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`Attorney Docket No;
`104677~5008~805
`Customer No. 28120
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`Petitioner: Apple Inc.
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`Inventor: Racz et al.
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`United States Patent No: 8,336,772
`Formerly Application No: 13 / 212,047 §
`lssue Date: December 25, 2012
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`Filing Date: August ‘17, 2011
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`Former Group Art Unit: 2887
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`Former Examiner: Thien M. Le
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`For: Data Storage and Access Systems
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`MAIL S'l‘OP PATENT BOARD
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`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`United States Patent and Trademark Office
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`Post Office Box 1450
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`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
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`UNITED STATES PATENT NO. 8,336,772
`PURSUANT TO 35 U.S.C. § 321, 37 C.F.R. § 42.304
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`I, Flora D. Elias—Migue, 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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`LIP.
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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 U .S.C. § 321, 37
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`(STAR. § 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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`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
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`l—lammelrath, and Franz—Peter Heider, entitled “The Secure
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`Distribution of Digital Contents,’
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`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 H th day of March, 2014, at New York, New York.
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`‘x...’
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`Flora D. lilias—Mique
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