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`First Named inventor
`Cecilia Anna Wilheimina GEUl-JEN
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`Continued Examination {RCE}
`TraHSmittat
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`Mail Stop RCE
`Commissioner for Patents
`PO. 80x1450
`Alexandria, VA 223134450
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`Examiner Name
`Attorney Docket Number
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`Stephen L. RAWLENGS
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`4096.0“: GOGOZ.’DAS/PAC/PMR
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`This is a Request for Continued Examination (REE) under 37 CFR 1,114 of the above-identified application.
`Request for Continued Examination (REE) practice under 37' CFR 1.114 does not apply to any utiiity or plant application filed priorto June 8,
`1995, orto anv d
`iqn application. See instruction Sheet for R‘CEs {not to be submitted to the USPTO) on page 2
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`Submission reuired under 37 C??? ”l .t i ‘ Note: lftlie REE is proper, any previously flied unentered amendments and
`amendments encicsed with the REE will be entered in the order in which they were filed unless applicant instructs otherwise. if
`applicant does not wish to have any previousiy tiled unentered antendment(s) entered, applicant must request non—entry of such
`arnendmentrfis),
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`Previously submitted. if a tinai Office action is outstanding, any amendments flied atterthe finai Office action may be
`censtdered as a suhmrssteh even if this box is not checked.
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`[3 Consider the arguments in the Appeai Brief er Reply Brief previousiy filed on
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`Amendment/Reply
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`l ricrniation Disclosure Statement (lDS)
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`[:l Aftidavitts)!Deciaration(s)
`2. Misceltaneous
`Suspension of action on the above—identified application is requested under 37 CFR 1.103(0) for a
`period of
`months. (Period of suspension shall not exceed 3 months; Fee under 37 CFR 1.170) required)
`Other
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`Other
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`The R‘CE fee under 37 CPR 1.1?(e) is required by 3? CFR 1.i 14 when the ROE is filed.
`The Director is hereby authorized to charge the following fees, any underpayment of fees, or credit any overpayments, to
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`ROE. fee required under 37 CPR 1.17(e)
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`Extension of time fee (37 CFR 1.13'
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`t hereby certify that this correspondence is being EFS-Weh transmitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Ohio/e (USPTO), deposited with the United
`States Postal Service with sufficient postage as first ciass mail in an envelope addressed to: Mail Stop RCE, Commissioner for Patents, P. O. Box 14-5-3.
`2 Alexandria VA22313—1450 or facsimile transmitted to the USPTO on the date shown beiow.
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`d by >7 CFR 1.114. The information is required to obtain on a:n a benefit bythe.o-iblic which is to fite (and by the USxPTO
`inisco:'tection of:ntormation is led-ii
`to process) an application. Confidentiality is governed by 35 U.S.C. 122 ands"" CFR 1.11 and 1.14. This wilection is estimated to -ake i2 minutes to corn-piete,
`inciuding gathering, preparing. and submitting the completed appiication formif} the USPTO. Time will vary depending upon the individuai ease. Any corn tents on
`the amount of time you require to oompiete this form and/or suggestions for reducing this burden, should be sent to the Chief information tiiflicer, us. Patent and
`Trademark Office, US, Depa rtment of Commerce, PO. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450. DO NOT SE ND FEES OR COMPLETED FORMS TO THtS
`ADDRESS. SENB T0: Maii Stop RCE. Commissioner for Patents. PE. Box 1451}, Aiexandria, VA 22313-1456.
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`PTO/‘SB/SQ (07-09)
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`US. Patent and Trademark Office; US, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
`Under the Paperwork Reduction Aotoi1995, no perst' " are required to respond to a ooiieotion of information uniess it contains a vaiid OMB oontroi number.
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`instruction Sheet for RCEs
`(not to be submitted to the USPTO)
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`NOTES.”
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`An RCE is not a new appiioation, and t'iiing an RCE wiii not resuit in an appiioation being accorded a new t’iiing
`date.
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`Fiiinn; Quaiifications:
`The appiioation must be a utiiity or piant appiication fiied on or after June 8. 1995. The application cannot be a provisionai
`application, a utiiity or piant application filed before June 8, 1995, a design appiication, or a patent under reexamination. See
`37 CFR 1.114(e).
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`Fiiing Reguirements:
`Prosecution in the application must be closed. Prosecution is oiosed if the applicat ion is under appeai, or the iast Office
`action is a finai action, a notice of allowance, or an action that otherwise cioses prosecution in the appiioation (e.g., an Office
`action under EX parie Quayle). See 37 CFR 1.11403).
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`it repiy to an Office action under 35 USC. 132 is
`A submission and a fee are required at the time the REE is filed.
`outstanding (eg, the appiication is under finai rejection), the submission must meet the reply requirements of 37 CPR 1.111. it
`here is no outstanding Office action, the submission
`can be an information disciosure statement, an amendment, new
`arguments, or new evidence. See 37 CFR 1.114(c). The submission may be a previousiy filed amendment ( so, an
`amendment after finai rejection).
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`See MPEP median) for further information on the RCE practice.
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`WARNiNGS:
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`Reguest for Suspension of Action:
`Aii REE fiiing requirements must be met before suspension of aotion is granted. A request for a suspension of
`action under 37 CFR 1.103(o) does notsatisty the submission requirement and does not permit the tiiing of the
`required submission to be suspended.
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`imcroger RCE wiii NOT toii An 3 Time Period:
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`Before Appeal! — ifthe RCE is improper (so, prosecution in the appiioation is not oiosed or the submission or
`fee has not been iiied) and the appiioation is not under appeai, the time period set forth in the East Office action
`wiii continue to run and the appiioation wiii be abandoned after the statutory time period has expired it'a repiy to
`the Office action is not timeiy fiied. No additionai time wiii be given to correct the improper ROE.
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`Under Appear - if the ROE is improper (so, the submission or the fee has not been t'iied) and the appiioation is
`under appeai, the improper RCE is eifeotive to withdraw the appeai. Withdrawai ofthe appeai resuits intne
`aiiowanoe or abandonment ofthe appiioation depending on the status ofthe oiai ms. ifthere are no aiiowed
`oiairns, the appiioation is abandoned. if there is at feast one aiiowed oiaim, the appiioation wiii be passed to issue
`on the aiiowed oiaimt‘s). See MPEP 1215.0t.
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