,770,584                 7,826,416
7,076,518               7,658,762            7,771,645                 7,826,827
7,079,021               7,658,901            7,772,133                 7,826,842
7,114,185               7,662,591            7,773,257                 7,826,926
7,124,317               7,662,628            7,773,286                 7,826,952
7,160,924               7,664,732            7,773,842                 7,827,037
7,220,978               7,668,160            7,774,443                 7,827,070
7,229,319               7,668,185            7,776,362                 7,827,080
7,243,002               7,668,385            7,776,764                 7,827,254
7,246,618               7,668,867            7,777,397                 7,827,381
7,256,198               7,670,669            7,777,516                 7,827,577
7,259,409               7,670,778            7,778,107                 7,827,822
7,282,276               7,670,829            7,778,158                 7,828,258
7,304,034               7,671,005            7,778,342                 7,828,460
7,323,256               7,672,226            7,779,048                 7,828,648
7,330,625               7,676,905            7,779,293                 7,828,649
7,332,343               7,678,065            7,779,406                 7,828,793
7,344,596               7,684,823            7,780,449                 7,828,808
7,352,446               7,685,091            7,780,587                 7,829,121
7,358,857               7,685,149            7,781,418                 7,829,299
7,370,102               7,685,160            7,781,678                 7,829,851
7,376,115               7,685,179            7,782,455                 7,830,643
7,388,843               7,685,732            7,782,625                 7,830,789
7,400,431               7,687,965            7,782,860                 7,830,811
7,406,203               7,688,716            7,784,618                 7,831,393
7,408,712               7,689,585            7,785,064                 7,831,476
7,412,482               7,689,839            7,785,437                 7,831,482
7,418,757               7,689,980            7,785,500                 7,831,484
7,427,441               7,690,572            7,786,153                 7,831,486
7,441,421               7,690,675            7,786,550                 7,831,517
7,442,570               7,691,526            7,786,961                 7,831,553
7,443,589               7,693,280            7,787,272                 7,831,618
7,451,041               7,693,838            7,787,358                 7,831,658
7,454,246               7,694,158            7,787,368                 7,831,705
7,455,222               7,694,279            7,787,498                 7,831,766
7,458,509               7,694,315            7,787,545                 7,831,795
7,460,609               7,694,438            7,788,061                 7,831,952
7,463,191               7,695,512            7,789,018                 7,831,953
7,463,703               7,696,083            7,790,014                 7,832,082
7,464,056               7,696,151            7,790,312                 7,832,140
7,471,635               7,696,319            7,790,570                 7,832,199
7,473,748               7,696,366            7,790,800                 7,832,350
7,479,496               7,696,632            7,791,941                 7,832,804
7,491,661               7,697,787            7,792,119                 7,832,810
7,496,112               7,698,223            7,792,200                 7,832,908
7,508,326               7,698,239            7,792,806                 7,833,088
7,517,904               7,698,250            7,792,821                 7,833,095
7,520,029               7,698,318            7,794,141                 7,833,159
7,520,322               7,698,336            7,794,642                 7,833,194
7,526,368               7,698,361            7,795,267                 7,833,499
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7,531,169               7,700,083            7,795,280                 7,833,628
7,531,554               7,700,567            7,795,582                 7,833,757
7,533,782               7,702,652            7,795,779                 7,834,718
7,536,511               7,702,668            7,796,038                 7,834,727
7,537,029               7,706,746            7,796,082                 7,835,256
7,537,893               7,709,071            7,796,485                 7,835,257
7,545,906               7,713,515            7,797,988                 7,835,622
7,549,055               7,715,498            7,798,211                 7,835,948
7,552,563               7,715,893            7,798,233                 7,836,019
7,553,868               7,716,196            7,798,759                 7,836,202
7,560,351               7,716,656            7,799,304                 7,836,305
7,563,881               7,718,118            7,801,336                 7,836,484
7,571,665               7,718,177            7,802,083                 7,836,497
7,578,398               7,725,919            7,802,635                 7,837,348
7,585,760               7,726,598            7,802,780                 7,837,355
7,588,777               7,727,241            7,803,198                 7,837,805
7,592,255               7,729,572            7,803,390                 7,837,892
7,593,020               7,730,033            7,803,432                 7,838,470
7,593,994               7,730,140            7,803,563                 7,839,902
7,594,064               7,730,329            7,803,571                 7,840,002
7,594,225               7,730,453            7,803,950                 7,840,048
7,596,611               7,732,151            7,805,530                 7,840,213
7,600,998               7,732,589            7,805,846                 7,840,373
7,604,129               7,736,866            7,806,827                 7,840,472
7,605,138               7,736,918            7,807,066                 7,842,076
7,605,225               7,740,630            7,808,415                 7,842,128
7,605,264               7,742,972            7,809,096                 7,842,822
7,606,459               7,743,694            7,809,321                 7,843,002
7,606,559               7,743,977            7,809,499                 7,843,977
7,610,073               7,744,409            7,810,066                 7,844,119
7,612,493               7,744,531            7,811,884                 7,844,495
7,613,650               7,744,555            7,811,953                 7,844,686
7,619,607               7,745,618            7,812,135                 7,845,171
7,621,813               7,747,250            7,812,307                 7,846,889
7,622,023               7,747,985            7,812,440                 7,847,242
7,622,929               7,749,493            7,812,471                 7,848,287
7,625,921               7,749,547            7,812,692                 7,848,385
7,626,693               7,749,591            7,813,202                 7,848,606
7,627,479               7,749,918            7,813,345                 7,850,528
7,627,600               7,750,002            7,813,901                 7,851,421
7,627,632               7,750,180            7,813,983                 7,851,434
7,627,636               7,751,805            7,814,011                 7,852,613
7,627,663               7,752,017            7,815,386                 7,853,908
7,627,703               7,752,201            7,815,661                 D. 565,140
7,627,753               7,753,588            7,815,809                 D. 596,912
7,627,808               7,753,685            7,815,852                 D. 606,869
7,630,522               7,753,801            7,815,930                 D. 619,453
7,631,061               7,754,013            7,816,030                 D. 622,279
7,631,264               7,754,358            7,816,048                 D. 624,465
7,632,951               7,754,423            7,816,170                 D. 624,716
7,632,981               7,756,156            7,816,374                 D. 625,901
7,636,281               7,756,918            7,816,400                 D. 627,128
7,636,575               7,757,437            7,816,431                 D. 627,832
7,636,723               7,758,433            7,816,489                 D. 628,367
7,636,782               7,759,075            7,817,470                 D. 628,666
7,636,872               7,759,363            7,817,974                 PP. 15,770
7,636,897               7,760,265            7,818,033                 PP. 21,290
7,636,911               7,760,345            7,818,164                 RE. 41,570
7,636,912               7,760,789            7,818,577                 RE. 41,582
7,642,764               7,763,088            7,818,582                 RE. 41,596
7,643,035               7,763,458            7,818,737                 RE. 41,637
7,643,880               7,763,546            7,819,083                 RE. 41,741
7,644,250               7,764,433            7,820,642                 RE. 41,798
7,648,959               7,765,531            7,821,558
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Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board 




