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 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE Print Table of Contents 1386 OG 157 

OFFICIAL GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

January 15, 2013 Volume 1386 Number 3

CONTENTS

 Patent and Trademark Office NoticesPage 
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Information1386 OG 158
Notice of Maintenance Fees Payable1386 OG 161
Notice of Expiration of Patents Due to Failure to Pay Maintenance Fee1386 OG 162
Patents Reinstated Due to the Acceptance of a Late Maintenance Fee from 12/17/20121386 OG 186
Reissue Applications Filed1386 OG 187
Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed1386 OG 188
Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed1386 OG 190
Notice of Expiration of Trademark Registrations Due to Failure to Renew1386 OG 193
Service by Publication1386 OG 197
37 CFR 1.47 Notice by Publication1386 OG 199
Registration to Practice1386 OG 200
Reinstatement to Register - December 19, 20121386 OG 202
Changes to Implement Micro Entity Status for Paying Patent Fees1386 OG 203
Disclaimer1386 OG 231
Certificates of Correction1386 OG 232
AIA Trial Proceedings Filed before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board1386 OG 233
Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board1386 OG 234

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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 1382 O.G. 61, on September 11, 2012.

   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) or the International Preliminary Examining Authority (IPEA)
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 use of the EPO is restricted. The EPO will not act
as an ISA for applications with one or more claims directed to a business
method. For the definition of what the EPO considers to be precluded
subject matter in the field of business methods, see PCT Applicants's
Guide, Annexes D(EP), E(EP) and the Official Notices (PCT Gazette) dated
May 6, 2010, page 94
(http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/official_notices/index.html). The EPO will act
as an IPEA only if it also acted as the ISA.

   The search fee of the European Patent Office was decreased, effective
January 1, 2013, and was announced in the Official Gazette at 1385 O.G. 176,
on December 25, 2012.

Korean Intellectual Property Office as Searching and Examining Authority

The Korean Intellectual Property Office may act as the ISA or the IPEA 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. The announcement appears 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, 2013, and was announced in the Official Gazette at
1385 O.G. 176, on December 25, 2012.

Australian Patent Office as Searching and Examining Authority

   The Australian Patent Office (IP Australia) may act as the ISA or the
IPEA 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. The announcement appears in the Offical Gazette
at 1337 O.G. 265, on December 23, 2008. However, the use of IP Australia is
restricted. IP Australia will not act as an ISA for applications with 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 the
Official Gazette at 1337 O.G. 261 on December 23, 2008, in Annex A to the
agreement between the USPTO and IP Australia. IP Australia will act as an
IPEA only if it also acted as the ISA.

   The search fee of IP Australia was increased, effective January 1, 2013,
and was announced in the Official Gazette at 1385 O.G. 176, on December 25, 2012.

The Federal Service on Intellectual Property, Patents & Trademarks of
Russia as Searching and Examining Authority

   The Federal Service on Intellectual Property, Patents & Trademarks of
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Russia (Rospatent) may act as the ISA or the IPEA 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. The announcement appears in the Official Gazette at 1378 O.G. 162,
on May 8, 2012.

   The search fee of Rospatent was increased, effective January 1, 2013,
and was announced in the Official Gazette at 1385 O.G. 176, on December 25,
2012.

Fees

   The transmittal fee for the USPTO was changed to include a basic portion
and a non-electronic filing fee portion, effective November 15, 2011, and
was announced in the Federal Register on November 15, 2011. 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 January 1, 2013,
and were announced in the Official Gazette at 1385 O.G. 176, on December 25,
2012.

   The schedule of PCT fees (in U.S. dollars), as of January 1, 2013, is
as follows:

International Application (PCT Chapter I) fees:

   Transmittal fee
      Basic Portion                                                 $240.00
      Non-electronic filing fee portion for international
       applications (other than plant applications) filed
       on or after 15 November 2011 other than by the
       Office electronic filing system (other than a
       small entity)                                                $400.00
      Non-electronic filing fee portion for international
       applications (other than plant applications) filed
       on or after 15 November 2011 other than by the
       Office electronic filing system (small entity)               $200.00

   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                               $2,419.00
      Korean Intellectual Property Office as ISA                  $1,167.00
      IP Australia as ISA                                         $2,282.00
      Federal Service on Intellectual Property, Patents &
         Trademarks of Russia (Rospatent) as ISA                    $217.00

   International fees

      International filing fee                                    $1,419.00
      International filing fee-filed in paper
         with PCT EASY zip file or
         electronically without PCT EASY zip file                 $1,312.00
      International filing fee-filed
         electronically with PCT EASY zip files                   $1,206.00
      Supplemental fee for each page over 30                         $16.00

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   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                                                  $213.00
      Handling fee-90% reduction, if applicants meet criteria
      specified at:
        http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/fees/fee_reduction.pdf            $21.30
      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, 2012                                       ANDREW H. HIRSHFELD
                                                    Deputy 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 January 5, 2010
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 7,640,598 through 7,644,447
        Reissue Patents based on the above identified patents.

   Attention is drawn to the patents that were issued on January 3, 2006
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 6,981,282 through 6,983,486
        Reissue Patents based on the above identified patents.

   Attention is drawn to the patents that were issued on January 1, 2002
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 6,334,220 through 6,336,212
        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 November 28, 2012
                    DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEES

Patent                          Application                         Issue
Number                             Number                            Date

6,151,713                        09/369,869                      11/28/00
6,151,715                        09/396,100                      11/28/00
6,151,718                        09/308,886                      11/28/00
6,151,720                        08/988,762                      11/28/00
6,151,724                        09/429,919                      11/28/00
6,151,737                        09/304,275                      11/28/00
6,151,738                        09/090,201                      11/28/00
6,151,746                        09/109,384                      11/28/00
6,151,747                        09/205,303                      11/28/00
6,151,752                        09/330,952                      11/28/00
6,151,760                        09/292,853                      11/28/00
6,151,766                        09/131,665                      11/28/00
6,151,768                        09/312,851                      11/28/00
6,151,769                        08/924,357                      11/28/00
6,151,770                        09/197,568                      11/28/00
6,151,776                        09/197,628                      11/28/00
6,151,778                        09/475,725                      11/28/00
6,151,784                        09/166,852                      11/28/00
6,151,804                        09/101,442                      11/28/00
6,151,809                        09/224,249                      11/28/00
6,151,810                        09/126,086                      11/28/00
6,151,828                        08/178,013                      11/28/00
6,151,829                        09/522,675                      11/28/00
6,151,830                        09/064,460                      11/28/00
6,151,839                        09/101,290                      11/28/00
6,151,840                        09/310,186                      11/28/00
6,151,845                        09/396,623                      11/28/00
6,151,848                        09/228,518                      11/28/00
6,151,853                        09/283,544                      11/28/00
6,151,854                        09/105,371                      11/28/00
6,151,866                        09/225,591                      11/28/00
6,151,867                        09/200,653                      11/28/00
6,151,874                        09/304,923                      11/28/00
6,151,875                        09/056,886                      11/28/00
6,151,878                        09/464,159                      11/28/00
6,151,892                        09/323,800                      11/28/00
6,151,899                        09/306,574                      11/28/00
6,151,906                        09/367,584                      11/28/00
6,151,922                        09/404,751                      11/28/00
6,151,923                        09/412,343                      11/28/00
6,151,930                        09/455,014                      11/28/00
6,151,934                        09/422,695                      11/28/00
6,151,937                        09/251,687                      11/28/00
6,151,940                        09/325,517                      11/28/00
6,151,941                        09/237,290                      11/28/00
6,151,944                        09/402,463                      11/28/00
6,151,954                        08/923,744                      11/28/00
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6,151,968                        09/008,298                      11/28/00
6,151,971                        09/219,012                      11/28/00
6,151,982                        09/231,172                      11/28/00
6,151,991                        09/288,111                      11/28/00
6,151,995                        09/229,237                      11/28/00
6,152,000                        09/149,696                      11/28/00
6,152,001                        09/037,325                      11/28/00
6,152,020                        09/301,328                      11/28/00
6,152,024                        09/168,569                      11/28/00
6,152,028                        08/973,972                      11/28/00
6,152,032                        09/186,436                      11/28/00
6,152,036                        09/280,659                      11/28/00
6,152,037                        09/268,116                      11/28/00
6,152,044                        09/091,293                      11/28/00
6,152,046                        09/232,124                      11/28/00
6,152,051                        09/051,744                      11/28/00
6,152,064                        09/377,187                      11/28/00
6,152,069                        09/056,079                      11/28/00
6,152,071                        08/988,137                      11/28/00
6,152,078                        09/161,456                      11/28/00
6,152,081                        09/250,694                      11/28/00
6,152,082                        09/156,352                      11/28/00
6,152,086                        09/101,121                      11/28/00
6,152,087                        08/987,422                      11/28/00
6,152,090                        09/093,933                      11/28/00
6,152,125                        09/221,440                      11/28/00
6,152,139                        08/788,548                      11/28/00
6,152,145                        09/080,877                      11/28/00
6,152,146                        09/344,516                      11/28/00
6,152,148                        09/145,921                      11/28/00
6,152,153                        09/206,360                      11/28/00
6,152,154                        09/221,054                      11/28/00
6,152,155                        09/200,983                      11/28/00
6,152,178                        09/467,323                      11/28/00
6,152,184                        09/247,631                      11/28/00
6,152,186                        09/109,455                      11/28/00
6,152,187                        09/336,983                      11/28/00
6,152,190                        09/292,474                      11/28/00
6,152,193                        09/496,908                      11/28/00
6,152,200                        09/483,235                      11/28/00
6,152,212                        08/881,496                      11/28/00
6,152,214                        09/389,948                      11/28/00
6,152,216                        09/417,309                      11/28/00
6,152,240                        09/120,066                      11/28/00
6,152,245                        09/125,724                      11/28/00
6,152,252                        09/202,485                      11/28/00
6,152,254                        09/179,152                      11/28/00
6,152,258                        09/407,154                      11/28/00
6,152,261                        09/318,920                      11/28/00
6,152,262                        09/379,203                      11/28/00
6,152,264                        09/354,477                      11/28/00
6,152,265                        09/385,536                      11/28/00
6,152,267                        09/158,833                      11/28/00
6,152,271                        09/122,532                      11/28/00
6,152,276                        09/293,710                      11/28/00
6,152,278                        09/349,434                      11/28/00
6,152,283                        09/106,703                      11/28/00
6,152,286                        09/255,249                      11/28/00
6,152,294                        09/371,719                      11/28/00
6,152,297                        09/293,870                      11/28/00
6,152,301                        09/372,624                      11/28/00
6,152,306                        08/961,245                      11/28/00
6,152,310                        09/192,265                      11/28/00
6,152,319                        09/101,260                      11/28/00
6,152,323                        09/100,719                      11/28/00
6,152,324                        09/188,143                      11/28/00
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6,152,333                        09/330,719                      11/28/00
6,152,338                        09/032,427                      11/28/00
6,152,350                        09/099,624                      11/28/00
6,152,351                        09/122,788                      11/28/00
6,152,353                        09/245,125                      11/28/00
6,152,359                        09/334,002                      11/28/00
6,152,360                        08/979,354                      11/28/00
6,152,361                        09/259,431                      11/28/00
6,152,367                        09/043,762                      11/28/00
6,152,369                        08/905,903                      11/28/00
6,152,371                        09/133,083                      11/28/00
6,152,376                        09/236,430                      11/28/00
6,152,377                        08/500,069                      11/28/00
6,152,378                        09/284,744                      11/28/00
6,152,379                        09/307,224                      11/28/00
6,152,383                        09/444,510                      11/28/00
6,152,387                        09/112,908                      11/28/00
6,152,389                        09/459,316                      11/28/00
6,152,407                        09/398,154                      11/28/00
6,152,409                        09/130,829                      11/28/00
6,152,414                        09/061,668                      11/28/00
6,152,421                        09/063,346                      11/28/00
6,152,422                        09/247,762                      11/28/00
6,152,435                        09/127,232                      11/28/00
6,152,437                        09/071,435                      11/28/00
6,152,440                        09/452,842                      11/28/00
6,152,442                        09/149,059                      11/28/00
6,152,446                        08/905,657                      11/28/00
6,152,449                        08/757,749                      11/28/00
6,152,451                        09/295,740                      11/28/00
6,152,454                        09/086,597                      11/28/00
6,152,456                        09/212,512                      11/28/00
6,152,457                        09/191,885                      11/28/00
6,152,468                        09/190,427                      11/28/00
6,152,472                        09/150,237                      11/28/00
6,152,473                        09/353,540                      11/28/00
6,152,484                        09/235,968                      11/28/00
6,152,495                        09/331,123                      11/28/00
6,152,508                        09/189,087                      11/28/00
6,152,521                        09/106,865                      11/28/00
6,152,525                        09/198,419                      11/28/00
6,152,529                        09/337,823                      11/28/00
6,152,535                        09/431,598                      11/28/00
6,152,536                        09/393,260                      11/28/00
6,152,538                        09/062,136                      11/28/00
6,152,543                        07/894,128                      11/28/00
6,152,549                        09/189,769                      11/28/00
6,152,550                        09/233,981                      11/28/00
6,152,555                        09/363,820                      11/28/00
6,152,556                        08/930,784                      11/28/00
6,152,568                        09/244,640                      11/28/00
6,152,570                        09/132,136                      11/28/00
6,152,575                        09/336,260                      11/28/00
6,152,587                        09/244,386                      11/28/00
6,152,588                        08/902,741                      11/28/00
6,152,592                        09/252,251                      11/28/00
6,152,597                        09/105,489                      11/28/00
6,152,600                        09/185,241                      11/28/00
6,152,601                        09/133,615                      11/28/00
6,152,603                        09/112,232                      11/28/00
6,152,605                        09/379,748                      11/28/00
6,152,619                        09/112,745                      11/28/00
6,152,624                        09/436,601                      11/28/00
6,152,634                        09/328,613                      11/28/00
6,152,648                        09/241,198                      11/28/00
6,152,653                        09/134,531                      11/28/00
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6,152,667                        09/412,277                      11/28/00
6,152,669                        08/747,113                      11/28/00
6,152,677                        09/075,927                      11/28/00
6,152,680                        08/918,332                      11/28/00
6,152,682                        09/194,760                      11/28/00
6,152,691                        09/245,005                      11/28/00
6,152,692                        09/185,984                      11/28/00
6,152,696                        09/187,078                      11/28/00
6,152,701                        09/028,783                      11/28/00
6,152,704                        09/164,396                      11/28/00
6,152,715                        09/016,404                      11/28/00
6,152,718                        09/004,059                      11/28/00
6,152,720                        09/161,613                      11/28/00
6,152,723                        09/171,315                      11/28/00
6,152,730                        09/357,202                      11/28/00
6,152,732                        09/364,764                      11/28/00
6,152,733                        09/414,734                      11/28/00
6,152,741                        09/370,609                      11/28/00
6,152,744                        09/310,721                      11/28/00
6,152,748                        09/233,165                      11/28/00
6,152,755                        09/210,191                      11/28/00
6,152,757                        09/378,390                      11/28/00
6,152,760                        09/273,630                      11/28/00
6,152,761                        08/874,395                      11/28/00
6,152,770                        09/276,904                      11/28/00
6,152,771                        09/221,646                      11/28/00
6,152,778                        09/031,219                      11/28/00
6,152,781                        09/374,072                      11/28/00
6,152,782                        09/006,110                      11/28/00
6,152,786                        09/298,569                      11/28/00
6,152,787                        09/385,160                      11/28/00
6,152,797                        08/724,521                      11/28/00
6,152,803                        09/358,046                      11/28/00
6,152,805                        09/116,496                      11/28/00
6,152,807                        09/111,303                      11/28/00
6,152,809                        09/146,626                      11/28/00
6,152,814                        09/398,159                      11/28/00
6,152,830                        09/325,310                      11/28/00
6,152,831                        09/170,824                      11/28/00
6,152,840                        09/390,551                      11/28/00
6,152,847                        09/458,184                      11/28/00
6,152,848                        09/396,927                      11/28/00
6,152,849                        09/236,831                      11/28/00
6,152,854                        09/255,162                      11/28/00
6,152,860                        09/261,752                      11/28/00
6,152,862                        09/133,551                      11/28/00
6,152,864                        09/395,552                      11/28/00
6,152,867                        09/184,585                      11/28/00
6,152,869                        09/132,161                      11/28/00
6,152,872                        08/470,562                      11/28/00
6,152,877                        09/212,876                      11/28/00
6,152,884                        09/171,559                      11/28/00
6,152,885                        09/070,366                      11/28/00
6,152,886                        09/072,494                      11/28/00
6,152,887                        09/031,578                      11/28/00
6,152,907                        09/070,751                      11/28/00
6,152,908                        08/704,705                      11/28/00
6,152,914                        09/235,169                      11/28/00
6,152,922                        09/339,197                      11/28/00
6,152,929                        09/064,587                      11/28/00
6,152,940                        09/162,840                      11/28/00
6,152,944                        09/034,434                      11/28/00
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6,152,959                        09/312,566                      11/28/00
6,152,964                        08/810,266                      11/28/00
6,152,965                        09/210,336                      11/28/00
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6,152,978                        09/117,622                      11/28/00
6,152,994                        09/178,922                      11/28/00
6,153,004                        09/465,389                      11/28/00
6,153,007                        09/331,502                      11/28/00
6,153,011                        09/504,961                      11/28/00
6,153,025                        09/116,848                      11/28/00
6,153,028                        09/249,905                      11/28/00
6,153,029                        09/141,750                      11/28/00
6,153,030                        09/362,745                      11/28/00
6,153,033                        09/222,410                      11/28/00
6,153,036                        09/265,084                      11/28/00
6,153,037                        08/750,491                      11/28/00
6,153,042                        09/190,139                      11/28/00
6,153,059                        09/354,892                      11/28/00
6,153,061                        09/257,572                      11/28/00
6,153,068                        09/035,325                      11/28/00
6,153,072                        09/150,295                      11/28/00
6,153,076                        09/005,499                      11/28/00
6,153,083                        09/331,390                      11/28/00
6,153,090                        09/182,657                      11/28/00
6,153,098                        08/922,404                      11/28/00
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6,153,143                        09/145,622                      11/28/00
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6,153,177                        09/211,831                      11/28/00
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6,153,250                        09/333,443                      11/28/00
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6,153,306                        09/194,084                      11/28/00
6,153,310                        09/170,118                      11/28/00
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 167 

6,153,312                        09/096,963                      11/28/00
6,153,316                        09/479,841                      11/28/00
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6,153,469                        09/352,448                      11/28/00
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6,153,509                        09/343,699                      11/28/00
6,153,515                        09/156,896                      11/28/00
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6,153,532                        09/032,212                      11/28/00
6,153,535                        08/955,742                      11/28/00
6,153,542                        08/862,249                      11/28/00
6,153,545                        09/331,879                      11/28/00
6,153,550                        08/993,168                      11/28/00
6,153,551                        08/892,592                      11/28/00
6,153,556                        09/220,908                      11/28/00
6,153,557                        09/189,937                      11/28/00
6,153,558                        09/144,923                      11/28/00
6,153,577                        09/426,594                      11/28/00
6,153,585                        09/353,976                      11/28/00
6,153,588                        09/251,030                      11/28/00
6,153,592                        08/244,715                      11/28/00
6,153,596                        08/993,008                      11/28/00
6,153,600                        09/326,135                      11/28/00
6,153,601                        08/889,793                      11/28/00
6,153,603                        09/093,074                      11/28/00
6,153,604                        08/458,803                      11/28/00
6,153,610                        09/157,905                      11/28/00
6,153,618                        08/948,887                      11/28/00
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6,153,632                        08/804,903                      11/28/00
6,153,634                        09/464,507                      11/28/00
6,153,635                        09/197,019                      11/28/00
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 168 

6,153,640                        09/533,684                      11/28/00
6,153,645                        09/393,505                      11/28/00
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6,153,943                        09/261,341                      11/28/00
6,153,948                        09/133,334                      11/28/00
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 169 

6,153,952                        09/307,795                      11/28/00
6,153,953                        09/129,701                      11/28/00
6,153,958                        08/247,566                      11/28/00
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6,154,240                        09/294,774                      11/28/00
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6,154,284                        09/280,989                      11/28/00
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6,154,391                        09/153,074                      11/28/00
6,154,396                        09/443,283                      11/28/00
6,154,402                        09/398,201                      11/28/00
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6,154,635                        08/945,097                      11/28/00
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 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 171 

6,154,797                        09/370,978                      11/28/00
6,154,804                        09/250,232                      11/28/00
6,154,848                        08/691,576                      11/28/00
6,154,854                        09/004,671                      11/28/00
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6,154,864                        09/081,133                      11/28/00
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6,154,867                        09/034,330                      11/28/00
6,154,870                        09/089,874                      11/28/00
6,154,872                        08/975,343                      11/28/00

                  PATENTS WHICH EXPIRED ON November 23, 2012
                    DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEES

Patent                          Application                         Issue
Number                             Number                            Date

6,820,284                        10/661,278                      11/23/04
6,820,285                        10/450,047                      11/23/04
6,820,287                        10/142,708                      11/23/04
6,820,289                        10/150,133                      11/23/04
6,820,290                        09/881,258                      11/23/04
6,820,296                        10/354,004                      11/23/04
6,820,306                        10/683,225                      11/23/04
6,820,313                        10/072,113                      11/23/04
6,820,318                        10/162,546                      11/23/04
6,820,321                        09/961,789                      11/23/04
6,820,333                        10/395,288                      11/23/04
6,820,336                        10/034,423                      11/23/04
6,820,338                        10/388,152                      11/23/04
6,820,344                        10/258,509                      11/23/04
6,820,350                        10/148,733                      11/23/04
6,820,357                        10/726,319                      11/23/04
6,820,359                        10/275,464                      11/23/04
6,820,362                        10/755,023                      11/23/04
6,820,364                        10/629,193                      11/23/04
6,820,366                        10/449,886                      11/23/04
6,820,369                        10/124,943                      11/23/04
6,820,372                        10/093,893                      11/23/04
6,820,374                        10/276,810                      11/23/04
6,820,376                        10/702,359                      11/23/04
6,820,377                        09/958,470                      11/23/04
6,820,378                        10/009,320                      11/23/04
6,820,379                        09/762,714                      11/23/04
6,820,381                        10/773,907                      11/23/04
6,820,390                        10/272,698                      11/23/04
6,820,391                        10/339,589                      11/23/04
6,820,396                        10/182,083                      11/23/04
6,820,397                        10/206,506                      11/23/04
6,820,401                        10/282,625                      11/23/04
6,820,404                        10/383,269                      11/23/04
6,820,405                        10/195,254                      11/23/04
6,820,406                        10/144,673                      11/23/04
6,820,410                        10/440,933                      11/23/04
6,820,412                        10/670,959                      11/23/04
6,820,413                        10/235,815                      11/23/04
6,820,416                        10/060,058                      11/23/04
6,820,417                        10/306,044                      11/23/04
6,820,418                        10/311,016                      11/23/04
6,820,419                        10/182,019                      11/23/04
6,820,433                        10/674,405                      11/23/04
6,820,441                        10/657,668                      11/23/04
6,820,446                        10/031,084                      11/23/04
6,820,450                        10/153,194                      11/23/04
6,820,452                        10/414,070                      11/23/04
6,820,476                        10/751,890                      11/23/04
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 172 

6,820,478                        10/110,821                      11/23/04
6,820,488                        10/459,362                      11/23/04
6,820,493                        09/413,494                      11/23/04
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 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 173 

6,820,778                        10/415,975                      11/23/04
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 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 174 

6,821,121                        10/224,266                      11/23/04
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 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 175 

6,821,406                        10/067,502                      11/23/04
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 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 176 

6,821,760                        09/408,142                      11/23/04
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 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 177 

6,822,113                        10/431,951                      11/23/04
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 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 178 

