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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`APOTEX INC., APOTEX CORP., APOTEX PHARMACEUTICALS
`HOLDINGSINC., and APOTEX HOLDINGS,INC.,
`Petitioners,
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`OSI PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`U.S. Patent No. 6,900,221
`Issue Date: May 31, 2005
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`Case No. IPR2016-01284
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`REPLY DECLARATION OF GIUSEPPE GIACCONE, M.D., PH.D.
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`APOTEX EX. 1053-001
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`TABLE OF CONTENTS
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`T. QUALIFICATIONS0.0ee eecceeeceseeeseenenseaneeeneesssesecssasensaeasaneesneessenanensaaes 2
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`Il. MATERIALS REVIEWED... cece cess eeceeesncereereseneesenaeeseaseeeseneessseeesnnees 2
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`III. OBJECTIVE INDICIA OF NONOBVIOUSNESS 0.0... eecsccesecetersseneeeeenneees 3
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`A. A Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art Cannot Assess if Patent Owner’s
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`Alleged Results are Unexpected... ceceeceeeeesseseessesnessacsseesnseeareessaseseeserenensnes 3
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`B. Patent Owner’s Alleged Unexpected Results Do Not Apply to All NSCLC
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`C. The Method of Treatment Described in Claims 44-46 of the ’221 Patent Did
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`Not Satisfy a Long-Felt Need... eeeeeesceseeeerereseeeseaeceasseseasessseteessseseeenerenes 5
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`D. There were Many Successful Attempted Treatments in Mammals with
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`NSCLC ooo eeecccccssecsecceeneccsnnecesneseeneesssneeeeeeeeeeeeeeseessesenseneesearsdcsuseeeeanneeesnaessaaaeecaneas 6
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`IV. AVAILABILITY FOR CROSS EXAMINATION |... ececsersersserenteerseees 7
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`V. RIGHT TO SUPPLEMENT....... eee cee eee eeceseeeescannnrecsnaeessseessaeeesseeeesnesessanees 8
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`I, Giuseppe Giaccone M.D., Ph.D, declare and state as follows:
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`1.
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`The opinions and conclusionsI express in this declaration are based
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`on my education, my extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of
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`various lung cancers, and my review of materials related to this matter.
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`2.
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`For the purposes of my opinions and conclusions, I apply the
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`definition of “treating” and “treatment” as provided by U.S. Patent No. 6,900,221.
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`(See “the °221 patent, col. 14, Il. 9-15.)
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`I.
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`QUALIFICATIONS
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`3,
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`For a discussion of my qualifications and credentials, I refer to my
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`June 17, 2016 declaration (Ex. 1002) and my curriculum vitae, which is
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`Appendix A to Ex. 1002.
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`II. MATERIALS REVIEWED
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`4.
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`In forming my opinions, I have relied upon my accumulated
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`knowledge and experience.
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`I have reviewed Patent Owner OSI Pharmaceuticals,
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`LLC’s (“OSI”) Response (Paper 20) and the materials cited in Appendix A
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`attached thereto.
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`I have further reviewed the documents referenced herein.
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`Ill. OBJECTIVE INDICIA OF NONOBVIOUSNESS
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`A.
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`A Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art CannotAssessif Patent
`Owner’s Alleged Results are Unexpected
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`5.
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`OSI and Dr. Bunn contendthat erlotinib’s therapeutic efficacy and
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`ability to provide survival benefits to non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)patients
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`was unexpected, (Paper 20 at 61; Ex. 2021 at § 109.) However, logic would
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`dictate that a comparator is necessary to evaluate whethera result is unexpected.
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`Indeed,in the context of patent claims, I understand that the correct comparator for
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`evaluating whethera result is “unexpected” is to compare it with whatis identified
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`as being the closest prior art. In this case, the closest prior art is Schnur(U.S.
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`Patent No. 5,747,498 (Ex. 1009)), which discloses the compounderlotinib as being
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`effective to treat a range of conditions that involve inhibition of the EGF receptor,
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`including lung cancer. (See Ex. 1009 at col. 14, Il,
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`1 - 16.) I understand that no
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`such comparison was made. (See Paper 20 at 61; Ex. 2021 at {J 108-109.) Dr.
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`Bunn subsequently testified that he used chemotherapy asthe closestprior art for
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`his analysis. (Ex. 1048 at 111:9 — 113:16.) However, Dr. Bunn’s declaration
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`provides no analysis of whyasurvival benefit derived from the challenged claims
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`of the ’221 patent would be unexpected in comparison with chemotherapy. (See
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`Ex. 2021 at ff 108-109.) Neither does Patent Owner’s Response.
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`(See Paper 20at
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`61.) Thus, OSI’s and Dr. Bunn’s statementsthat erlotinib’s therapeutic efficacy
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`and potential survival benefits for NSCLC patients are unexpected is mere
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`conjecture.
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`6.
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`OSIrefers to a “majority of compounds”failing at some point during
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`preclinical and clinical development. (See Paper 20 at 61.) However, thatis just a
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`general statement about drug development. [f FDA-approvalis the benchmark and
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`a failure to pass through various stages of preclinical and clinical developmentin
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`general is the baseline comparator, this would meanthat all FDA-approved drugs
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`provide unexpected results. Moreover, because the compounderlotinib was
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`already patented, I understand the issue here as being whetherthe use oferlotinib
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`to treat NSCLC wasunexpected in view of Schnur, which discloses its use to treat
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`lung cancer generally. As set forth in my earlier Declaration, the use of erlotinib to
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`treat NSCLC wasnot unexpected,particularly in view of Schnur, as well as the
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`statements in OSI’s 10-K and Gibbs.
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`B.
