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`EXHIBIT 2017
`EXHIBIT 2017
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 1
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`PTOIAIA/I4
`US. Patent and Trademark Office: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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`Attorney Docket Number 3309-2-4—8
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`Application Data Sheet 37 CFR 1.76
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`Application Number
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`Title of Invention
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`ATOMIZATION SEPARATING AND SILENCING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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`The application data sheet is part of the provisional or nonprovisional application for which it is being submitted. The following form contains the
`bibliographic data arranged in a format specified by the United States Patent and Trademark Office as outlined in 37 CFR 1.76.
`This document may be completed electronically and submitted to the Office in electronic format using the Electronic Filing System (EFS) or the document
`may be printed and included in a paper filed application.
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`Secrecy Order 37 CFR 5.2:
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`Portions or all of the application associated with this Application Data Sheet may fall under a Secrecy Order pursuant to 37
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`El CFR 5.2 (Paper filers only. Applications that fall under Secrecy Order may not be filed electronically.)
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`Inventor Information:
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`Inventor
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`Legal Name
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`Family Name
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`Residence Information (Select One) @ US Residency
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`0 Active US Military Service
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`Mailing Address of Inventor:
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`Address 1
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`14008 West Highway 56
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`All Inventors Must Be Listed — Additional Inventor Information blocks may be generated
`within this form by selecting the Add button.
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`Correspondence Information:
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`Enter either Customer Number or complete the Correspondence Information section below.
`For further information see 37 CFR 1.33(a).
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`Customer Number
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`11653
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`Email Address
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`Application Information:
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`Title of the Invention
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`ATOMIZATION SEPARATING AND SILENCING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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`Attorney Docket Number
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`3309-2-4—8
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`Small Entity Status Claimed
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`Total Number of Drawing Sheets (if any)
`Suggested Figure for Publication (if any)
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 2
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`PTO/AIA/14 (084 5)
`Approved for use through 0473072017. OMB 0651 -0032
`U5. Patent and Trademark Office: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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` Attorney Docket Number
`3309—2—4—8
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`Application Data Sheet 37 CFR 1.76
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`Application Number
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`Title of Invention
`ATOMIZATION SEPARATING AND SILENCING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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`Filing By Reference:
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`Only complete this section when filing an application by reference under 35 U.S.C. 111(c) and 37 CFR 1.57Ia). Do not complete this section if
`application papers including a specification and any drawings are being filed. Any domestic benefit or foreign priority information must be
`provided in the appropriate section(s) below (i.e., "Domestic Benefit/National Stage Information" and ”Foreign Priority Information“).
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`For the purposes ofa filing date under 37 CFR1.53(b), the description and any drawings of the present application are replaced by this
`reference to the previously filed application, subject to conditions and requirements of 37 CFR 1.57(a).
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`Application number of the previously
`filed application
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`Filing date (YYYY—MM-DD)
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`Intellectual Property Authority or Country
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`Publication Information:
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`35 U.S.C.
`Request Not to Publish. I hereby request that the attached application not be published under
`122(b) and certify that the invention disclosed in the attached application has not and will not be the subject of an
`application filed in another country, or under a multilateral international agreement, that requires publication at eighteen
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`months after filing.
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`Representative Information:
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`Representative information should be provided for all practitioners having a power of attorney in the application. Providing
`this information in the Application Data Sheet does not constitute a power of attorney in the application (see 37 CFR 1.32).
`Either enter Customer Number or complete the Representative Name section below. If both sections are completed the customer Number
`will be used for the Representative Information during processing.
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`Additional Representative Information blocks may be generated within this form by
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 3
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`PTO/AIA/14 (084 5)
`Approved for use through 0473072017. OMB 0651 -0032
`US. Patent and Trademark Office: US. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
`Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it contains a valid OMB control number.
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`Appllcatlon Data Sheet 37 CFR 1.76 Title of Invention
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`ATOMIZATION SEPARATING AND SILENCING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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`Domestic Benefit/National Stage Information:
`This section allows for the applicant to either claim benefit under 35 U.S.C. 119(e), 120, 121, 365(c), or 386(c) or indicate National
`Stage entry from a PCT application. Providing this information in the application data sheet constitutes the specific reference
`required by 35 U.S.C. 1 19(e) or 120, and 37 CFR 1.78.
`When referring to the current application, please leave the application number blank.
