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`UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
`United States Patent and TrademarkOffice
`Address; COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS
`P.O. Box 1450
`Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450
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`96/000,317
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`02/14/2020
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`9549426
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`16-010-SUP
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`9169
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`MCDONNELL BOEHNEN HULBERT & BERGHOFF LLP
`300 S. WACKER DRIVE
`32ND FLOOR
`CHICAGO,IL 60606
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`HENEGHAN, MATTHEW E
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`3992
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`MAIL DATE
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`04/09/2020
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`Pe NER
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`DELIVERY MODE
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`PAPER
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`Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.
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`The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication.
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`PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)
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`ERICSSON EXHIBIT 1015, Page 1
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`ERICSSON EXHIBIT 1015, Page 1
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`Ex Parte Reexamination OrderedPursuant 96/000,317
`to 35 U.S.C. 257
`Examiner
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`9549426
`Art Unit
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`AIA (FITF) Status
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`MATTHEW E HENEGHAN
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`3992
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`Yes
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`Control No.
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`Patent Under Reexamination
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`--The MAILING DATEof this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence
`address--
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`The supplemental examination proceeding filed on 14 February 2020, concluded with the
`issuance of the supplemental examination certificate on 06 April 2020. The certificate indicated
`that one or moreitems of information submitted as part of the request for supplemental
`examination raises a substantial new question of patentability. See the Reasons for Substantial
`New Question of Patentability Determination in the file of this proceeding.
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`Accordingly, exparfe reexamination of claim(s) 1-17 of U.S. Patent No. 9,549,426 is ordered. See
`35 U.S.C. 257(b) and 37 CFR 1.625(b). This evpate reexamination proceeding is herebyinitiated
`by the mailing of this order. Evgarfe reexamination under 35 U.S.C. 257 will be conducted in
`accordance with 37 CFR 1.530 through 1.570, which govern exgarfe reexamination, subject to
`the exceptions enumerated in 37 CFR 1.625(d), and, in addition, to the exception that a patent
`owner's statement, including any amendment, under 37 CFR 1.530(a)-(c) may notbefiled. For
`this reason, no amendmentin an exparfe reexamination proceeding ordered under 35 U.S.C. 257
`may befiled until after the mailing of a first Office action on the merits.
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`This reexamination proceeding has been assigned to the art unit listed above. All future
`correspondence should bedirected to the assigned art unit and should be identified by the control
`number listed above, which is identical to the control number assigned to the now-concluded
`supplemental examination proceeding.
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`Unit 3992 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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`/MATTHEW E HENEGHAN/
`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3992
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`/OVIDIO ESCALANTE/
`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3992
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`/MICHAEL FUELLING/
`Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art
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`PTOL-2302 (Rev. 08-12)
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`Office Action in Ex Parfe Reexamination
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`Part of Paper No. 20200402
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`ERICSSON EXHIBIT 1015, Page 2
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`ERICSSON EXHIBIT 1015, Page 2
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