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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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`MEDTRONIC, INC.
`Petitioner
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`NUVASIVE, INC.
`Patent Owner
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`Patent Number: 8,187,334 B2
`Issue Date: May 29, 2012
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`Case No. IPR2013-00507
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`DECLARATION OF PATRICK MILES
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`Mail Stop “PATENT BOARD”
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
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`NUVASIVE 2030
`Medtronic, Inc. v. NuVasive, Inc.
`IPR2013-00507
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`NUVASIVE - EXHIBIT 2052
`Alphatec Holdings Inc. et al. v. NuVasive, Inc.
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`sum, in the years since NuVasive pioneered the market for lateral, trans-psoas interbody
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`I hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are
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`further that these statements were made with the knowledge that willful false statements
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`New MedEd Strategy Implemented
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