Attorney Docket No.: GHO004US-CON7 — 42534-708.308
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Inventor(s): TALASAZ
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`Serial Number: 17/410,903
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`Filing Date: August 24, 2021
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`Title. METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR
`DETECTING GENETIC VARIANTS
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`Commissioner for Patents
`P.O. Box 1450
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`ATTN: Certificate of Correction Branch
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`Confirmation No.: 9317
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`Customer No.: 115823
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`Examiner: Kenneth R. HORLICK
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`REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION OF THE ISSUED PATENT FOR
`APPLICANT’S MISTAKE 37 CFR1.323
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`Commissioner:
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`It is noted that errors of a minor nature appearin this patent due to mistakes on the part of
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`the applicant, as more fully described below. The Patentee believes that corrections thereof do
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`not involve such changes in the patent as would constitute new matter or would require
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`reexamination of the patent. A certificate of correction is therefore requested.
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`Attorney Ref.: GH0004US-CON7 — 42534-708.308
`Filed August 24, 2021
`USSN: 17/410,903
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`Mistake on the part of the Applicant:
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`Applicant respectfully requests correction to Claim 24 and Claim 30 in the issued Patent
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`to correct and makeconsistent the numbering structure of the claims. The change requested are
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`located in the issued Patentat:
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`Request Correction:
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`Column 63, Line 27, Claim 24:
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`Remove "(h)" and replace it with --(f)--
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`Column 64, Line 10, Claim 24:
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`Remove"(i)" and replace it with --(g)--
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`Column 64, Line 28, Claim 30:
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`Remove "(h)(1) and by (h)(2)" and replace it with --(f)(1) and by (f)(2)--
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`Attorney Ref.: GH0004US-CON7 — 42534-708.308
`Filed August 24, 2021
`USSN: 17/410,903
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`GUARDANT HEALTH,INC.
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`Date: February 6, 2023
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`By:
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`/Timothy A. Hott/
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`Timothy A. Hott
`Registration No.: 67740
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`GUARDANT HEALTH,INC.
`3100 HanoverStreet
`Palo Alto, CA 94304
`Customer No. 115823
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`PTO/SB/44 (09-07)
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`U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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`Also Form PTO-1050
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARKOFFICE
`CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION
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`PATENTNO.
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`: 11,434,531
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`APPLICATION NO.: 17/410,903
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`ISSUE DATE
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`: September 6, 2022
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`INVENTOR(S): AmirAli TALASAZ and Helmy ELTOUKHY
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`It is certified that an error appears or errors appear in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent
`is hereby corrected as shown below:
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`Remove "(h}(1) and by (h)(2)" and replace it with --(f)(1) and by (f)(2)--
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`In the Claims:
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`Column 68, Line 27, Claim 24:
`Remove "(h}" and replaceit with --(f)--
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`Column 64, Line 10, Claim 24:
`Remove "(i)" and replace it with --(g)--
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`Column 64, Line 28, Claim 30:
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