6,822,456                        10/206,465                      11/23/04
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6,822,499                        10/303,838                      11/23/04
6,822,501                        10/695,927                      11/23/04
6,822,516                        10/402,391                      11/23/04
6,822,524                        10/067,435                      11/23/04
6,822,529                        10/749,546                      11/23/04
6,822,531                        10/210,567                      11/23/04
6,822,532                        10/207,670                      11/23/04
6,822,539                        10/300,280                      11/23/04
6,822,542                        10/200,517                      11/23/04
6,822,544                        10/403,022                      11/23/04
6,822,555                        10/229,379                      11/23/04
6,822,560                        10/378,685                      11/23/04
6,822,561                        10/149,774                      11/23/04
6,822,578                        10/095,649                      11/23/04
6,822,582                        10/374,962                      11/23/04
6,822,584                        09/859,874                      11/23/04
6,822,586                        10/099,928                      11/23/04
6,822,605                        10/221,072                      11/23/04
6,822,614                        10/336,537                      11/23/04
6,822,619                        10/312,330                      11/23/04
6,822,621                        10/370,057                      11/23/04
6,822,631                        09/869,972                      11/23/04
6,822,637                        10/265,237                      11/23/04
6,822,644                        09/559,633                      11/23/04
6,822,659                        10/150,002                      11/23/04
6,822,661                        09/915,847                      11/23/04
6,822,677                        09/573,206                      11/23/04
6,822,680                        09/263,597                      11/23/04
6,822,682                        09/629,621                      11/23/04
6,822,690                        09/811,513                      11/23/04
6,822,697                        09/627,337                      11/23/04
6,822,705                        10/276,927                      11/23/04
6,822,710                        09/657,506                      11/23/04
6,822,713                        09/722,991                      11/23/04
6,822,726                        10/353,292                      11/23/04
6,822,727                        09/986,958                      11/23/04
6,822,731                        10/464,840                      11/23/04
6,822,732                        10/703,440                      11/23/04
6,822,734                        09/807,680                      11/23/04
6,822,739                        10/441,889                      11/23/04
6,822,744                        10/144,657                      11/23/04
6,822,773                        10/236,444                      11/23/04
6,822,778                        10/356,220                      11/23/04
6,822,786                        10/015,714                      11/23/04
6,822,798                        10/215,576                      11/23/04
6,822,800                        10/456,674                      11/23/04
6,822,802                        10/331,539                      11/23/04
6,822,813                        10/700,038                      11/23/04
6,822,818                        09/919,915                      11/23/04
6,822,819                        10/675,696                      11/23/04
6,822,825                        10/034,711                      11/23/04
6,822,831                        10/074,185                      11/23/04
6,822,844                        10/323,878                      11/23/04
6,822,846                        10/377,544                      11/23/04
6,822,848                        10/817,687                      11/23/04
6,822,854                        10/197,196                      11/23/04
6,822,860                        10/323,871                      11/23/04
6,822,887                        10/406,461                      11/23/04
6,822,890                        10/410,592                      11/23/04
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 179 

6,822,907                        10/366,403                      11/23/04
6,822,917                        10/437,256                      11/23/04
6,822,921                        10/421,862                      11/23/04
6,822,927                        10/629,087                      11/23/04
6,822,928                        10/404,654                      11/23/04
6,822,930                        09/892,682                      11/23/04
6,822,932                        10/385,726                      11/23/04
6,822,941                        09/641,791                      11/23/04
6,822,958                        09/669,526                      11/23/04
6,822,960                        09/452,830                      11/23/04
6,822,963                        09/529,996                      11/23/04
6,822,971                        09/322,462                      11/23/04
6,822,977                        10/165,767                      11/23/04
6,822,983                        10/090,714                      11/23/04
6,822,984                        10/143,945                      11/23/04
6,823,001                        09/583,912                      11/23/04
6,823,002                        09/737,256                      11/23/04
6,823,025                        09/933,621                      11/23/04
6,823,030                        10/244,516                      11/23/04
6,823,038                        10/092,136                      11/23/04
6,823,044                        09/990,849                      11/23/04
6,823,046                        09/973,863                      11/23/04
6,823,065                        09/702,621                      11/23/04
6,823,066                        09/347,689                      11/23/04
6,823,067                        09/913,974                      11/23/04
6,823,088                        09/972,878                      11/23/04
6,823,092                        09/718,365                      11/23/04
6,823,105                        10/050,527                      11/23/04
6,823,109                        09/794,337                      11/23/04
6,823,111                        09/915,363                      11/23/04
6,823,113                        10/242,752                      11/23/04
6,823,128                        09/404,876                      11/23/04
6,823,139                        10/241,270                      11/23/04
6,823,141                        09/749,774                      11/23/04
6,823,142                        09/594,856                      11/23/04
6,823,149                        10/373,050                      11/23/04
6,823,156                        10/388,593                      11/23/04
6,823,170                        09/616,637                      11/23/04
6,823,171                        09/803,029                      11/23/04
6,823,179                        10/092,485                      11/23/04
6,823,186                        09/752,425                      11/23/04
6,823,200                        10/045,483                      11/23/04
6,823,204                        10/221,240                      11/23/04
6,823,211                        10/149,422                      11/23/04
6,823,218                        09/904,156                      11/23/04
6,823,227                        10/292,067                      11/23/04
6,823,277                        10/671,926                      11/23/04
6,823,285                        09/212,442                      11/23/04
6,823,286                        10/297,160                      11/23/04
6,823,287                        10/320,802                      11/23/04
6,823,289                        10/257,013                      11/23/04
6,823,296                        10/024,719                      11/23/04
6,823,301                        09/380,469                      11/23/04
6,823,311                        09/778,916                      11/23/04
6,823,319                        09/586,462                      11/23/04
6,823,325                        09/721,473                      11/23/04
6,823,332                        09/746,260                      11/23/04
6,823,337                        09/749,105                      11/23/04
6,823,345                        09/850,108                      11/23/04
6,823,352                        09/952,759                      11/23/04
6,823,359                        09/717,820                      11/23/04
6,823,361                        09/757,046                      11/23/04
6,823,363                        09/427,340                      11/23/04
6,823,398                        09/539,841                      11/23/04
6,823,413                        09/875,973                      11/23/04
6,823,431                        09/862,486                      11/23/04
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 180 

6,823,443                        09/846,301                      11/23/04
6,823,458                        09/442,696                      11/23/04
6,823,484                        09/983,508                      11/23/04
6,823,489                        09/840,218                      11/23/04
6,823,512                        09/484,105                      11/23/04
6,823,527                        10/281,598                      11/23/04
6,823,528                        10/329,735                      11/23/04

                  PATENTS WHICH EXPIRED ON November 25, 2012
                    DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY MAINTENANCE FEES

Patent                          Application                         Issue
Number                             Number                            Date

7,454,811                        11/333,821                      11/25/08
7,454,813                        10/942,472                      11/25/08
7,454,816                        11/034,296                      11/25/08
7,454,821                        10/964,545                      11/25/08
7,454,824                        11/439,979                      11/25/08
7,454,829                        11/206,133                      11/25/08
7,454,832                        11/506,589                      11/25/08
7,454,837                        11/581,136                      11/25/08
7,454,840                        10/579,665                      11/25/08
7,454,849                        11/181,070                      11/25/08
7,454,853                        11/307,755                      11/25/08
7,454,859                        11/160,640                      11/25/08
7,454,863                        12/011,917                      11/25/08
7,454,866                        11/493,735                      11/25/08
7,454,869                        11/365,416                      11/25/08
7,454,871                        10/812,489                      11/25/08
7,454,887                        11/202,893                      11/25/08
7,454,888                        11/521,615                      11/25/08
7,454,893                        11/086,641                      11/25/08
7,454,897                        11/503,740                      11/25/08
7,454,898                        11/296,767                      11/25/08
7,454,911                        11/266,948                      11/25/08
7,454,917                        10/552,142                      11/25/08
7,454,924                        11/213,090                      11/25/08
7,454,926                        11/186,839                      11/25/08
7,454,931                        10/967,319                      11/25/08
7,454,934                        11/356,631                      11/25/08
7,454,939                        11/035,235                      11/25/08
7,454,943                        10/620,243                      11/25/08
7,454,951                        11/323,709                      11/25/08
7,454,959                        10/583,435                      11/25/08
7,454,966                        10/594,232                      11/25/08
7,454,969                        11/141,282                      11/25/08
7,454,978                        11/280,923                      11/25/08
7,455,008                        10/570,470                      11/25/08
7,455,009                        11/450,823                      11/25/08
7,455,014                        11/042,224                      11/25/08
7,455,016                        11/170,324                      11/25/08
7,455,017                        10/637,220                      11/25/08
7,455,029                        10/756,604                      11/25/08
7,455,038                        11/685,569                      11/25/08
7,455,047                        11/790,078                      11/25/08
7,455,049                        11/587,275                      11/25/08
7,455,058                        11/486,719                      11/25/08
7,455,067                        11/332,004                      11/25/08
7,455,068                        10/978,693                      11/25/08
7,455,071                        10/559,622                      11/25/08
7,455,073                        11/507,107                      11/25/08
7,455,076                        11/032,103                      11/25/08
7,455,078                        11/461,786                      11/25/08
7,455,079                        11/334,057                      11/25/08
7,455,088                        10/555,479                      11/25/08
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 181 

7,455,094                        11/379,116                      11/25/08
7,455,095                        11/195,788                      11/25/08
7,455,105                        11/501,505                      11/25/08
7,455,107                        10/595,727                      11/25/08
7,455,110                        11/303,087                      11/25/08
7,455,115                        11/307,079                      11/25/08
7,455,122                        11/524,940                      11/25/08
7,455,127                        11/379,960                      11/25/08
7,455,133                        11/352,259                      11/25/08
7,455,136                        11/213,410                      11/25/08
7,455,137                        11/516,174                      11/25/08
7,455,167                        11/180,073                      11/25/08
7,455,191                        11/012,540                      11/25/08
7,455,196                        11/247,685                      11/25/08
7,455,200                        10/847,041                      11/25/08
7,455,206                        11/600,926                      11/25/08
7,455,217                        11/000,549                      11/25/08
7,455,225                        11/248,591                      11/25/08
7,455,239                        10/966,105                      11/25/08
7,455,240                        11/216,426                      11/25/08
7,455,256                        11/107,154                      11/25/08
7,455,258                        11/307,628                      11/25/08
7,455,262                        11/255,345                      11/25/08
7,455,265                        11/398,542                      11/25/08
7,455,266                        11/522,073                      11/25/08
7,455,272                        11/517,263                      11/25/08
7,455,278                        11/705,539                      11/25/08
7,455,294                        11/301,594                      11/25/08
7,455,300                        11/295,234                      11/25/08
7,455,302                        10/914,649                      11/25/08
7,455,307                        11/351,204                      11/25/08
7,455,308                        11/253,007                      11/25/08
7,455,312                        11/431,070                      11/25/08
7,455,319                        10/571,859                      11/25/08
7,455,326                        11/347,574                      11/25/08
7,455,337                        11/160,313                      11/25/08
7,455,339                        11/821,280                      11/25/08
7,455,348                        11/633,372                      11/25/08
7,455,358                        11/820,260                      11/25/08
7,455,362                        11/486,407                      11/25/08
7,455,372                        11/267,862                      11/25/08
7,455,380                        11/101,646                      11/25/08
7,455,420                        11/709,379                      11/25/08
7,455,426                        11/464,206                      11/25/08
7,455,427                        11/475,822                      11/25/08
7,455,429                        10/534,167                      11/25/08
7,455,431                        11/373,400                      11/25/08
7,455,437                        11/382,316                      11/25/08
7,455,469                        11/306,118                      11/25/08
7,455,470                        11/635,727                      11/25/08
7,455,471                        11/132,054                      11/25/08
7,455,477                        10/544,488                      11/25/08
7,455,489                        11/271,111                      11/25/08
7,455,491                        11/840,930                      11/25/08
7,455,501                        11/431,561                      11/25/08
7,455,514                        11/837,514                      11/25/08
7,455,519                        11/448,934                      11/25/08
7,455,534                        11/776,931                      11/25/08
7,455,535                        10/526,654                      11/25/08
7,455,539                        11/643,292                      11/25/08
7,455,540                        11/691,369                      11/25/08
7,455,546                        11/895,915                      11/25/08
7,455,553                        11/370,868                      11/25/08
7,455,562                        10/968,274                      11/25/08
7,455,567                        11/498,032                      11/25/08
7,455,575                        11/477,525                      11/25/08
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 182 

7,455,576                        11/799,819                      11/25/08
7,455,581                        11/234,030                      11/25/08
7,455,603                        11/752,891                      11/25/08
7,455,604                        11/845,899                      11/25/08
7,455,615                        11/619,702                      11/25/08
7,455,616                        11/070,902                      11/25/08
7,455,624                        11/678,234                      11/25/08
7,455,634                        11/685,107                      11/25/08
7,455,642                        11/239,552                      11/25/08
7,455,647                        10/626,407                      11/25/08
7,455,651                        11/423,993                      11/25/08
7,455,654                        10/971,224                      11/25/08
7,455,659                        10/849,421                      11/25/08
7,455,664                        11/820,913                      11/25/08
7,455,711                        11/454,926                      11/25/08
7,455,716                        11/621,525                      11/25/08
7,455,723                        11/315,669                      11/25/08
7,455,746                        10/939,724                      11/25/08
7,455,761                        10/489,798                      11/25/08
7,455,775                        11/594,970                      11/25/08
7,455,782                        11/388,114                      11/25/08
7,455,790                        11/075,803                      11/25/08
7,455,791                        11/011,805                      11/25/08
7,455,814                        10/831,083                      11/25/08
7,455,816                        11/704,525                      11/25/08
7,455,823                        11/360,545                      11/25/08
7,455,831                        10/612,916                      11/25/08
7,455,832                        10/989,914                      11/25/08
7,455,840                        10/994,215                      11/25/08
7,455,852                        10/486,423                      11/25/08
7,455,854                        10/819,040                      11/25/08
7,455,859                        11/341,022                      11/25/08
7,455,866                        10/353,534                      11/25/08
7,455,871                        11/187,184                      11/25/08
7,455,872                        11/155,745                      11/25/08
7,455,874                        10/987,671                      11/25/08
7,455,889                        10/807,821                      11/25/08
7,455,902                        11/537,849                      11/25/08
7,455,912                        11/260,983                      11/25/08
7,455,915                        11/349,285                      11/25/08
7,455,922                        11/122,930                      11/25/08
7,455,926                        10/649,869                      11/25/08
7,455,927                        10/630,237                      11/25/08
7,455,935                        10/492,728                      11/25/08
7,455,951                        11/389,347                      11/25/08
7,455,958                        11/240,171                      11/25/08
7,455,960                        11/543,023                      11/25/08
7,455,961                        11/859,389                      11/25/08
7,455,962                        10/130,076                      11/25/08
7,455,966                        10/271,076                      11/25/08
7,455,968                        10/381,715                      11/25/08
7,455,970                        10/563,360                      11/25/08
7,455,975                        11/619,232                      11/25/08
7,455,984                        10/040,815                      11/25/08
7,455,985                        11/107,293                      11/25/08
7,455,989                        10/524,275                      11/25/08
7,456,008                        10/333,235                      11/25/08
7,456,016                        11/709,444                      11/25/08
7,456,019                        11/169,385                      11/25/08
7,456,021                        10/758,900                      11/25/08
7,456,024                        10/487,791                      11/25/08
7,456,028                        10/252,342                      11/25/08
7,456,031                        10/534,917                      11/25/08
7,456,039                        11/946,917                      11/25/08
7,456,044                        11/611,394                      11/25/08
7,456,046                        11/063,449                      11/25/08
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 183 

7,456,074                        11/836,308                      11/25/08
7,456,080                        11/313,206                      11/25/08
7,456,096                        11/530,724                      11/25/08
7,456,125                        11/769,041                      11/25/08
7,456,128                        11/118,095                      11/25/08
7,456,133                        11/483,892                      11/25/08
7,456,148                        10/897,068                      11/25/08
7,456,150                        09/577,264                      11/25/08
7,456,152                        10/546,390                      11/25/08
7,456,153                        10/714,556                      11/25/08
7,456,161                        10/454,061                      11/25/08
7,456,163                        11/208,382                      11/25/08
7,456,170                        11/570,694                      11/25/08
7,456,174                        11/332,955                      11/25/08
7,456,175                        11/301,052                      11/25/08
7,456,177                        10/889,395                      11/25/08
7,456,179                        10/835,668                      11/25/08
7,456,181                        10/518,214                      11/25/08
7,456,183                        10/474,331                      11/25/08
7,456,184                        10/837,519                      11/25/08
7,456,185                        11/728,644                      11/25/08
7,456,186                        11/152,925                      11/25/08
7,456,191                        11/386,111                      11/25/08
7,456,193                        11/109,121                      11/25/08
7,456,197                        10/882,667                      11/25/08
7,456,200                        11/274,611                      11/25/08
7,456,205                        10/546,872                      11/25/08
7,456,210                        11/190,626                      11/25/08
7,456,223                        10/963,310                      11/25/08
7,456,227                        11/841,154                      11/25/08
7,456,234                        10/107,430                      11/25/08
7,456,241                        11/209,506                      11/25/08
7,456,258                        11/496,392                      11/25/08
7,456,259                        11/496,678                      11/25/08
7,456,260                        10/515,149                      11/25/08
7,456,265                        11/125,865                      11/25/08
7,456,268                        11/868,794                      11/25/08
7,456,273                        11/607,131                      11/25/08
7,456,286                        10/529,413                      11/25/08
7,456,288                        10/976,284                      11/25/08
7,456,292                        11/174,302                      11/25/08
7,456,293                        11/391,031                      11/25/08
7,456,294                        10/507,004                      11/25/08
7,456,297                        11/192,674                      11/25/08
7,456,303                        11/891,800                      11/25/08
7,456,304                        11/388,417                      11/25/08
7,456,309                        11/014,411                      11/25/08
7,456,310                        11/562,450                      11/25/08
7,456,311                        11/575,555                      11/25/08
7,456,312                        10/805,806                      11/25/08
7,456,319                        11/296,997                      11/25/08
7,456,321                        10/529,074                      11/25/08
7,456,322                        10/593,397                      11/25/08
7,456,325                        10/553,464                      11/25/08
7,456,333                        11/344,159                      11/25/08
7,456,350                        11/623,711                      11/25/08
7,456,367                        11/486,374                      11/25/08
7,456,407                        10/959,547                      11/25/08
7,456,418                        11/164,206                      11/25/08
7,456,427                        10/939,969                      11/25/08
7,456,456                        11/616,680                      11/25/08
7,456,463                        11/671,614                      11/25/08
7,456,481                        11/496,452                      11/25/08
7,456,491                        11/188,043                      11/25/08
7,456,493                        11/385,582                      11/25/08
7,456,505                        11/192,663                      11/25/08
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 184 

7,456,538                        10/497,392                      11/25/08
7,456,540                        11/955,592                      11/25/08
7,456,545                        10/567,617                      11/25/08
7,456,550                        11/832,458                      11/25/08
7,456,551                        11/609,445                      11/25/08
7,456,556                        10/553,557                      11/25/08
7,456,561                        11/455,381                      11/25/08
7,456,572                        10/958,643                      11/25/08
7,456,587                        11/480,889                      11/25/08
7,456,605                        11/212,584                      11/25/08
7,456,615                        11/346,730                      11/25/08
7,456,633                        11/551,708                      11/25/08
7,456,634                        11/588,109                      11/25/08
7,456,636                        11/308,487                      11/25/08
7,456,642                        11/526,539                      11/25/08
7,456,644                        11/747,210                      11/25/08
7,456,646                        11/975,175                      11/25/08
7,456,650                        11/148,475                      11/25/08
7,456,656                        11/398,545                      11/25/08
7,456,708                        11/368,636                      11/25/08
7,456,712                        11/743,450                      11/25/08
7,456,714                        11/545,652                      11/25/08
7,456,717                        11/701,701                      11/25/08
7,456,722                        11/973,976                      11/25/08
7,456,727                        11/328,719                      11/25/08
7,456,728                        11/480,437                      11/25/08
7,456,734                        10/547,008                      11/25/08
7,456,748                        11/255,117                      11/25/08
7,456,777                        11/399,596                      11/25/08
7,456,783                        11/600,963                      11/25/08
7,456,795                        11/819,634                      11/25/08
7,456,802                        11/854,239                      11/25/08
7,456,805                        10/739,792                      11/25/08
7,456,817                        11/369,980                      11/25/08
7,456,832                        07/352,530                      11/25/08
7,456,837                        11/032,240                      11/25/08
7,456,842                        10/571,527                      11/25/08
7,456,860                        10/950,645                      11/25/08
7,456,875                        10/386,892                      11/25/08
7,456,890                        10/263,101                      11/25/08
7,456,892                        10/821,995                      11/25/08
7,456,894                        11/314,014                      11/25/08
7,456,968                        10/952,635                      11/25/08
7,456,974                        10/569,195                      11/25/08
7,456,983                        10/612,598                      11/25/08
7,457,004                        10/973,446                      11/25/08
7,457,017                        10/416,689                      11/25/08
7,457,022                        11/514,306                      11/25/08
7,457,026                        11/225,319                      11/25/08
7,457,036                        11/948,143                      11/25/08
7,457,051                        11/632,632                      11/25/08
7,457,064                        11/715,132                      11/25/08
7,457,065                        10/692,342                      11/25/08
7,457,070                        11/442,892                      11/25/08
7,457,079                        10/606,108                      11/25/08
7,457,081                        11/196,764                      11/25/08
7,457,084                        11/100,413                      11/25/08
7,457,091                        11/567,794                      11/25/08
7,457,121                        11/215,017                      11/25/08
7,457,122                        11/309,225                      11/25/08
7,457,128                        11/187,302                      11/25/08
7,457,135                        11/314,600                      11/25/08
7,457,154                        11/445,205                      11/25/08
7,457,187                        11/851,613                      11/25/08
7,457,204                        11/784,285                      11/25/08
7,457,205                        11/378,700                      11/25/08
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7,457,206                        11/211,438                      11/25/08
7,457,208                        10/907,658                      11/25/08
7,457,216                        11/447,894                      11/25/08
7,457,217                        10/549,636                      11/25/08
7,457,220                        10/548,540                      11/25/08
7,457,225                        10/994,478                      11/25/08
7,457,227                        10/902,846                      11/25/08
7,457,229                        10/473,448                      11/25/08
7,457,241                        10/772,737                      11/25/08
7,457,257                        11/281,792                      11/25/08
7,457,266                        10/222,084                      11/25/08
7,457,288                        10/933,656                      11/25/08
7,457,330                        11/424,471                      11/25/08
7,457,345                        10/873,784                      11/25/08
7,457,346                        11/100,198                      11/25/08
7,457,348                        11/468,923                      11/25/08
7,457,370                        11/101,055                      11/25/08
7,457,371                        11/137,384                      11/25/08
7,457,384                        11/235,241                      11/25/08
7,457,395                        10/736,029                      11/25/08
7,457,399                        10/644,792                      11/25/08
7,457,407                        10/927,386                      11/25/08
7,457,429                        10/750,468                      11/25/08
7,457,465                        10/825,892                      11/25/08
7,457,471                        10/326,271                      11/25/08
7,457,475                        10/910,625                      11/25/08
7,457,480                        10/943,915                      11/25/08
7,457,488                        11/173,687                      11/25/08
7,457,489                        11/325,913                      11/25/08
7,457,491                        11/524,576                      11/25/08
7,457,493                        11/433,149                      11/25/08
7,457,507                        10/586,664                      11/25/08
7,457,509                        10/598,742                      11/25/08
7,457,515                        10/130,583                      11/25/08
7,457,525                        10/677,228                      11/25/08
7,457,534                        11/179,626                      11/25/08
7,457,567                        11/409,719                      11/25/08
7,457,599                        11/026,866                      11/25/08
7,457,601                        10/595,486                      11/25/08
7,457,606                        11/038,361                      11/25/08
7,457,610                        10/647,650                      11/25/08
7,457,643                        11/352,054                      11/25/08
7,457,646                        10/631,071                      11/25/08
7,457,651                        10/573,891                      11/25/08
7,457,679                        10/908,629                      11/25/08
7,457,700                        11/407,721                      11/25/08
7,457,721                        11/587,142                      11/25/08
7,457,744                        10/628,058                      11/25/08
7,457,745                        10/728,106                      11/25/08
7,457,770                        11/013,874                      11/25/08
7,457,771                        11/014,024                      11/25/08
7,457,772                        11/327,277                      11/25/08
7,457,796                        10/886,997                      11/25/08
7,457,803                        08/747,799                      11/25/08
7,457,836                        11/691,412                      11/25/08
7,457,848                        10/229,484                      11/25/08
7,457,849                        10/863,605                      11/25/08
7,457,856                        11/656,413                      11/25/08
7,457,864                        10/306,853                      11/25/08
7,457,871                        10/960,866                      11/25/08
7,457,891                        11/359,866                      11/25/08
7,457,893                        10/798,934                      11/25/08
7,457,920                        12/020,531                      11/25/08
7,457,926                        11/131,972                      11/25/08
7,457,928                        11/262,088                      11/25/08
7,457,994                        11/418,105                      11/25/08
7,458,001                        11/387,773                      11/25/08
7,458,010                        11/174,335                      11/25/08
7,458,037                        11/466,034                      11/25/08
7,458,043                        11/227,548                      11/25/08
7,458,074                        09/821,920                      11/25/08
7,458,085                        11/201,159                      11/25/08
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Patents Reinstated Due to the Acceptance of a Late Maintenance Fee from 12/17/2012
                 Patents Reinstated Due to the Acceptance of a
                     Late Maintenance Fee from 12/17/2012

Patent           Application       Filing          Issue           Granted
Number           Number            Date            Date            Date

5,711,976        08/651,600        05/22/96        01/27/98        12/17/12
5,987,657        09/140,850        08/27/98        11/23/99        12/21/12
6,048,271        08/643,827        05/07/96        04/11/00        12/19/12
6,086,382        09/253,851        02/22/99        07/11/00        12/20/12
6,145,552        09/397,594        09/16/99        11/14/00        12/20/12
6,458,397        09/970,326        10/03/01        10/01/02        12/17/12
6,497,718        09/851,223        05/09/01        12/24/02        12/17/12
6,517,573        09/547,822        04/11/00        02/11/03        12/20/12
6,678,828        10/201,406        07/22/02        01/13/04        12/19/12
6,694,458        09/656,502        09/07/00        02/17/04        12/17/12
6,746,002        10/138,186        05/03/02        06/08/04        12/18/12
7,151,036        10/456,018        06/05/03        12/19/06        12/20/12
7,331,876        10/090,133        02/28/02        02/19/08        12/19/12
7,334,124        10/201,409        07/22/02        02/19/08        12/19/12
7,349,420        10/930,102        08/31/04        03/25/08        12/19/12
7,378,082        11/935,245        11/05/07        05/27/08        12/21/12
7,399,754        11/452,955        06/15/06        07/15/08        12/21/12
7,437,840        11/284,073        11/18/05        10/21/08        12/22/12
7,437,859        10/451,973        06/30/03        10/21/08        12/20/12
7,448,815        12/099,174        04/08/08        11/11/08        12/20/12
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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).

