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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`SONOS, INC.,
`Petitioner
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`BLACK HILLS MEDIA, LLC,
`Patent Owner
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`Case No. IPR2015-00590
`U.S. Patent 8,050,652
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`PETITIONER SONOS, INC.’S REQUEST FOR
`REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`IPR2015-00590
`U.S. Patent 8,050,652
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`PETITIONER SONOS, INC.’S REQUEST FOR
`REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`Pursuant to the Patent and Trademark Office’s (“PTO”) Final Rule Setting
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`and Adjusting Patent Fees, 78 F.R. 4211, 4233-4234 (Jan. 18, 2013), Petitioner
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`Sonos, Inc. (“Sonos”) requests a refund in the amount of $14,000.
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`On January 21, 2015, Sonos filed a Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S.
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`Patent 8,050,652 (“the ‘652 Patent”) with the PTO that was assigned case number
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`IPR2015-00590. In accordance with the fee schedule specified in 37 C.F.R.
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`§42.15(a), Sonos provided the PTO with a credit card payment in the amount of
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`$23,000 at the time of filing of its Petition to cover the associated fees. Sonos’s
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`payment consisted of $9,000 in fees associated with Sonos’s request for Inter
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`Partes Review, and a further $14,000 for Post-Institution fees.
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`On May 22, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board entered judgment
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`terminating the IPR2015-00590 proceeding prior to institution. Accordingly,
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`Sonos requests a refund in the amount of $14,000 for the post-institution fees that
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`it has paid to the PTO in connection with this proceeding. Sonos would appreciate
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`receiving this refund either in the form of a credit back to the same credit card used
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`for the original $23,000 fee, or a check made payable to its counsel, Lee Sullivan
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`Shea & Smith LLP at the below address.
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`Dated: May 26, 2015
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`IPR2015-00590
`U.S. Patent 8,050,652
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`By: /Sean M. Sullivan/
`Sean M. Sullivan, Reg. No. 40,191
`Lee Sullivan Shea & Smith LLP
`150 South Wacker Drive, Suite 2400
`Chicago, Illinois 60606
`(312) 754-9602 (telephone)
`(312) 754-9603 (facsimile)
`Email: sullivan@ls3ip.com
`Counsel for Petitioner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`IPR2015-00590
`U.S. Patent 8,050,652
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`I hereby certify that on May 26, 2015, a true and accurate copy of this paper,
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`PETITIONER SONOS, INC.’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST
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`INSTITUTION FEES, was served on the following counsel for Patent Owner via
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`email:
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`Thomas Engellenner, Reg. No. 28,711 (email: engellennert@pepperlaw.com)
`Reza Mollaaghababa, Reg. No. 43,810 (email: mollaaghababar@pepperlaw.com)
`George Haight, Reg. No. 54,146 (email: haightg@pepperlaw.com)
`Andrew Schultz, Reg. No. 66,869 (email: schultza@pepperlaw.com)
`Pepper Hamilton LLP
`125 High Street
`19th Floor, High Street Tower
`Boston, MA 02110
`(617) 204-5100 (telephone)
`(617) 204-5150 (facsimile)
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`Dated: May 26, 2015
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`By: /Sean M. Sullivan/
`Sean M. Sullivan, Reg. No. 40,191
`Lee Sullivan Shea & Smith LLP
`150 South Wacker Drive, Suite 2400
`Chicago, Illinois 60606
`(312) 754-9602 (telephone)
`(312) 754-9603 (facsimile)
`Email: sullivan@ls3ip.com
`Counsel for Petitioner
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