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`Inventor: Hulst et a1.
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`United States Patent No: 8,033,458
`Formerly Application No: 12/943,847 ‘
`Issue Date: October 11, 2011
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`Filing Date: November 10, 2010
`Former Group Art Unit: 2887
`Former Examiner: Thien M. Le
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`Attorney Docket No:
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`Customer No. 28120
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`Petitioner: Apple Inc.
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`For: Data Storage and Access Systems
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`DECLARATION OF FLORA D. ELIAS—MIQUE IN SUPPORT OF
`PETITION FOR COVERED BUSINESS METHOD PATENT REVIEW OF
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`UNITED STATES PATENT NO. 8,033,458
`PURSUANT TO 35 U.S.C. § 321, 37 CPR. § 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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`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 'l‘rademark Office by Apple Inc. under 35 USC, § 321 , 37
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`CPR. § 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 1024 Page 00001
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`Apple Exhibit 1024 Page 00001
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`Exhibit 1020 hereto is a true and correct copy of an article by Eberhard
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`yon 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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