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`INFORMATION DISCLOSURE pplication Number|13/314,337
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`STATEMENT BY APPLICANT
`Filing Date
`Dec 8, 2011
`(Not for submission under 37 CFR 1.99)
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`First Named Inventor
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`Nathaniel B. Pettis
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`Examiner Name
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`SHAFI, LEITH S
`MBOT-0002-P01
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`U.S. PATENTS
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`FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`Include nameof the author (in CAPITAL LETTERS), title of the article (when appropriate), title of the
`item (book, magazine, journal, serial, symposium, catalog, etc.), date, page(s), volume-issue
`number(s), publisher, city and/or country where published.
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`STRATASYSINC., "Stratasys Production Scheduling Software Ensures Efficiency
`in Direct Digital Manufacturing", July 30, 2007, 2 pages
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`*EXAMINER: Initial if reference considered, whether or not citation is in conformance with MPEP 609. Draw
`line through a citation if not in conformance and not considered. Include copy of this form with next
`communication to applicant.
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`' See Kind Codes of USPTO Patent Documents at www.tiSPTO.GOV or MPEP 901.04.? Enteroffice that issued the document, by the
`two-letter code (WIPO Standard ST.3). 5 For Japanese patent documents,the indication of the year of the reign of the Emperor must
`precedethe serial number of the patent document. * Kind of document by the appropriate symbols as indicated on the document under
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`Doc code: IDS
`Doc description: Information Disclosure Statement(IDS) Field
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`SUBSTITUTE PTO/SB/08 (01-10)
`SPPC v1.5 011712
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`Application
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`INFORMATION DISCLOSURE pplication Number|13/314,337
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`STATEMENT BY APPLICANT
`Filing Date
`Dec 8, 2011
`(Not for submission under 37 CFR 1.99)
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`First Named Inventor
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`Nathaniel B. Pettis
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`Sheet 2 of 2
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`Art Unit
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`1744
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`Examiner Name
`Attorney Docket No.
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`SHAFI, LEITH S
`MBOT-0002-P01
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`Patents, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450.
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`CERTIFICATION STATEMENT
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`CJ That each item of information contained in the information disclosure statement wasfirst cited in any communication
`from a foreign patent office in a counterpart foreign application not more than three months prior to thefiling of the
`information disclosure statement. See 37 CFR 1.97(e) (1).
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`IX] That no item of information contained in the information disclosure statement was cited ina communication from a
`foreign patent office in a counterpart foreign application, and, to the knowledge of the person signing the certification
`after making reasonable inquiry, no item of information contained in the information disclosure statement was known
`to any individual designated in 37 CFR 1.56(c) more than three months prior to the filing of the information disclosure
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`L] See attachedcertification statement.
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`(J Feeset forth in 37 CFR 1.17 (p) has been submitted herewith.
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`XX Applicant believes that no fees are required with this filing. However, if an Office Action on the merits has been mailed,
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`Name/Print
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`Robert A. Mazzarese
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`42,852
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