SUMMARY OF FINAL DECISIONS ISSUED BY THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
January 10 – January 14, 2011
 





 

Date Issued
 		
Type of Case(1)
Proceeding or Appn. No.
Party or Parties
Issue
TTAB Decision
Opposer's or Petitioner's Mark and Goods or Services
Applicant's or Respondent's Mark and Goods or Services
Mark and Goods Cited by Examining Attorney
Issued as Precedent of TTAB

 

 

  1-10
  OPP
  91179897
  Information Builders, Inc. v. Bristol Technologies, Inc.
  2(d); Fraud
  Opposition Sustained on 2(d) claim
  "FOCUS"  (four registrations) [computer programs for data base management] [providing online information to facilitate demonstration, test use, and order computer software] [a wide variety of types of software and software development tools] [business accountability software to insure compliance with governmental requirements and standards]; and five other registrations including the term FOCUS
  "BRISTOL FOCUS" [computer operating programs; computers and instructional manuals sold as a unit; operating system programs] 
   
  No
 

 

  1-10
  EX
  77686786
  Ole Henriksen of Denmark, Inc.
  2(d)
  Refusal Affirmed
   
  "FEEL THE DIFFERENCE" [non-medicated skin care preparations, namely a facial mask for hydrating and firming facial skin]
  "FEEL THE DIFFERENCE" [nutritional, dietary, herbal, mineral, and homeopathic supplements; vitamins; anti-oxidants; nutritional drink mix, food bars, and powders]
  No
 

 

  1-10
  EX 
  77147075 77975745
  The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
  
  2(e)(1); Rule 2.61(b)
  Refusal under Section 2(e)(1) Affirmed as to both applications
   
  "NATIONAL CHAMBER" (two applications resulting from a division) [providing online directory information regarding local and state Chambers of Commerce; providing information and news on current events and on economic, legislative, and regulatory developments for businesses; administration of a discount program for goods and services] [analysis of governmental policy and regulatory activity relating to businesses, for promoting interests of businesspeople; business data analysis] 
   
  No
 

 

