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`Commissioner for Patenty
`United States Patent ana Trademark Office
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`DATE:
`TO:
`FROM:
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`July 31, 2020
`Certificates of Correction Branch
`Gay Ann Spahn
`Supervisory Patent Reexamination Specialist, Art Unit 3993
`SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION
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`Please issue a Certificate of Correction in U. S. Letters Patent No. RE45,776 E as specified on
`the attached Certificate.
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`/Gay Ann Spahn/
`Supervisory Patent Reexamination Specialist
`Central Reexamination Unit, Art Unit 3993
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`Application/Control Number: 14/195,413
`Art Unit: 39923
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARKOFFICE
`CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION
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`PATENT NO.
`APPLICATION NO.
`DATED
`INVENTOR(S)
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`: RE45,776 E
`: 14/195,413
`: October 27, 2015
`: Rootet al.
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`The present reissue patent issued from an application that is one of a family of continuing
`reissue applications resulting from Patent No. 8,292,850 B2. The present reissue patent has
`issued without a cross reference to ALL ofthe other reissue applications of the family whichis
`required pursuant to 37 CFR 1.177(a),! and the June 12, 2018 Certificate of Correction also fails
`to indicate ALL ofthe reissue applications of the family. Accordingly, in the specification, at
`column 1, under the heading “RELATED APPLICATIONS,”replace lines 15-33 (approx.), with
`the following:
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`--NOTICE: More than one reissue application has beenfiledfor the reissue of U.S. Patent
`No. 8,292,850 B2. The reissue applications are U.S. Reissue Patent Application Serial Nos.
`16/220,996,
`16/220,975,
`16/220,951,
`16/220,925,
`16/184,706,
`14/984,273,
`14/195,435,
`14/195,413, 14/195,385, and 14/070,161. The relationships of the reissue applications are U.S.
`Reissue Patent Application Serial Nos. 16/220,996, 16/220,975, 16/220,951, 16/220,925, each
`filed on December 14, 2018, together with U.S. Reissue Patent Application Serial No. 16/184, 706,
`filed on November8, 2018, each ofwhich (996,
`’975, "951, °925, and ’706) is continuation reissue
`application of U.S. Reissue Patent Application Serial No. 14/984,273, filed on December 30, 2015,
`now U.S. Reissue Patent No. RE47,379 E, issued May 7, 2019, which is a continuation reissue
`application of U.S. Reissue Patent Application Serial No. 14/195,435, filed on March 3, 2014, now
`U.S. Reissue Patent No. RE46,116 E, issued August 23, 2016, which together with both U.S.
`Reissue Patent Application Serial Nos. 14/195,413 (the present application) and 14/195, 385, each
`filed on March 3, 2014, now U.S. Reissue Patent Nos. RE45,776 E and RE45,760 E, respectively,
`issued October 27, 2015 and October 20, 2015, respectively, each ofwhich (435,
`’413, and ’385)
`is a continuation reissue application of U.S. Reissue Patent Application Serial No. 14/070,161 E,
`filed on November 1, 2013, now U.S. Reissue Patent No. RE45,380 E, issued February 17, 2015,
`whichis a reissue application of U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 13/359,059, filed on January
`26, 2012, now U.S. Patent No. 8,292,850 B2, issued October 23, 2012, which is a divisional
`application of US. Patent Application Serial Ne. £2/824,734, filed on June 28, 2010, now O18.
`Patent No. 8, £42,423 82, issued March 27, 2012, which is divisional aplication of OLS. Patent
`Application Serial No, £i/416,629, fled on Moy 3, 2006, now O18. Patent No, 8,048,032 B2,
`issued November §, 201 f
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`137 CFR 1.177(a)indicates, in pertinentpart, that “[i]f apphcant files more than one applicationfor the reissuc of a
`single patent, cach such application must contaor bs amended fo contain in the first sentence of the specification a
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`nolice stating that more than one reissuc application has been filed and identifping cack of the reissue applications
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`by relationship, anplication number gad filing date”). Exyphases added.
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`Application/Control Number: 14/195,413
`Art Unit: 39923
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`This certificate supersedes the Certificate of Correction issued June 12, 2018.
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`/Gay Ann Spahn/
`Supervisory Patent Reexamination Specialist
`Central Reexamination Unit, Art Unit 3993
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