   7,823,232, Re. S.N.: 13/667,131, 11/02/2012, CL: 030, DEVICE FOR
PREVENTING DECUBITUS, Cornelis Willem TINKE, et. al., Owner of
Record: HANS VOORWINDE BEHEER B.V., Attorney or Agent: Jeffrey R.
Snay, Ex. GP.: 3724

   7,830,190, Re. S.N.: 13/667,231, 11/02/2012, CL: 365, DATA LATCH CIRCUIT
WITH A PHASE SELECTOR, Cheng-Chung Hsu, Owner of Record: REALTEK
SEMICONDUCTOR CORP., Attorney or Agent: Daniel R. McClure, Ex. GP.: 2827

   8,109,131, Re. S.N.: 13/670,754, 11/07/2012, CL: 073, METER
REGISTER TRANSMITTING FLOW RATE WARNING, Dan Winter, Owner of Record: ARAD
MEASURING TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Attorney or Agent: Paul M. Reznick, Ex. GP.:
2856
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Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed
                   Requests for Ex Parte Reexamination Filed

   5,434,480, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,613, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
315/224, Title: ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR POWERING A GAS DISCHARGE LOAD FROM A
LOW FREQUENCY SOURCE, Inventor: Andrzej A. Bobel, Owners of Record: Andrzej
A. Bobel, Des Plaines, IL, Attorney or Agent: Andrzej Bobel, Lake Forest,
IL, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Christian C. Michel, Roylance Abrams Berdo &
Goodman, LLP., Washington, DC

   5,470,208, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,610, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
417/356, Title: FLUID PUMP WITH MAGNETICALLY LEVITATED IMPELLER, Inventor:
Harold D. Kletschka, Owners of Record: Harold D. Kletschka, Minneapolis,
MN, Attorney or Agent: Hall Estill Attorneys at Law, Oklahoma City, OK, Ex.
Gp.: 3993, Requester: PATENT OWNER

   6,311,231, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,617, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
182/093, Title: METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING DATA AND VOICE
COMMUNICATIONS VIA CUSTOMER CONTACT CHANNEL CHANGING SYSTEM USING VOICE
OVER IP, Inventor: Thomas H. Bateman et al., Owners of Record: Pragmatus
Telecom, LLC., Alexandria, VA, Attorney or Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug,
New York, NY, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Joseph A. Capraro, Jr., Proskauer
Rose, LLP., Boston, MA

   6,859,438, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,611, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
713/153, Title: POLICY BASED QUALITY OF SERVICE, Inventor: Stephen R.
Haddock et al., Owners of Record: Extreme Networks, Inc., Santa Clara,
Attorney or Agent: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, PLLC., Washington, DC,
Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: David M. Roccio, Lando & Anastasi, LLP.,
Cambridge, MA

   7,025,407, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,619, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
296/183, Title: MINING HOPPER MADE UP OF STEEL AND POLYMERS, Inventor:
Manuel Antonio Medel, Owners of Record: Manuel Antonio Medel, Chile,
Attorney or Agent: Millen White Zelano & Branigan, PC., Arlington, VA, Ex.
Gp.: 3993, Requester: Robert M. Hansen, Esq., The Marbury Law Group, PLLC.,
Reston, VA

   7,093,376, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,620, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
034/096, Title: HAIR DRYING AND SHAPING SYSTEM, Inventor: Paul Regen,
Owners of Record: Ennova Direct, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, Attorney or Agent:
Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc., Watsonville, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993,
Requester: Jessica L. Olson, Oppedahl Patent Law Firm, LLC., Westminster,
CO

   7,234,968, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,508, Requested Date: Nov. 2, 2012, Cl.
439/620, Title: POWER DISTRIBUTION FUSEHOLDER, Inventor: Todd F. Lottmann
et al., Owners of Record: Cooper Technologies, Co., Houston, TX, Attorney
or Agent: King & Spalding, LLP., Houston, TX, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester:
PATENT OWNER

   7,681,144, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,616, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
370/277, Title: PRIORITIZED PRESENTATION OF CONTENT, Inventor: Thaniya
Keereepart et al., Owners of Record: MLB Advanced Media, LP., New York, NY,
Attorney or Agent: Foley & Lardner, LLP., Washington, DC, Ex. Gp.: 3992,
Requester: Richard Krukar, Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC., Albuquerque, NM

   7,772,769, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,588, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
313/506, Title: LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, LIGHT-EMITTING SYSTEM
AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING LIGHT-EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, Inventor:
Toshihide Maeda et al., Owners of Record: Panasonic Corporation, Japan,
Attorney or Agent: McDermott Will & Emery, LLP., Washington, DC, Ex. Gp.:
3992, Requester: Carlos R. Villamar, The Villamar Firm, PLLC., Falls
Church, VA

   7,863,770, Reexam. C.N. 90/020,030, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 189 

307/011, Title: POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PROVIDING
OPERATING VOLTAGES TO A PLURALITY OF DEVICES, Inventor: Thomas W. Lanni,
Owners of Record: Comarco Wireless Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA,
Attorney or Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, McLean, VA, Ex. Gp.:
3992, Requester: Susan E. Dickerson, Fredericksburg, VA

   7,974,750, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,614, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
705/064, Title: CELLULAR PHONE CONFIGURED WITH OFF-BOARD DEVICE
CAPABILITIES AND STARTER/CHARGER AND BATTERY TESTING CAPABILITIES, Inventor:
Hamid Namaky, Owners of Record: SPX Corporation, Charlotte, NC, Attorney or
Agent: Baker & Hostetler, LLP., Washington, DC, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester:
Alyssa Ann Finamore, Dowell & Dowell, PC., Alexandria, VA

   8,027,913, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,608, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
705/038, Title: PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR CONDUCTING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS,
Inventor: Rani K. Yadav-Ranjan, Owners of Record: Purple Leaf, Wilmington,
DE, Attorney or Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP., Atlanta, GA,
Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Lissi Mojica, Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner,
Minneapolis, MN

   8,051,011, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,609, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
705/064, Title: ELECTRONIC CURRENCY, ELECTRONIC WALLET THEREFOR AND
ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEMS EMPLOYING THEM, Inventor: Kfir Luzzatto, Owners
of Record: Moneycat, LTD., Israel, Attorney or Agent: Roach Brown McCarthy
& Gruber, PC., Buffalo, NY, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Herman R. Heflin,
III, Capitol City TechLaw, PLLC., Vienna, VA

   8,116,906, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,618, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
700/229, Title: PNEUMATIC TUBE CARRIER TRACKING ASSEMBLY, Inventor:
Fredrick M. Valerino, Sr., Owners of Record: Pevco Systems International,
Inc., Baltimore, MD, Attorney or Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP., New
York, NY, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Swisslog Translogic, Healthcare
Solutions, Russell T. Manning, Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle, LLP., Denver,
CO

   8,195,578, Reexam. C.N. 90/012,615, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.
705/064, Title: ELECTRONIC CURRENCY, ELECTRONIC WALLET THEREFOR AND
ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEMS EMPLOYING THEM, Inventor: Kfir Luzzatto, Owners
of Record: Moneycat, LTD., Israel, Attorney or Agent: Roach Brown McCarthy
& Gruber, PC., Buffalo, NY, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Herman R. Heflin,
III, Capitol City, TechLaw, PLLC., Vienna, VA
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Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed
                 Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed

   6,222,538, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,338, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
715/709, Title: DIRECTING IMAGE CAPTURE SEQUENCES IN A DIGITAL IMAGING
DEVICE USING SCRIPTS, Inventor: Eric C. Anderson, Owners of Record:
FlashPoint Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, Attorney or Agent: Herskovitz &
Associates, LLC., Alexandria, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party
Requester: HTC, Corporation; (Att'y Is: Bing Ai, Perkins Coie, LLP., San
Diego, CA), Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   6,487,073, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,328, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
361/679, Title: THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE ELECTRONIC DEVICE CASE, Inventor:
Kevin A. McCullough et al., Owners of Record: Cool Options, Inc., Warwick,
RI, Attorney or Agent: Barlow Josephs & Holmes, LTD., Providence, RI, Ex.
Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:  SABIC Innovative Plastics US
LLC.; (Att'y Is: Katrina M. Quicker, Ballard Spahr, LLP., Atlanta, GA),
Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   6,671,757, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,339, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
710/100, Title: DATA TRANSFER AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM, Inventor: David
L. Multer et al., Owners of Record: Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.,
Bridgewater, NJ, Attorney or Agent: Haverstock & Owens, LLP., Sunnyvale,
CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:  (Att'y Is: Robert C.
Mattson, Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt, LLP., Alexandria, VA),
Real Party in Interest: NewBay Software, Inc.; NewBay Software, LTD.

   6,701,271, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,337, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
702/127, Title: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC DATA
COLLECTED FROM TWO OR MORE SUBJECTS, Inventor: Barry E. Willner et al.,
Owners of Record: Icon Health & Fitness, Inc., Logan, UT, Attorney or
Agent: Reed Smith, LLP., Philadelphia, PA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third
Party Requester:  Strava, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Michael B. Ray, Sterne Kessler
Goldstein & Fox, PLLC., Washington, DC), Real Party in Interest: Same As
Third Party Requester

   6,831,848, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,344, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
363/080, Title: PROGRAMMABLE POWER SUPPLY TO SIMULTANEOUSLY POWER A
PLURALITY OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES, Inventor: Thomas W. Lanni, Owners of
Record: Comarco Wireless Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA, Attorney or Agent:
Pillsbury Winthrop, LLP., Los Angeles, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third
Party Requester:  (Att'y Is: Girish M. Basarkar, Kilpatrick Townsend &
Stockton, LLP., San Francisco, CA), Real Party in Interest: Acco Brands
USA, LLC.; Acco Brands Corporation

   6,897,853, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,329, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
345/179, Title: HIGHLEVEL ACTIVE PEN MATRIX, Inventor: Leroy B. Keely et
al., Owners of Record: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, Attorney or
Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP., Cleveland, OH, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester:
Third Party Requester: Motorola Mobility, LLC.; (Att'y Is: Steven C.
Becker, Foley & Lardner, LLP., Milwaukee, WI), Real Party in Interest: Same
As Third Party Requester

   7,411,582, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,342, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
345/173, Title: SOFT INPUT PANEL SYSTEM AND METHOD, Inventor: Michael G.
Toepke et al., Owners of Record: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA,
Attorney or Agent: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, Ex. Gp.: 3992,
Requester: Third Party Requester:  Motorola Mobility, LLC.; (Att'y Is:
Andrew Cheslock, Foley & Lardner, LLP., Washington, DC), Real Party in
Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   7,459,941, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,345, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
363/144, Title: POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT WITH MATCHING INDICATORS ON
CONVERTER AND CONNECTOR ADAPTERS, Inventor: Thomas W. Lanni, Owners of
Record: Comarco Wireless Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA, Attorney or Agent:
Mark R. Kendrick, Los Angeles, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 191 

Requester:  (Att'y Is: Mark P. Mathison, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton,
LLP., San Francisco, CA), Real Party in Interest: ACCO Brands USA, LLC.

   7,502,838, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,330, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
709/219, Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING REMOTELY STORED
APPLICATIONS AND INFORMATION, Inventor: Louis M. Franco et al., Owners of
Record: Droplets, Inc., New York, NY, Attorney or Agent: Williams Mullen,
Virginia Beach, VA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:
(Att'y Is: Michael V. Messinger, Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, PLLC.,
Washington, DC), Real Party in Interest: Google, Inc.; Facebook, Inc.

   7,505,762, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,340, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
455/419, Title: WIRELESS TELEPHONE DATA BACKUP SYSTEM, Inventor: Richard M.
Onyon et al., Owners of Record: Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.,
Bridgewater, NJ, Attorney or Agent: Haverstock & Owens, LLP., Sunnyvale,
CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester:  (Att'y Is: Robert C.
Mattson, Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt, LLP., Alexandria, VA),
Real Party in Interest: NewBay Software, Inc.; NewBay Software, LTD.

   7,643,824, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,331, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
455/149, Title: WIRELESS TELEPHONE DATA BACKUP SYSTEM, Inventor: Richard M.
Onyon et al., Owners of Record: Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.,
Bridgewater, NJ, Attorney or Agent: Haverstock & Owens, LLP., Sunnyvale,
CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party Requester: (Att'y Is: Robert C.
Mattson, Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt, LLP., Alexandria, VA),
Real Party in Interest: NewBay Software, Inc.; NewBay Software, LTD.

   7,647,115, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,336, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
607/002, Title: RENAL NERVE STIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATMENT
OF PATIENTS, Inventor: Howard R. Levin et al., Owners of Record: Ardian,
Inc., Palo Alto, CA, Attorney or Agent: Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa
Rose, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Third Party Requester:  St. Jude
Medical, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Mr. Scott A. McKeon, Oblon Spivak McClelland
Maier & Neustadt, LLP., Alexandria, VA), Real Party in Interest: Same As
Third Party Requester

   7,713,574, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,333, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
427/211, Title: TRANSCUTANEOUS ANALYTE SENSOR, Inventor: Mark Brister et
al., Owners of Record: DexCom, Inc., San Diego, CA, Attorney or Agent:
Knobbe Martens Olsen & Bear, LLP, Irvine, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3991, Requester:
Third Party Requester:  Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Francine
Nesti, Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, PC., Troy, MI), Real Party in
Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   7,778,993, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,343, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
707/705, Title: DYNAMIC TAXONOMY PROCESS FOR BROWSING AND RETRIEVING
INFORMATION IN LARGE HETEROGENEOUS DATA BASES, Inventor: Giovanni Sacco,
Owners of Record: 21 SRL, Italy, Attorney or Agent: Law Office of Scott C.
Harris, Inc., Rancho Santa Fe, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3992, Requester: Third Party
Requester:  (Att'y Is: Lissi Mojica, Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, PA.,
Minneapolis, MN), Real Party in Interest: eBay, Inc.; GSI Commerce
Solutions, Inc.

   7,923,108, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,334, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
428/336, Title: BUILT-UP ROOFING SURFACING SHEETS AND METHODS OF
MANUFACTURE, Inventor: Daron J. Thomas et al., Owners of Record:
Consolidated Fiberglass Products, Co., Bakersfield, CA, Attorney or Agent:
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP., Los Angeles, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3991,
Requester: Third Party Requester: Custom Laminating Corporation; (Att'y Is:
Steven Haas, Fay Sharpe, LLP., Cleveland, OH), Real Party in Interest:
Same As Third Party Requester

   8,145,317, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,327, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
607/044, Title: METHODS FOR RENAL NEUROMOULATION, Inventor: Denise Demarais
et al., Owners of Record: Ardian, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, Attorney or Agent:
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993, Requester: Third
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 192 

Party Requester:  St. Jude Medical, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Scott A. McKeown,
Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt, LLP., Alexandria, VA), Real Party
in Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   8,150,520, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,335, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
607/002, Title: METHODS FOR CATHETER-BASED RENAL DENERVATION, Inventor:
Denise Demarais et al., Owners of Record: Ardian, Inc., Menlo Park, CA,
Attorney or Agent: Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rose, CA, Ex. Gp.: 3993,
Requester: Third Party Requester: St. Jude Medical, Inc.; (Att'y Is: Mr.
Scott A. McKeon, Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier & Neustadt, LLP.,
Alexandria, VA), Real Party in Interest: Same As Third Party Requester

   8,162,392, Reexam. C.N.: 95/002,341, Requested Date: Sep. 14, 2012, Cl.:
297/216, Title: VEHICLE SEAT HAVING ACTIVE HEAD RESTRAINT SYSTEM, Inventor:
Mladen Humer et al., Owners of Record: Lear Corporation, Southfield, MI,
Attorney or Agent: Brooks Kushman, PC., Southfield, MI, Ex. Gp.: 3993,
Requester: Third Party Requester:  TS Tech North America, Inc.; (Att'y Is:
J. Steven Baughman, Ropes & Gray, LLP., Boston, MA), 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
                               December 21, 2012
                            DUE TO FAILURE TO RENEW

