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`Attorney Docket No.: PGR-2012-111
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`§ Case No: CBM2013—000O5
`§ Patent Owner: Market-Alerts Pty Ltd
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`Inventor: Jeffery Bruce McGeorge
`United States Patent No.: 7,941,357
`Formerly Application No.: 10/451022
`Issue Date: January 25, 2011
`PCT Filing Date: October 26, 2001
`Former Examiner: Ella Colbert
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`For: Trading System
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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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`DECLARATION OF ADRIAN PRUETZ
`IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR ADMISSION PRO HAC VICE
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`1, Adrian Pruetz, declare as follows:
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`I.
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`I have been practicing in the field of intellectual property, and particularly, patent
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`litigation, for over thirty years.
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`I am a member in good standing of the Bar of the State of California and am
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`admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, Courts ofAppeal for the Seventh,
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`Ninth and Federal Circuits, and United States District Courts for the Central, Northern, Southern
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`and Eastern Districts of California, the Northern District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Texas,
`the District of Colorado, the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, the Eastern District of
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`Michigan and all California state courts.
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`I am a member ofthe Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association
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`(LAIPLA), and the American, Federal and Califomia Bar Associations.
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`I have been in private practice and litigating patent cases since May 1982, been
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`lead counsel on several hundred patent cases over my career, and litigated many of them through
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`both trial and appeal. As one example, I represented the Roche defendants before the trial court,
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`the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court in Board OfTrustees Of The
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`Leland Stanford Junior University V Roche Molecular Systems, Inc, et at’.
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`I have never been suspended, disbarred, sanctioned or cited for contempt by any
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`court or administrative body.
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`I have never had a court or administrative body deny my application for
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`admission to practice.
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`I have read and will comply with Office Patent Trial Practice Guide and the
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`Board’s Rules of Practice for Trials, as set forth in Part 42 of the C.F.R.
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`I agree to be subject to the United States Patent and Trademark Office Code of
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`Professional Responsibility set forth in 37 C.F.R. §§ 10.20 et seq. and disciplinary jurisdiction
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`under 37 C.F.R. § ll.l9(a).
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`9.
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`In the past three (3) years, I have not appearedpro hac vice in any proceedings
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`before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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`10.
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`I am familiar with the subject matter at issue in this proceeding.
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`I am lead
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`counsel in the following proceedings, which are related matters to and involve the same patent at
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`issue in this proceeding:
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`ii.
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`iii.
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`Markets—Alert Pty. Ltd. v. Bloornberg Finance LP. er al.
`Civil Action No. 1:12-CV-00780-GMS, D. Del. (filed June 20, 2012)
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`Markets—Aiert Pty. Ltd. v. The Charles Schwab Corporation at al.
`Civil Action No. l:l2-CV-00781-GMS, D. Del. (filed June 20, 2012)
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`Markers—Alert Ptjy. Ltd. v. E*Trade Clearing LLC et al.
`Civil Action No. 1:12-CV-00782-GMS, D. Del. (filed June 20, 2012)
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`iv.
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`Markets—Alert Pty. Ltd. v. TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. at al.
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`v.
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`vi.
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`Markets-AlertP1y. Ltd. v. OMSecurzfies LLC at a].
`Civil Action No. 1:12—CV-00784—GMS, D. Del. (filed June 20, 2012)
`Markets-Alert Ply. Ltd. v.eS1'gnaI. com Inc. et al.
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`Respectfiflly Submitted,
`/s/Adrian Pruetz/
`Adrian Pruetz
`GLASER WEIL FINK JACOBS HOWARD
`AVCHEN & SHAPIRO LLP
`10250 Constellation Boulevard, 19th Floor
`Los Angeles, CA 90067
`Email: apruetz@g1aserweil.co1n
`Tel: 310-553-3000
`Fax: 310-785-3506
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`November 8, 2012