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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`PRINTING INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA
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`Petitioner
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`CTP INNOVATIONS, LLC
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`Patent Owner
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`IPR2013-00489
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`U.S. Patent No. 6,738,155 to Vogt et al.
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`PRINTING INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA’S REQUEST
`FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`MAIL STOP PATENT BOARD
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`United States Patent and Trademark Office
`P.O. Box 1450
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`Pursuant to the Patent and Trademark Office’s Final Rule
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`Setting and Adjusting Patent Fees, 78 F.R. 4211, 4234-4235 (Jan.
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`18, 2013), Petitioner Printing Industries of America (“PIA”)
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`requests a refund in the amount of $14,000 to be paid to PIA.
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`On August 2, 2013, PIA filed a Petition for Inter Partes
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`Review of claims 1-20 of U.S. Patent No. 6,738,155 that was
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`assigned case number IPR2013-00489. In accordance with the fee
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`schedule specified in 37 C.F.R. §42.15(a), PIA submitted payment
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`by credit card in the amount of $23,000 with the PTO at the time
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`of filing of its Petition to cover the associated fees. PIA’s
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`payment consisted of $9,000 in fees associated with PIA’s
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`Petition for Inter Partes review request, and further $14,000 in
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`Post-Institution Fees.
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`On December 30, 2013, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
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`entered judgment terminating the IPR2013-00489 proceeding prior
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`to institution. Accordingly, PIA requests a refund in the
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`amount of $14,000 for the post-institution fees that it paid to
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`the USPTO in connection with that proceeding and further
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`requested that the refund be charged back to the credit card
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`account used to pay the fees.
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`Dated: February 4, 2014
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`By:/s/John M. Adams
`John M. Adams (Reg. No. 26,697)
`Price & Adams, P.C.
`4135 Brownsville Road
`P.O. Box 98127
`Pittsburgh, PA 15227
`Telephone No. (412)882-7170
`Fax: (412)884-6650
`paip.law@verizon.net
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`Larry G. Zurawsky (Reg. No. 22,776)
`Zurawsky & Associates
`Allegheny Building
`429 Forbes Ave., Ste. 600
`Pittsburgh, PA 15219
`Telephone No. (412)281-7766
`Fax: (412)281-7769
`szurawsky@aol.com
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`The undersigned hereby certifies that a copy of the
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`foregoing PRINTING INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF
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`POST-INSTITUTION FEES, was served on February 4, 2014, via
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`Express Mail directed to the attorney of record for the patent
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`W. Edward Ramage
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`Baker Donelson Center
`211 Commerce Street, Suite 800
`Nashville, TN 37201
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`Dated: February 4, 2014
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`By:/s/John M. Adams
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