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`Patent Owner: : Tyler J. Miller
`Inventor(s):
`: Tyler J. Miller
`Patent No.:
`: 10,043,188
`Issued:
`: 2018-08-07
`App. No.:
`: 14/721,707
`Filed:
`: 2015-05-26
`Confirm No.: : 2556
`Docket No.:
`: MIME.001-CON
`Title:
`: BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION MANAGEMENT SERVICE
`Date:
`: February 12, 2020
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`The Honorable Commissioner for Patents
`Mail Stop: Office of Data Management
`Attention: Certificates of Correction Branch
`Via EFS
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`REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION
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`STATEMENT OF FACTS
`1. The Patent Owner requests a certificate of correction per the form SB44 filed
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`herewith.
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`2. The appropriate fee for this request as set forth in 37 CFR 1.20(m) of $100 (small-
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`entity) is submitted herewith.
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`3. Filed herewith is an SB445 form for a PETITION TO ACCEPT AN
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`UNINTENTIONALLY DELAYED CLAIM UNDER 35 U.S.C. 119(e) FOR THE
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`BENEFIT OF A PRIOR-FILED PROVISONAL APPLICATION (37 CFR 1.78(c))
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`along with the appropriate fee for this petition as set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(m) of $850.
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`4. A corrected Application Data Sheet (ADS) adding the benefit claim, as required by 37
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`CFR 1.78(c), is filed herewith.
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`5. A Petition to Expedite Petition under 37 CFR 1.182 is filed herewith.
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`6. The Patent Owner (then Applicant) intended to include the benefit claim when the
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`application was filed, as evidenced by the benefit claim in the “Related Applications”
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`section of the specification as originally filed (page 1, lines 4-6), but due to a clerical
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`error did not include the benefit claim in the ADS as originally filed.
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`7. The Patent Owner submits that these noted errors do not constitute new matter, and
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`correction thereof would not require reexamination.
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`8. The Patent Owner first became aware of the missing benefit claim in the ADS on
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`October 11, 2019.
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`9. A petition for inter partes review was filed 2019-10-10 (IPR2020-00031). Patent
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`Owner initiated the process for requesting permission to file this request in October
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`2019. A preliminary patent owner’s response was filed 2020-01-22. A corrected
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`benefit claim for the instant patent may have material effect on the IPR proceedings
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`and the owner’s response, which will be due in July 2020 if trial is instituted.
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`10. A copy of the Order of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ceding jurisdiction to the
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`Director for consideration of the above listed petitions is filed herewith.
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`ACTION REQUESTED
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`1. The Patent Owner respectfully requests expedited issuance of the requested certificate
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`of correction.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`__/Philip R.M. Hunt/_______
`PHILIP R.M. HUNT
`USPTO Reg. No. 58,044
`RYLANDER & ASSOCIATES PC
`P.O. Box 250
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`(360) 750-9931
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