`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`APPLE INC.,
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`BELL NORTHERN RESEARCH, LLC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2021-01590
`Patent 8,416,862
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`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`Proceeding No. IPR2021-01590
`Attorney Docket No. 50095-0050IP1
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`Pursuant to the Patent and Trademark Office’s Final Rule Setting and
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`Adjusting Patent Fees, 78 Fed. Reg. 4212, 4232–4234 (Jan. 18, 2013), Petitioner,
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`Apple Inc., requests a refund in the amount of $22,500 to be credited to Deposit
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`Account Number 06-1050.
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`On October 4, 2021, Petitioner filed a Petition for Inter Partes Review of
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`U.S. Patent No. 8,416,862 with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that was
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`assigned case number IPR2021-01590. 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 with the Board at the time of filing its Petition to cover
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`associated fees with Petitioner’s inter partes review request, and $22,500 in Post-
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`Institution fees.
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`On January 28, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board entered a Decision -
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`Settlement Prior to Institution of Trial of this proceeding. Accordingly, Petitioner
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`requests a refund in the amount of $22,500 for the post-institution fees that it has
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`paid to the USPTO and requests that the refund be credited to Deposit Account No.
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`06-1050.
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` Respectfully submitted,
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`Dated: February 25, 2022
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`/Jeremy J. Monaldo/
`Jeremy J. Monaldo, Reg. No. 58,680
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`3200 RBC Plaza, 60 South Sixth Street
`Minneapolis, MN 55402
`T: 202-783-5070
`F: 877-769-7945
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`Attorney for Petitioner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to 37 CFR §§ 42.6(e)(1), the undersigned certifies that on February
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`25, 2022, a complete and entire copy of this Petitioner’s Request for Refund of
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`Post-Institution Fees was provided via email to the Patent Owner by serving the
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`email correspondence addresses of record as follows:
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` Daniel S. Young, Reg. No. 48,277
` Chad E. King, Reg. No. 44,187
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`ADSERO IP LLC
`8210 Southpark Terrace
`Littleton, CO 80120
`(303) 268-0066 (telephone)
`(833) 793-0703 (facsimile)
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`dyoung@adseroip.com
`chad@adseroip.com
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`/Crena Pacheco/
`Crena Pacheco
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`3200 RBC Plaza, 60 South Sixth Street
`Minneapolis, MN 55402
`(617) 956-5938
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