  1-11
  OPP
  91182364
  Roll-A-Cover, LLC v. James D. Cohen
  2(d)
  Opposition Dismissed
  "ROLL-A-COVER" [retail store services featuring retractable enclosures for various purposes; and featuring wall structures for enclosing covered porches, patios, decks, lounge areas, dining areas, and recreation areas]
  "MAGIC SUNROOMS" [constructing sunrooms]
   
  No
 

 

  1-12
  EX (R)
  77403096
  Richard Constantine
  2(e)(1); 2(f)
  Refusal Affirmed; Request for Reconsidera-tion Denied
   
  "MARYLAND FRIED CHICKEN" [restaurant services, including sit-down services of food and take-out restaurant services]
   
  No
 

 

  1-12
  EX
  77697767
  Starbuzz Tobacco, Inc.
  2(d)
  Refusal Affirmed
   
  "LADY IN RED" [pipe tobacco, molasses tobacco, tobacco, smoking tobacco, flavored tobacco; tobacco substitute, namely, herbal molasses]
  "LADY" [tobacco; cigarette boxes not of precious metal; smokers articles, namely, lighters for smokers; matches] 
  No
 

 

  1-12
  EX
  77448920
  Allen Brothers, Inc.
  2(a); 2(e)(1)
  Refusal Reversed
   
  "CENTER RIB STEAK" [beef and beef steaks] [online retail and mail order catalog services featuring beef and beef steaks]
   
  No
 

 

  1-13
  EX
  77648337
  Wright Medical Technology, Inc.
  2(e)(1)
  Refusal Affirmed
   
  "FUSION FOAM" [surgical implant material for promoting fusion of bone comprising collagen in the form of human allograft tissue]
   
  No
 

 

  1-13
  EX
  78866894
  Olson Zaltman & Associates LLC
  1, 2, 3 & 45
  Refusal Affirmed
   
  "DEEP METAPHORS" [marketing research services]
   
  No
 

 

  1-13
  EX
  77404011
  Takasago International Corp.
  2(d)
  Refusal Affirmed
   
  "VIVID" [business intelligence services, namely, consulting in the field of conducting comparisons of competing products by evaluating their effects on consumers’ cognitive, sensory and emotional perceptions]
  "VIVID" [advertising services, namely, promoting and marketing the goods and services of others through all public communication means; advertising, marketing and promotion services; arranging and conducting marketing promotional events for others; and providing marketing and promotion of special events]
  No
 

 

  1-13
  OPP
  91188880
  Seeherman Mermelstein Bergsman*
  2(d)
  Opposition Sustained
  "FALLEN" and "RISE WITH THE FALLEN" [clothing, headwear and footwear, namely, shirts, sweatshirts, pants, sweat bands, shorts, jackets, sweaters, hats, caps, socks, belts, shoes]
  "FALLEN ANGEL" [gloves; headbands against sweating; hats, caps, sweat bands; pants; polo shirts; shirts; short-sleeved shirts; shorts; t-shirts; sweat suits; sweat shorts; sweat shirts; sweat pants; short-sleeved or long-sleeved t-shirts; socks; jackets] 
   
  No
 

 

  1-14
  EX
  77210108
  Seeherman Kuhlke* Wellington
  2(e)(3)
  Refusal Reversed
   
  "LONDON SOHO NEW YORK" [cosmetic bags, namely, cosmetic bags, cosmetic organizers, hang-up cosmetic bags and cosmetic travel bags, all sold empty]
   
  No
 




 (1) EX=Ex Parte Appeal; OPP=Opposition; CANC=Cancellation; CU=Concurrent Use; (SJ)=Summary Judgment; (MD)=Motion to Dismiss; (MS)=Motion for Sanctions; (R)=Request for Reconsideration   (2) *=Opinion Writer; (D)=Dissenting Panel Member 
 












  

    
    
    
    

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    Mailing and Hand Carry Addresses for Mail to the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  




		     MAILING AND HAND CARRY ADDRESSES FOR
	     MAIL TO THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

	      MAIL TO BE DIRECTED TO THE COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS

   For most correspondence (e.g., new patent applications) no mail stop
is required because the processing of the correspondence is routine.
If NO mail stop is included on the list below, no mail stop is required
for the correspondence. See the listing under "Mail to be Directed to the
Director of the Patent And Trademark Office" for additional mail stops
for patent-related correspondence. Only the specified type of document
should be placed in an envelope addressed to one of these special mail
stops. If any documents other than the specified type identified for each
special mail stop are addressed to that mail stop, they will be
significantly delayed in reaching the appropriate area for which they are
intended. The mail stop should generally appear as the first line in
the address.

