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`Joseph A. Hynds, Lead Counsel
`R. Elizabeth Brenner-Leifer, Back-up Counsel
`Jason M. Nolan, Back-up Counsel
`ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C.
`607 14th Street, N.W., Suite 800
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`Phone: 202-783-6040
`Facsimile: 202-783-6031
`Emails: jhynds@rothwellfigg.com
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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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`US ENDODONTICS, LLC,
`Petitioner,
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`GOLD STANDARD INSTRUMENTS, LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2015-01476
`Patent 8,727,773 B2
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`PATENT OWNER’S SUBMISSION OF POWER OF ATTORNEY
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`Case IPR2015-01476
`Patent 8,727,773 B2
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`Mail Stop PATENT BOARD
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
`U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 42.10(b), Patent Owner Gold Standard Instruments,
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`LLC, submits the attached Power of Attorney.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`By: /Joseph A. Hynds /
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`Joseph A. Hynds, Reg. No. 34,627
`ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST &
`MANBECK, P.C.
`607 14th St., N.W., Suite 800
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`Phone: 202-783-6040
`Facsimile: 202-783-6031
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`Gold Standard Instruments, LLC
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`Dated: July 16, 2015
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`13/455,841 I 8,727,773 B2
`Application I Patent Number
`POWER OF
`Filing Date
`April 25, 2012
`ATTORNEY
`First Named Inventor
`Neill Hamilton Luebke
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`CORRESPONDENCE Art Unit
`3776
`Examiner Name
`Todd Manahan
`ADDRESS
`INDICATION FORM Attorney Docket Number
`2523-119
`Confirmation Number
`9902
`Title: Dental and Medical Instruments Comprising Titanium
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`The below-named Assignee of record in the subject patent, through its authorized
`representative identified below, hereby revokes all previous powers of attorney given in the
`above-identified patent and hereby appoints Practitioners associated with Customer Number
`06449, Steven Lieberman, and Derek F. Dahlgren, as its attorneys to prosecute inter partes
`review case number IPR2015-01476, and to transact all business in the United States Patent
`and Trademark Office concerned therewith, including the appointment of lead and back-up
`counsel.
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`STATEMENT UNDER 37 CFR 3. 73(b)
`A chain of title from the inventors of the patent application/patent identified above to the
`current assignee is as follows:
`1. Assignment From: Neill H. Luebke To: Gold Standard Instruments, LLC.
`The document is recorded in the United States Patent and Trademark Office at
`ReeVFrame 031478/0155.
`ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND CONSENT BY ASSIGNEE TO OBTAIN
`INSTRUCTIONS FROM ANOTHER PARTY
`Assignee, through its undersigned authorized representative, hereby acknowledges that the
`practitioners appointed herein may obtain instructions as to any action to be taken in the U.S.
`Patent and Trademark Office on any application to which this power of attorney may be
`directed, or on any patent which may issue on any such application, from assignee's third-party
`agents or attorneys, or other designee, who have been authorized by assignee to convey such
`instructions, and assignee expressly consents to this arrangement. In the event of a change in
`the persons from whom instructions are to be taken, the practitioners appointed herein shall be
`so notified by the assignee.
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`Assignee Name
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`I hereby certify that on this 16th day of July, 2015, a true and correct copy of
`the foregoing PATENT OWNER’S SUBMISSION OF POWER OF ATTORNEY
`was served, via electronic mail upon the following counsel for Petitioner US
`Endodontics, LLC:
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`Jeffrey S. Ginsberg, Esq.
`Matthew G. Berkowitz, Esq.
`Eric T. Schreiber, Esq.
`Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
`One Broadway
`New York, NY 10004
`Phone: 212-425-7200
`Facsimile: 212-425-5288
`Emails: jginsberg@kenyon.com
`mberkowitz@kenyon.com
`eschreiber@kenyon.com
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`/ Erik van Leeuwen /
`Erik van Leeuwen
`Litigation Operations Coordinator
`Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.
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