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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, INC.,
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`SPEX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2017-00824
`Patent 6,088,802
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`PETITIONER REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`Case IPR2016-00824
`Attorney Docket No: 37307-0012IP1
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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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`Kingston Technology Company, Inc., requests a refund in the amount of $16,400
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`to be credited to Deposit Account Number 06-1050.
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`On January 31, 2017, Petitioner filed a Petition for Inter Partes Review of
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`U.S. Patent No. 6,088,802 with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that was
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`assigned case number IPR2016-00824. In accordance with the fee schedule
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`specified in 37 C.F.R. § 42.15(a), Petitioner deposited an electronic payment in the
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`amount of $9,200 with the Board at the time of filing of its Petition to cover
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`associated fees with Petitioner’s inter partes review request, and a further $16,400
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`in Post-Institution fees.
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`On August 17, 2017, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board entered a Decision
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`denying institution of this proceeding. Accordingly, Petitioner requests a refund in
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`the amount of $16,400 for the post-institution fees that it has paid to the USPTO in
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`connection with that proceeding and request that the refund be credited to Deposit
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`Account No. 06-1050.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/David Hoffman/
`David Hoffman
`Reg. No. 54,174
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`Date: October 12, 2017
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`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`Telephone: (202) 783-5070
`Facsimile: (202) 783-2331
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to 37 CFR § 42.6(e), the undersigned certifies that on October 12,
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`2017, a complete and entire copy of this Petitioner Request for Refund of Post-
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`Institution Fees was provided via email to the Patent Owner by serving the
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`correspondence email addresses of record as follows:
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`Vincent J. Rubino, III
`Alfred R. Fabricant
`Peter Lambrianakos
`Brown Rudnick LLP
`7 Times Square
`New York, NY 10036
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`Email: plambrianakos@brownrudnick.com
`Email: afabricant@brownrudnick.com
`Email: vrubino@brownrudnick.com
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`/Edward G. Faeth/
`Edward G. Faeth
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`60 South Sixth Street, Suite 3200
`Minneapolis, MN 55402
`(202) 626-6420
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