   Most correspondence may be submitted electronically. See the USPTO's
Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web) internet page
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/file/efs/index.jsp for additional
information.

   Please address mail to be delivered by the United States Postal Service
(USPS) as follows:

	Mail Stop _____
	Commissioner for Patents
	P.O. Box 1450
	Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

   If no Mail Stop is indicated below, the line beginning Mail Stop should
be omitted from the address.

   Except correspondence for Maintenance Fee payments, Deposit Account
Replenishments (see 37 CFR 1.25(c)(4)), and Licensing and Review (see 37 CFR
5.1(c) and 5.2(c)), please address patent-related correspondence to be
delivered by other delivery services (Federal Express (Fed Ex), UPS, DHL,
Laser, Action, Purolator, etc.) as follows:

	United States Patent and Trademark Office
	Customer Service Window, Mail Stop _____
	Randolph Building
	401 Dulany Street
	Alexandria, VA 22314


Mail Stop
Designations		Explanation

Mail Stop 12		Contributions to the Examiner Education Program.

Mail Stop 313(c)	Petitions under 37 CFR 1.313(c) to withdraw a
			patent application from issue after payment of
			the issue fee and any papers associated with the
			petition, including papers necessary for a
			continuing application or a request for
			continued examination (RCE).

Mail Stop AF		Amendments and other responses after final
			rejection (e.g., a notice of appeal (and any
			request for pre-appeal brief conference)),
			other than an appeal brief.

Mail Stop Amendment	Information disclosure statements, drawings, and
			replies to Office actions in patent applications
			with or without an amendment to the application or
			a terminal disclaimer. (Use Mail Stop AF for
			replies after final rejection.)

Mail Stop Appeal 	For appeal briefs or other briefs under
 Brief-Patents		part 41 of title 37 of the Code of Federal
			Regulations (e.g., former 37 CFR 1.192).

Mail Stop 		Public comments regarding patent-related
 Comments-Patent 	regulations and procedures.


Mail Stop Conversion	Requests under 37 CFR 1.53(c)(2) to convert a
			nonprovisional application to a provisional
			application and requests under 37 CFR 1.53(c)(3)
			to convert a provisional application to a
			nonprovisional application.

Mail Stop EBC		Mail for the Electronic Business Center including:
			Certificate Action Forms, Request for Customer
			Number, and Requests for Customer Number Data
			Change (USPTO Forms PTO-2042, PTO/SB/124A and 125A,
			respectively) and Customer Number Upload
			Spreadsheets and Cover Letters.

Mail Stop Expedited 	Only to be used for the initial filing of
 Design 		design applications accompanied by a
			request for expedited examination under
			37 CFR 1.155.

Mail Stop Express 	Requests for abandonment of a patent
 Abandonment		application pursuant to 37 CFR 1.138,
			including any petitions under 37 CFR
			1.138(c) to expressly abandon an
			application to avoid publication of the
			application.

Mail Stop		Applications under 35 U.S.C. 156 for patent term
 Hatch-Waxman PTE	extension based on regulatory review of a product
			subject to pre-market review by a regulating
   			agency. This mail stop is also to be used for
			additional correspondence regarding the
			application for patent term extension under
			35 U.S.C. 156. It is preferred that such initial
			requests be hand-carried to:

			Office of Patent Legal Administration
			Room MDW 7D55
			600 Dulany Street (Madison Building)
			Alexandria, VA 22314

Mail Stop ILS		Correspondence relating to international patent
			classification, exchanges and standards.

Mail Stop Issue Fee	All communications following the receipt of a
			PTOL-85, "Notice of Allowance and Fee(s)
			Due," and prior to the issuance of a patent
			should be addressed to Mail Stop Issue Fee,
			unless advised to the contrary.

			Assignments are the exception. Assignments
			(with cover sheets) should be faxed to
			571-273-0140, electronically submitted
			(http://epas.uspto.gov), or submitted in a
			separate envelope and sent to Mail Stop
			Assignment Recordation Services,
			Director - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
			as shown below.

Mail Stop L&R		All documents pertaining to applications subject
			to secrecy order pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 181, or
			national-security classified and required to be
			processed accordingly. Such papers, petitions for
			foreign filing license pursuant to 37 CFR 5.12(b)
			for which expedited handling is requested, and
			petitions for retroactive license under 37 CFR
			5.25 may also be hand carried to Licensing and
			Review:

			Technology Center 3600, Office of the Director
			Room 4B41
			501 Dulany Street (Knox Building)
			Alexandria, VA 22314

Mail Stop Missing 	Requests for a corrected filing receipt and
 Parts			replies to OPAP notices such as the Notice
			of Omitted Items, Notice to File Corrected
			Application Papers, Notice of Incomplete
			Application, Notice to Comply with Nucleotide
			Sequence Requirements, and Notice to File Missing
			Parts of Application, and associated papers and
			fees.

