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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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`APPLE INC.,
`Petitioner,
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`ADVANCED VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case No. IPR2019-01352
`U.S. Patent No. 7,558,730
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`DECLARATION OF NICHOLAS C KLIEWER
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`Mail Stop PATENT BOARD
`Patent Trial and Appeal Board
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`I, Nicholas Kliewer, declare as follows:
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`I am an associate at the law firm of Buether Joe & Counselors, LLC.
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`I make this declaration in support of Patent Owner’s Sur-Reply to
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`Petitioner’s Reply to the Response to the Petition.
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`I have personal knowledge of the following facts and if called upon
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`would and could testify competently thereto.
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`Filed as Ex. 2015 is a true and correct copy of the transcript of the
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`August 28, 2020 Deposition of Charles Creusere.
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`Filed as Ex. 2016 is a true and correct copy of Cover page, copyright
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`page, table of contents, and pages 489-512 of “Digital Processing of Speech
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`Signals” (Prentice Hall, 1978) by Rabiner and Schafer.
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`Filed as Ex. 2017 is a true and correct copy of Efficient Audio Coding
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`Using Perfect Reconstruction Noncausal IIR Filter Banks as produced by
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`Petitioner.
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`Filed as Ex. 2018 is a true and correct copy of Data Compression
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`Project Final Report TP8442 (Oct. 1999) by Creusere and Witham as
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`produced by Petitioner.
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`I certify and declare under the penalty of perjury under the laws of the Unites
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`States that the foregoing is true and correct and that this declaration was executed at
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`Dallas, TX on September 23, 2020.
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`Dated: September 23, 2020
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`By:
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`Nicholas C. Kliewer (lead counsel)
`Attorney for Patent Owner
`Registration No. 72,480
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`Michael C. Pomeroy (backup counsel)
`Registration No. 76,010
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`BUETHER JOE & COUNSELORS, LLC
`1700 Pacific Ave. Suite 4750
`Dallas, TX 75201
`Tel: 214-466-1270
`Fax: 214-635-2992
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