Reg. Number                   Serial Number                     Reg. Date

3,093,334                      79/000,056                      05/16/2006
3,093,335                      79/000,494                      05/16/2006
2,970,799                      79/001,771                      07/19/2005
3,032,412                      79/001,779                      12/20/2005
3,046,245                      79/001,780                      01/17/2006
3,050,947                      79/001,783                      01/24/2006
3,076,833                      79/001,786                      04/04/2006
3,023,861                      79/001,803                      12/06/2005
3,002,070                      79/001,805                      09/27/2005
2,998,409                      79/001,807                      09/20/2005
3,035,894                      79/001,811                      12/27/2005
1,195,921                      73/261,121                      05/18/1982
1,195,922                      73/261,124                      05/18/1982
1,688,056                      74/066,125                      05/19/1992
2,568,747                      75/272,722                      05/14/2002
2,570,451                      75/319,709                      05/14/2002
2,568,757                      75/355,935                      05/14/2002
2,568,759                      75/360,676                      05/14/2002
2,568,763                      75/393,158                      05/14/2002
2,568,768                      75/421,697                      05/14/2002
2,568,769                      75/427,535                      05/14/2002
2,570,330                      75/439,935                      05/14/2002
2,568,785                      75/497,662                      05/14/2002
2,568,786                      75/503,218                      05/14/2002
2,570,337                      75/510,113                      05/14/2002
2,570,338                      75/528,411                      05/14/2002
2,568,804                      75/558,702                      05/14/2002
2,568,807                      75/568,572                      05/14/2002
2,570,346                      75/577,108                      05/14/2002
2,568,818                      75/599,597                      05/14/2002
2,568,819                      75/600,445                      05/14/2002
2,570,353                      75/618,371                      05/14/2002
2,570,355                      75/633,857                      05/14/2002
2,570,357                      75/662,067                      05/14/2002
2,568,847                      75/673,248                      05/14/2002
2,570,361                      75/679,205                      05/14/2002
2,568,860                      75/686,896                      05/14/2002
2,570,363                      75/705,909                      05/14/2002
2,568,883                      75/726,785                      05/14/2002
2,568,890                      75/733,393                      05/14/2002
2,568,893                      75/737,826                      05/14/2002
2,570,368                      75/754,141                      05/14/2002
2,570,370                      75/762,668                      05/14/2002
2,568,935                      75/794,282                      05/14/2002
2,570,377                      75/798,278                      05/14/2002
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2,568,942                      75/802,650                      05/14/2002
2,570,379                      75/803,309                      05/14/2002
2,570,380                      75/803,688                      05/14/2002
2,568,962                      75/824,155                      05/14/2002
2,570,454                      75/826,155                      05/14/2002
2,568,987                      75/841,537                      05/14/2002
2,568,989                      75/844,287                      05/14/2002
2,568,993                      75/849,252                      05/14/2002
2,568,997                      75/853,073                      05/14/2002
2,569,001                      75/862,787                      05/14/2002
2,569,021                      75/878,079                      05/14/2002
2,569,044                      75/893,319                      05/14/2002
2,569,073                      75/923,364                      05/14/2002
2,570,400                      75/934,726                      05/14/2002
2,570,460                      75/937,536                      05/14/2002
2,569,098                      75/942,131                      05/14/2002
2,570,402                      75/943,784                      05/14/2002
2,570,404                      75/981,612                      05/14/2002
2,570,405                      75/981,628                      05/14/2002
2,569,111                      76/001,152                      05/14/2002
2,569,120                      76/006,283                      05/14/2002
2,569,125                      76/008,320                      05/14/2002
2,569,126                      76/008,686                      05/14/2002
2,569,130                      76/010,483                      05/14/2002
2,569,145                      76/020,663                      05/14/2002
2,570,412                      76/023,926                      05/14/2002
2,570,414                      76/033,522                      05/14/2002
2,569,173                      76/034,229                      05/14/2002
2,569,176                      76/034,707                      05/14/2002
2,569,183                      76/039,794                      05/14/2002
2,569,187                      76/043,530                      05/14/2002
2,569,188                      76/043,532                      05/14/2002
2,569,191                      76/043,972                      05/14/2002
2,569,192                      76/044,657                      05/14/2002
2,569,193                      76/044,689                      05/14/2002
2,569,207                      76/051,422                      05/14/2002
2,569,211                      76/052,433                      05/14/2002
2,569,220                      76/056,633                      05/14/2002
2,569,253                      76/064,426                      05/14/2002
2,569,257                      76/065,487                      05/14/2002
2,569,258                      76/065,492                      05/14/2002
2,569,259                      76/065,494                      05/14/2002
2,569,262                      76/066,246                      05/14/2002
2,570,419                      76/066,373                      05/14/2002
2,569,274                      76/068,123                      05/14/2002
2,570,420                      76/068,405                      05/14/2002
2,569,280                      76/068,622                      05/14/2002
2,569,295                      76/072,420                      05/14/2002
2,569,309                      76/074,681                      05/14/2002
2,569,329                      76/078,705                      05/14/2002
2,569,346                      76/082,699                      05/14/2002
2,569,348                      76/083,977                      05/14/2002
2,569,358                      76/085,962                      05/14/2002
2,569,368                      76/088,167                      05/14/2002
2,569,378                      76/091,604                      05/14/2002
2,569,382                      76/092,709                      05/14/2002
2,570,425                      76/094,064                      05/14/2002
2,569,390                      76/094,613                      05/14/2002
2,569,392                      76/094,699                      05/14/2002
2,569,399                      76/097,507                      05/14/2002
2,569,401                      76/097,764                      05/14/2002
2,569,402                      76/097,767                      05/14/2002
2,569,406                      76/099,424                      05/14/2002
2,569,408                      76/099,491                      05/14/2002
2,569,410                      76/099,943                      05/14/2002
2,569,415                      76/100,756                      05/14/2002
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2,569,450                      76/109,733                      05/14/2002
2,569,452                      76/110,337                      05/14/2002
2,569,456                      76/110,796                      05/14/2002
2,569,460                      76/111,796                      05/14/2002
2,569,470                      76/113,536                      05/14/2002
2,569,480                      76/116,724                      05/14/2002
2,570,427                      76/116,827                      05/14/2002
2,569,481                      76/117,455                      05/14/2002
2,569,488                      76/118,705                      05/14/2002
2,569,512                      76/123,466                      05/14/2002
2,569,524                      76/125,841                      05/14/2002
2,570,465                      76/129,379                      05/14/2002
2,569,538                      76/129,954                      05/14/2002
2,569,543                      76/132,333                      05/14/2002
2,569,555                      76/134,906                      05/14/2002
2,569,572                      76/141,466                      05/14/2002
2,569,589                      76/146,693                      05/14/2002
2,569,612                      76/151,458                      05/14/2002
2,569,614                      76/151,990                      05/14/2002
2,569,620                      76/154,195                      05/14/2002
2,569,647                      76/160,062                      05/14/2002
2,569,663                      76/165,892                      05/14/2002
2,569,677                      76/171,042                      05/14/2002
2,569,681                      76/173,187                      05/14/2002
2,569,683                      76/174,344                      05/14/2002
2,570,467                      76/185,360                      05/14/2002
2,569,712                      76/187,868                      05/14/2002
2,569,716                      76/189,342                      05/14/2002
2,569,722                      76/189,727                      05/14/2002
2,570,440                      76/191,473                      05/14/2002
2,569,727                      76/192,028                      05/14/2002
2,569,737                      76/196,691                      05/14/2002
2,569,750                      76/201,841                      05/14/2002
2,569,751                      76/202,257                      05/14/2002
2,569,761                      76/205,528                      05/14/2002
2,569,786                      76/218,418                      05/14/2002
2,569,787                      76/218,736                      05/14/2002
2,569,805                      76/222,226                      05/14/2002
2,569,814                      76/226,823                      05/14/2002
2,569,832                      76/232,868                      05/14/2002
2,569,836                      76/233,175                      05/14/2002
2,569,848                      76/237,276                      05/14/2002
2,569,852                      76/237,768                      05/14/2002
2,569,855                      76/241,134                      05/14/2002
2,569,856                      76/241,473                      05/14/2002
2,569,857                      76/241,741                      05/14/2002
2,569,864                      76/244,091                      05/14/2002
2,569,878                      76/248,368                      05/14/2002
2,569,889                      76/251,551                      05/14/2002
2,569,890                      76/251,877                      05/14/2002
2,569,903                      76/258,638                      05/14/2002
2,569,915                      76/261,818                      05/14/2002
2,569,929                      76/267,553                      05/14/2002
2,569,933                      76/267,856                      05/14/2002
2,569,935                      76/268,464                      05/14/2002
2,569,937                      76/269,052                      05/14/2002
2,569,947                      76/271,976                      05/14/2002
2,569,954                      76/274,590                      05/14/2002
2,569,955                      76/274,672                      05/14/2002
2,569,958                      76/275,076                      05/14/2002
2,569,966                      76/278,987                      05/14/2002
2,569,969                      76/279,593                      05/14/2002
2,569,993                      76/286,500                      05/14/2002
2,570,007                      76/290,921                      05/14/2002
2,570,011                      76/292,081                      05/14/2002
2,570,016                      76/293,173                      05/14/2002
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2,570,018                      76/293,380                      05/14/2002
2,570,051                      76/300,677                      05/14/2002
2,570,055                      76/302,577                      05/14/2002
2,570,058                      76/303,321                      05/14/2002
2,570,062                      76/304,109                      05/14/2002
2,570,082                      76/311,075                      05/14/2002
2,570,095                      76/313,649                      05/14/2002
2,570,101                      76/315,274                      05/14/2002
2,570,103                      76/315,324                      05/14/2002
2,570,109                      76/316,184                      05/14/2002
2,570,116                      76/316,888                      05/14/2002
2,570,120                      76/316,989                      05/14/2002
2,570,122                      76/317,106                      05/14/2002
2,570,127                      76/319,091                      05/14/2002
2,570,130                      76/319,505                      05/14/2002
2,570,132                      76/319,624                      05/14/2002
2,570,475                      76/322,576                      05/14/2002
2,570,147                      76/323,190                      05/14/2002
2,570,167                      78/025,722                      05/14/2002
2,570,171                      78/026,526                      05/14/2002
2,570,174                      78/027,875                      05/14/2002
2,570,175                      78/027,906                      05/14/2002
2,570,177                      78/028,186                      05/14/2002
2,570,180                      78/028,608                      05/14/2002
2,570,476                      78/029,863                      05/14/2002
2,570,184                      78/030,631                      05/14/2002
2,570,186                      78/031,196                      05/14/2002
2,570,193                      78/033,528                      05/14/2002
2,570,204                      78/036,488                      05/14/2002
2,570,207                      78/036,896                      05/14/2002
2,570,208                      78/037,105                      05/14/2002
2,570,218                      78/041,281                      05/14/2002
2,570,232                      78/046,239                      05/14/2002
2,570,237                      78/048,921                      05/14/2002
2,570,253                      78/054,837                      05/14/2002
2,570,261                      78/056,802                      05/14/2002
2,570,284                      78/071,717                      05/14/2002
2,570,301                      78/078,305                      05/14/2002
2,570,307                      78/079,798                      05/14/2002
2,570,308                      78/082,827                      05/14/2002
2,570,315                      78/085,551                      05/14/2002
  638,143                      71/697,111                      12/04/1956
  636,030                      71/700,340                      10/16/1956
  634,844                      72/000,149                      09/25/1956
  639,785                      72/002,179                      01/08/1957
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Service by Publication
                            Service by Publication

   A petition to cancel the registration identified below having been
filed, and the notice of such proceeding sent to registrant at the last
known address having been returned by the Postal Service as undeliverable,
notice is hereby given that unless the registrant listed herein, its
assigns or legal representatives, shall enter an appearance within thirty
days of this publication, the cancellation will proceed as in the case of
default.

Xiamen Globelink China Logistics Limited, Xiamen Fujian, China,
Registration No. 4159001 for the mark "GLOBELINK SOURCING CENTER",
Cancellation No. 92055890.

                                                           MILLICENT CANADY
                                                                  Paralegal
                                      Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, for
                                                            DEBORAH S. COHN
                                                Commissioner for Trademarks

                            Service by Publication

   A petition to cancel the registration identified below having been
filed, and the notice of such proceeding sent to registrant at the last
known address having been returned by the Postal Service as undeliverable,
notice is hereby given that unless the registrant listed herein, its
assigns or legal representatives, shall enter an appearance within thirty
days of this publication, the cancellation will proceed as in the case of
default.

Wear Wolf Group, Ltd. New York, NY, Registration No. 1384444 for the mark
"WEAR WOLF", Cancellation No. 92056354.

                                                               AMY MATELSKI
                                                       Paralegal Specialist
                                      Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, for
                                                            DEBORAH S. COHN
                                                Commissioner for Trademarks

                            Service by Publication

   A notice of opposition to the registration of the mark in the
application identified below having been filed, and the notice of such
proceeding sent to applicant at the last known address having been returned
by the Postal Service as undeliverable, notice is hereby given that unless
the applicant listed herein, its assigns or legal representatives, shall
enter an appearance within thirty days of this publication, the opposition
will proceed as in the case of default.

Affinity Group LLC, North Branch, NJ, Application Serial No. 85492708 for
the mark "ACNEPRO", Opposition No. 91206951.

                                                               AMY MATELSKI
                                                       Paralegal Specialist
                                      Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, for
                                                            DEBORAH S. COHN
                                                Commissioner for Trademarks

                            Service by Publication

   A petition to cancel the registration identified below having been
filed, and the notice of such proceeding sent to registrant at the last
known address having been returned by the Postal Service as undeliverable,
notice is hereby given that unless the registrant listed herein, its
assigns or legal representatives, shall enter an appearance within thirty
 January 15, 2013 US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 1386 OG 198 

days of this publication, the cancellation will proceed as in the case of
default.

Brookline Tax Service, Inc., Newberry, FL, Registration No. 3268383 for the
mark "BROOKLINE TAX SERVICE, INC.", Cancellation No. 92056270.

                                                              MONIQUE TYSON
                                                       Paralegal Specialist
                                      Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, for
                                                            DEBORAH S. COHN
                                                Commissioner for Trademarks
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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 a national stage application
with a petition under 37 CFR 1.47 requesting acceptance of the application
without the signature of all of the inventors.  The petition has been
granted.  A notice has been sent to the last known address of the
non-signing inventor, Sergey Selifonov.  The inventor whose signature is
missing 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/US2010/050387 and was filed on 27 September 2010 in the names
of Sergey Selifonov, Ning Zhou and Brian Daniel Mullen for the invention
entitled Ketal Lactones and Stereospecific Adducts of Oxocarboxylic Ketals
with Trimethylol Compounds, Polymers Containing the Same, Methods of
Manufacture, and Uses Thereof. The national stage application is assigned
number 13/497,345 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2) and (c)(4) date of
05 November 2012.

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by 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 one of the joint 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 (Jorge Morando) 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/US2010/038597
and was filed on 15 June 2010 in the name of Mark Bright et al for the
invention entitled "OVERFLOW VORTEX TRANSFER SYSTEM". The national stage
application number is 13/378,078 and has a date of 29 June 2012 under 35
U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(4).

                       37 CFR 1.47 Notice by 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 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 (Noriyoshi YANO) 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/JP2010/067650
and was filed 07 October 2010 in the names of Daisuke TANIHARA and Noriyoshi
YANO, for the invention COATING MATERIAL FOR HAND APPLICATION.  The national
stage application number is 13/500,329 and has a 35 U.S.C. 371(c)(1), (c)(2)
and (c)(4) date of 12 October 2012.
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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 February 2, 2013
at the following address: Mail Stop OED United States Patent and Trademark
Office P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria VA 22314

Bajaj, Shama, 116 Mugar Hall, Center for Drug Discovery, 360 Huntington
Avenue, Boston, MA  02115

Berger, Scott Allen, 2101 Bryant Avenue South, Apartment 304, Minneapolis,
MN  55405

Bhatnagar, Rajiv, 4 Brookside Circle, Acton, MA  01720

Bian, Weining, Partners Healthcare, 62 Green Street, Apartment 1, Jamaica
Plain, MA  02130

Budd, Laura Catherine, 482 East 16th Avenue #1, Eugene, OR  97401

Chen, Zhan, 67 Cedar Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY  12603

Chremos, Nicholas Eleftherios, The Texas A&M University System, 800 Raymond
Stotzer Parkway, Suite 2020, College Station, TX  77845

Chung, Chang Jay Young, 3833 Strang Avenue, Rosemead, CA  91770

Dam, Kevin Tuvy, 8029 Hamlin Avenue, Skokie, IL  60076

Dawson, Christopher Warren, Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., 856 North, Kensington
Street, Arlington, VA  22205

Feng, Junjie, 1024 Jewel Creek Drive, Cary, NC  27519

Gallagher, Brian Joseph, 1808 Mary Street, #2, Pittsburgh, PA  15203

Herring, Graeme A., IProperty Inc., Box 32, Suite 950, 609 West Hastings
Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 4W4, Canada

Hojka, Cory Leonard, 2626 North Lakeview Avenue, #3805, Chicago, IL  60614

Kelly, Gilbert Thomson, Medlen & Carroll, LLP, 6035 Bantry Bay, San
Antonio, TX  78240

Kulkarni, Rashmi, Qualcomm Inc., 837 Luz Del Sol Loop, Milpitas, CA  95035

Lacenere, Christopher Jay, 445 East 80th Street, Apartment 3J, New York, NY
10075-0603

Laughlin, Andrew Lang, University of Washington, 812 North East 56th Street,
Seattle, WA  98105

Leber, Edward Coutney, 349 Khyber Court South East, Salem, OR  97306

Marlink, Jeffrey Scott, 1920 Madras Street South East, Apartment 1029,
Salem, OR  97306

Mikhailova, Marina Victorovna, 14314 Orleans Drive, Little Rock, AR  72211

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Montenegro, Tracy Xavier, 439 1st Street, Apartment #4R, Brooklyn, NY
11215

Muralidhar, Samhitha Chandes, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett &
Dunner LLP, 901 New York Avenue, Washington, DC  20001

Oberdick, Daniel Earl, 906 Spruce Street, Apartment 3, Philadelphia, PA
19107

Ochi, Katsuhiko, KYOCERA International, Inc., 8611 Balboa Avenue, San
Diego, CA  92123-1580

Ratliff, Philip Herbert, 884 Moss Farms Road, Cheshire, CT  06410

Smith, Jessica Jane, Ade & Companu, Inc., 127-116 Research Drive,
Saskatoon, SK S7N 3R3, Canada

Stark, Anthony Michael, 2400  North Alberta Street, Portland, OR  97217

Summerton, Juna Queen, 7007 East Gold Dust Avenue, Building 009, Apartment
#1056, Scottsdale, AZ  85253

Trautschold, David Jamesm Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, 100 East Wisconsin
Avenue, Suite 3300, Milwaukee, WI  53202

Wang, Zhe, ClearmanPrebeg LLP, 815 Walker Street, Suite 1040, Houston, TX
77002

Wells, Robert Daniels, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, 901
New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC  20001

December 19, 2012                                          WILLIAM R. COVEY
                   Deputy General Counsel for Enrollment and Discipline and
                        Director of the Office of Enrollment and Discipline
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Reinstatement to Register - December 19, 2012
                 Reinstatement to Register - December 19, 2012

   The following list of persons, whose names  have been previously removed
from the Register of Attorneys and Agents pursuant to the provisions of 37
CFR 10.11, have been reinstated in view of the required fee and information
they furnished to the Office of Enrollment and Discipline.

Marcus, Harry C., Locke Lord LLP, 3 World Financial Center, New York, NY
10281

Thomson, Jr., William Edward, Brooks Kushman P.C., 601 South Figueroa
Street, Suite 2080, Los Angeles, CA 90017

                                                           WILLIAM R. COVEY
                   Deputy General Counsel for Enrollment and Discipline and
                        Director of the Office of Enrollment and Discipline
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Changes to Implement Micro Entity Status for Paying Patent Fees
                            DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                          Patent and Trademark Office

                                 37 CFR Part 1

                         [Docket No.: PTO-P-2011-0016]
                                 RIN 0651-AC78


                      Changes to Implement Micro Entity
                         Status for Paying Patent Fees

AGENCY: United States Patent and Trademark Office, Commerce.

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is
revising the rules of practice in patent cases to implement the micro
entity provision of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA). Certain
patent fees set or adjusted under the fee setting authority in the AIA
will be reduced by seventy-five percent for micro entities. The Office
is revising the rules of practice to set out the procedures pertaining to
claiming micro entity status, paying patent fees as a micro entity,
notification of loss of micro entity status, and correction of payments
of patent fees paid erroneously in the micro entity amount. In a
separate rulemaking, the Office is in the process of proposing to set
or adjust patent fees under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act,
including setting fees for micro entities with a seventy-five percent
reduction. The Office has sought to address the concerns of its
stakeholders as expressed in the public comment, and plans to seek
additional public comment on the micro entity provisions after the
Office and the public have gained experience with the micro entity
procedures in operation. The Office will pursue further improvements to
the micro entity procedures in light of the public comment and its
experience with the micro entity procedures.

DATES: Effective March 19, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Engel, Senior Legal Advisor
((571) 272-7725), Office of Patent Legal Administration, Office of the
Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
   Executive Summary: Purpose: The AIA provides that: (1) The Office
may set or adjust any patent fee, provided that the aggregate revenue
generated by patent fees recovers only the aggregate estimated costs to
the Office for processing, activities, services, and materials relating
to patents (including administrative costs); and (2) most fees set or
adjusted under this authority are reduced by fifty percent for small
entities and by seventy-five percent for micro entities. The AIA also
adds a new section to Title 35 of the United States Code that defines a
"micro entity." The rules of practice currently have provisions
pertaining to small entity status, as the patent laws provided a small
entity discount prior to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. This
final rule revises the rules of practice to implement the "micro
entity" provisions added by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.
   Summary of Major Provisions: The Office is adding a provision to
the rules of practice pertaining to micro entity status. The provision
sets out the requirements to qualify as a micro entity tracking the
statutory requirements for a micro entity set forth in section 10 of
the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. The provision also sets out
procedures relating to micro entity status that largely track the
regulatory requirements and procedures in 37 CFR 1.27 for small entity
status. These new procedures pertain to claiming micro entity status,
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paying patent fees as a micro entity, notifying the Office of loss of
micro entity status, and correcting payments of patent fees paid
erroneously in the micro entity amount. The procedures for claiming
micro entity status require the filing of a certification of
entitlement to micro entity status. The Office is developing forms
(paper and electronic) for use by members of the public to provide a
certification of micro entity status. The procedures for paying fees as
a micro entity provide that a micro entity certification need only be
filed once in an application or patent, but that a fee may be paid in
the micro entity amount only if the applicant or patentee is still
entitled to micro entity status on the date the fee is paid. The
procedures pertaining to notifying the Office of loss of micro entity
status and correcting payments of patent fees paid erroneously in the
micro entity amount track the corresponding small entity provisions for
notifying the Office of loss of small entity status and correcting
payments of patent fees paid erroneously in the small entity amount.
   Costs and Benefits: This rulemaking is not economically significant
as that term is defined in Executive Order 12866 (Sept. 30, 1993).
   Background: The AIA was enacted into law on September 16, 2011. See
Public Law 112-29, 125 Stat. 283 (2011). Section 10(a) of the AIA
provides that the Office may set or adjust by rule any patent fee
established, authorized, or charged under title 35, United States Code,
provided that aggregate patent fees recover only the aggregate
estimated costs to the Office for processing, activities, services, and
materials relating to patents (including administrative costs). See 125
Stat. at 316. Section 10(b) of the AIA provides that "the fees set or
adjusted under [section 10(a)] for filing, searching, examining,
issuing, appealing, and maintaining patent applications and patents
shall be reduced by 50 percent with respect to the application of such
fees to any small entity that qualifies for reduced fees under [35
U.S.C.] 41(h)(1) * * *, and shall be reduced by 75 percent with respect
to the application of such fees to any micro entity as defined in [35
U.S.C.] 123." See 125 Stat. at 316-17. The patent laws provided in 35
U.S.C. 41(h) for small entities prior to the Leahy-Smith America
Invents Act. Section 10(g) of the AIA adds a new 35 U.S.C. 123 to
define a "micro entity." See 125 Stat. at 318-19.
   35 U.S.C. 123(a) provides one basis under which an applicant may
establish micro entity status. 35 U.S.C. 123(d) provides another basis
under which an applicant may establish micro entity status. Each will
be discussed in turn.
   35 U.S.C. 123(a) provides that the term "micro entity" means an
applicant who makes a certification that the applicant: (1) Qualifies
as a small entity as defined in 37 CFR 1.27; (2) has not been named as
an inventor on more than four previously filed patent applications,
other than applications filed in another country, provisional
applications under 35 U.S.C. 111(b), or international applications for
which the basic national fee under 35 U.S.C. 41(a) was not paid; (3)
did not, in the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the
applicable fee is being paid, have a gross income, as defined in
section 61(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 61(a)),
exceeding three times the median household income for that preceding
calendar year, as most recently reported by the Bureau of the Census;
and (4) has not assigned, granted, or conveyed, and is not under an
obligation by contract or law to assign, grant, or convey, a license or
other ownership interest in the application concerned to an entity
that, in the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the
applicable fee is being paid, had a gross income, as defined in section
61(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, exceeding three times the
median household income for that preceding calendar year, as most
recently reported by the Bureau of the Census. See 125 Stat. at 318. 35
U.S.C. 123(a) provides one basis under which an applicant may establish
micro entity status.
   The Office will indicate the income level that is three times the
median household income for the calendar year most recently reported by
the Bureau of the Census (the income threshold set forth in 35 U.S.C.
123(a)(3) and (a)(4)) on its Internet Web site, with its Independent
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Inventor resource information, and on the Office's certification of
micro entity status (gross income basis) form (Form PTO/SB/15A). The
Office will also make available resources to micro entities to help
navigate the new micro entity procedures.
   35 U.S.C. 123(b) provides that an applicant is not considered to be
named on a previously filed application for purposes of 35 U.S.C.
123(a)(2) if the applicant has assigned, or is under an obligation by
contract or law to assign, all ownership rights in the application as
the result of the applicant's previous employment. See id.
   35 U.S.C. 123(c) provides that if an applicant's or entity's gross
income in the preceding calendar year is not in United States dollars,
the average currency exchange rate, as reported by the Internal Revenue
Service, during that calendar year shall be used to determine whether
the applicant's or entity's gross income exceeds the threshold
specified in 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3) or (4). See 125 Stat. at 319.
   35 U.S.C. 123(d) provides that a micro entity shall also include an
applicant who certifies that: (1) The applicant's employer, from which
the applicant obtains the majority of the applicant's income, is an
institution of higher education as defined in section 101(a) of the
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)); or (2) the applicant
has assigned, granted, conveyed, or is under an obligation by contract
or law, to assign, grant, or convey, a license or other ownership
interest in the particular application to such an institution of higher
education. See id. As explained earlier, 35 U.S.C. 123(a) provides one
basis under which an applicant may establish micro entity status, and
35 U.S.C. 123(d) provides another basis under which an applicant may
establish micro entity status.
   35 U.S.C. 123(e) provides that in addition to the limits imposed by
this section, the Director has the discretion to impose income limits,
annual filing limits, or other limits on who may qualify as a micro
entity pursuant to this section if the Director determines that such
additional limits are reasonably necessary to avoid an undue impact on
other patent applicants or owners or are otherwise reasonably necessary
and appropriate. 35 U.S.C. 123(e) also provides that at least three
months before any limits proposed to be implemented pursuant to 35
U.S.C. 123(e) take effect, the Director shall inform the Committee on
the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the
Judiciary of the Senate of any such proposed limits. See id.
   The micro entity provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123 are currently in
effect. However, no patent fee is currently eligible for the seventy-
five percent micro entity reduction as no patent fee has yet been set
or adjusted under section 10 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.
The Office is in the process of proposing to set or adjust patent fees
under section 10 of the AIA in a separate rulemaking. See Setting and
Adjusting Patent Fees, 77 FR 55028 (Sept. 6, 2012). The fees set or
adjusted by the Office under section 10 of the AIA for filing,
searching, examining, issuing, appealing, and maintaining a patent
application and patent will be reduced by: (1) Fifty percent for an
applicant or patentee who establishes small (but not micro) entity
status in the patent application or patent; and (2) seventy-five
percent for an applicant or patentee who establishes micro entity
status in the patent application or patent.
   The Office plans to rely upon the applicant's certification of
micro entity status (except where it conflicts with the information
contained in the Office's records, such as where Office records
indicate that the applicant is named as an inventor on more than four
previously filed and unassigned nonprovisional patent applications) and
will not require any additional documents from the applicant concerning
the applicant's entitlement to claim micro entity status. This practice
is similar to small entity practice where the Office generally does not
question a claim of entitlement to small entity status. See 37 CFR
1.27(f); see also Manual of Patent Examining Procedure § 509.03
(8th ed. 2001) (Rev. 9, Aug. 2012) (MPEP).
   The Office does not plan to provide advisory opinions on whether a
particular entity is entitled to claim micro entity status. See MPEP
§ 509.03. The Office, however, is providing the following
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information concerning procedures for micro entity status under 35
U.S.C. 123:
   35 U.S.C. 123 uses the term "applicant" throughout, which was
virtually synonymous with "inventor" on September 16, 2011 (the date
of enactment of the AIA as well as the effective date of 35 U.S.C.
123). 35 U.S.C. 118, however, as amended effective on September 16,
2012, by Section 4 of the AIA, now permits an application to be made by
a person to whom the inventor has assigned or is under an obligation to
assign the invention. In addition, a person who otherwise shows
sufficient proprietary interest in the matter may make an application
for patent on behalf of and as agent for the inventor. Thus, 35 U.S.C.
118 now allows a person other than the inventor to file an application
as the applicant if the inventor has assigned or is under an obligation
to assign the invention to the person or if the person shows sufficient
proprietary interest in the matter. Note also that as of March 16,
2013, 35 U.S.C. 100 will be amended to provide new and specific
definitions of the terms "inventor," "joint inventor," and
"coinventor."
   35 U.S.C. 123 does not explicitly preclude an assignee-applicant
under 35 U.S.C. 118 from claiming micro entity status under 35 U.S.C.
123(a) or (d), although some provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123(a) and (d)
refer to an applicant who is a natural person inventor rather than a
juristic entity. See 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(2) (provides that a micro entity
applicant under 35 U.S.C. 123(a) must not have "been named as an
inventor on more than 4 previously filed patent applications") and
123(d)(1) (provides that the term micro entity includes an applicant
who certifies that "the applicant's employer, from which the applicant
obtains the majority of the applicant's income, is an institution of
higher education" as defined by section 101(a) of the Higher Education
Act of 1965). In addition, 35 U.S.C. 123(a), (b) and (d) specifically
refer to a situation in which the applicant has assigned rights in the
invention to an assignee. See 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(4) (provides that a
micro entity applicant under 35 U.S.C. 123(a) must not have "assigned,
granted, or conveyed, and is not under an obligation by contract or law
to assign, grant, or convey, a license or other ownership interest in
the application concerned to an entity" exceeding a specified gross
income); 35 U.S.C. 123(b) (provides that an applicant is not considered
to be named on a previously filed application for purposes of 35 U.S.C.
123(a)(2) if "the applicant has assigned, or is under an obligation by
contract or law to assign, all ownership rights in the application as
the result of the applicant's previous employment"); and 35 U.S.C.
123(d)(2) (provides that the term micro entity includes an "applicant
[who] has assigned, granted, conveyed, or is under an obligation by
contract or law, to assign, grant, or convey, a license or other
ownership interest in the particular applications" to an institution
of higher education as defined by section 101(a) of the Higher
Education Act of 1965). Finally, the legislative history of 35 U.S.C.
123 includes a reference to micro entities as inventors and not the
assignees of inventors. See H.R. Rep 112-98 at 50 (2011) (describing
micro entities as "a group of inventors" and "truly independent
inventors"). Nevertheless, 35 U.S.C. 123 does not explicitly preclude
an assignee-applicant under 35 U.S.C. 118 from claiming micro entity
status for an application under 35 U.S.C. 123(a) or 123(d), provided
there is compliance with the applicable micro entity criteria. Each
applicant must qualify for micro entity status, and any other party
holding rights in the application must qualify for small entity status.
See 37 CFR 1.29 (h). Note that a party who qualifies for micro entity
status necessarily qualifies for small entity status, as under 37 CFR
1.29 a micro entity must first qualify as a small entity under 37 CFR 1.27.
   An "institution of higher education,"as that term is used in 35
U.S.C. 123(d), is defined in the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 1001(a)). Section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 1001) provides that: "For purposes of this chapter, other than
subchapter IV, the term `institution of higher education' means an
educational institution in any State that-(1) Admits as regular
students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school
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providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a
certificate, or persons who meet the requirements of section 1091(d)(3)
of this title; (2) is legally authorized within such State to provide a
program of education beyond secondary education; (3) provides an
educational program for which the institution awards a bachelor's
degree or provides not less than a 2-year program that is acceptable
for full credit toward such a degree, or awards a degree that is
acceptable for admission to a graduate or professional degree program,
subject to review and approval by the Secretary; (4) is a public or
other nonprofit institution; and (5) is accredited by a nationally
recognized accrediting agency or association, or if not so accredited,
is an institution that has been granted pre-accreditation status by
such an agency or association that has been recognized by the Secretary
for the granting of pre-accreditation status, and the Secretary has
determined that there is satisfactory assurance that the institution
will meet the accreditation standards of such an agency or association
within a reasonable time." Section 103 of the Higher Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1003) provides "the term `State' includes, in addition
to the several States of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, the United States
Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and
the Freely Associated States" and that the Freely Associated States
means the "Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of
Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau."
   The Office is setting out in the rules of practice the requirements
for micro entity status and procedures for claiming micro entity
status, paying patent fees as a micro entity, notifying the Office of
loss of micro entity status, and correcting payments of patent fees
paid erroneously in the micro entity amount. The Office is also
developing forms for use by members of the public to provide a
certification of micro entity status. The procedures track the
corresponding provisions in 37 CFR 1.27 and 1.28 for small entities,
except where the small entity procedure is not appropriate for micro
entity status under the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123. For example, 35
U.S.C. 123 requires a certification as a condition for an applicant to
be considered a micro entity. Thus, the process in 37 CFR 1.27(c)(3)
for establishing small entity status by payment of certain fees in the
small entity amount cannot be made applicable to establishing micro
entity status, and the process in 37 CFR 1.28(a) for a refund based
upon subsequent establishment of small entity status is not applicable
where there is subsequent establishment of micro entity status. In
addition, 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3) and (a)(4) require that the income level
be met for the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the
applicable fee is paid. Thus, the provision in 37 CFR 1.27(g)(1) that
the applicant need only determine continued eligibility for small
entity status for issue and maintenance fee payments, but can pay
intervening fees at small entity rate without determining whether still
entitled to small entity status, cannot be made applicable to payment
of patent fees as a micro entity.