Mail Stop MPEP		Submissions concerning the Manual of Patent
			Examining Procedure.

Mail Stop Patent Ext.	Applications for patent term extension or
			adjustment under 35 U.S.C. 154 and any
			communications relating thereto. This mail stop
			is limited to petitions for patent term extension
			under 35 U.S.C. 154 for applications filed
			between June 8, 1995 and May 29, 2000, and patent
			term adjustment (PTA) under 35 U.S.C. 154 for
			applications filed on or after May 29, 2000.
			For applications for patent term extension under
			35 U.S.C. 156, use Mail Stop Hatch-Waxman PTE.
			For applications for patent term extension or
			adjustment under 35 U.S.C. 154 that are mailed
			together with the payment of the issue fee, use
			Mail Stop Issue Fee.

Mail Stop Patent 	Submission of comments regarding search templates.
 Search Template
 Comments

Mail Stop PCT		Mail related to international applications filed
			under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in the
			international phase and in the national phase
			under 35 U.S.C. 371 prior to mailing of a
			Notification of Acceptance of Application Under
			35 U.S.C. 371 and 37 CFR 1.495 (Form
			PCT/DO/EO/903).

Mail Stop Petition	Petitions to be decided by the Office of Petitions,
			including petitions to revive and petitions to
			accept late payment of issue fees or maintenance
			fees.

Mail Stop PGPUB		Correspondence regarding publication of patent
			applications not otherwise provided, including:
			requests for early publication made after filing,
			rescission of a non-publication request, corrected
			patent application publication, and refund of
			publication fee.

Mail Stop Post 		In patented files: requests for changes of
 Issue			correspondence address, powers of attorney,
			revocations of powers of attorney, withdrawal as
			attorney or agent and submissions under 37
			CFR 1.501. Designation of, or changes to, a fee
			address should be addressed to Mail Stop M
			Correspondence. Requests for Certificate of
			Correction need no special mail stop, but
			should be mailed to the attention of Certificate
			of Correction Branch.

Mail Stop RCE		Requests for continued examination under
			37 CFR 1.114.

Mail Stop 		Correspondence pertaining to the reconstruction
 Reconstruction		of lost patent files.

Mail Stop Ex Parte 	Original requests for Ex Parte Reexamination
 Reexam 		and all subsequent corresponcence other
			than correspondence to the Office of the Solicitor
			(see 37 CFR 1.1(a)(3) and 1.302(c)).

Mail Stop Inter  	Original requests for Inter Partes Reexamination
 Partes Reexam		and all subsequent correspondence other than
			correspondence to the Office of the Solicitor
			(see 37 CFR 1.1(a)(3) and 1.302(c)).

Mail Stop Reissue	All new and continuing reissue application filings.

Mail Stop Sequence	Submission of the computer readable form (CRF) for
			applications with sequence listings, when the CRF
			is not being filed with the patent application.

Information for addressing trademark-related correspondence may also be found
on the USPTO's web site at http://www.uspto.gov/patents/mail.jsp.


	    MAIL TO BE DIRECTED TO THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRADEMARKS

   Please address trademark-related correspondence to be delivered by the
United States Postal Service (USPS), except documents sent to the Assignment
Services Division for recordation, requests for copies of trademark
documents, and documents directed to the Madrid Processing Unit, as follows:

	Commissioner for Trademarks
	P.O. Box 1451
	Alexandria, VA 22313-1451

   Mail to be delivered by the USPS to the Office's Madrid Processing Unit,
must be mailed to:

	Madrid Processing Unit
	600 Dulany Street
	MDE-7B87
        Alexandria, VA 22314-5796

   Mail to be delivered by the USPS to the Office's Deputy Commissioner for
Trademark Policy regarding Letters of Protest must be mailed to:

	Letter of Protest
	ATTN: Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Policy
	600 Dulany Street
	Alexandria, VA 22314-5796

   Mail to be delivered by the USPS to the Director regarding the Fastener
Quality Act (FQA) must be mailed to:

	Director, USPTO
	ATTN: FQA
	600 Dulany Street, MDE-10A71
	Alexandria, VA 22314-5793

   Mail to be delivered by the USPS to the Commissioner regarding the
recordal of a Native American Tribal Insignia (NATI) must be mailed to:

	Native American Tribal Insignia
	ATTN: Commissioner for Trademarks
	600 Dulany Street
	MDE-10A71
	Alexandria, VA 22314-5793

Do NOT send any of the following via USPS certified mail or with a
"signature required" option: submissions to the Madrid Processing Unit,
Letters of Protest, applications for recordal of insignia under the
Fastener Quality Act, notifications of Native American Tribal Insignia.