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`Patent Owner’s Alleged Unexpected Results Do Not Apply to All
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`I further disagree with OSI’s and Dr. Bunn’s contentions that
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`erlotinib’s efficacy in treating NSCLC was unexpected because erlotinib plainly
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`does not provide a survivalto all, or even a majority, of NSCLC patients. Instead,
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`in my experience,and asset forth in more recent articles, only a small subset of
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`NSCLCpatients actually respond to erlotinib. (See Ex. 1053 at 7 10; Ex. 1051 at
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`3-4.) I believe Dr. Bunn agrees with this assessmentthaterlotinib treated only a
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`small subset of NSCLCpatients are actually treated with erlotinib. (Ex. 2021 at
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`q 108; Ex. 1048 at 23:9 - 26:6.) Conversely, I understand that claims 44-46 and 53
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`of the ’221 patent, as they relate to NSCLC, claim a treatmentfor all NSCLC
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`patients. Because erlotinib’s actual efficacy in treating NSCLCis much more
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`narrow than the claims 44-46 and 53 of the ’221 patent, in my opinion there are no
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`unexpected results provided by erlotinib that overlap with these claims.
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`The Method of Treatment Described in Claims 44-46 of the ’221
`Patent Did Not Satisfy a Long-Felt Need
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`8.
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`AsI discussed above,erlotinib only treats a smal! subset of NSCLC
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`patients who have certain EGFR mutations. Specifically, only NSCLCpatients
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`with an EGFR exon-19 deletion or an exon-2!] L858R mutation respond to
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`erlotinib. (Ex. 1048 at 99:22 — 101:13.) This accounts for about 10% ofpatients
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`with NSCLCin the United States. (See Ex. 1051 at 3 — 4; Ex. 1048 at 23:9 — 26:6.)
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`This leaves a vast numberofpatients that are still in need of a therapy. Dr. Bunn
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`states that there was a need to replace cytotoxic chemotherapy. (See Ex. 2021 at
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`492.) However, for about 90% ofpatients with NSCLC,erlotinib did not replace
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`cytotoxic chemotherapy. (See Ex. 1051 at 3—4; Ex. 1048 at 23:9 — 26:6.) Thus,
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`in my opinionerlotinib did not satisfy the treatment needs of the vast majority of
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`NSCLC patients.
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`9.
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`Dr. Bunnstates that “[w]hen Tarceva wasfirst approved by the FDA
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`in November 2004, it was indicated for the treatment of NSCLC and,as the only
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`alternative to chemotherapy,it filled a significant long-felt unmet needfor a
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`targeted NSCLCtreatment.” (Ex. 2021 at § 106.) I disagree with this statement
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`because a FDAlabel indicating erlotinib as a treatment for all NSCLC does not
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`changethe scientific fact that erlotinib did not treat about 90% of NSCLC patients
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`in the United States. (See Ex. 1051 at 3 — 4; Ex. 1048 at 23:9 — 26:6.) Regardless
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`if erlotinib was the only alternative to chemotherapy, 90% of NSCLC patients still
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`required chemotherapy. Thus, there wasstill a significant void. Thus,in my
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`opinion erlotinib cannot have satisfied the need described by OSI and Dr. Bunn
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`because clearly the vast majority of NSCLCpatients were not successfully treated
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`by erlotinib.
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`D.
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`There Were Many Successful Attempted Treatments in Mammals
`with NSCLC
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`Dr, Bunn statesthat other attempts to develop targeted, NSCLC drug
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`products failed clinicaltrials. (Ex. 2021 at 47, Heading 2.) However, my
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`understanding of claims 44-46 and 53 ofthe ’221 patent is that FDA approvalis
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`not required by any these claims.
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`Instead, I understand that claims 44-46 and 53 of
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`the 221 patent are directed more broadly towards methods for the treatment of,
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`among other conditions, NSCLC in a mammal.
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`In myextensive experience
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`conducting pre-clinical andclinical investigations of experimental medicines, FDA
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`approvalis not required to show anti-tumoractivity in mammals with NSCLC.
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`My experience coincides with Dr. Bunn’s testimony that newsof a drug reaching
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`Phase II clinical studies for targeting NSCLC indicates successful preclinical
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`studies showing bioactivity towards treating NSCLC in animal models. (Ex. 1048
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`at 95:3 —8.) J believe Dr. Bunncalls successful studies against NSCLC in animal
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`models “promising activity.” (Ex. 2021 at 937; Ex. 1048 at 38:12 — 39:12.) Thus,
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`in my opinion if 1,631 new drugs weretested in PhaseII clinical trials for NSCLC,
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`this indicates that 1,631 new drugs successfully showed treatment of NSCLC in
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`mammals during preclinical development. (Ex. 2021 at 979; Ex. 1001 at col. 14,Il.
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`9-15.) I believe Dr. Bunn agrees with this conclusion. (Ex. 1048 at 95:3 — 8.)
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`IV. AVAILABILITY FOR CROSS EXAMINATION
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`11.
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`In signing this declaration, I recognize that the declaration will be
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`filed as evidence in a contested case before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of
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`the United States Patent and Trademark Office. I also recognize that I may be
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`subject to cross examination in the case and that cross examination will take place
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`within the United States. If cross examination is required of me, I] will appearfor
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`cross examination within the United States during the timeallotted for cross
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`examination.
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`RIGHT TO SUPPLEMENT
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`[reserve the right to supplement my opinionsin the future to respond
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`to any arguments that Patent Ownerraises and to take into account new
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`information as it becomesavailable to me.
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`I declare underpenalty of perjury that, to the extent of my knowledge and
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`belief, the foregoingis true and correct.
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`I further declare thatall statements made
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`herein of my own knowledgearetrue and that all statements made on information
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`and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made with
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`the understanding that knowing and willful false statements and the like so made
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`are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under section 1001 oftitle 18 of
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`the United States Code.
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