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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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`LG ELECTRONICS, INC.,
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`CONSTELLATION DESIGNS, LLC,
`Patent Owner
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`Case IPR2023-00228
`Patent 10,693,700 B1
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`PETITIONER’S REQUEST FOR REFUND
`OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`Proceeding No. IPR2023-00228
`Attorney Docket No: 19688-0196IP1
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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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`LG Electronics, Inc., requests a refund in the amount of $23,250.00 to be paid to
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`deposit account number 06-1050.
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`On December 8, 2022, Petitioner filed a Petition for Inter Partes Review of
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`U.S. Patent No. 10,693,700 with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that was
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`assigned case number IPR2023-00228. 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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`$23,250.00 in Post-Institution fees.
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`On July 11, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board entered a Decision
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`denying institution of this proceeding. Accordingly, Petitioner requests a refund in
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`the amount of $23,250.00 for the post-institution fees that it has paid to the USPTO
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`in connection with this proceeding.
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`Date: August 08, 2023
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`Proceeding No. IPR2023-00228
`Attorney Docket No: 19688-0196IP1
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`/Usman Khan/
`W. Karl Renner, Reg. No. 41,265
`Jeremy Monaldo, Reg. No. 58,680
`Usman Khan, Reg. No. 70,439
`Jennifer Huang, Reg. No. 64,297
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`60 South Sixth Street, Suite 3200
`Minneapolis, MN 55402
`T: 214-747-5070
`F: 877-769-7945
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`Attorneys for Petitioner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§42.6(e), the undersigned certifies that on August 8,
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`2023, a complete and entire copy of this Petitioner’s Request for Refund was
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`provided via email to the Patent Owner by serving the correspondence email
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`address of record as follows:
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`William Meunier
`Michael Renaud
`Kevin Amendt
`GLOVSKY AND POPEO, P.C.
`wameunier@mintz.com
`mtrenaud@mintz.com
`kcamendt@mintz.com
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`/Michael Stanwyck/
`Michael Stanwyck
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`60 South Sixth Street, Suite 3200
`Minneapolis, MN 55402
`(202) 783-5070
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