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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`INITIATIVE FOR MEDICINES, ACCESS & KNOWLEDGE (I-MAK), INC.
`Petitioner
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`GILEAD PHARMASSET LLC
`Patent Owner
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`Case No. IPR2018-00119
`U.S. Patent No. 7,964,580
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`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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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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`Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK), Inc., requests a refund in
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`the amount of $14,000 to be credited to Deposit Account Number 601986.
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`On October 25, 2017, Petitioner filed a Petition for Inter Partes Review of
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`U.S. Patent No. 7,964,580 with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that was
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`assigned case number IPR2018-00119. 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 $9,000 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 $14,000
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`in Post-Institution fees.
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`On May 4, 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board entered a Decision
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`denying institution of this proceeding. Petitioner requested rehearing on June 4,
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`2018, which was denied on July 3, 2018. Accordingly, Petitioner requests a refund
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`in the amount of $14,000 for the post-institution fees that it has paid to the USPTO
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`in connection with that proceeding and request that the refund be credited to
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`Deposit Account No. 601986.
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`Dated: July 13, 2018
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/Daniel B. Ravicher/
`Daniel B. Ravicher (Reg. No. 47,015)
`RAVICHER LAW FIRM PLLC
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`Counsel for Petitioner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`I certify that on the date indicated below I caused a true and correct copy of
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`the foregoing PETITIONERS’ REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-
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`INSTITUTION FEES to be served on counsel for Patent Owner by filing through
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`the PTAB – E2E system as well as by electronic mail to the following email
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`addresses:
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`Dated: July 13, 2018
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`IPR36583-0020IP2@fr.com
`PTABInbound@fr.com
`david.cavanaugh@wilmerhale.com
`emily.whelan@wilmerhale.com
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`/Daniel B. Ravicher/
`Daniel B. Ravicher (Reg. No. 47,015)
`RAVICHER LAW FIRM PLLC
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