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`Attorney Docket No.:
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`Customer No. 28120
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Inventor: Hair
`United States Patent No.: 5,966,440 §
`Formerly Application No.: 08/471,964 §
`Issue Date: October 12, 1999
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`Filing Date: June 6, 1995
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`Former Group Art Unit: 380
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`Former Examiner: Hoa T. Nguyen
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`For: System and Method for Transmitting a Desired Digital Video or Digital Audio
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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 FLORA D. ELIAS-MIQUE IN SUPPORT OF
`PETITION FOR COVERED BUSINESS METHOD PATENT REVIEW OF
`UNITED STATES PATENT NO. 5,966,440
`PURSUANT TO 35 U.S.C. § 321, 37 C.F.R. § 42.304
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`I, Flora D. Elias-Mique, make the following Declaration pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
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`§ 1746:
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`LLP.
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`I am a Technical Document Specialist at the law firm of Ropes & Gray
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`I provide this Declaration in connection with the above-identified
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`Covered Business Method Patent Review proceeding that is being requested at the
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`United States Patent and Trademark Office by Apple Inc. under 35 U.S.C. § 321, 37
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`C.F.R. § 42.304. Unless otherwise stated, the facts stated in this Declaration are based
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`on my personal knowledge.
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`Apple Exhibit 1344 Page 00001
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`3.
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`Exhibit 1309 hereto is a true and correct copy of an article by Larry
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`Israelite entitled “Home Computing: Scenarios For Success’
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`from the 90th
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`Anniversary Special Edition, December 1984 issue, of Billboard, Billboard: Charts the
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`Future, which was retrieved from the United States Library of Congress by
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`Independence Legal Support (Greenbelt, MD) at my request. Page numbers and an
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`exhibit label have been added to the bottom of this document but no other alterations
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`have been made.
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`4.
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`Exhibit 1311 hereto is a true and correct copy of an article by Steve
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`Dupler entitled “Joint Telerecording Push: Compusonics, AT&T Link” from the
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`October 5, 1985, Vol. 97, No. 40 issue of Billboard, which was retrieved from the
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`United States Library of Congress by Independence Legal Support (Greenbelt, MD)
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`at my request. Page numbers and an exhibit label have been added to the bottom of
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`this document but no other alterations have been made.
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`5.
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`I make this declaration of my own personal knowledge.
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`If called to
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`testify as to the truth of the matters stated herein, 1 could and would testify
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`competently.
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`6.
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`I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
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`Executed this 3rd day of May, 2013 in New York, NY.
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`Flora D. Elias—Mique
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