`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`In re US. Patent No. 6,2403 76
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`Trial No.:
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`IPR 2012-00042
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`Atty. cht. No.
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`00712100004
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`Application No.:
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`09r’127,587
`July 31, 1998
`May 29, 2001
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`Inventors:
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`Alain Raynaud
`Luc M. Burgun
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`Patent Owner:
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`Mentor Graphics Corporation
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`For:
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`METHOD AND APPARATUS
`FOR GATE-LEVEL
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`SIMULATION OF
`SYNTHESIZED REGISTER
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`TRANSFER LEVEL DESIGNS
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`WITH SOURCE-LEVEL
`DEBUGGING
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`Mail Stop PATENT BOARD
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`United States Patent and Trademark Office
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`PO. Box 1450
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`Alexandria, VA 223 1 3— 1450
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`DECLARATION OF ALLISON ANDERSON
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`I, Allison Anderson, declare as follows:
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`I am a Legal Assistant at the law firm of Baimer & Witcoff, Ltd., located at 1100
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`13th Street, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20005—4051.
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`2.
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`On September 27, 2012, sometime after 1:40 p.m., I received an envelope from
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`the Office Services department at Banner & Witcofi‘.
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`MG 2016
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`I confirmed receipt of the envelope by signing a Messenger Log with my initials
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`“AA” on the fifth entry dated September 27, 2012. A true and correct copy of the Messenger
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`Log (subsequently marked MG 2005) is attached hereto.
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`4.
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`Upon information and belief, the envelope was delivered by messenger on the day
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`and time indicated in the Messenger Log and contained a document titled “PETITION FOR
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`INTER PARTES REVIEW OF US. PATENT NO. 6,240,376 UNDER 35 U.S.C. §§ 311—319
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`AND 37 C.F.R. § 42.100 ET SEQ” from the law ofiices of Orrick, Herrington, & Sutclifl'e LLP.
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`I hereby acknowledge that willful false statements and the like are punishable by
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`fine or imprisonment, or both (18 U.S.C. 1001) and may jeopardize the validity of the
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`application or any patent issuing thereon.
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`I declare that all statements made of my own knowledge are true and that all
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`statements made on information and belief are believed to be true.
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`Executed on this st“ day ofManch, 2013.
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`Allison Anderson
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