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`Neill H. Luebke
`Herewith
`Dental and Medical Instruments Comprising Titanium
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`Pursuant to 37 CFR 1.97-1.98, Applicants are submitting herewith a listing of
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`All of the references cited on the attached Information Disclosure Statement,
`except for Harmeet Walia eta/.; "An Initial Investigation of the Bending and Torsional
`Properties of Nitinol Root Canal Files"; Vol. 14, No. 7, Journal of Endodontics; 346-351
`(July, 1988), have already been cited and submitted by the Applicants or cited by the
`Examiner in U.S. Patent Application No. 14/167,211, filed January 29, 2014, from which
`the present application claims priority. Therefore, Applicants are only submitting a copy
`of the Harmeet Walia et al. article with this submission.
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`Date: October 23, 2014
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`/Richard T. Roche/
`Richard T. Roche, Reg. No. 38,599
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`Khier et al., Bending properties of superelastic and nonsuperelastic nickeltitanium
`orthodontic wires, American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial
`Orthopedics, 1991, 99(4), 310-18
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`Miura et al., The super-elastic property of the Japanese NiTi alloy wire for use in
`orthodontics, American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics,
`1986, 90(1), 1-10
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`Schafer et al., Relationship between design features of endodontic instruments
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