Discussion of Specific Rules

   The following is a discussion of the amendments to Title 37 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1.
   Section 1.29: Section 1.29 is added to implement procedures for
claiming micro entity status.
   Since 35 U.S.C. 123(a) through (d) specify the requirements to
qualify as a micro entity, the provisions in §§ 1.29(a) through
(d) generally track the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123(a) through (d).
   Section 1.29(a) implements the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123(a), and
includes reference to inventors or joint inventors where appropriate.
Section 1.29(a) provides that an applicant claiming micro entity status
under 35 U.S.C. 123(a) must certify that: (1) The applicant qualifies
as a small entity as defined in § 1.27; (2) neither the applicant
nor the inventor nor a joint inventor has been named as the inventor or
a joint inventor (see 35 U.S.C. 100) on more than four previously filed
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patent applications, other than applications filed in another country,
provisional applications under 35 U.S.C. 111(b), or international
applications for which the basic national fee under 35 U.S.C. 41(a) was
not paid; (3) neither the applicant nor the inventor nor a joint
inventor, in the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the
applicable fee is being paid, had a gross income, as defined in section
61(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 61(a)), exceeding
three times the median household income for that preceding calendar
year, as most recently reported by the Bureau of the Census; and (4)
neither the applicant nor the inventor nor a joint inventor has
assigned, granted, or conveyed, nor is under an obligation by contract
or law to assign, grant, or convey, a license or other ownership
interest in the application concerned to an entity that, in the
calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the applicable fee
is being paid, had a gross income, as defined in section 61(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, exceeding three times the median
household income for that preceding calendar year, as most recently
reported by the Bureau of the Census. See also § 1.29(h) (each
applicant must qualify for micro entity status, and each other party
holding rights in the invention must qualify for small entity status).
   Section 61(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C.
61(a)) provides that: "[e]xcept as otherwise provided in this
subtitle, gross income means all income from whatever source derived,
including (but not limited to) the following items: (1) Compensation
for services, including fees, commissions, fringe benefits, and similar
items; (2) Gross income derived from business; (3) Gains derived from
dealings in property; (4) Interest; (5) Rents; (6) Royalties; (7)
Dividends; (8) Alimony and separate maintenance payments; (9)
Annuities; (10) Income from life insurance and endowment contracts;
(11) Pensions; (12) Income from discharge of indebtedness; (13)
Distributive share of partnership gross income; (14) Income in respect
of a decedent; and (15) Income from an interest in an estate or
trust." The median household income for calendar year 2011 (the year
most recently reported by the Bureau of the Census) was $50,054. See
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States in
2011 at pages 5 and 31 (Table A-1) (Sept. 2012). Thus, the income level
specified in §§ 1.29(a)(3) and (a)(4) (three times the median
household income) is $150,162 for calendar year 2011 (the year most
recently reported by the Bureau of the Census).
   If an application names more than one applicant or inventor, each
applicant and each inventor must meet the requirements of § 1.29(a)
for the applicants to file a micro entity certification under
§ 1.29(a) in the application. It would not be appropriate to file a micro
entity certification under § 1.29(a) for the application if there were
more than one applicant or inventor and not all of the applicants and
inventors qualified as micro entities under 35 U.S.C. 123(a): e.g., (1) an
applicant or inventor exceeded the gross income levels; (2) an applicant or
inventor had more than four other nonprovisional applications; or (3) an
applicant or inventor had assigned, granted, or conveyed the application or
was under an obligation to do so, to an entity that exceeds the gross
income levels. Additionally, the income level requirement in 35 U.S.C.
123(a)(3) applies to each applicant's and inventor's income separately
(i.e., the combined gross income of all of the applicants and inventors
need not be below the income level in 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3)). Further, the
assignment requirement in § 1.29(a)(4) applies to each applicant
and inventor (i.e., if an applicant or inventor assigns or is obligated
to assign the invention to more than one assignee (e.g., half interest
in the invention to two assignees), each of the assignees must meet the
income limit specified in § 1.29(a)(4)). Note also that in this
context an inventor ordinarily should qualify as a small entity under
§§ 1.29(a)(1) and 1.27(a)(1). Under § 1.27(a)(1), an inventor generally is
a small entity and retains such status even if the inventor assigns some
rights to another small entity. Similarly, to obtain micro entity status,
§ 1.29(h) requires that any non-applicant assignee be a small entity.
   Section 1.29(b) implements the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123(b).
Section 1.29(b) provides that an applicant, inventor, or joint inventor
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is not considered to be named on a previously filed application for
purposes of § 1.29(a)(2) if the applicant, inventor, or joint
inventor has assigned, or is under an obligation by contract or law to
assign, all ownership rights in the application as the result of the
applicant's, inventor's, or joint inventors previous employment.
   Section 1.29(c) implements the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123(c).
Section 1.29(c) provides that if an applicant's, inventor's, joint
inventor's, or entity's gross income in the preceding calendar year is
not in United States dollars, the average currency exchange rate, as
reported by the Internal Revenue Service, during that calendar year
shall be used to determine whether the applicant's, inventor's, joint
inventor's, or entity's gross income exceeds the threshold specified in
§ 1.29(a)(3) or (a)(4). The Internal Revenue Service reports the
average currency exchange rate (Yearly Average Currency Exchange Rates)
on its Internet Web site (http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/
international/article/0,,id=206089,00.html).
   Section 1.29(d) implements the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123(d).
Section 1.29(d) provides that an applicant claiming micro entity status
under 35 U.S.C. 123(d) must certify that: (1) The applicant qualifies
as a small entity as defined in § 1.27; and (2)(i) the applicant's
employer, from which the applicant obtains the majority of the
applicant's income, is an institution of higher education as defined in
section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a));
or (ii) the applicant has assigned, granted, conveyed, or is under an
obligation by contract or law, to assign, grant, or convey, a license
or other ownership interest in the particular application to such an
institution of higher education. To the extent that 35 U.S.C. 123(d)
(unlike 35 U.S.C. 123(a)) does not expressly require that an applicant
qualify as a small entity under § 1.27, the Office is invoking its
authority under 35 U.S.C. 123(e) to expressly require that a party
claiming micro entity status via 35 U.S.C. 123(d) qualify as a small
entity under § 1.27. The legislative history of 35 U.S.C. 123
refers to micro entities as a subset of small entities, namely, "truly
independent inventors." See H.R. Rep 112-98 at 50 ("W[t]he Committee
was made aware, however, that there is likely a benefit to describing--
and then accommodating--a group of inventors who are even smaller [than
small entities], in order to ensure that the USPTO can tailor its
requirements, and its assistance, to the people with very little
capital, and just a few inventions, as they are starting out. This
section of the Act defines this even smaller group--the micro-entity--
that includes only truly independent inventors"). Thus, permitting an
applicant who does not qualify as a small entity to take advantage of
the benefits of micro entity status via 35 U.S.C. 123(d) would be
inconsistent with the purposes of micro entity provisions of 35 U.S.C.
123. The statute and its legislative history do not, for example,
contemplate a for-profit, large entity applicant becoming a "micro
entity" (and thus obtaining a 75 percent discount) merely by licensing
or assigning some interest (even merely a nominal or miniscule
interest) to an institution of higher education. Accordingly, the
Office has determined that requiring all micro entities to qualify as
small entities is reasonably necessary and appropriate to ensure that
applicants who do not qualify as a small entity do not inappropriately
attempt to take advantage of micro entity status. See also § 1.29(h)
(each applicant must qualify for micro entity status, and each
other party holding rights in the invention must qualify for small
entity status).
   Section 1.29(e) provides that micro entity status must be
established in an application in by filing a certification in writing
that complies with either § 1.29(a) or § 1.29(d) and that is
signed in compliance with § 1.33(b). Section 1.29(e) also contains
provisions for a micro entity that correspond to the provisions of
§ 1.27(c)(4) for a small entity. Section 1.29(e) provides that: (1)
Status as a micro entity must be specifically established by an
assertion in each related, continuing, and reissue application in which
status is appropriate and desired; (2) status as a small or micro
entity in one application or patent does not affect the status of any
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other application or patent, regardless of the relationship of the
applications or patents; and (3) the refiling of an application under
§ 1.53 as a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part
application (including a continued prosecution application under
§ 1.53(d)), or the filing of a reissue application, requires a new
certification of entitlement to micro entity status for the continuing
or reissue application.
   Section 1.29(f) contains provisions for a micro entity that
correspond to the provisions of § 1.27(d) for a small entity.
Section 1.29(f) provides that a fee may be paid in the micro entity
amount only if it is submitted with, or subsequent to, the submission
of a certification of entitlement to micro entity status.
   Section 1.29(g) contains provisions for a micro entity that
correspond to the provisions of § 1.27(e) for a small entity.
Section 1.29(g) provides that a certification of entitlement to micro
entity status need only be filed once in an application or patent, and
that micro entity status, once established, remains in effect until
changed pursuant to § 1.29(i). However, a fee may be paid in the
micro entity amount only if status as a micro entity as defined in
§ 1.29(a) or (d) is appropriate (which requires that status as a
small entity is also appropriate) on the date the fee is being paid.
Thus, while an applicant is not required to provide a certification of
entitlement to micro entity status with each fee payment once micro
entity status has been established in an application, the applicant
must still be entitled to micro entity status to pay a fee in the micro
entity amount at the time of all payments of fees in the micro entity
amount.
   For micro entity status under 35 U.S.C. 123(a), the applicant must
determine that the applicant and each inventor or joint inventor still
meet the applicable conditions of 35 U.S.C. 123(a) and § 1.29(a) to
claim micro entity status. For example, the applicant must determine
that neither the applicant nor inventor nor joint inventor has had a
change in gross income that exceeds the gross income threshold in 35
U.S.C. 123(a)(3) (a new determination must be made each year because
gross income may change from year to year, and micro entity status is
based upon gross income in the calendar year preceding the calendar
year in which the applicable fee is being paid). In addition, the
applicant must determine that neither the applicant nor inventor nor
joint inventor has made, or is obligated by contract or law to make, an
assignment, grant, or conveyance to an entity not meeting the gross
income threshold in 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(4), and that no new inventor or
joint inventor has been named in the application who does not meet the
conditions specified in 35 U.S.C. 123(a) and § 1.29(a)). For micro
entity status under 35 U.S.C. 123(d), the applicant must determine that
each applicant and inventor still complies with 35 U.S.C. 123(d) and
§ 1.29(d) (e.g., still obtains the majority of his or her income
from an institution of higher education as defined in section 101(a) of
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)). Section 1.29(g)
also provides that where an assignment of rights or an obligation to
assign rights to other parties who are micro entities occurs subsequent
to the filing of a certification of entitlement to micro entity status,
a second certification of entitlement to micro entity status is not
required.
   Section 1.29(h) contains provisions for a micro entity that
correspond to the provisions of § 1.27(f) for a small entity.
Section 1.29(h) provides that prior to submitting a certification of
entitlement to micro entity status in an application, including a
related, continuing, or reissue application, a determination of such
entitlement should be made pursuant to the requirements of §
1.29(a) or 1.29(d). Section 1.29(h) also indicates that each applicant
must qualify for micro entity status under § 1.29(a) or 1.29(d),
and that any other party holding rights in the application must qualify
for small entity status under § 1.27. As discussed previously, a
party who qualifies for micro entity status necessarily qualifies for
small entity status, as under § 1.29(a)(1) and (d)(1) a micro
entity must first qualify as a small entity under § 1.27. Section
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1.29(h) also indicates that the Office will generally not question
certification of entitlement to micro entity status that is made in
accordance with the requirements of § 1.29.
   Section 1.29(i) contains provisions for a micro entity that
correspond to the provisions of § 1.27(g)(2) for a small entity.
Section 1.29(i) provides that notification of a loss of entitlement to
micro entity status must be filed in the application or patent prior to
paying, or at the time of paying, any fee after the date on which
status as a micro entity as defined in § 1.29(a) or 1.29(d) is no
longer appropriate. The notification that micro entity status is no
longer appropriate must be signed by a party identified in § 1.33(b).
Payment of a fee in other than the micro entity amount is not
sufficient notification that micro entity status is no longer
appropriate.
   Section 1.29(i) further provides that a notification that micro
entity status is no longer appropriate will not be treated as a
notification that small entity status is also no longer appropriate
unless it also contains a notification of loss of entitlement to small
entity status under § 1.27(f)(2). Thus, an applicant or patentee
who files a notification that micro entity status is no longer
appropriate will be treated as a small entity by default unless the
notification also contains a notification of loss of entitlement to
small entity status under § 1.27(f)(2).
   Section 1.29 finally provides that once a notification of a loss of
entitlement to micro entity status is filed in the application or
patent, a new certification of entitlement to micro entity status is
required to again obtain micro entity status.
   Section 1.29(j) contains provisions for a micro entity that
correspond to the provisions of § 1.27(h) for a small entity.
Section 1.29(j) provides that any attempt to fraudulently establish
status as a micro entity, or pay fees as a micro entity, shall be
considered as a fraud practiced or attempted on the Office, and that
establishing status as a micro entity, or paying fees as a micro
entity, improperly, and with intent to deceive, shall be considered as
a fraud practiced or attempted on the Office.
   Section 1.29(k) contains provisions for a micro entity that
correspond to the provisions of § 1.28(c) for a small entity.
Section 1.28(c) permits an applicant or patentee to correct the
erroneous payment of a patent fee in the small entity amount if status
as a small entity was established in good faith, and fees as a small
entity were paid in good faith. See DH Tech. Inc. v. Synergystex Int'l
Inc., 154 F.3d 1333 (Fed. Cir. 1998).
   Section 1.29(k) provides that if: (i) An applicant or patentee
establishes micro entity status in an application or patent in good faith;
(ii) the applicant or patentee pays fees as a micro entity in the
application or patent in good faith; and (iii) applicant or patentee later
discovers that such micro entity status either was established in error, or
that the Office was not notified of a loss of entitlement to micro entity
status as required by § 1.29(i) through error, the error will be excused
upon compliance with the separate submission and itemization requirements
of § 1.29(k)(1) and the deficiency payment requirement of § 1.29(k)(2).
   Section 1.29(k)(1) provides that any paper submitted under § 1.29(k)
must be limited to the deficiency payment (all fees paid in
error) required for a single application or patent. Section 1.29(k)(1)
provides that where more than one application or patent is involved,
separate submissions of deficiency payments (e.g., checks) and
itemizations are required for each application or patent. Section
1.29(k)(1) also provides that the paper must contain an itemization of
the total deficiency payment and include the following information: (1)
Each particular type of fee that was erroneously paid as a micro
entity, (e.g., basic statutory filing fee, two-month extension of time
fee) along with the current fee amount for a small or non-small entity;
(2) the micro entity fee actually paid, and the date on which it was
paid; (3) the deficiency owed amount (for each fee erroneously paid);
and (4) the total deficiency payment owed, which is the sum or total of
the individual deficiency owed amounts as set forth in § 1.29(k)(2).
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   Section 1.29(k)(2) provides that the deficiency owed, resulting
from the previous erroneous payment of micro entity fees, must be paid.
The deficiency owed for each previous fee erroneously paid as a micro
entity is the difference between the current fee amount for a small
entity or non-small entity, as applicable, on the date the deficiency
is paid in full and the amount of the previous erroneous micro entity
fee payment. The total deficiency payment owed is the sum of the
individual deficiency owed amounts for each fee amount previously and
erroneously paid as a micro entity. This corresponds to the procedure
for fee deficiency payments based upon the previous erroneous payment
of patent fees in the small entity amount. See § 1.28(c)(2)(i)
("[t]he deficiency owed for each previous fee erroneously paid as a
small entity is the difference between the current full fee amount (for
non-small entity) on the date the deficiency is paid in full and the
amount of the previous erroneous (small entity) fee payment").
   Section 1.29(k)(3) provides that if the requirements of §§
1.29(k)(1) and (k)(2) are not complied with, such failure will either
be treated at the option of the Office as an authorization for the
Office to process the deficiency payment and charge the processing fee
set forth in § 1.17(i), or result in a requirement for compliance
within a one-month non-extendable time period under § 1.136(a) to
avoid the return of the fee deficiency payment.
   Section 1.29(k)(4) provides that any deficiency payment (based on a
previous erroneous payment of a micro entity fee) submitted under
§ 1.29(k) will be treated as a notification of a loss of entitlement to
micro entity status under § 1.29(i).
   Comments and Responses to Comments: The Office published a notice
on May 30, 2012, proposing to change the rules of practice to implement
the micro entity provisions of the AIA. See Changes to Implement Micro
Entity Status for Paying Patent Fees, 77 FR 31806 (May 30, 2012). The
Office received twenty-seven written comments (from intellectual
property organizations, industry, law firms, individual patent
practitioners, and the general public) in response to this notice.
There were some comments received that related to practice before the
agency but not related to the proposed changes to the rules of practice
to implement the micro entity provisions of the AIA, and these comments
have been forwarded to the Office of Innovation Development for further
consideration. The Office is always interested to hear feedback from
the public concerning ways in which it can assist small and independent
inventors. The comments germane to the proposed changes to the rules of
practice to implement the micro entity provisions of the AIA and the
Office's responses to the comments follow:
   Comment 1: One comment stated that there are several instances in
35 U.S.C. 123 and proposed § 1.29 where the term "applicant" is
inapplicable to an organization and must really be referring to the
inventor(s) (e.g., a certification that "applicant" has not been
named as an "inventor" in more than four previously filed
applications, references to applicant's previous employment or
employer). One comment indicated that the term "applicant" should be
used in an interchangeable manner so as to mean either the inventor(s)
or a company to which the patent application is assigned (i.e., the
rules should refer to "applicant or inventor") in view of the AIA's
change to 35 U.S.C. 118. That comment further indicated, however, that
the ability to vary from the statute "may be limited." One comment
similarly indicated that the final rules should replace all instances
of "applicant" and "applicant's" with "inventor" and
"inventor's" in § 1.29(a) (second instance), (b), (c), (d)(1),
(d)(2)(i), and (d)(2)(ii) in view of the AIA's change to 35 U.S.C. 118.
One comment stated that in the case of university inventions, the
university typically is the applicant and this creates anomalies in
proposed § 1.29(d), since the institution (university) logically
cannot make the certifications required under § 1.29(d)(2)(i) and
(d)(2)(ii) (that the employer from which the university obtains the
majority of its income is an institution of higher education as defined
by section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, or that the
university itself has assigned, granted, conveyed, or is under an
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obligation by contract or law, to assign, grant, or convey, a license
or other ownership interest in the particular application).
   Response: The Office specifically invited public comment in the
notice of proposed rulemaking on the issue of whether the term
"inventor" should be used in place of "applicant" at any instance
in the proposed micro entity rules. See Changes to Implement Micro
Entity Status for Paying Patent Fees, 77 FR at 31808. The Office agrees
that some, though not all, provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123 refer to a
situation where an inventor is the applicant. The micro entity
provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123 were enacted as part of the AIA, which also
revised the patent laws to provide a specific definition of the term
"inventor" and to change who may be the applicant for a patent. See
125 Stat. at 285 (defining "inventor") and 293-97 (changing the
patent laws to distinguish between who may apply for a patent as the
applicant and who must be named as the inventor); see also 35 U.S.C.
100; 35 U.S.C. 118. The Office does not consider it appropriate either
to amend the language of 35 U.S.C. 123 as incorporated into the
corresponding provisions of § 1.29 or to somehow view the terms
"applicant" and "inventor" as interchangeable in all instances
under 35 U.S.C. 123. See Brown v. Gardner, 513 U.S. 115, 118 (1994)
(presumption that a given term is used to mean the same thing
throughout a statute). As discussed previously, while some of the
provisions in 35 U.S.C. 123(a) and (d) refer to an inventor-applicant,
35 U.S.C. 123 does not explicitly preclude an assignee-applicant under
35 U.S.C. 118 from claiming micro entity status under 35 U.S.C. 123(a)
or (d), provided there is compliance with the applicable micro entity
criteria by each applicant. However, each applicant must qualify for
micro entity status, and any other party holding rights in the
application must qualify for small entity status. See 37 CFR 1.29(h).
   Comment 2: One comment stated that it is possible that the
legislative intent of 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(2) was that an applicant should
satisfy this criterion so long as the applicant has fewer than four
previously filed applications in which micro entity fees were paid. One
comment stated that the four application limit under 35 U.S.C.
123(a)(2) should apply only to applications filed within the past
twenty years or so. One comment stated that it would make sense for the
term "inventor" in § 1.29(a)(2) to refer to an applicant who has
had the opportunity to claim micro entity status in four previously
filed patent applications. One comment indicated that § 1.29(a)(2)
should be amended to provide that if an application is entitled to
micro entity status, then continuation and divisional applications of
that parent application should normally be entitled to micro entity
status without counting the parent application or any parallel filed
continuing or divisional patent applications in the same patent family
toward the four application limit.
   Response: Section 1.29(a)(2) tracks the provisions of 35 U.S.C.
123(a)(2) with the clarification to reference non-applicant inventors
and joint inventors. 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(2) provides a certification that
the applicant, inter alia, "has not been named as an inventor on more
than 4 previously filed patent applications, other than applications
filed in another country, provisional applications under 35 U.S.C.
111(b), or international applications * * * for which the basic
national fee under 35 U.S.C. 41(a) was not paid." This provision
refers to when an inventor-applicant has been named as an inventor in a
previous application, including as one in a group of joint inventors.
See 35 U.S.C. 100. An applicant that is not an inventor would plainly
not violate this criteria. Moreover, this provision has been clarified
to refer to an inventor or joint inventor who is not the applicant. 35
U.S.C. 123(a)(2) by its express terms does not, however, provide for
exceptions to this four-application limit suggested by the comments. In
addition, while 35 U.S.C. 123(e) authorizes the Office to place
additional limits on who may qualify as a micro entity under 35 U.S.C.
123, it does not authorize the Office to remove limitations contained in
35 U.S.C. 123.
   Comment 3: One comment suggested expanding the scope of the § 1.29(b)
exception to applications counted toward the four application
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limit in § 1.29(a)(2) by including applications assigned to the
inventor's current employer when the invention is outside the current
employer's scope of employment with the inventor.
   Response: Section 1.29(b) tracks the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123(b)
with the clarification to reference non-applicant inventors and joint
inventors. 35 U.S.C. 123(b) provides that an applicant is not
considered to be named on a previously filed application for purposes
of 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(2) if the applicant has assigned, or is under an
obligation by contract or law to assign, all ownership rights in the
application "as the result of applicant's previous employment." Thus,
the exception in 35 U.S.C. 123(b) by its express terms does not apply
to applications assigned to a current employer. In addition, as
discussed previously, while 35 U.S.C. 123(e) authorizes the Office to
place additional limits on who may qualify as a micro entity under 35
U.S.C. 123, it does not authorize the Office to remove limitations
contained in 35 U.S.C. 123.
   Comment 4: One comment noted that the Office has indicated that it
will publish the income level that is three times the median household
income for the calendar year most recently reported by the Bureau of
the Census, but that 35 U.S.C. 123(a) (and § 1.29(a)) require that
applicants use the median household income data for "the calendar year
preceding the calendar year in which the applicable fee is being
paid." The comment expressed concern that median household income data
for a given year is not reported by the Bureau of the Census until the
succeeding year. One comment suggested that § 1.29(a)(3) be amended
to provide that an applicant may rely on his or her most recently filed
income tax return regardless of whether the most recently filed tax
return accounted for the previous calendar year's gross income.
   Response: Section 1.29(a)(3) tracks the provisions of 35 U.S.C.
123(a)(3) with the clarification to reference non-applicant inventors
and joint inventors. 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3) provides that each inventor's
gross income "in the calendar year preceding the calendar year in
which the applicable fee is being paid" must not exceed "three times
the median household income for that preceding calendar year as most
recently reported by the Bureau of the Census." 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3)
does not provide for an applicant to simply rely on his or her most
recently filed income tax return if the most recently filed tax return
does not pertain to the calendar year preceding the calendar year in
which the applicable fee is being paid. The Office will post on its
Internet Web site the U.S. dollar amount that equals three times the
median household income as most recently reported by the Bureau of the
Census. Thus, the Office's Internet Web site will contain the U.S.
dollar amount that equals three times the median household income as
most recently reported by the Bureau of the Census as provided for in
§ 1.29(a)(3) and 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3).
   Comment 5: One comment requested guidance as to what effect marital
status has on "gross income" in terms of § 1.29(a)(3), and
whether the inventor's tax return is filed jointly or separately
changes the amount of "gross income" for purposes of meeting the
requirement of proposed § 1.29(a)(3). The comment also indicated
that in community property states, the law may be construed such that
the inventor/applicant has assigned his or her rights in part to the
spouse, as a matter of law. Another comment stated that marital status
of an individual applicant may have an impact on the assignment or
ownership rights in an invention and the gross income of the applicant,
and that it may require an opinion from an accountant or tax attorney
with respect to the applicant's income.
   Response: The Office reads the "gross income" requirement
contained in 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3) and § 1.29(a)(3) with respect to a
married person as applying to the amount of income the person would
have reported as gross income if that person were filing a separate tax
return (which includes properly accounting for that person's portion of
interest, dividends, and capital gains from joint bank or brokerage
accounts), regardless of whether the person actually filed a joint
return or a separate return for the relevant calendar year.
Additionally, the Office does not consider a spouse's ownership
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interest in a patent application or patent arising by operation of
residence in a community property state as falling within the ambit of
35 U.S.C. 123(a)(4) and § 1.29(a)(4) because the spouse's ownership
interest arises by operation of state law, rather than an assignment,
grant, conveyance, or obligation to assign, grant, or convey.
   Comment 6: One comment questioned the situation where the
applicant's income is not in U.S. dollars and the applicable currency
exchange rate is applied to determine the applicant's gross income in
U.S. dollars in accordance with § 1.29(c), whether the applicant's
gross income in terms of U.S. dollars should be compared to three times
the median household income for the preceding calendar year in the
United States, or should be compared to the median household income for
the preceding calendar year in the country in which the applicant
obtained income.
   Response: In all cases, the inventor's gross income in the previous
calendar year must be compared to the U.S. dollar amount equaling three
times the median household income as most recently reported by the
Bureau of the Census (which will be posted on the Office's Internet Web
site) at the time the applicable fee is being paid in order to meet the
gross income requirement of § 1.29(a)(3).
   Comment 7: One comment suggested that the language "that calendar
year" in proposed § 1.29(c) should be changed to "the preceding
calendar year" to clarify that applicants whose income is not in U.S.
dollars must apply the currency exchange rate from the preceding
calendar year when calculating income in U.S. dollars in order to
determine whether the proposed § 1.29(a)(3) "gross income" requirement
is met.
   Response: Section 1.29(c) tracks the provisions of 35 U.S.C. 123(c)
with the clarification to reference non-applicant inventors and joint
inventors. The phrase "that calendar year" in 35 U.S.C. 123(c) and
§ 1.29(c) means "the preceding calendar year" as previously recited in 35
U.S.C. 123(c) and § 1.29(c).
   Comment 8: One comment indicated that foreign applicants should be
directed to make a "good faith attempt" to estimate their gross
income in terms of U.S. tax law.
   Response: 35 U.S.C. 123(c) provides that if an applicant's or
entity's gross income in the preceding calendar year is not in United
States dollars, the average currency exchange rate, as reported by the
Internal Revenue Service, during that calendar year shall be used to
determine whether the applicant's or entity's gross income exceeds the
threshold specified in 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3) or (4). 35 U.S.C. 123 does
not provide any alternative basis, such as a good faith estimation as
suggested by the comment, for determining whether an applicant or
entity meets the gross income requirement of 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3). For
an applicant or entity whose previous calendar year's gross income was
received partially in U.S. dollars and partially in non-United States
currency, the gross income amount in non-United States currency must be
converted into U.S. dollars in accordance with § 1.29(c) and then
added to the gross income amount in U.S. dollars to determine whether the
applicant or entity meets the gross income requirement of § 1.29(a)(3).
   Comment 9: One comment suggested that the definition of micro
entity status should be broadened to benefit even more small inventors
than those who meet the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 123(a).