   Trademark-related mail to be delivered by hand or other private courier
or delivery service (e.g., UPS, Federal Express) to the Trademark Operation,
the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, or the Office's Madrid Processing Unit,
must be delivered to:

	Trademark Assistance Center
	Madison East, Concourse Level Room C 55
	600 Dulany Street
	Alexandria, VA 22314

Information for addressing trademark-related correspondence may also be found
on the USPTO's web site at http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/mail.jsp.


	   MAIL TO BE DIRECTED TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES
			  PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

   Please address mail to be directed to a mail stop identified below to
be delivered by the United States Postal Service (USPS) as follows (unless
otherwise instructed):

	Mail Stop _____
	Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
	P.O. Box 1450
	Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

Mail Stop
Designations		Explanation

Mail Stop 3 		Mail for the Office of Personnel from NFC.

Mail Stop 6		Mail for the Office of Procurement.

Mail Stop 8		All papers for the Office of the Solicitor.

Mail Stop 11 		Mail for the Electronic Ordering Service (EOS).

Mail Stop 13 		Mail for the Employee and Labor Relations Division.

Mail Stop 16 		Mail related to refund requests, other than
			requests for refund of a patent application
			publication fee. Such requests should be directed
			to Mail Stop PGPub.

Mail Stop 17 		Invoices directed to the Office of Finance.

Mail Stop 24 		Mail for the Inventor's Assistance Program,
			including complaints about Invention Promoters.

Mail Stop 171		Vacancy Announcement Applications.

Mail Stop Assignment 	All assignment documents, security interests,
 Recordation Services	and other documents to be recorded in the
			Assignment records. Note that documents with
			cover sheets that are faxed to 571-273-0140 or
			submitted electronically (http://epas.uspto.gov)
			are processed much more quickly than those
			submitted by mail.

Mail Stop Document 	All requests for certified or uncertified
 Services		copies of patent or trademark documents.

Mail Stop EEO   	Mail for the Office of Civil Rights.

Mail Stop External 	Mail for the Office of External Affairs.
 Affairs

Mail Stop Interference 	Communications relating to interferences and
			applications and patents involved in interference.

Mail Stop M		Mail to designate or change a fee
 Correspondence		address, or other correspondence related to
			maintenance fees, except payments of
			maintenance fees in patents. See below for
			the address for maintenance fee payments.

Mail Stop OED		Mail for the Office of Enrollment and Discipline.


			   Maintenance Fee Payments

   Unless submitted electronically over the Internet at www.uspto.gov,
payments of maintenance fees in patents should be mailed through the
United States Postal Service to:

	United States Patent and Trademark Office
	P.O. Box 979070
	St. Louis, MO 63197-9000

   Alternatively, payment of maintenance fees in patents (Attn:
Maintenance Fee) using hand-delivery and delivery by private courier
may be made to:

	Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
	Attn: Maintenance Fee
	2051 Jamieson Avenue, Suite 300
	Alexandria, Virginia 22314


			Deposit Account Replenishments

   To send payment to replenish deposit accounts, send the payments through
the United States Postal Service to:

        United States Patent and Trademark Office
	P.O. Box 979065
	St. Louis, MO 63197-9000

   Alternatively, deposit account replenishments (Attn: Deposit Accounts)
using hand-delivery and delivery by private courier (e.g., FedEx, UPS, etc.)
may be delivered to:

	Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
	Attn: Deposit Accounts
	2051 Jamieson Avenue, Suite 300
	Alexandria, Virginia 22314





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    Reference Collections of U.S. Patents Available for Public Use in Patent Depository Libraries
  




             Reference Collections of U.S. Patents and Trademarks
     Available for Public Use in Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries

The following libraries, designated as Patent and Trademark Depository
Libraries (PTDLs), provide public access to patent and trademark
information received from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO). This information includes all issued patents, all registered
trademarks, the Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
search tools such as the Cassis CD-ROM suite of products and supplemental
information in a variety of formats including online, optical disc,
microfilm and paper. Each PTDL also offers access to USPTO resources on
the Internet and to PubWEST (Web based examiner search tool), a system
used by patent examiners that is not available on the Internet.

Staff assistance and training is provided in the use of this information.
All information is available free of charge. However, there may be charges
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advance about its services and hours to avoid inconvenience.