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`Prior Application Status _ending
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`F_'l'ngor 371(C) Date
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`14260520
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`Prior Application
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`13854545
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`Filing Date
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`2013—04—01
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`Patent Number
`9415130
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`2016—08—16
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`Additional Domestic Benefit/National Stage Data may be generated within this form by
`selecting the Add button.
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`Foreign Priority Information:
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`This section allows for the applicant to claim priority to a foreign application. Providing this information in the application data sheet
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`constitutes the claim for priority as required by 35 U.S.C. 1 19(b) and 37 CFR 1.55. When priority is claimed to a foreign application
`that is eligible for retrieval under the priority document exchange program (PDX) theI information will be used by the Office to
`automatically attempt retrieval pursuant to 37 CFR 1.55(i)(1) and (2). Under the PDX program, applicant bears the ultimate
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`responsibility for ensuring that a copy of the foreign application is received by the Office from the participating foreign intellectual
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`property office, or a certified copy of the foreign priority application is filed, within the time period specified in 37 CFR 1.55(g)(1).
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`Filing Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
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`Additional Foreign Priority Data may be generated within this form by selecting the Add
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`Statement under 37 CFR 1.55 or 1.78 for AIA (First Inventor to File) Transition
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`Applications
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`This application (1) claims priority to or the benefit ofan application filed before March 16, 2013 and (2) also
`contains, or contained at any time, a claim to a claimed invention that has an effective filing date on or after March
`D 16. 2013.
`NOTE: By providing this statement under 37 CFR 1.55 or 1.78, this application, with a filing date on or after March
`16, 2013, will be examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA.
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 4
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 4
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`PTO/AIA/14 (084 5)
`Approved for use through 04l30i2017. OMB 0651 -0032
`U5. Patent and Trademark Office: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
`Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it contains a valid OMB control number.
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`Application Data Sheet 37 CFR 1.76 Title of Invention
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`ATOMIZATION SEPARATING AND SILENCING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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`Authorization or Opt-Out of Authorization to Permit Access:
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`When this Application Data Sheet is properly signed and filed with the application, applicant has provided written authority to
`permit a participating foreign intellectual property (IP) office access to the instant application-as-filed (see paragraph A in
`subsection 1 below) and the European Patent Office (EPO) access to any search results from the instant application (see
`paragraph B in subsection 1 below).
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`Should applicant choose not to provide an authorization identified in subsection 1 below, applicant must opt-out ofthe
`authorization by checking the corresponding box A or B or both in subsection 2 below.
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`NOTE: This section of the Application Data Sheet is ONLY reviewed and processed with the INITIAL filing of an application.
`After the initial filing of an application, an Application Data Sheet cannot be used to provide or rescind authorization for access
`bya foreign IP office(s). Instead, Form PTO/SB/39 or PTO/SB/69 must be used as appropriate.
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`1. Authorization to Permit Access by a Foreign Intellectual Property Officels)
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`A. Priority Document Exchange (PDX) - Unless box A in subsection 2 (opt-out of authorization) is checked, the undersigned
`hereby grants the USPTO authority to provide the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (J P0), the Korean
`Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the State Intellectual Property Office ofthe People's Republic of China (SIPO), the World
`Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and any other foreign intellectual property office participating with the USPTO in a
`bilateral or multilateral priority document exchange agreement in which a foreign application claiming priority to the instant
`patent application is filed, access to: (1) the instant patent application-as-filed and its related bibliographic data, (2) any foreign
`or domestic application to which priority or benefit is claimed by the instant application and its related bibliographic data, and
`(3) the date offiling of this Authorization. See 37 CFR 1.14(h)(1).
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`B. Search Results from U.S. Application to EPO - Unless box B in subsection 2 (opt-out of authorization) is checked, the
`undersigned hereby grants the USPTO authority to provide the EPO access to the bibliographic data and search results from
`the instant patent application when a European patent application claiming priority to the instant patent application is filed. See
`37 CFR1.14(h)(2).
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`The applicant is reminded that the EPO’s Rule 141(1) EPC (European Patent Convention) requires applicants to submit a copy of
`search results from the instant application without delay in a European patent application that claims priority to the instant
`application.
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`2. Opt-Out of Authorizations to Permit Access by a Foreign Intellectual Property Office(s)
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`A. Applicant DOES NOT authorize the USPTO to permit a participating foreign IP office access to the instant
`application—as—filed. Ifthis box is checked, the USPTO will not be providing a participating foreign IP office with any
`documents and information identified in subsection 1A above.
