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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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`GUARDIAN ALLIANCE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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`TYLER MILLER,
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`Case No. IPR2020-00031
`Patent No. 10,043,188
`Issued: August 7, 2018
`Application No.: 14/721,707
`Filed: May 26, 2015
`Title: BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION MANAGEMENT SERVICE
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`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEE
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`On October 10, 2019, Petitioner Guardian Alliance Technologies, Inc. filed a
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`Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S. Patent No. 10,043,188 under 35 U.S.C. §§
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`311-319 AND 37 C.F.R. § 42.100 et seq. (Paper 1.) The petition sought inter partes
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`review of all of the independent claims of the ’188 Patent: 1, 5, 9, and 15. (Id. at 1.)
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`Accordingly, Petitioner submitted a total fee of $30,500, including a post-institution
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`fee of $15,000, for review of up to fifteen (15) claims under 37 C.F.R. §42.15(a)(2).
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`On March 26, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued its Decision Denying
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`Institution of Inter Partes Review. (Paper 23 at 21.)
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`Because the IPR was not instituted, Petitioner hereby requests refund of the
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`$15,000 post-institution fee.
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`Petitioner submitted an electronic payment of the post-institution fee with its
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`petition via electronic wire. Receipt of this wire was confirmed by the Board.
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`Upon review and approval of this request, Petitioner respectfully requests that
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`the Board credit the post-institution fee totaling $15,000 to Deposit Account No.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`Dated: August 6, 2020
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`By: /jordanasigale/
` Jordan A. Sigale, Reg. No. 39,028
` DUNLAP CODDING, P.C.
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`I hereby certify that on August 6, 2020, I caused a true and correct copy of
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` Petitioner’s Request for Refund of Post-Institution Fee
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`to be served via electronic mail on the following attorneys of record per the Patent
`Owner’s Mandatory Notices and Power of Attorney:
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`Richard D. Mc Leod (Reg. No. 46,921)
`law@rickmcleod.com
`MC LEOD LAW LLC
`P.O. Box 99
`Woodland, WA 98674
`Telephone: (360) 841-5654
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`Kurt Rylander (Reg. No. 43,897)
`rylander@rylanderlaw.com
`RYLANDER & ASSOCIATES P.C.
`406 West 12th Street
`Vancouver, WA 98660
`Telephone: (360) 750-9931
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`Date: August 6, 2020
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