   Response: The legislative history includes a statement that
Congress developed the micro entity provision to benefit truly
independent inventors, people with very little capital and just a few
inventions, who are just starting out. See H.R. Rep 112-98 at 50. Small
entity inventors who do not meet the micro entity requirements of 35
U.S.C. 123 may still claim small entity status and receive the fifty
percent small entity fee reduction. In any event, as discussed
previously, while 35 U.S.C. 123(e) authorizes the Office to place
additional limits on who may qualify as a micro entity under 35 U.S.C.
123, it does not authorize the Office to remove limitations contained
in 35 U.S.C. 123 or expand the scope of 35 U.S.C. 123 to include more
small entities.
   Comment 10: Several comments objected to the requirement under
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§ 1.29(d)(1) that in order to qualify for micro entity status under
§ 1.29(d), the applicant must qualify as a small entity as defined
in § 1.27 in addition to meeting one of the requirements under
§ 1.29(d)(2)(i) or (d)(2)(ii).
   Response: 35 U.S.C. 123(e) provides that in addition to the limits
imposed by 35 U.S.C. 123, the Director may, in the Director's
discretion, impose income limits, annual filing limits, or other limits
on who may qualify as a micro entity pursuant to this section if the
Director determines that such additional limits are reasonably
necessary to avoid an undue impact on other patent applicants or owners
or are otherwise reasonably necessary and appropriate. The Office has
determined that requiring all micro entities to qualify as small
entities (§ 1.29(d)(1)) is reasonably necessary and appropriate to
ensure that applicants who do not qualify as a small entity do not
inappropriately attempt to take advantage of micro entity status. As
discussed in the notice of proposed rulemaking, the legislative history
of 35 U.S.C. 123 includes a statement that micro entity status is
directed to a subset of small entities, namely, "truly independent
inventors." See H.R. Rep 112-98 at 50.
   Comment 11: Several comments indicated that § 1.29(d)(2)(ii)
should provide that the rights transferred or owed to an institution of
higher education should be substantial. The comments indicated that
institutions of higher education are generally non-practicing entities
or that applicants could engage in sham transfers of a de minimus
interest to an institution of higher education, and suggested the
Office use its authority under 35 U.S.C. 123(e) to ensure the transfer
of rights is for a substantial purpose. One comment indicated that
micro entity status by a grant of rights to an institution of higher
education under § 1.29(d)(2)(ii) should not be available to an
institution of higher education and that without such a limitation,
institutions of higher education could simply grant rights to each
other and thereby qualify their patent for micro entity status.
   Response: As discussed previously, the Office is requiring that all
micro entities qualify as small entities (§ 1.29(d)(1)) to ensure
that applicants who do not qualify as a small entity do not
inappropriately attempt to take advantage of micro entity status. This
requires that any person or entity claiming micro entity status not
have assigned, granted, conveyed, or licensed, and be under no
obligation under contract or law to assign, grant, convey, or license,
any rights in the invention to any person, concern, or organization
which would not qualify for small entity status as a person, small
business concern, or nonprofit organization. See § 1.27(a). The
Office plans to closely monitor the percentage of applicants claiming
small entity status under 35 U.S.C. 123(d) and will propose additional
limits under the authority provided in 35 U.S.C. 123(e) if it appears
that a substantial number of applicants are engaging in sham
transactions with institutions of higher education to obtain micro
entity status.
   Comment 12: One comment indicated that 35 U.S.C. 123(d) is unclear
as to whether it was intended to cover a separate non-profit
corporation, research foundation, or other institution that is legally
separate from an institution of higher education but whose stated
mission is to represent that institution of higher education, to act on
its behalf, and/or commercialize the intellectual property of that
institution of higher education. The comment suggested that a research
foundation should be treated as a qualifying institution of higher
education for purposes of micro entity status if the research
foundation is acting on behalf of a university which is an institution
of higher education as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher
Education Act of 1965. Another comment suggested that the Office
consider expanding the scope of § 1.29(d) to include technology
transfer organizations whose primary purpose is to facilitate the
commercialization of technologies developed by one or more institutions
of higher education as defined by section 101(a) of the Higher
Education Act of 1965. Another comment suggested that micro entity
status be made available to applicants whose inventions are co-owned
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with Federal Government research laboratories and that patent
applications on inventions made solely or jointly by Federal laboratory
personnel should be considered in the same manner as applications made
solely by personnel at academic research laboratories. Another comment
suggested amending § 1.29(d) to extend the definition of
"institution of higher education" to include certain nonprofit
scientific or educational organizations that are not institutions of
higher education "as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a))" as required by 35 U.S.C. 123(d).
Another comment suggested that the Office interpret "institution of
higher education as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a))" as it appears in 35 U.S.C. 123(d) to
include institutions of higher education set forth in subsection (b) of
20 U.S.C. 1001, thus making micro entity status available to
institutions that grant only graduate degrees if they otherwise qualify
as institutions of higher education under 20 U.S.C. 1001(a).
   Response: 35 U.S.C. 123(d) provides that a micro entity shall also
include an applicant who certifies that: (1) The applicant's employer,
from which the applicant obtains the majority of the applicant's
income, is an institution of higher education as defined in section
101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)); or (2)
the applicant has assigned, granted, conveyed, or is under an
obligation by contract or law, to assign, grant, or convey, a license
or other ownership interest in the particular applications to such an
institution of higher education. Consistent with the discussion above
and in the notice of proposed rulemaking about the statutory terms
"applicant" and "inventor," note that the statutory criteria in 35
U.S.C. 123(d) ordinarily would not be met by an institution of higher
education that is itself an assignee-applicant. Also, while 35 U.S.C.
123(e) authorizes the Office to place additional limits on who may
qualify as a micro entity under 35 U.S.C. 123, it does not authorize
the Office to remove limitations contained in 35 U.S.C. 123 such as to
expand the scope of 35 U.S.C. 123(d) to include a separate, non-profit
corporation, research foundation, technology transfer organization, Federal
Government research laboratory, other non-profit scientific or educational
organization, institution of higher education as defined in section 101(b)
of the Higher Education Act of 1965, or other institution that is legally
separate from an institution of higher education as defined in section
101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 as suggested by the comments. An
entity or institution must meet the definition of an institution of higher
education as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of
1965 for an applicant employed by, or who has assigned or is under an
obligation to assignee to, the entity or institution, to be eligible
for micro entity status under 35 U.S.C. 123(d).
   Comment 13: Several comments indicated that the proposed rules show
a bias in favor of institutions of higher education and against
independent inventors because an independent inventor has to meet
certain criteria to be entitled to micro entity status.
   Response: Both independent inventors under 35 U.S.C. 123(a) and
those employed by or under a legal or contractual obligation to assign,
grant, or convey an interest in an application to an institution of
higher education as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 under 35 U.S.C. 123(d), must meet certain criteria to be
eligible for micro entity status. Specifically, the applicant must
qualify as a small entity as defined in § 1.27. In addition, as to
35 U.S.C. 123(d) either the applicant's employer, from which the
applicant obtains the majority of the applicant's income, must be an
institution of higher education as defined in section 101(a) of the
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)), or the applicant must
have assigned, granted, conveyed, or be under an obligation by contract
or law, to assign, grant, or convey, a license or other ownership
interest in the particular application to such an institution of higher
education. The income and application filing criteria specified in
§ 1.29(a) tracks the criteria in 35 U.S.C. 123(a).
   Comment 14: One comment questioned whether micro entity status will
be available to foreign applicants.
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   Response: Micro entity status is available to any applicant
(foreign or domestic alike) who meets the requirements of 35 U.S.C. 123
and § 1.29. Notably, 35 U.S.C. 123(d) provides that an institution
must meet the definition of an institution of higher education as
defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 for micro
entity status to be obtained based upon the applicant's employment at
or the applicant's assignment or obligation to the institution. One
criteria of the definition of "institution of higher education" set
forth in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 is that the
institution must be located in a "State." Section 103 of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 provides that the term "State" as used in
section 101(a) "includes the several States of the United States, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, American
Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Freely Associated
States" and that the Freely Associated States means the "Republic of
the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the
Republic of Palau."
   Comment 15: Several comments urged deletion of the requirement in
§ 1.29(e) that micro entity status be specifically established by a
new certification in each related continuing and reissue application.
One comment indicated that unless the Office removes the provision in
proposed § 1.29(g) that a fee may be paid in the micro entity
amount only if status as a micro entity is appropriate on the date the
fee is paid, the Office should remove the requirement in proposed
§ 1.29(e) that status as a micro entity must be specifically established
in each related, continuing and reissue application in which status is
appropriate and desired. One comment stated that § 1.29(e) contains
an error in that contrary to its language, status as a micro entity in
one application does affect the status of other applications. The
commenter, however, suggests retaining language in § 1.29(e)
stating that micro entity status must be specifically established in
each continuing and divisional application in which status is
appropriate and desired.
   Response: The Office shares the concerns of the comments that the
small entity and micro entity regulations and procedures be as simple
as possible. For this reason, the Office is making the micro entity
provisions as consistent with the small entity provisions as possible,
including the provisions pertaining to claiming small entity status in
related continuing and reissue applications. See § 1.27(c)(4). In
addition, 35 U.S.C. 123 requires that the applicant make a
certification under 35 U.S.C. 123(a) or (d) to qualify for micro entity
status. An applicant's ability to meet the requirements in 35 U.S.C.
123(a) or (d) may change over time. For example, from a first
application to a related continuing or reissue application, an
applicant's gross income (35 U.S.C. 123(a)(3)) and employment (35
U.S.C. 123(d)(1)) may change, and the number of applications naming the
applicant as an inventor (35 U.S.C. 123(a)(2)) will change with the
filing of a related continuing or reissue application. Therefore, the
Office is concerned about permitting micro entity status to
automatically carry over into a related continuing or reissue
application without the certification required by 35 U.S.C. 123(a) or
(d). Finally, while being named as an inventor in other applications
may affect an applicant's ability to claim micro entity status in an
application, status as a micro entity in one application does not
affect the status of other applications. Finally, as discussed
previously, the Office plans to seek additional public comment on the
micro entity provisions after the Office and the public have gained
experience with the micro entity procedures in operation, and will
pursue further improvements to the micro entity procedures in light of
the public comment and its experience with the micro entity procedures.
   Comment 16: One comment stated that § 1.29 is unclear as to who
must sign the micro entity certification in applications with more than
one applicant. The comment suggested that § 1.29 be amended to make
clear that each applicant must meet the requirements of 35 U.S.C.
123(a) or (d) for the applicants to file a micro entity certification
in the application. Further, the comment suggested that §§ 1.29(a)
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and (d) be revised to state that "each applicant so establishing such
status must certify that that applicant" meets all the requirements in
order to establish micro entity status. One basis given for this
suggestion is that joint applicants will generally not be privy to each
other's private financial information, and should not be required to
submit a certification as to the qualification of their joint applicants.
   Response: Section 1.29(e) provides that a micro entity status
certification must be signed in compliance with § 1.33(b). Section
1.33(b) requires that amendments and other papers filed in the
application be signed by: (1) A patent practitioner of record; (2) a
patent practitioner not of record who acts in a representative capacity
under the provisions of § 1.34; or (3) the applicant (§ 1.42).
Section 1.33(b) further provides that all papers submitted on behalf of
a juristic entity must be signed by a patent practitioner unless
otherwise specified. If the application names more than one inventor
and the joint inventors are the applicant under § 1.42(a), a micro
entity status certification must be signed by: (1) A patent
practitioner of record; (2) a patent practitioner not of record who acts
in a representative capacity under the provisions of § 1.34; or (3)
all of the inventors.
   Comment 17: One comment suggested amending § 1.29(f) to include
language permitting the micro entity certification to be filed in
response to a notice of fee deficiency mailed by the Office.
   Response: Certification of micro entity status can be made at any
stage of prosecution, or at any time before or with payment of a
maintenance fee after the patent issues. However, a fee may be paid in
the micro entity amount only if it is submitted with, or subsequent to,
the submission of a certification of entitlement to micro entity
status.
   Comment 18: Several comments argued that there should be no need to
recertify small entity status if micro entity status is lost, because
the applicant had to certify small entity status to qualify as a micro
entity and the applicant should continue to qualify for small entity
status after losing micro entity status.
   Response: Section 1.29(i) as adopted in this final rule provides
that a notification that micro entity status is no longer appropriate
will not be treated as a notification that small entity status is also
no longer appropriate unless it also contains a notification of loss of
entitlement to small entity status under § 1.27(f)(2). An applicant
or patentee who files a notification that micro entity status is no
longer appropriate will be treated as a small entity by default unless
the notification also contains a notification of loss of entitlement to
small entity status under § 1.27(f)(2), thus minimizing burdens on
small entity applicants and patentees. An applicant or patentee who is
no longer a micro entity or a small entity must provide both a
notification under § 1.29(i) of loss of entitlement to micro entity
status and a notification under of § 1.27(f)(2) of loss of
entitlement to small entity status.
   Comment 19: A number of comments indicated that the proposed
requirement in § 1.29(g) to determine continued qualification for
micro entity status each time a fee is paid was overly burdensome. One
comment indicated that this proposed requirement would inevitably lead
to additional cost to applicants in prosecuting applications before the
Office. Several comments suggested that § 1.29(g) be revised to be
similar to small entity practice such that once micro entity status is
acquired, fees can continue to be paid in the micro entity amount until
the issue fee or any maintenance fee is due, or that micro entity
status be permitted to be maintained throughout the calendar year in
which micro entity status was established without regard to continued
qualification. The comments indicated that an entity that licenses
multiple patent applications will need to confirm that each licensee
does not have a gross income that exceeds three times the median
household income for the preceding calendar year, and that an entity
with a patent application naming multiple inventors will need to
confirm that each inventor for each application does not have a gross
income that exceeds three times the median household income for the
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preceding calendar year. One comment alternatively suggested that micro
entity status be maintained by applicants through the end of a calendar
year, even if there has been a change in income status during the
calendar year that disqualifies the applicant from a continued claim to
micro entity status.
   Response: 35 U.S.C. 123(a) does not allow for a provision similar
to small entity practice under which once micro entity status is
acquired, fees can continue to be paid in the micro entity amount until
the issue fee or any maintenance fee is due or that micro entity status
be maintained throughout the calendar year in which micro entity status
was established without regard to continued qualification. 35 U.S.C.
123(a) requires that a micro entity "not [have] been named as an
inventor on more than 4 previously filed patent applications, other
than applications filed in another country, provisional applications
under 35 U.S.C. 111(b), or international applications for which the
basic national fee under 35 U.S.C. 41(a) was not paid" and "not, in
the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the applicable
fee is being paid, have a gross income, as defined in section 61(a) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 61(a)), exceeding three
times the median household income for that preceding calendar year."
35 U.S.C. 123(a)(2) and (a)(3). Finally, while applicants with complex
licensing arrangements may consider confirming the status of each
licensee challenging, this is more a function of the complexity of the
licensing arrangement than any complexity in the requirement that a fee
may be paid in the micro entity amount only if status as a micro entity
as defined in § 1.29(a) or § 1.29(d) is appropriate on the date
the fee is being paid.
   Comment 20: Several comments objected to the statement in proposed
§ 1.29(h) that "[i]t should be determined that all parties holding
rights in the invention qualify for micro entity status." One comment
stated that proposed § 1.29(h) appears to require an opinion that
all parties holding rights in the invention qualify for micro entity
status. One comment indicated that because "parties" could include an
applicant under 35 U.S.C. 118 not qualifying as a micro entity but
filing an application on behalf of an inventor qualifying as a micro
entity, the statement should be deleted. Another comment indicated that
the sentence cited from § 1.29(h) is redundant and/or inconsistent
with the statute as 35 U.S.C. 123(a)(4) expressly includes such a
limitation whereas 35 U.S.C. 123(d) does not. The comment also
indicated that the sentence cited from § 1.29(h) is inconsistent
with § 1.29(d) which would otherwise allow any entity that
qualifies for small entity status to obtain the benefits of micro
entity status by assigning, granting, or conveying, a license or other
ownership interest to a qualified institution of higher education. The
comment suggested amending the sentence cited from § 1.29(h) by
replacing "qualify for micro entity status" with "qualify for small
entity status," or alternatively, replacing the phrase "all parties
holding rights to the invention" with "all applicants." One comment
indicated that "invention" is not the equivalent of "application,"
and thus the word "invention" in the phrase "all parties holding
rights to the invention" should be changed to "application," or the
Office should provide guidance on the meaning of the expression
"rights in the invention."
   Response: The Office is revising this provision to indicate that
each applicant must qualify for micro entity status under § 1.29(a)
or § 1.29(d), and that each other party holding rights in the
application must qualify for small entity status under § 1.27. Note
that § 1.27(a)(3) provides for small entity status with respect to
nonprofit organizations and is applicable to universities or other
institutions of higher education. See § 1.27(a)(3)(ii)(A). 35
U.S.C. 123(e) provides that in addition to the limits imposed by 35
U.S.C. 123, the Director may, in the Director's discretion, impose
income limits, annual filing limits, or other limits on who may qualify
as a micro entity pursuant to this section if the Director determines
that such additional limits are reasonably necessary to avoid an undue
impact on other patent applicants or owners or are otherwise reasonably
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necessary and appropriate. As discussed previously, the Office has
determined that requiring all micro entities to qualify as small
entities and that all other parties holding rights in the invention qualify
for small entity status is reasonably necessary and appropriate to ensure
that applicants who do not qualify as a small entity do not inappropriately
attempt to take advantage of micro entity status.
   Comment 21: One comment indicated that § 1.29(h) is an advisory
opinion, and not a statement of any requirement, and thus should be
deleted.
   Response: Section 1.29(h) requires that each applicant qualify for
micro entity status under § 1.29(a) or § 1.29(d), and that each
other party holding rights in the application qualify for small entity
status under § 1.27, in order for the applicant to make a
certification of entitlement to micro entity status. With respect to
the small entity status requirement, § 1.27(a) requires that any
person or entity claiming small entity status not have assigned,
granted, conveyed, or licensed, and is under no obligation under
contract or law to assign, grant, convey, or license, any rights in the
invention to any person, concern, or organization which would not
qualify for small entity status as a person, small business concern, or
nonprofit organization.
   Comment 22: Several comments indicated that proposed § 1.29(i)
is overly burdensome. One comment indicated that proposed § 1.29(i)
would require that possible loss of entitlement to micro entity status
be evaluated each time a fee is to be paid. One comment stated that the
cost of compliance defeats the Congressional purpose of providing for
micro entity status and thus proposed § 1.29(i) should be stricken.
   Response: Section 1.29(i) requires only that a notification of a
loss of entitlement to micro entity status must be filed in the
application or patent prior to paying, or at the time of paying, any
fee after the date on which status as a micro entity as defined in
§ 1.29(a) or § 1.29(d) is no longer appropriate. As discussed
previously, § 1.29(g) provides that a fee may be paid in the micro
entity amount only if status as a micro entity as defined in § 1.29(a)
or § 1.29(d) is appropriate on the date the fee is being
paid. Section 1.29(i) provides a necessary step for documentation of
the cessation of micro entity status.
   Comment 23: One comment suggested that § 1.29(i) be amended to
permit payments for entity status other than micro entity as sufficient
notification of loss of entitlement to micro entity status, without
additional correspondence to the Office.
   Response: Office experience with small entity payments is that some
small entities will occasionally pay patent fees in the full (non-small
entity) amounts inadvertently. If mere payment of fees in the full or
small entity amount is treated as a notification of loss of entitlement
to micro entity status, a micro entity who inadvertently paid a patent
fee in the full or small entity amount will thereafter no longer be
treated as a micro entity. This could result in increased costs for
entities that are entitled to claim micro entity status, and there
would be a lack of clear documentation on whether micro entity status
has ceased.
   Comment 24: Several comments indicated that proposed § 1.29(j)
is vague because the proposed rule does not define what constitutes
fraud. The comments indicated that the Office should amend the rule to
make clear what would constitute fraud. One comment stated that fraud
is a legal conclusion including proof of mental state. One comment
stated that some small entities not qualifying for micro entity status
under § 1.29(a) may be tempted to marginally align with a
university in order to take benefit under § 1.29(d), and requested
that the Office clarify whether such a strategy would be considered a
fraud, even if the letter of the rules is met. One comment requested
guidance on what penalties the Office anticipates enforcing in the
event that a fraudulent certification is made.
   Response: Section 1.29(j) provides that "[a]ny attempt to
fraudulently establish status as a micro entity, or pay fees as a micro
entity, shall be considered as a fraud practiced or attempted on the
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Office," and that "[i]mproperly, and with intent to deceive,
establishing status as a micro entity, or paying fees as a micro
entity, shall be considered as a fraud practiced or attempted on the
Office." The language in § 1.29(j) parallels the corresponding
small entity provision in § 1.27(h), and thus terms
"fraudulently" and "fraud" in § 1.29(j) have the same meaning
as the terms "fraudulently" and "fraud" in § 1.27(h). The
definition of common law fraud is based on the definition discussed by
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit).
See Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Ekrich, Inc., 375 F.3d 1341,
1358 (Fed. Cir. 2004); In re Spalding Sports Worldwide, Inc., 203 F.3d
800, 807 (Fed. Cir. 2000). Applicants questioning how to resolve close
situations or what penalties may result from a fraudulent certification
should consider that: (1) The Federal Circuit has noted that an
applicant would be "foolish" to claim small entity status if there is
the slightest doubt about an applicant's entitlement to claim small
entity (DH Tech., 154 F.3d at 1343); (2) depending on future
developments in the case law, it is possible that a patent could be
held unenforceable as a consequence of a fraud or inequitable conduct
relating to a micro entity or small entity certification (this was
clearly possible for small entity certifications prior to the Federal
Circuit's decision in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson and Co.,
649 F.3d 1276 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (see, e.g., Nilssen v. Osram Sylvania,
Inc., 504 F.3d 1223 (2007), and Ulead Systems, Inc. v. Lex Computer
Management Corp., 351 F.3d 1120 (Fed. Cir. 2003)), but the Federal
Circuit has not yet decided the question of whether a false declaration
of small entity status could constitute inequitable conduct under the
Therasense standard (see Outside the Box Innovations, LLC v. Travel
Caddy, Inc., 695 F.3d 1285, 1294 (Fed. Cir. 2012); see also Therasense,
649 F.3d at 1299, n.6 (O'Malley, J., concurring in part and dissenting
in part)); and (3) there can be further significant penalties for fraud
(e.g., 35 U.S.C. 257(e) (provides that the matter shall be referred to
the Attorney General if the Director becomes aware that a material
fraud on the Office may have been committed in connection with a patent
that is the subject of a supplemental examination).
   Comment 25: One comment stated that with respect to the provisions
relating to fraudulent certification (§§ 1.29(g) through (k)),
it would be beneficial to clarify the depth of inquiry which is
considered acceptable (e.g., good faith attempt) for a representative
of an applicant to obtain in order to sign a certification. The comment
indicated that it would be too burdensome on a practitioner to expect
more than obtaining verbal affirmation from an applicant that the
applicant meets the guidelines for obtaining micro entity status.
   Response: The depth of inquiry required for any paper presented to
the Office, including a micro entity status certification, is specified
in § 11.18. Specifically, § 11.18(b) provides that by
presenting to the Office or hearing officer in a disciplinary
proceeding (whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later
advocating) any paper, the party presenting such paper, whether a
practitioner or non-practitioner, is making two certifications. The
first certification is that all statements made therein of the party's
own knowledge are true, all statements made therein on information and
belief are believed to be true, and all statements made therein are
made with the knowledge that whoever, in any matter within the
jurisdiction of the Office, knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals,
or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or knowingly
and willfully makes any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or
representations, or knowingly and willfully makes or uses any false writing
or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or
fraudulent statement or entry, shall be subject to the penalties set forth
under 18 U.S.C. 1001 and any other applicable criminal statute, and further
that violations of the provisions of this section may jeopardize the
probative value of the paper. See § 11.18(b)(1). The second certification
is that to the best of the party's knowledge, information and belief,
formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances: (1) The paper
is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass someone
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or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of any
proceeding before the Office; (2) the other legal contentions therein
are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for the
extension, modification, or reversal of existing law or the
establishment of new law; (3) the allegations and other factual
contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified,
are likely to have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity
for further investigation or discovery; and (4) the denials of factual
contentions are warranted on the evidence, or if specifically so
identified, are reasonably based on a lack of information or belief.
See § 11.18(b)(2).
   Comment 26: Several comments suggested eliminating the requirement
under proposed § 1.29(k) that any deficiency payment include an
itemization and an accounting of the total deficiency payment. One
comment indicated that proposed § 1.29(k) should be revised to
parallel the rule that applies to an error in paying a small entity fee
when the large entity fee should have been paid. The comment
alternatively proposed that the rules could be amended to require: (1)
One base fee for rectifying the failure to correct micro entity status,
and (2) an accounting of when the change of status occurred.
   Response: The fee deficiency payment provisions of § 1.29(k)
track the small entity fee deficiency payment provisions of § 1.28(c).
The Office needs the itemization to properly apply the fee
deficiency payment so that the Office's records for the application or
patent will properly show which fees have been paid for the application
or patent and in what amount.
   Comment 27: One comment suggested the Office establish a database
of the various certification types and permit annual updating of
applicant status, rather than individual application status. Another
comment suggested that § 1.29 be amended to provide for micro
entity status certifications contained in patent application
assignments recorded under part 3 of 37 CFR.
   Response: The suggestions are not currently feasible as inventor or
assignee names are not always stated consistently from application to
application (either in application papers or in assignment cover
sheets). The suggestions will be considered if the Office moves to
adopt a system under which there are unique inventor and applicant-
assignee designations.
   Comment 28: One comment indicated that many practitioners who have
participated in the LegalCORPS Inventor Assistance Program (a pilot
patent law pro bono program developed with the support of the Office)
have seen first-hand that many inventors qualifying for free legal
assistance through the program will not be able to file applications
electronically, due in part to being unable to make electronic payments
via deposit account or credit card. The comment suggested that the
final rule could address this issue by providing for electronic filing
of documents along with a written certification by the applicant that
any fees associated with that filing are being submitted by check
deposited in the U.S. mail on the date of application filing.
   Response: Electronic filing remains a viable filing option for
micro entities, even if the applicant does not have a deposit account
at the Office and even if the applicant does not have sufficient access
to credit to enable payment by credit card. Fees may be paid by
electronic funds transfer (EFT), which requires nothing more than a
checking account. However, before making any payments by EFT, an EFT
profile must be created at the Office "Office of Finance On-Line
Shopping Page" at https://ramps.uspto.gov/eram/. To begin, click the
link titled "Create or Modify an EFT Profile" on the "Office of
Finance On-Line Shopping Page." It is important that micro entities
and other applicants file their applications electronically via EFS-Web
in order to avoid the non-electronic filing fee under § 1.10, which
is $400 (and $200 for small and micro entities). Additionally, a small
or micro entity that files an application in paper (versus
electronically via EFS-Web) will not receive the discount (currently
$97.00) available only to small entities that file a patent application
electronically.
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Rulemaking Considerations

