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`Applicant/Patent Owner: MEDTRONIC: INC'
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`STATEMENT UNDER 37 CFR 3.73ib)
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`Application No./Patent No.2 6.306.141
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`Filed/Issue Date: October 23. 2001
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`MEDICAL DEVICES INCORPORATING SIM ALLOY ELEMENTS
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`MEDTRONIC, INC.
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`states that it is:
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`the assignee of the entire right. title, and interest in;
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`an assignee of less than the entire right. title. and interest in
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`the assignee of an undivided interest in the entirety of (a complete assignment from one of the joint inventors was made)
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`the patent application/patent identified above. by virtue of either:
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`An assignment from the inventor(s) of the patent application/patent identified above. The assignment was recorded in
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`As required by 37 CFR 3.73(b)(1)(i). the documentary evidence of the chain of title from the original owner to the assignee was.
`or concurrently is being, submitted for recordation pursuant to 37 CFR 3.11.
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant
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`to 37 C.F.R.
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`§ 42.6,
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`I hereby certify that a true copy of
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`MEDTRONIC, INC.'S STATEMENT UNDER 37 C.F.R § 3.73(b) was served by
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`ELECTRONIC MAIL this 17"1 day of April, 2014 on the following counsel of
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`record for Petitioner Edwards Lifesciences Corporation:
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`David S. Moreland
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`Gregory J. Carlin
`MEUNIER CARLIN & CURFMAN, LLC
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`817 W. Peachtree Street NW, Suite 500
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`Atlanta, GA 30308
`dmoreland@mcciplaw.com
`gcarlin@mcciplaw.corn
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`RespectfiJlly submitted,
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`/s/ Jeffrey Lee
`Jeffrey Lee
`Reg. No. 43,743
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`CUSTOMER NUMBER 26565
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`Mayer Brown LLP
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`Chicago, Illinois 60690-2828
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