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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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`GENERAL PLASTIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
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`Petitioner
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`CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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`Patent Owner
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`U.S. Patent NO. 8,909,094
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`Issue Date: December 9, 2014
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`Title: SEALING MEMBER, TONER ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER
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`AND IMAGING FORMING APPARATUS
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`DECLARATION OF HUI-WEN HSIEH
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`IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER’S REPLY TO
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`PATENT OWNER’S PRELIMINARY RESPONSE
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`PURSUANT TO 37 C.F.R. §108(c)
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`Case NO. IPR2016-01361
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`NY 829947v.1
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`GPI EXHIBIT 1008
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`GENERAL PLASTIC V. CANON
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`|PR201 65-01361
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`GPI EXHIBIT 1008
`GENERAL PLASTIC v. CANON
`IPR2016-01361
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`1
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`DECLARATION OF HUI-WEN HSIEH
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`I, Hui-Wen HSIEH, declare as follows:
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`1.
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`I am a patent specialist of General Plastic Industrial Co., Ltd. (“GPI”). This
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`declaration is made in support of Petitioner General Plastic's Reply to Patent
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`Owner's Preliminary Response to be filed in each of IPR2016—0l357 through
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`IPR2016-01361. Except as otherwise indicated below, the facts set forth below are
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`based on my personal knowledge and if called and sworn as a witness, I could and
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`would competently testify thereto.
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`2. GPI is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Taiwan with its
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`principal place of business at No. 50, Tzu—Chiang Rd., Wu-Chi Dist, Taichung
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`County, Taiwan.
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`3. On or about April 1 1, 2016, I engaged and instructed Direction International Patent
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`Trademark & Law Office to conduct a search to uncover prior art references that are
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`potentially material to patentability of U.S. Pat. Nos. 9,046,820 and 8,909,094.
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`4. On or about April 11, 2016, I also started my own search to uncover prior art
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`references that are potentially material to patentability of U.S. Pat. Nos. 9,046,820
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`and 8,909,094.
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`5. On May 4, 2016, I found Japanese Patent Application Publication No. l0—17l230 to
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`Koide (“Koide”) through a search on the Japan Platform for Patent Information web
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`database (https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/). On May 6, 2016, I sent Koide to Locke
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`Lord LLP via email.
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`6. On May 9, 2016, I received U.S. Patent No. 5,481,344 to Yasuda, et al. (“Yasuda”)
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`from Direction International Patent Trademark & Law Office via email. On the
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`same day, I sent Yasuda to Locke Lord LLP via email.
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`7. On May 3, 2016, I found Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2000-305346
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`to Suzuki (“Suzuki”) through a search on Japan Platform for Patent Information web
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`database (https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp0. On June 3, 2016, I sent Suzuki to
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`Locke Lord LLP via email.
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`8. GPI had no knowledge of Koide, Yasuda, or Suzuki prior to May 3, 2016.
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`I dmzlarcz under penaity of perjury Llfldfli‘ the laws oflhe United States that the foregoing is
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`true and correct,
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