   A. Regulatory Flexibility Act: For the reasons set forth herein,
the Deputy General Counsel for General Law of the United States Patent
and Trademark Office has certified to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of
the Small Business Administration that changes in this final rule will
not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small
entities. See 5 U.S.C. 605(b). The Office did not receive public
comments on this certification.
   This final rule revises the rules of practice to allow a subset of
small entities -i.e., micro entities- to pay further reduced fees,
namely, a seventy-five percent discount. This final rule sets out
procedures pertaining to claiming micro entity status, paying patent
fees as a micro entity, notification of loss of micro entity status,
and correction of payments of patent fees paid erroneously in the micro
entity amount. This final rule maintains the criteria in 35 U.S.C.
123(a) and (d) for entitlement to file a certification of micro entity
status (note also the requirement in 37 CFR 1.29(d)(1) that an
applicant claim small entity status in compliance with 37 CFR 1.27 in
order to claim micro entity status; see also 37 CFR 1.29(h), 35 U.S.C.
123(e)). This rule also includes clarifications under 37 CFR 1.29(a) to
refer to non-applicant inventors and joint inventors. The micro entity
procedures in this final rule track to the extent feasible the
corresponding small entity procedures under 37 CFR 1.27. Thus, the
burden to all entities, including small entities, imposed by this final
rule is no greater than those imposed by the pre-existing regulations
pertaining to claiming small entity status: paying patent fees as a
small entity, notification of loss of small entity status, and
correction of payments of patent fees paid erroneously in the small
entity amount.
   Requiring that an applicant claim small entity status in compliance
with 37 CFR 1.27 in order to claim micro entity status under 37 CFR
1.29(d)(1) will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial
number of small entities. The Office uses the Small Business
Administration business size standard for the purpose of paying reduced
patent fees in 13 CFR 121.802 as the size standard when conducting an
analysis or making a certification under the Regulatory Flexibility Act
for patent-related regulations. See Business Size Standard for Purposes
of United States Patent and Trademark Office Regulatory Flexibility
Analysis for Patent-Related Regulations, 71 FR 67109, 67109 (Nov. 20,
2006). A small entity for purposes of the Regulatory Flexibility Act
analysis is a small entity for purposes of paying reduced patent fees.
Therefore, requiring in 37 CFR 1.29(d)(1) that an entity claim small
entity status in compliance with 37 CFR 1.27 in order to claim micro entity
status will preclude only an applicant or patentee who is a large entity
(i.e., not a small entity) from claiming micro entity status.
   The Office estimates that a minority percentage of small entity
applications will be filed by paying micro entity fees under this final
rule. Based upon the data in the Office's Patent Application Locating
and Monitoring (PALM) system, of the approximately 2,498,000
nonprovisional patent applications (utility, plant, design, and
reissue) and requests for continued examination filed in total over the
last five fiscal years, small entity fees were paid in approximately
669,000 (26.8 percent). Thus, an average of approximately 500,000
nonprovisional patent applications and requests for continued
examination have been filed each year for the last five fiscal years,
with small entity fees being paid in approximately 134,000 of the
nonprovisional patent applications and requests for continued
examination filed each year.
   As indicated above, this rule provides a procedure for small
entities to attain a 75 percent reduction in fees as a micro entity, as
provided by statute. The procedures for micro entity status track the
existing procedures for small entity status. While the rule impacts the
entire universe of small entity applications and patents, the rule is
necessary for implementing a further reduction in fees, which is
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entirely beneficial, and no other provision has an economic impact on
the affected small entities.
   B. Executive Order 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review): This
rulemaking has been determined to be not significant for purposes of
Executive Order 12866 (Sept. 30, 1993).
   C. Executive Order 13563 (Improving Regulation and Regulatory
Review): The Office has complied with Executive Order 13563.
Specifically, the Office has, to the extent feasible and applicable:
(1) Made a reasoned determination that the benefits justify the costs
of the rule; (2) tailored the rule to impose the least burden on
society consistent with obtaining the regulatory objectives; (3)
selected a regulatory approach that maximizes net benefits; (4)
specified performance objectives; (5) identified and assessed available
alternatives; (6) involved the public in an open exchange of
information and perspectives among experts in relevant disciplines,
affected stakeholders in the private sector, and the public as a whole,
and provided on-line access to the rulemaking docket; (7) attempted to
promote coordination, simplification, and harmonization across
government agencies and identified goals designed to promote
innovation; (8) considered approaches that reduce burdens and maintain
flexibility and freedom of choice for the public; and (9) ensured the
objectivity of scientific and technological information and processes.
   One comment argued that the rulemaking fails to comply with
Executive Order 13563 on the grounds that: (1) The Office did not
conduct a burden/benefit analysis which includes realistic professional
services fees for patent practitioners, the time involved in
understanding and complying with the rule, and the sanctions imposed by
rule; (2) proposed 37 CFR 1.29 fails to consider the value to society
of university inventions, for which 35 U.S.C. 123(d) seeks to provide
specific benefits, and which imposes no limits on how a university
might seek to exploit its rights; and (3) proposed 37 CFR 1.29 imposes
significant burdens for the affected applicants, and is thus not
tailored to impose the least burden on society consistent with
obtaining the regulatory objectives.
   The Office considered costs and benefits to applicants claiming
micro entity status (including universities), as well as to all other
applicants and the Office in this rulemaking. Executive Order 13563
reaffirms Executive Order 12866. This rulemaking was deemed by OMB as
not economically significant as that term is defined in Executive Order
12866 (Sept. 30, 1993). Therefore, the regulatory analysis provided in
section 6(a)(3)(C) of Executive Order 12866 and OMB Circular A-4 is
inapplicable to this rulemaking. The Office, however, did conduct the
regulatory analysis provided in section 6(a)(3)(C) and OMB Circular A-4
for the related rulemaking to set and adjust patent fees under section
10 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. 37 CFR 1.29 does impose the
least burden on society consistent with obtaining the regulatory
objectives by permitting an applicant to self-certify entitlement to
micro entity status, and does not require any further information or
certification from the applicant provided that the applicant remains
entitled to micro entity status. In addition, having micro entity
procedures which track the pre-existing small entity procedures to the
extent practicable is less burdensome than fashioning new micro entity
procedures. Finally, while having no requirements would arguably impose
the least burden on an entity seeking the benefit of micro (or small)
entity status, it would not impose the least burden on society overall
and would not obtain the regulatory objectives of creating the
beneficial option of micro entity status with a seventy-five percent
fee reduction as provided by statute.
   Revising the regulations as suggested by the comment would expand
the scope of micro entity status beyond what the statute allows. It
also would not meet the regulatory objectives of ensuring that a for-
profit, large entity applicant not become a "micro entity" (and thus
obtaining a seventy-five percent discount) merely by licensing or
assigning some interest (nominal or otherwise) to an institution of
higher education. The Office received comments (including in response
to the section 10 rulemaking) in support of the Office imposing
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additional requirements under 35 U.S.C. 123(e) to avoid sham licensing
agreements for the purpose of improperly claiming micro entity status
(as improper micro entity claims would result in higher fees for other
applicants). Thus, the narrow requirements imposed by the Office under
35 U.S.C. 123(e) are necessary to avoid abuses of micro entity status,
and simply eliminating them in the name of reducing burden would not
impose the least burden on society overall and would not obtain the
regulatory objectives.
   D. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism): This rulemaking does not
contain policies with federalism implications sufficient to warrant
preparation of a Federalism Assessment under Executive Order 13132
(Aug. 4, 1999).
   E. Executive Order 13175 (Tribal Consultation): This rulemaking
will not: (1) Have substantial direct effects on one or more Indian
tribes; (2) impose substantial direct compliance costs on Indian tribal
governments; or (3) preempt tribal law. Therefore, a tribal summary
impact statement is not required under Executive Order 13175 (Nov. 6,
2000).
   F. Executive Order 13211 (Energy Effects): This rulemaking is not a
significant energy action under Executive Order 13211 because this
rulemaking is not likely to have a significant adverse effect on the
supply, distribution, or use of energy. Therefore, a Statement of
Energy Effects is not required under Executive Order 13211 (May 18,
2001).
   G. Executive Order 12988 (Civil Justice Reform): This rulemaking
meets applicable standards to minimize litigation, eliminate ambiguity,
and reduce burden as set forth in sections 3(a) and 3(b)(2) of Executive
Order 12988 (Feb. 5, 1996).
   H. Executive Order 13045 (Protection of Children): This rulemaking
does not concern an environmental risk to health or safety that may
disproportionately affect children under Executive Order 13045 (Apr.
21, 1997).
   I. Executive Order 12630 (Taking of Private Property): This
rulemaking will not effect a taking of private property or otherwise
have taking implications under Executive Order 12630 (Mar. 15, 1988).
   J. Congressional Review Act: Under the Congressional Review Act
provisions of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of
1996 (5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), the United States Patent and Trademark
Office will submit a report containing this final rule and other
required information to the United States Senate, the United States
House of Representatives, and the Comptroller General of the Government
Accountability Office. In addition, the United States Patent and
Trademark Office will inform the Committee on the Judiciary of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the
Senate of any proposed limits under 35 U.S.C. 123(e) at least three
months before any limits proposed to be implemented pursuant to 35
U.S.C. 123(e) take effect.
   The changes in this final rule are not expected to result in an
annual effect on the economy of 100 million dollars or more, a major
increase in costs or prices, or significant adverse effects on
competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or the
ability of United States-based enterprises to compete with foreign-
based enterprises in domestic and export markets. Therefore, this final
rule is not a "major rule" as defined in 5 U.S.C. 804(2).
   K. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995: The changes set forth in
this rulemaking do not involve a Federal intergovernmental mandate that
will result in the expenditure by State, local, and tribal governments,
in the aggregate, of 100 million dollars (as adjusted) or more in any
one year, or a Federal private sector mandate that will result in the
expenditure by the private sector of 100 million dollars (as adjusted)
or more in any one year, and will not significantly or uniquely affect
small governments. Therefore, no actions are necessary under the
provisions of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995. See 2 U.S.C.
1501 et seq.
   L. National Environmental Policy Act: This rulemaking will not have
any effect on the quality of the environment and is thus categorically
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excluded from review under the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969. See 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.
   M. National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act: The
requirements of section 12(d) of the National Technology Transfer and
Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 272 note) are not applicable because
this rulemaking does not contain provisions which involve the use of
technical standards.
   N. Paperwork Reduction Act: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) requires that the USPTO consider the impact of
paperwork and other information collection burdens imposed on the
public. This final rule makes changes to the rules of practice that
would impose new information collection requirements involving fee
deficiency statements which are subject to review by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501-3549). Accordingly, the Office submitted a proposed
information collection to OMB for its review and approval when the
notice of proposed rulemaking was published. The Office also published
the title, description, and respondent description of the information
collection, with an estimate of the annual reporting burdens, in the
notice of proposed rulemaking (See Changes to Implement Micro Entity
Status for Paying Patent Fees, 77 FR 31812-13).
   The Office received one comment on the proposed information
collection indicating that the estimate of 3,000 respondents per year
was a significant underestimate as every inventor employed outside of
large entities will likely be confronted with the various
certifications, and that there may be tens of thousands of university
professors or university students on work-study who qualify under 35
U.S.C. 123(d).
   The information collection requirements discussed in the notice of
proposed rulemaking, however, narrowly pertain to the information
required for fee deficiency payments based upon the previous erroneous
payment of patent fees in the micro entity amount (See Changes to
Implement Micro Entity Status for Paying Patent Fees, 77 FR 31812).
Based upon the number of applicants and patentees who make fee
deficiency payments under existing 37 CFR 1.28(c) (about 2,250 per
year), the Office believes that 3,000 respondents per year is a
reasonable and conservative estimate of the number of applicants and
patentees who make fee deficiency payments under 37 CFR 1.28(c) or
1.29(k).
   As discussed in the notice of proposed rulemaking, OMB has
determined under 5 CFR 1320.3(h) that the certification of micro entity
status (e.g., Form PTO/SB/15A (gross income basis) or Form PTO/SB/15B
(institution of higher education basis) does not collect
"information" within the meaning of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (See Changes to Implement Micro Entity Status for Paying Patent
Fees, 77 FR 31812). The changes adopted in this final rule do not
require any further change to the proposed information collection.
   Accordingly, the Office has resubmitted the proposed information
collection to OMB. The proposed information collection is available at
the OMB's Information Collection Review Web site
(www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain).
   Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required
to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure
to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements
of the Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information
displays a currently valid OMB control number.