State                   Name of Library                  Telephone Contact

Alabama                 Auburn University Libraries         (334) 844-1737
                        Birmingham Public Library           (205) 226-3620
Alaska                  Fairbanks: Keith B. Mather Library,
                        Geophysical Institute,
                        University of Alaska, Fairbanks     (907) 474-2636
Arkansas                Little Rock: Arkansas State
                        Library                             (501) 682-2053
California              Los Angeles Public Library          (213) 228-7220
                        Riverside: University of
                        California, Riverside, Orbach
                        Science Library                     (951) 827-3316
                        Sacramento: California State
                        Library                             (916) 654-0069
                        San Diego Public Library            (619) 236-5813
                        San Francisco Public Library        (415) 557-4500
                        Sunnyvale Public Library            (408) 730-7300
Colorado                Denver Public Library               (720) 865-1711
Connecticut             Fairfield: Ryan-Matura Library
                        Sacred Heart University             (203) 371-7726
Delaware                Newark: University of Delaware
                        Library                             (302) 831-2965
Dist. of Columbia       Washington: Howard University
                        Libraries                           (202) 806-7252
Florida                 Fort Lauderdale: Broward County
                        Main Library                        (954) 357-7444
                        Miami-Dade Public Library           (305) 375-2665
                        Orlando: University of Central
                        Florida Libraries                   (407) 823-2562
Georgia                 Atlanta: Library and Information
                        Center, Georgia Institute of
                        Technology                          (404) 385-7185
Hawaii                  Honolulu: Hawaii State Library      (808) 586-3477
Illinois                Chicago Public Library              (312) 747-4450
Indiana                 Indianapolis-Marion County Public
                        Library                             (317) 269-1741
                        West Lafayette Siegesmund
                        Engineering Library,
                        Purdue University                   (765) 494-2872
Kansas                  Wichita: Ablah Library, Wichita
                        State University                  1 (800) 572-8368
Kentucky                Louisville Free Public Library      (502) 574-1611
Louisiana               Baton Rouge: Troy H. Middleton
                        Library, Louisiana State University (225) 388-8875
Maine                   Orono: Raymond H. Fogler Library,
                        University of Maine                 (207) 581-1678
Maryland                Baltimore: University of Baltimore
                        Law Library                         (410) 837-4554
                        College Park: Engineering and
                        Physical Sciences Library,
                        University of Maryland              (301) 405-9157
Massachusetts           Amherst: Physical Sciences Library,
                        University of Massachusetts         (413) 545-2765
                        Boston Public Library               (617) 536-5400
                                                                 Ext. 4256
Michigan                Ann Arbor: Art, Architecture &
                        Engineering Library,
                        University of Michigan              (734) 647-5735
                        Big Rapids: Ferris Library for
                        Information, Technology &
                        Education, Ferris State
                        University                          (231) 592-3602
                        Detroit: Public Library             (313) 481-1391
Minnesota               Hennepin County Library
                        Minneapolis Central Library         (952) 847-8000
Mississippi             Jackson: Mississippi Library
                        Commission                          (601) 961-4111
Missouri                Kansas City: Linda Hall Library     (816) 363-4600
                                                                  Ext. 724
                        St. Louis Public Library            (314) 352-2900
Montana                 Butte: Montana Tech Library of
                        the University of Montana           (406) 496-4281
Nebraska                Lincoln: Engineering Library,
                        University of Nebraska-Lincoln      (402) 472-3411
Nevada                  Las Vegas--Clark County Library
                        District                            (702) 507-3421
                        Reno: University of Nevada, Reno,
                        Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center      (775) 784-6500
                                                                  Ext. 257
New Jersey              Newark Public Library               (973) 733-7779
                        Piscataway: Library of Science and
                        Medicine, Rutgers University        (732) 445-2895
New Mexico              Albuquerque: University of
                        New Mexico General Library          (505) 277-4412
New York                Albany: New York State Library      (518) 474-5355
                        Buffalo and Erie County Public
                        Library                             (716) 858-7101
                        Rochester Public Library            (716) 428-8110
                        New York: New York Public Library,
                        Science Industry & Business Library (212) 592-7000
                        Stony Brook: Engineering Library,
                        State University of New York at
                        Stony Brook                         (631) 632-7148
North Carolina          Charlotte: J. Murrey Atkins
                        Library,                            (704) 687-2241
                        University of North Carolina at
                        Charlotte                           (919) 515-2935
North Dakota            Grand Forks: Chester Fritz Library,
                        University of North Dakota          (701) 777-4888
Ohio                    Akron - Summit County Public        (330) 643-9075
                        Library
                        Cincinnati and Hamilton County,
                        Public Library of                   (513) 369-6932
                        Cleveland Public Library            (216) 623-2870
                        Dayton: Paul Laurence Dunbar
                        Library, Wright State University    (937) 775-3521
                        Toledo/Lucas County Public Library  (419) 259-5209
Oklahoma                Stillwater: Oklahoma State
                        University Edmon Low Library        (405) 744-6546
Oregon                  Portland: Paul L. Boley Law Library,
                        Lewis & Clark College               (503) 768-6786
Pennsylvania            Philadelphia, The Free Library of   (215) 686-5394
                        Pittsburgh, Carnegie Library of     (412) 622-3138
                        University Park: PAMS Library,
                        Pennsylvania State University       (814) 865-7617
Puerto Rico             Bayamon: Learning Resources Center,
                        University of Puerto Rico           (787) 993-0000
                                                                 Ext. 3222
                        Mayaquez General Library,
                        University of Puerto Rico           (787) 832-4040
                                                                 Ext. 2023
                        Bayamon, Learning Resources Center,
                        University of Puerto Rico           (787) 786-5225
Rhode Island            Providence Public Library           (401) 455-8027
South Carolina          Clemson University Libraries        (864) 656-3024
South Dakota            Rapid City: Devereaux Library,
                        South Dakota School of Mines and
                        Technology                          (605) 394-1275
Tennessee               Nashville: Stevenson Science and
                        Engineering Library, Vanderbilt
                        University                          (615) 322-2717
Texas                   Austin: McKinney Engineering
                        Library, University of Texas at
                        Austin                              (512) 495-4511
                        College Station: West Campus
                        Library, Texas A & M University     (979) 845-2111
                        Dallas Public Library               (214) 670-1468
                        Houston: The Fondren Library, Rice
                        University                          (713) 348-5483
                        Lubbock: Texas Tech University      (806) 742-2282
                        San Antonio Public Library          (210) 207-2500
Utah                    Salt Lake City: Marriott Library,
                        University of Utah                  (801) 581-8394
Vermont                 Burlington: Bailey/Howe Library,
                        University of Vermont               (802) 656-2542
Washington              Seattle: Engineering Library,
                        University of Washington            (206) 543-0740
West Virginia           Morgantown: Evansdale Library,
                        West Virginia University            (304) 293-4695
Wisconsin               Madison: Kurt F. Wendt Library,
                        University of Wisconsin Madison     (608) 262-6845
                        Milwaukee Public Library            (414) 286-3051
Wyoming                 Cheyenne: Wyoming State Library     (307) 777-7281





