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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Attorney Docket No.:
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`Customer No. 28120
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`Requester: Liberty Mutual
` Insurance Company
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`Inventor: Robert John McMillan et al.
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`United States Patent No.: 6,064,970
`Formerly Application No.: 09/135,034
`Issue Date: May 16, 2000
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`Filing Date: Aug. 17, 1998
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`Former Group Art Unit: 2761
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`Former Examiner: Edward R. Cosimano
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`For: Motor Vehicle Monitoring System for Determining a Cost of Insurance
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`MAIL STOP PATENT BOARD
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`United States Patent and Trademark Office
`Post Office Box 1450
`Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450
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`MANDATORY NOTICES PURSUANT TO 37 C.F.R. § 42.8
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.8, the undersigned, on behalf of and acting in a
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`representative capacity
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`for petitioner, Liberty Mutual
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`Insurance Company
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`(“Petitioner” and real party in interest), hereby submits the following mandatory
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`notices in connection with the concurrently filed Petition for Covered Business
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`Method Patent Review of United States Patent No. 6,064,970 Pursuant to 35 U.S.C.
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`§ 321, 37 C.F.R. § 42,304 (“Petition”).
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`REAL PARTY-IN-INTEREST
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`The real party in interest is Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
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`RELATED MATTERS
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`Concurrently with this Petition, Petitioner is filing one additional Petition
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`Covered Business Method Patent Review, United States Patent No. 6,064,970
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`seeking review of U.S. Patent No. 6,064,970. These multiple Petitions are necessary
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`in view of the scope and subject matter at issue, and the 80-page limit for petitions for
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`covered business method patent review.
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`Petitioner further identifies the following judicial or administrative matters,
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`including applications and patents claiming, or which may claim, the benefit of the
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`priority date of U.S. Patent No. 6,064,970, and reexaminations:
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` Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v. Allstate Ins. Co. et al., No. 1:11cv82 (N.D. Ohio)
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` Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., No. 1:12cv1068 (N.D. Ohio)
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` Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co. et al., No. 1:12cv1070 (N.D. Ohio)
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` Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v. Safeco Ins. Co. et al., No. 1:10cv1370 (N.D. Ohio).
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` U.S. Patent No. 5,797,134, filed Jan. 29, 1996, entitled “MOTOR VEHICLE
`MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A COST OF INSURANCE”
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` U.S. Patent No. 6,868,386, filed May 15, 2000, entitled “MONITORING
`SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND COMMUNICATING A COST OF
`INSURANCE”
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` U.S. Patent No. 8,090,598, filed Jan. 23, 2004, entitled “MONITORING
`SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND COMMUNICATING A COST OF
`INSURANCE”
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` U.S. Patent No. 8,140,358, filed June 3, 2008, entitled “VEHICLE
`MONITORING SYSTEM”
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` Pending U.S. Patent Application No. 13/399,386, filed Feb. 17, 2012, entitled
`“VEHICLE MONITORING SYSTEM”
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` Pending U.S. Patent Application No. 13/338,959, filed Dec. 28, 2011, entitled
`“MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AND
`COMMUNICATING A COST OF INSURANCE”
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` Ex Parte Reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 6,064,970, Control No. 90/011,252,
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`Covered Business Method Patent Review, United States Patent No. 6,064,970
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`request filed Sept. 22, 2010.
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`LEAD AND BACK-UP COUNSEL AND
`SERVICE INFORMATION FOR PETITIONER
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`Lead counsel is J. Steven Baughman (Reg. No. 47,414).
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`Back-up counsel is Nicole M. Jantzi (Reg. No. 50,364).
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`Service information for Petitioner is:
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`E-mail:
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`steven.baughman@ropesgray.com
`nicole.jantzi@ropesgray.com
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`Mailing and delivery address:
`Ropes & Gray LLP
`Prudential Tower
`800 Boylston Street
`Patent Docketing – Floor 43
`Boston, Massachusetts 02199-3600
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`Telephone: (202) 508-4606
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`Fax: (617) 235-9492
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`Covered Business Method Patent Review, United States Patent No. 6,064,970
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`September 16, 2012
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`ROPES & GRAY LLP
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`By _/J. Steven Baughman/_
`J. Steven Baughman
`Registration No. 47,414
`ROPES & GRAY LLP
`Prudential Tower
`800 Boylston Street
`Patent Docketing – Floor 43
`Boston, Massachusetts 02199-3600
`(202) 508-4606
`(617) 235-9492 (Fax)
`Attorneys/Agents For Petitioner
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