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`D B. Applicant DOES NOT authorize the USPTO to transmit to the EPO any search results from the instant patent
`application. If this box is checked, the USPTO will not be providing the EPO with search results from the instant application.
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`NOTE: Once the application has published or is otherwise publicly available, the USPTO may provide access to the application in
`accordance with 37 CFR 1.14.
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 5
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 5
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`PTO/AIA/14 (084 5)
`Approved for use through 0473072017. OMB 0651 -0032
`U5. Patent and Trademark Office: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
`Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it contains a valid OMB control number.
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`Appllcatlon Data Sheet 37 CFR 1.76 Title of Invention
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`ATOMIZATION SEPARATING AND SILENCING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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`Applicant Information:
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`Providing assignment information in this section does not substitute for compliance with any requirement of part 3 of Title 37 of CFR
`to have an assignment recorded by the Office.
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`Applicant
`If the applicant is the inventor (or the remaining joint inventor or inventors under 37 CFR 1.45), this section should not be completed.
`The information to be provided in this section is the name and address of the legal representative who is the applicant under 37 CFR
`1.43; or the name and address of the assignee, person to whom the inventor is under an obligation to assign the invention, or person
`who othenNise shows sufficient proprietary interest in the matter who is the applicant under 37 CFR 1.46. If the applicant is an
`applicant under 37 CFR 1.46 (assignee, person to whom the inventor is obligated to assign, or person who otherwise shows sufficient
`proprietary interest) together with one or morejoint inventors, then thejoint inventor or inventors who are also the applicant should be
`identified in this section.
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`0 Assignee
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`0 Legal Representative under 35 U.S.C. 117
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`0 Joint Inventor
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`If applicant is the legal representative, indicate the authority to file the patent application, the inventor is:
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`0 Person who shows sufficient proprietary interest
`0 Person to whom the inventor is obligated to assign.
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`If the ApplicantIs an Organization check here.
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`NameoftheDeceasedorLegallyIncapacitatedInventor:D|:|
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`Mailing Address Information For Applicant:
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`Address 1
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`Email Address
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`Additional Applicant Data may be generated within this form by selecting the Add button.
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 6
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`PTO/AINM (084 5)
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`U5. Patent and Trademark Office: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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`Appllcatlon Data Sheet 37 CFR 1.76 Title of Invention
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`ATOMIZATION SEPARATING AND SILENCING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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`Assignee Information including Non-Applicant Assignee Information:
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`Providing assignment information in this section does not substitute for compliance with any requirement of part 3 ofTitle 37 of
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`CFR to have an assignment recorded by the Office.
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`Complete this section if assignee information, including non-applicant assignee information, is desired to be included on the patent application
`publication. An assignee-applicant identified in the "Applicant Information" section will appear on the patent application publication as an
`applicant. For an assignee—applicant, complete this section only if identification as an assignee is also desired on the patent application
`publication.
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`If the Assignee or Non—Applicant Assig nee is an Organization check here. |:|
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`Email Address
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`Mailing Address Information For Assignee including Non-Applicant Assignee:
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`Address 2
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`Additional Assignee or Non-Applicant Assignee Data may be generated within this form by
`selecting the Add button.
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 7
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`PTO/AIA/14 (084 5)
`Approved for use through 04l30i2017. OMB 0651 -0032
`U5. Patent and Trademark Office: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
`Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it contains a valid OMB control number.
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`ATOMIZATION SEPARATING AND SILENCING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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`Appllcatlon Data Sheet 37 CFR 1.76 Title of Invention
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`Additional Signature may be generated within this form by selecting the Add button.
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`Signature:
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`NOTE: This Application Data Sheet must be signed in accordance with 37 CFR 133(b). However, if this Application Data Sheet
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`is submitted with the INITIAL filing of the application m either box A or B is Lot checked in subsection 2 of the
`"Authorization or Opt-Out of Authorization to Permit Access" section, then this form must also be signed in accordance
`with 37 CFR 1.14Ic).
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`This Application Data Sheet must be signed by a patent practitioner if one or more of the applicants is a juristic entity (e.
`g., corporation or association). If the applicant is two or more joint inventors, this form must be signed by a patent practitioner,
`L" joint inventors who are the applicant, or one or more joint inventor-applicants who have been given power of attorney (e.g.,
`see USPTO Form PTO/AIA/Sl) on behalf of ill joint inventor-applicants.
`See 37 CFR 1.4(d) for the manner of ma king signatures and certifications.
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`Exhibit 2017, Page 8
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