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	AVERAGE FILING DATE OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVING A FIRST OFFICE ACTION IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS1
	

	

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1600
	BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
	


 161010/03/08


 162005/29/09


 163004/28/09


 164006/28/09


 165002/20/09


 166012/21/09


 TOTAL 04/10/09


   




	1700
	CHEMICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND DESIGNS
	


 171009/21/08


 178011/09/08


 179012/27/08


 TOTAL 11/09/08


   



 291004/25/10





	2100
	COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND SOFTWARE
	


 211011/27/08


 212010/06/08


 215012/12/08


 216012/09/08


 217003/17/08


 218012/03/08


 219006/14/07


 TOTAL 08/13/08


   




	2400
	NETWORKING, MULTIPLEXING, CABLE AND SECURITY
	


 242008/28/08


 243003/20/08


 244004/10/09


 245004/01/09


 246009/30/08


 247012/31/08


 248001/22/08


 249005/01/08


 TOTAL 10/03/08


   




	2600
	COMMUNICATIONS
	


 261006/28/08


 262006/04/08


 TOTAL 06/16/08


   




	2800
	 
	SEMICONDUCTORS/MEMORY, CIRCUITS/MEASURING AND TESTING, OPTICS/PHOTOCOPYING
	


 281008/28/09


 282005/29/09


 283005/29/09


 284006/10/09


 285001/24/09


 286004/13/09


 287005/01/09


 288004/10/09


 289006/22/09


 TOTAL 05/16/09


   





	3600
	 
	 
	TRANSPORTATION, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, NATIONAL SECURITY AND LICENSE AND REVIEW
	


 361006/19/09


 362008/03/08


 363003/17/09


 364005/10/09


 365012/12/08


 366010/31/08


 367007/07/09


 368008/16/08


 369001/30/09


 TOTAL 01/30/09


   




	3700
	 
	MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTS
	


 371009/06/08


 372001/21/09


 373010/22/08


 374006/22/08


 375010/31/08


 376001/30/09


 377007/28/08


 378010/03/08


 TOTAL 10/19/08


   

	

	 
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