List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 1

   Administrative practice and procedure, Courts, Freedom of
information, Inventions and patents, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Small businesses.

   For the reasons set forth in the preamble, 37 CFR part 1 is amended
as follows:

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PART 1-RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES

.  1. The authority citation for 37 CFR part 1 continues to read as
follows:

      Authority:  35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2).

.  2. Section 1.29 is added to read as follows:

§ 1.29  Micro entity status.

   (a) To establish micro entity status under this paragraph, the
applicant must certify that:
   (1) The applicant qualifies as a small entity as defined in § 1.27;
   (2) Neither the applicant nor the inventor nor a joint inventor has
been named as the inventor or a joint inventor on more than four
previously filed patent applications, other than applications filed in
another country, provisional applications under 35 U.S.C. 111(b), or
international applications for which the basic national fee under 35 U.S.C.
41(a) was not paid;
   (3) Neither the applicant nor the inventor nor a joint inventor, in
the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the applicable
fee is being paid, had a gross income, as defined in section 61(a) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 61(a)), exceeding three
times the median household income for that preceding calendar year, as
most recently reported by the Bureau of the Census; and
   (4) Neither the applicant nor the inventor nor a joint inventor has
assigned, granted, or conveyed, nor is under an obligation by contract
or law to assign, grant, or convey, a license or other ownership
interest in the application concerned to an entity that, in the
calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the applicable fee
is being paid, had a gross income, as defined in section 61(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, exceeding three times the median
household income for that preceding calendar year, as most recently
reported by the Bureau of the Census.
   (b) An applicant, inventor, or joint inventor is not considered to
be named on a previously filed application for purposes of paragraph
(a)(2) of this section if the applicant, inventor, or joint inventor
has assigned, or is under an obligation by contract or law to assign,
all ownership rights in the application as the result of the
applicant's, inventor's, or joint inventor's previous employment.
   (c) If an applicant's, inventor's, joint inventor's, or entity's
gross income in the preceding calendar year is not in United States
dollars, the average currency exchange rate, as reported by the
Internal Revenue Service, during that calendar year shall be used to
determine whether the applicant's, inventor's, joint inventor's, or
entity's gross income exceeds the threshold specified in paragraph
(a)(3) or (4) of this section.
   (d) To establish micro entity status under this paragraph, the
applicant must certify that:
   (1) The applicant qualifies as a small entity as defined in § 1.27; and
   (2)(i) The applicant's employer, from which the applicant obtains
the majority of the applicant's income, is an institution of higher
education as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)); or
   (ii) The applicant has assigned, granted, conveyed, or is under an
obligation by contract or law, to assign, grant, or convey, a license
or other ownership interest in the particular application to such an
institution of higher education.
   (e) Micro entity status is established in an application by filing
a micro entity certification in writing complying with the requirements
of either paragraph (a) or paragraph (d) of this section and signed in
compliance with § 1.33(b). Status as a micro entity must be
specifically established in each related, continuing and reissue
application in which status is appropriate and desired. Status as a
micro entity in one application or patent does not affect the status of
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any other application or patent, regardless of the relationship of the
applications or patents. The refiling of an application under § 1.53
as a continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part application
(including a continued prosecution application under § 1.53(d)), or
the filing of a reissue application, requires a new certification of
entitlement to micro entity status for the continuing or reissue
application.
   (f) A fee may be paid in the micro entity amount only if it is
submitted with, or subsequent to, the submission of a certification of
entitlement to micro entity status.
   (g) A certification of entitlement to micro entity status need only
be filed once in an application or patent. Micro entity status, once
established, remains in effect until changed pursuant to paragraph (i)
of this section. However, a fee may be paid in the micro entity amount
only if status as a micro entity as defined in paragraph (a) or (d) of
this section is appropriate on the date the fee is being paid. Where an
assignment of rights or an obligation to assign rights to other parties
who are micro entities occurs subsequent to the filing of a
certification of entitlement to micro entity status, a second
certification of entitlement to micro entity status is not required.
   (h) Prior to submitting a certification of entitlement to micro
entity status in an application, including a related, continuing, or
reissue application, a determination of such entitlement should be made
pursuant to the requirements of this section. It should be determined
that each applicant qualifies for micro entity status under paragraph
(a) or (d) of this section, and that any other party holding rights in
the invention qualifies for small entity status under § 1.27. The
Office will generally not question certification of entitlement to
micro entity status that is made in accordance with the requirements of
this section.
   (i) Notification of a loss of entitlement to micro entity status
must be filed in the application or patent prior to paying, or at the
time of paying, any fee after the date on which status as a micro
entity as defined in paragraph (a) or (d) of this section is no longer
appropriate. The notification that micro entity status is no longer
appropriate must be signed by a party identified in § 1.33(b).
Payment of a fee in other than the micro entity amount is not
sufficient notification that micro entity status is no longer
appropriate. A notification that micro entity status is no longer
appropriate will not be treated as a notification that small entity
status is also no longer appropriate unless it also contains a
notification of loss of entitlement to small entity status under
§ 1.27(f)(2). Once a notification of a loss of entitlement to micro
entity status is filed in the application or patent, a new
certification of entitlement to micro entity status is required to
again obtain micro entity status.
   (j) Any attempt to fraudulently establish status as a micro entity,
or pay fees as a micro entity, shall be considered as a fraud practiced
or attempted on the Office. Improperly, and with intent to deceive,
establishing status as a micro entity, or paying fees as a micro
entity, shall be considered as a fraud practiced or attempted on the
Office.
   (k) If status as a micro entity is established in good faith in an
application or patent, and fees as a micro entity are paid in good
faith in the application or patent, and it is later discovered that
such micro entity status either was established in error, or that the
Office was not notified of a loss of entitlement to micro entity status
as required by paragraph (i) of this section through error, the error
will be excused upon compliance with the separate submission and
itemization requirements of paragraph (k)(1) of this section and the
deficiency payment requirement of paragraph (k)(2) of this section.
   (l) Any paper submitted under this paragraph must be limited to the
deficiency payment (all fees paid in error) required for a single
application or patent. Where more than one application or patent is
involved, separate submissions of deficiency payments are required for
each application or patent (see § 1.4(b)). The paper must contain
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an itemization of the total deficiency payment for the single
application or patent and include the following information:
   (i) Each particular type of fee that was erroneously paid as a
micro entity, (e.g., basic statutory filing fee, two-month extension of
time fee) along with the current fee amount for a small or non-small
entity, as applicable;
   (ii) The micro entity fee actually paid, and the date on which it
was paid;
   (iii) The deficiency owed amount (for each fee erroneously paid);
and
   (iv) The total deficiency payment owed, which is the sum or total
of the individual deficiency owed amounts as set forth in paragraph
(k)(2) of this section.
   (2) The deficiency owed, resulting from the previous erroneous
payment of micro entity fees, must be paid. The deficiency owed for
each previous fee erroneously paid as a micro entity is the difference
between the current fee amount for a small entity or non-small entity,
as applicable, on the date the deficiency is paid in full and the
amount of the previous erroneous micro entity fee payment. The total
deficiency payment owed is the sum of the individual deficiency owed
amounts for each fee amount previously and erroneously paid as a micro
entity.
   (3) If the requirements of paragraphs (k)(1) and (2) of this
section are not complied with, such failure will either be treated at
the option of the Office as an authorization for the Office to process
the deficiency payment and charge the processing fee set forth in
§ 1.17(i), or result in a requirement for compliance within a one-month
time period that is not extendable under § 1.136(a) to avoid the
return of the fee deficiency payment.
   (4) Any deficiency payment (based on a previous erroneous payment
of a micro entity fee) submitted under this paragraph will be treated
as a notification of a loss of entitlement to micro entity status under
paragraph (i) of this section, but payment of a deficiency based upon
the difference between the current fee amount for a small entity and
the amount of the previous erroneous micro entity fee payment will not
be treated as an assertion of small entity status under § 1.27(c).
Once a deficiency payment is submitted under this paragraph, a written
assertion of small entity status under § 1.27(c)(1) is required to
obtain small entity status.

December 14, 2012                                           DAVID J. KAPPOS
                  Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
                  Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Disclaimer
                                  Disclaimer

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Pottstown, PA (US). CRANIOTOMY CLOSURES AND PLUGS.  Patent dated December
27, 2011. Disclaimer filed Nov. 19, 2012, by the assignee BioDynamics LLC.

   The term of this patent shall not extend beyond the expiration date of
Patent No. 8,083,782.
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Certificates of Correction
                          Certificates of Correction
                             for December 25, 2012

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8,000,785             8,189,389             8,266,006            8,300,527
8,010,059             8,189,871             8,266,133            8,301,828
8,014,404             8,189,939             8,266,546            8,303,306
8,014,588             8,191,370             8,267,217            8,305,715
8,022,164             8,192,216             8,270,782            8,309,060
8,027,683             8,195,641             8,273,091            8,310,393
8,032,652             8,196,137             8,273,183            8,310,492
8,033,472             8,196,470             8,273,972            8,310,767
8,035,578             8,196,629             8,275,933            8,311,634
8,037,288             8,197,371             8,277,179            8,311,756
8,038,702             8,198,053             8,277,907            8,311,838
8,040,984             8,199,359             8,278,420            8,312,286
8,048,271             8,200,099             8,278,458            D. 661,685
8,060,874             8,204,074             8,278,615            D. 667,649
8,061,616             8,204,536             8,279,197            D. 668,390
8,062,452             8,205,418             8,279,457            PP. 23,169
8,063,823             8,205,481             8,279,517
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AIA Trial Proceedings Filed before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

AIA Trial Proceedings Filed before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Covered Business Methods
Patent No. Trial Number Requested Date Petitioner Patent Owner
6,438,526CBM2013-0000811/14/2012MeridianLink, Inc.DH Holdings, LLC
8,140,358CBM2013-0000911/19/2012Liberty Mutual Insurance CompanyProgressive Casualty Insurance Company


Inter Partes Review
Patent No. Trial Number Requested Date Petitioner Patent Owner
7,956,978IPR2013-0003811/7/2012Chi Mei Innolux CorporationSemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
5,746,775IPR2013-0004111/9/2012St. Jude Medical, Inc.The Board of Regents of the University of Michigan
7,171,103IPR2013-0004311/15/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
6,961,508IPR2013-0004411/15/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
6,339,666IPR2013-0004511/15/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
6,110,593IPR2013-0004611/15/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
6,438,306IPR2013-0004711/15/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
6,298,189IPR2013-0004911/15/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
6,323,255IPR2013-0005011/15/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
6,298,189IPR2013-0004811/16/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
8,051,287IPR2013-0005411/17/2012Wowza Media Systems, LLCAdobe Systems, Inc.
7,276,543IPR2013-0005211/19/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
7,276,543IPR2013-0005311/19/2012Corning, Inc.DSM IP Assets B.V.
6,074,503IPR2013-0005711/19/2012Nexans, Inc.Belden, Inc.
7,977,575IPR2013-0005811/19/2012Nexans, Inc.Belden, Inc.
7,135,641IPR2013-0005911/19/2012Nexans, Inc.Belden, Inc.
7,697,102IPR2013-0006011/19/2012Chi Mei Innolux CorporationSemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
6,516,236IPR2013-0006211/22/2012ABB Inc.ROY-G-BIV CORPORATION
6,513,058IPR2013-0006311/22/2012ABB Inc.ROY-G-BIV CORPORATION
7,923,311IPR2013-0006411/26/2012Chi Mei Innolux CorporationSemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
7,923,311IPR2013-0006511/26/2012Chi Mei Innolux CorporationSemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
7,347,011IPR2013-0006711/28/2012Adidas AGNike, Inc.
7,876,413IPR2013-0006611/30/2012Chi Mei Innolux CorporationSemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
8,068,204IPR2013-0006811/30/2012Chi Mei Innolux CorporationSemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
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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
December 10 – December 14, 2012
 

Date Issued Type of Case(1) Proceeding or Appn. Number Party or Parties TTAB Panel (2) Issue(s) 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 or services cited by Examining Attorney Issued as Precedent of TTAB
12-10 CANC
 
 
92049848 Fernandes Distillers International Ltd. v. Tequilas Rancho Viejo SA de CV Wellington Ritchie Hightower* 2(d) Petition to Cancel Granted FERNANDES [rum] LOS FERNANDEZ [tequila]   No
12-11 EX
 
77885554 George J. Hayden Inc. Zervas Wellington Masiello* 2(d) Refusal Affirmed   HAYDEN ELECTRIC [electrical and communications contractor services] HAYDEN HOMES [residential building construction services] No
12-11 EX
 
77083475 Gary J. Rogowski Kuhlke Wellington Lykos* 1 & 45; Rules 2.56 & 2.88(b)(2) Refusal Affirmed   ACTIVE REASONER [audio recordings featuring music]   Yes
12-11 EX 77781586 Freehailestimate.com Zervas Wellington Greenbaum* 2(e)(1), 2(f) Refusal Affirmed   FREEHAILESTIMATE.COM (and design) [auto repair, namely, paintless dent repair]   No
12-11 OPP (SJ) 91200803 Remington Products Company v. Anibal de Oliveira Fortuna Bergsman Shaw
Adlin [Opinion "By the Board" (English)]
2(e)(1) Opposition Sustained (Summary Judgment entered)   AIRGEL [special air pressure cuffs with thermally conformable gel padded external walls, for medical use]   No
12-11 CANC (SJ)
 
 
92054165 Eyal Balle v. Children’s Apparel Network, Ltd. Bucher
Taylor Mermelstein [Opinion "By the Board" (Kim)]
2(d) Petition to Cancel Granted (Summary Judgment entered) REBELS [footwear] BABY REBELS [wide variety of clothing and accessory items for infants, including socks and sets of clothing]   No
12-11 EX
 
77572712 77575965 Infinity Wind Power, Inc. Bucher Kuhlke Cataldo*   Refusal Affirmed as to both applications   INFINITY WIND POWER [wind energy project advisory services, namely, providing assistance with wind farm site selection and wind farm construction (Class 37)] [wind energy project advisory services, namely, wind strength testing (Class 42)] [wind energy advisory services, namely, providing assistance with wind farm permitting, including obtaining environmental, design, zoning and other government permits (Class 45)] and INFINITY WIND POWER (and design) [for the Class 37 services listed above] ENFINITY (and design) [Business management and consulting in the field of renewable energy services; comprehensive management services for photovoltaic energy, concentrated solar power and wind energy systems; distributorship featuring such comprehensive management services (Class 35) [installation and maintenance of photovoltaic energy, concentrated solar power and wind energy systems (Class 37)] [development and implementation of renewable energy systems (Class 42)] No
12-11 OPP
 
 
91198031 91198032 AutoZone Parts, Inc. v. MS Motorsports, LLC (dba Motozone) Bucher Mermelstein* Shaw 2(d) Opposition Sustained Numerous AUTOZONE marks, as well as other –ZONE formative marks [healthcare benefit management services, namely, provider or member fraud, waste and abuse reporting and auditing services] MOTO ZONE (and design) [retail store and on-line retail store services featuring motorcycle parts, accessories and related equipment, tools and apparel (Class 35)] [repair and maintenance services for motorcycles and ATVs (all-terrain vehicles) (Class 44)]   No
12-12 EX 77754249 77754270 77754276 77754286 77754290 77754297 77754306 77754327 77782796 William Tatham Zervas* Wolfson Hightower 2(e)(1) Refusal Affirmed in each application   GRAND PRIX SPORTS, GRAND PRIX FOOTBALL, GRAND PRIX BASKETBALL, GRAND PRIX SOCCER, GRAND PRIX SEVENS, GRAND PRIX STUDIOS, GRAND PRIX ONLINE, GRAND PRIX GAMING, GRAND PRIX RUGBY SEVENS [organizing sporting events, for five of the marks, in the listed sports; broadcasting, production and distribution of various audio or video or on-line content in these sports]   No
12-13 OPP
(SJ)
 
 
91198297 PrimeSense Ltd. v. Primesensor Technology Inc. Quinn Bergsman Kuczma [Opinion "By the Board" (Winter)] 2(d) Opposition Sustained (Summary Judgment entered) PRIMESENSOR and PRIMESENSE [Integrated circuits; optical components, namely, lenses for projecting light; electronic imaging devices, namely, three-dimensional cameras; computer software for visual data processing] PRIMESENSOR [circuit board, computer chip, photo mask, semiconductor, interface card, micro circuit, silicon wafers, integrated circuit, semiconductor chip, semiconductor device, silicon chip, semiconductor wafer, photoelectric sensor, infrared sensor, ultrasonic sensor, microwave sensor]   No
12-13 EX 85125792 ConSeal International Inc. Quinn Zervas* Gorowitz 2(d) Refusal Affirmed   STOP BUGGING ME! [insecticides; pesticides; pesticides for bed bugs and dust mites] QUIT BUGGING ME [insect repellents] No
12-13 EX 85061371 Sam Farha, Inc. Cataldo Lykos Gorowitz* 2(d) Refusal Affirmed   CHIPS HAPPEN (and design) [shirts] CHIP HAPPENS [short and long sleeve t-shirts, sweatshirts and hats] No
12-13 EX 85151866 Top That! Pizza Holding, LLC Quinn
Shaw* Greenbaum
2(d) Refusal Affirmed   TOP THAT! PIZZA WHERE PIZZA GETS PERSONAL (and design) [dine-in and carry-out restaurant featuring individually topped pizzas] TOP THIS! [pizza; pizza crust] No
12-13 CANC
(SJ)
 
 
92055282 Concept Cyclery, Inc. v. Concept Cycles, LLC Ritchie
Lykos
Shaw [Opinion "By the Board" (Krisp)]
2(d); abandonment; application void for non-use Summary Judgment entered in favor of Petitioner, in part (on issue of priority) CONCEPT CYCLERY (with and without design) [retail store services in the field of bicycles and bicycle parts and accessories (Class 35)] [repair and servicing of bicycles (Class 37)] CONCEPT CYCLES [bicycles]   No
12-14 EX 85065887 Kun Yuan Lin Kuhlke
Shaw Masiello*
2(e)(5) Refusal Reversed   Configuration of an exercise hoop [exercise and toy hoop]   No

(1) EX=Ex Parte Appeal; OPP=Opposition; CANC=Cancellation; CU=Concurrent Use; (SJ)=Summary Judgment; (MD)=Motion to Dismiss; (R)=Request for Reconsideration; (MR)=Motion to Reopen (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.

   NEW: Effective September 16, 2012, the Mail Stop description for Mail
Stop Ex Parte Reexam is being revised and a new Mail Stop for supplemental
examination requests is being added as Mail Stop Supplemental Examination.

   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
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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
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Mail Stop EBC           Mail for the Electronic Business Center including:
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                        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
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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 correspondence other
                        than correspondence to the Office of the Solicitor
                        (see 37 CFR 1.1(a)(3) and 1.302(c)). Effective
                        September 16, 2012, this mail stop is also to be
                        used for any papers to be filed in an ex parte
                        reexamination proceeding ordered as a result of
                        a supplemental examination proceeding.

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.

Mail Stop Supplemental  (Effective September 16, 2012). Requests for
 Examination            Supplemental Examination, including original
                        request papers and any other correspondence, other
                        than correspondence to the Office of the
                        Solicitor (see 37 CFR Secs. 1.1(a)(3) AND 1.302(c)).
                        This mail stop is limited to original request papers
                        and any other papers that are to be filed in a
                        supplemental examination proceeding. For any papers
                        to be filed in an ex parte reexamination proceeding
                        ordered as a result of a supplemental examination
                        proceeding, use "Mail Stop Ex Parte Reexam".

Information for addressing patent-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.


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                          PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

   Please address correspondence 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 except
                        communications relating to pending litigation and
                        disciplinary proceedings; papers relating to pending
                        litigation in court cases shall be mailed only to
                        Office of the Solicitor, P.O. Box 15667, Arlington,
                        VA 22215 and papers related to pending disciplinary
                        proceedings before the Administrative Law Judge or
                        the Director shall be mailed only to the Office of
                        the Solicitor, P.O. Box 16116, Arlington, VA 22215.

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 U.S. 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 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
        Attn: Deposit Accounts
        2051 Jamieson Avenue, Suite 300
        Alexandria, VA 22314

   Information abount deposit account replenishments may also be found on
the USPTO's web site at
http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/cfo/finance/Deposit_Account_
Replenishments.jsp
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Reference Collections of U.S. Patents Available for Public Use in Patent and Trademark Resource Centers
             Reference Collections of U.S. Patents Available for
             Public Use in Patent and Trademark Resource Centers

The following libraries, designated as Patent and Trademark Resource Centers
(PTRCs), 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 PTRC 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
associated with the use of photocopying and related services. Hours of
service to the public vary, and anyone contemplating use of these
collections at a particular library is urged to contact that library in
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) 654-0261
                        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
                        Macomb:  Western Illinois
                        University Libraries                (309) 298-2722
Indiana                 Indianapolis-Marion County Public
                        Library                             (317) 269-1741
                        West Lafayette Siegesmund
                        Engineering Library,
                        Purdue University                   (765) 494-2872
Iowa                    Davenport: Davenport Public Library (563) 326-7832
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         (612) 543-8000
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
New Hampshire           Concord: University of New
                        Hampshire School of Law             (603) 513-5130
Nevada                  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
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
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               Wendt Commons Library,
                        University of Wisconsin-Madison     (608) 262-0696
                        Milwaukee Public Library            (414) 286-3051
Wyoming                 Cheyenne: Wyoming State Library     (307) 777-7281
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Patent Technology Centers
PATENT TECHNOLOGY CENTERS
AVERAGE FILING DATE OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVING A FIRST OFFICE ACTION IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS1
Technology
Center
GAU Avg Filing Date
1600 BIOTECHNOLOGY, AND ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  1610 08/07/2011
  1620 07/23/2011
  1630 07/14/2011
  1640 08/28/2011
  1650 08/22/2011
  1660 09/03/2011
  TOTAL 08/04/2011
     
1700 CHEMICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND DESIGNS
  1710 01/06/2011
  1720 03/11/2011
  1730 06/04/2011
  1740 05/02/2011
  1750 02/15/2011
  1760 06/28/2011
  1770 04/04/2011
  1780 02/24/2011
  1790 05/23/2011
  TOTAL 04/07/2011
     
2100 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND SOFTWARE
  2110 02/12/2011
  2120 11/06/2010
  2140 12/16/2010
  2150 08/07/2011
  2160 09/09/2011
  2170 02/02/2011
  2180 10/28/2010
  2190 07/23/2010
  TOTAL 02/02/2011
     
2400 NETWORKING, MULTIPLEXING, CABLE AND SECURITY
  2410 02/08/2011
  2420 03/02/2011
  2430 02/05/2011
  2440 03/05/2011
  2450 02/12/2011
  2460 01/03/2011
  2470 01/12/2011
  2480 10/10/2010
  2490 02/02/2011
  TOTAL 01/21/2011
     
2600 COMMUNICATIONS
  2610 05/26/2011
  2630 12/22/2010
  2640 06/22/2011
  2650 12/07/2010
  2660 01/21/2011
  2670 09/28/2010
  2680 02/12/2011
  2690 11/18/2010
  TOTAL 01/24/2011
     
2800   SEMICONDUCTORS/MEMORY, CIRCUITS/MEASURING AND TESTING, OPTICS/PHOTOCOPYING
  2810 06/28/2011
  2820 05/23/2011
  2830 03/26/2011
  2850 12/31/2010
  2860 06/01/2011
  2870 02/21/2011
  2880 04/16/2011
  2890 07/11/2011
  TOTAL 04/10/2011
     
2900    
  2910 01/21/2012
  TOTAL 01/21/2012
     
3600     TRANSPORTATION, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, NATIONAL SECURITY AND LICENSE AND REVIEW
  3610 07/04/2011
  3620 05/17/2011
  3630 06/13/2011
  3640 04/01/2011
  3650 02/02/2011
  3660 02/27/2011
  3670 05/05/2011
  3680 05/08/2011
  3690 10/16/2011
  TOTAL 05/08/2011
     
3700   MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTS
  3710 04/26/2011
  3720 02/02/2011
  3730 02/21/2011
  3740 07/20/2010
  3750 12/04/2010
  3760 02/24/2011
  3770 02/08/2011
  3780 01/06/2011
  TOTAL 01/06/2011
     
  1 Report last updated on 11-30-12.
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