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`Attorney Docket No;
`104677—5008—801
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`Customer No. 28120
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`Petitioner: Apple Inc.
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`Inventor: Racz et 211.
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`United States Patent No.: 8,118,221
`Formerly Application No.: 12/943,872
`Issue Date: Februaiy 21, 2012
`Filing Date: November 10, 2010
`Former Group Art Unit: 2887
`Former Examiner: 'l‘hien M. Le
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`I)ECIARA’1‘ION OF FLORA D. ELIAS—MIQUE IN SUPPORT OF
`I’E'I‘I'I‘ION FOR COVERED BUSINESS METHOD PATENT REVIEW OF
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`UNITED STATES PATENT NO. 8,118,221
`PURSUANT TO 35 U.S.C. § 321, 37 OER. § 42.304
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`I, Flora D. I-llias—Mique, make the following Declaration pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
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`§ 1746:
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`I am a Technical Document Specialist at the law finn of Ropes 85 Gray
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`LLP.
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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 USC. § 321, 37
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`(j.l*‘.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 1023 Page 00001
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`Apple Exhibit 1023 Page 00001
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`3.
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`Exhibit 1020 hereto is a true and correct copy of an article by Eberhard
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`von Faber, Robert Hammelrath, and Franz—Peter Heider, entitled “The Secure
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`[Distribution of Digital Contents,” from the 13th Annual Computer Security
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`Applications Conference held on December 8—12, 1997, published by The Institute of
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`Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., which was retrieved from the Linda Hall
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`Library of Science, Engineering and Technology, Document Services at my request.
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`Page numbers and an exhibit label have been added to the bottom of this document
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`but no other alterations have been made.
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`4.
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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,
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`1 could and would testify
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`competently.
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`I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
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`Executed this _/_L_th day of March, 2014, at New York, New York.
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`Flora D. Elias—Mique
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