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`Doc description: Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) Field
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`'“FORMAT'OND'SCLOSURE
`STATEMENT BY APPLICANT
`(Not for submission under 37 CFR 1.99)
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`Application Number
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`15/473,390 — Conf. # 4295
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`Filing Date
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`March 29, 2017
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`Art Unit
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`3735
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`Attorney Docket Number 066964-8046.U800
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`Christine Hopkins Matthews
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`Examiner Cite
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`Patent Number
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`Kind
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`1
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`Issue Date
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`Name of Patentee or Applicant of cited
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`U.S. PATENTS
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`Kind 1 Publication Date Name of Patentee or Applicant of cited
`Code
`Document
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`Pages, Columns, Lines,
`Where Relevant
`Passages or Relevant
`Figures Appear
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`Pages, Columns, Lines,
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`Where Relevant
`Passages or Relevant
`Figures Appear
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`FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`Document
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`Country Kind
`Code2
`Code“
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`Publication Date cited Document
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`Lines, Where Relevant
`Passages or Relevant
`Figures Appear
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`Name of Patentee or Applicant of
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`Pages, Columns,
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`NON-PATENT LITERATURE DOCUMENTS
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`Examiner Cite
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`Include name of the author (in CAPITAL LETTERS), title ofthe article (when appropriate), title ofthe 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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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, Non-Final Office Action issued in U.S.
`Patent Application No. 15/601 ,719 (June 27,2017)
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`EXAMINER SIGNATURE
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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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`1 See Kind Codes of USPTO Patent Documents at WWWLJSPTOGOV or MPEP 901.04. 2 Enter office that issued the document, by the two-
`Ietter code (WIPO Standard ST.3). 3 For Japanese patent documents, the indication ofthe year of the reign of the Emperor must precede the
`serial number of the patent document.
`4 Kind of document by the appropriate symbols as indicated on the document under WIPO Standard ST.16 if possible. 5 Applicant is to place
`a check mark here if English language translation is attached.
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`Doc code: IDS
`Doc description: Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) Field
`
`PTO/SB/08a (01-10)
`Approved for use through 07/31/2012. OMB 0651-0031
`US. Patent and Trademark Office; US. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
`Underthe Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it contains a valid OMB control number.
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`'“FORMAT'OND'SCLOSURE
`STATEMENT BY APPLICANT
`(Not for submission under 37 CFR 1.99)
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`Application Number
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`15/473,390 — Conf. # 4295
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`Filing Date
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`March 29, 2017
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`Art Unit
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`3735
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`Attorney Docket Number 066964-8046.U800
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`Christine Hopkins Matthews
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`Please see 37 CFR 1.97 and 1.98 to make the appropriate selection(s):
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`CERTIFICATION STATEMENT
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`I] That each item of information contained in the information disclosure statement was first cited in any communication
`from a foreign patent office in a counterpart foreign application not more than three months prior to the filing of the
`information disclosure statement. See 37 CFR 1.97(e) (1).
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`OR
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`I] That no item of information contained in the information disclosure statement was cited in a communication from a
`foreign patent office in a counterpart foreign application, and, to the knowledge ofthe 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
`statement. See 37 CFR 1.97(e) (2).
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`I] See attached certification statement.
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`I] Fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17 (p) has been submitted herewith.
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`IXI None
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`SIGNATURE
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`A signature ofthe applicant or representative is required in accordance with CFR 1.33, 10.18. Please see CFR 1.4(d) for
`the form ofthe signature.
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`Name/Print
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`Kenneth H. Ohriner
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`Registration Number
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`31646
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`Date <YWY—MM-DD)
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