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`In re the application of:
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`Attorney Docket No.: 2005.86USREI6
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`REISSUE PATENT APPLICATION
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`Howard C. Rootetal.
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`Application No.:
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`—14/195,435
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`March 3, 2014
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`Filed:
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`For:
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`Confirmation No.: 9278
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`Examiner: Unassigned
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`Group Art Unit: Unassigned
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`COAXIAL GUIDE CATHETER FOR INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY
`PROCEDURES
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`TERMINAL DISCLAIMER TO OBVIATE A DOUBLE
`PATENTING REJECTION OVER A PRIOR PATENT
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`Commissioner for Patents
`P.O. Box 1450
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`Commissioner:
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`The applicant, Vascular Solutions,
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`Inc., owner of 100 percent
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`interest
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`in the instant
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`application hereby disclaims, except as provided below, the terminal part of the statutory term of any
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`patent granted on the instant application which would extend beyond the expiration date of the full
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`statutory term of prior U.S. Patent Nos. 8,048,032, 8,142,413, 8,292,850, and Reissue Application
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`Nos. 14/195,413, 14/195,385 and 14/070,161 as the term of said prior patents and reissue
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`applications is presently shortened by any disclaimer. The applicant hereby agrees that any patent
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`so granted on the instant application shall be enforceable only for and during such period that it and
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`the prior patents and reissue applications are commonly owned. This agreement runs with any
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`patent granted on the instant application and is binding upon grantee, its successors or assigns.
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`In making the above disclaimer, the applicant does not disclaim the terminal part of the term
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`of any patent granted on the instant application that would extend to the expiration date of the full
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`statutory term of the prior patents and reissue applications, ‘“‘as the term of said prior patents and
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`reissue applications is presently shortened by anyternsinal disclaimer,” in the event that said prior
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`Application No. 14/195 435
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`patents and reissue applications later:
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`expire for failure to pay a maintenance fee:
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`are held unenforceable:
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`are found invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction:
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`are statutorily disclaimed. in whole or terminally disclaimed under 37 CFR § 1.321;
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`have all clainis canceled bya reexamination certificate;
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`are. reissaed: or
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`are in any mannerterminated prior to the expiration oftheir full statutory term as presently
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`shortened by any terminal disclaimer.
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`I bereby acknowledge that any willful false statements made are punishable under 18 U.S.C.
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`LOGE by fine or imprisonment of not more than five(5) years, or both.
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`Electronic payment is submitted by credit card in payment ofthe fee required ander 37 CFR
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`§ L32i(b) and § 1.20fd). The Commissioner is hereby authorized to grant any extension oftime
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`necessary for consideration of this paper, and/or to charge any fee or credit any overpayment to
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`Deposit Account No. 16-0631,
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`The undersigned is an attorney or agent ofrecord,
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`Respectfully submitted—,
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`Paul C, Onderick
`Registration No, 48334
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`Customer No. 24113
`Patterson Thuente Pedersen, PLA.
`4800 1DS Center
`80 South 8th Street
`Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402-2100
`Telephone: 612.349.5766
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`Please grant any extension oftime uecessary for entry; charge any fee due ta Deposit Account Ne, 10-8631,
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