`Curtis Wadsworth, Ph.D.
`Pepper Hamilton LLP 500 Grant St.,
`Suite 5000
`Pittsburgh, PA 15212
`Attorneys for Petitioner
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`By:
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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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`HARVEST TRADING GROUP, INC.;
`Petitioner
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`VIREO SYSTEMS, INC.; and
`UNEMED CORPORATION,
`Patent Owner
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`Case No. IPR2016-00947
`Patent 8,962,685
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`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`IPR2016-00947
`Patent 8,962,685
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`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`On April 22, 2016, Harvest Trading Group, Inc. (“Petitioner”) filed the
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`Petition challenging claims 1-20 of U.S. Patent 8,962,685. In accordance with the
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`fee schedule specified in 37 C.F.R. §42.15(a), Petitioner provided the PTO with a
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`credit card payment in the amount of $25,000. Petitioner’s payment consisted of
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`$9,000 for the request for inter partes review up to twenty claims (§42.15(a)(1)),
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`$14,000 for post-institution fees up to fifteen claims (§42.15(a)(2)), and $2,000 for
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`post-institution fees for five excess claims (§42.15(a)(4), $400 per claim).
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`On November 22, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board entered judgment
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`terminating IPR2016-00947 prior to institution (Paper 12). Petitioner hereby
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`requests a refund in the amount of $16,000 for the post-institution fees that it paid
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`to the PTO in connection with this proceeding. Please refund the post-institution
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`to Deposit No. 500436, under Docket No. 143317.00003.
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`Respectfully submitted,
`By: /Raymond A. Miller/
`Pepper Hamilton LLP
`500 Grant St., Suite 5000
`Pittsburgh, PA 15212
`(412) 454-5832 (telephone)
`(412) 281-0717 (facsimile)
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`Dated: January 4, 2017
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`Patent 8,962,685
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` hereby certify that on January 4, 2017, a true and accurate copy of this paper,
`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES, was served on the
`following counsel for Petitioner via email pursuant to Patent Owner’s consent to e-
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`Stephen H. Hall
`Jake Neu
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`Dated: January 4, 2017
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`shall@bradley.com
`jneu@bradley.com
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`Respectfully submitted,
`By: /Raymond A. Miller/
`Pepper Hamilton LLP
`500 Grant St., Suite 5000
`Pittsburgh, PA 15212
`(412) 454-5832 (telephone)
`(412) 281-0717 (facsimile)
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