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`Attorney Docket: 17162/0210146-US0
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`COMBINED DECLARATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
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`Asthe below named inventor, I hereby declare that:
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`I believe [ am the original, first and sole inventor of the subject matter which is described and
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`INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM AND METHOD
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`the specification of which is attached hereto.
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`l hereby state that I have reviewed and understand the contents of the above identified
`specification, including the claims, as amended by an amendment, if any, specifically referred
`to herein. I do not know and do not believe that the same was ever knownor usedin the
`United States of America before my or our invention thereof or patented or described in any
`printed publication in any country before my or our invention thereof, or more than one year
`prior to this application, or in public use or on sale in the United States of America more than
`one yearprior to this application, that the invention has not been patented or made the subject
`of an inventor’s certificate issued before the date of this application in any country foreign to
`the United States of America on an application filed by me or my legal representatives or
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`FOREIGN PRIORITY CLAIM
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`Thereby claim foreign priority benefits under Title 35, United States Code § 119(a)-(d) of any
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`the first paragraph of Title 35, United States Code, §112, I acknowledge the duty to disclose
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