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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`APPLE INC.,
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`CHESTNUT HILL SOUND INC.,
`Patent Owner
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`Case IPR2015-01463
`Patent 8,090,309
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`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`Case IPR2015-01463
`Attorney Docket No: 39521-0016IP1
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`Pursuant to the Patent and Trademark Office’s Final Rule Setting and
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`Adjusting Patent Fees, 78 Fed. Reg. 4212, 4232–4234 (Jan. 18, 2013), Petitioner
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`Apple Inc. request a refund in the amount of $14,000.00 to be paid to deposit
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`account number 06-1050.
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`On June 30, 2015, Petitioner filed a Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S.
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`Patent No. 8,090,309 with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that was assigned
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`case number IPR2015-01463. In accordance with the fee schedule specified in 37
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`C.F.R. § 42.15(a) Petitioner deposited an electronic payment in the amount of
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`$9,000.00 with the Board at the time of filing of its Petition to cover associated
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`fees with Petitioner’s inter partes review request, and a further $14,000.00 in Post-
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`Institution fees.
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`On January 13, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board entered a Decision
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`denying institution of inter partes review. Accordingly, Petitioner requests a refund
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`in the amount of $14,000.00 for the post-institution fees that it has paid to the
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`USPTO in connection with that proceeding.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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` /Joshua A. Griswold/
`Joshua A. Griswold
`Reg. No. 46,310
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`Date: February 22, 2016
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to 37 CFR §§ 42.6(e)(4) and 42.205(b), the undersigned certifies
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`that on February 22, 2016, a complete and entire copy of this Petitioner’s Request
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`for Refund of Post-Institution Fees was provided via email to the Patent Owner by
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`serving the correspondence email address of record as follows:
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`Edmund J. Walsh
`Gerald B. Hrycyszyn
`WOLF, GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C.
`600 Atlantic Avenue
`Boston, MA 02210
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`Email: EWalsh-PTAB@wolfgreenfield.com
` Email: GHrycyszyn-PTAB@wolfgreenfield.com
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`/Diana Bradley/
`Diana Bradley
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`60 South Sixth Street, Suite 3200
`Minneapolis, MN 55402
`(858) 678-5667
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