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`Ferri, Lisa M.; Bonner, Amanda Streff; Yang, Ying-Zi; Choi, Elliot; HSuh@foxrothschild.com;
`sfierro@foxrothschild.com; RMiller@foxrothschild.com; Norton, Gerard P.; ipdocket@foxrothschild.com
`RiceTec, Inc. v. BASF SE, PGR2021-00113 and PGR2021-00114: Notice of withdrawal and request for
`expungement
`Wednesday, June 22, 2022 12:01:27 PM
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`Your Honors:
`Patent Owner, BASF SE, hereby withdraws the following documents in the above-identified PGR proceedings
`and thereby requests expungement of these documents from the record:
`Ex. 2003 – Declaration of Dr. Nilda Roma-Burgos in PGR2021-00113
`Ex. 2003 – Declaration of Dr. Nilda Roma-Burgos in PGR2021-00114.
`As Patent Owner, in its Patent Owner Responses in PGR2021-00113 and 00114 filed June 3, 2022, did not rely on
`the testimony of Dr. Burgos (and does not intend on relying upon such testimony in these proceedings), Patent
`Owner hereby affirmatively withdraws and requests expungement of Dr. Burgos’s declarations from the record.
` See, Patent Trial and Appeal Board Consolidated Trial Practice Guide, November 2019, at 51 (“If a trial is
`instituted, a patent owner may choose not to rely on testimony submitted with the preliminary response. In that
`case, the patent owner should advise the Board of its decision, which can be done by affirmatively withdrawing
`the testimony in the patent owner response.”).
`Respectfully submitted,
`Richard McCormick
`Counsel for Patent Owner
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`Richard McCormick
`Partner
`Mayer Brown LLP
`1221 Avenue of the Americas
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`T 212 506 2382
`rmccormick@mayerbrown.com
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