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`Atto.rney Docket No:
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`Customer No. 28120
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`Petitioner: Apple Inc.
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`l1’1‘VCl1‘ii(‘)f: Racx et al.
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`United States Patent No.: 8,118,221
`Foifinerly Application No.: 12/ 943,872 §
`‘Issue Date: l.7ebruary 21, 2012
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`Filing Date: November 10, 2010
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`1’ormer G-itoup Art Unit: 2887
`Former ljflxamiiierz Thien M. Le
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`.l*‘o1': Data Storage and Access Systems
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`1’21.ts'::m: "l'1%is:»1l. and Appeal Board
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`DECLARATION OF FLORA D. ELIAS—M1,QUE IN SUPPORT OF
`PETITION 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 C.F.R. § 42.304
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`1, Flora D. Elias~l\/lique, make the following Declaration pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
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`1 am a Technical Document: Specialist at the law firm of Ropes & Gray
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`I provide this .Deela.tation in cormeetion with the aboVe—ide111ifiecl
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`Covered Business Method Patent Review pmceediiig that is being requested at the
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`United States Patent and Trademark Office by Apple Inc. under 35 U.S.C.
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`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 1123 Page 00001
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`Apple Exhibit 1123 Page 00001
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`lilxhibit 1120 hereto is a true and correct copy of an article by liberliard
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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 8-42, 1997, published by The lnstitutt: of
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`Electrical and El.ectronics flfiingineeits, l'nc., which was retrieved from the Linda Hall
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`Library of Science, Erigineering 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, l could and would testify
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`competently.
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`5.
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`l declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
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`Executed this { th day of March, 2014, at New York, New York.
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