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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Applicant:
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`Patrick Miles
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`Serial No.:
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`29/306,656
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`Filing Date: April 14, 2008
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`Title:
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`Intervertebral Implant
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`Art Unit:
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`104DES2
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`Examiner: Rademaker, Charles A.
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`Certificate of Transmission: I hereby certify that this correspondenceis being transmitted to the United States Patent and Trademark
`Office, via EFS-Web, on March 24, 2009
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`Rory Schermerhorn
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`/roryschermerhorn/
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`Interview Summary
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`Commissioner for Patents
`P.O. Box 1450
`Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
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`Dear Sir:
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`The Applicants thank Examiner Rademakerfor the courtesy of a telephone interview
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`conducted on February 19, 2009. The Applicants discussed the possibility of resubmitting an
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`IDSafter receiving a notice of allowance. The IDS as originally submitted lacked the PTO 1449
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`form listing the references to be cited. The Examinerindicated that he would consider any
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`foreign documents that were originally submitted with the IDS, but that a CPA should befiled if
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`additional references were to be included.
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`Respectfully submitted,
`NUVASIVE,INC.
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`/roryschermerhorn/
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`By:
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`Rory Schermerhorn, Esq.
`Registration No. 58,148
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`7475 Lusk Boulevard
`San Diego, CA 92121
`Tel.: (858) 909-1845
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`March 24, 2009
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