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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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`SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,
`Petitioner,
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`TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON,
`Patent Owner,
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`Case IPR2021-00450
`U.S. Patent No. 8,995,357
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`PETITIONERS’ 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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`Proceeding No. IPR2021-00450
`Attorney Docket: 39843-0096IP1
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`Adjusting Patent Fees, 78 Fed. Reg. 4212, 4232–4234 (Jan. 18, 2013), Petitioner,
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`Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., requests a refund in the amount of $22,500.00 to be
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`paid to deposit account number 06-1050.
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`On February 5, 2021, Petitioner filed a Petition for Inter Partes Review of
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`U.S. Patent No. 8,995,357 with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that was
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`assigned case number IPR2021-00450. 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 $19,000.00 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
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`$22,500.00 in Post-Institution fees.
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`On August 3, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board entered a decision
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`terminating the proceeding prior to institution. Accordingly, Petitioners request a
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`refund in the amount of $22,500.00 for the post-institution fees that it has paid to
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`the USPTO in connection with this proceeding.
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`Date: August 16, 2021
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` Respectfully submitted,
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`/Jeremy J. Monaldo/
`W. Karl Renner, Reg. No. 41,265
`Jeremy Monaldo, Reg. No. 58,680
`Andrew Patrick, Reg. No. 63,471
`Kim Leung, Reg. No. 64,399
`Counsel for Petitioner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to 37 CFR § 42.6(e)(4), the undersigned certifies that on August
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`16, 2021, a complete and entire copy of this Petitioners’ Request For Refund Of
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`Post-Institution Fees was provided via email to Patent Owner by serving the email
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`correspondence addresses of record as follows:
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`J. Andrew Lowes
`Clint Wilkins
`HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP
`2323 Victory Ave. Suite 700
`Dallas, TX 75219
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`Email: andrew.lowes.ipr@haynesboone.com
`clint.wilkins.ipr@haynesboone.com
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`/Diana Bradley/
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`Diana Bradley
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`3200 RBC Plaza
`60 South Sixth Street
`Minneapolis, MN 55402
`(858) 678-5667
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