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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`SONOS, INC.,
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`D&M HOLDINGS INC.,
`Patent Owner
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`Case No. IPR2017-01043
`U.S. Patent 6,473,441
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`PETITIONER SONOS, INC.’S REQUEST FOR
`REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`IPR2017-01043
`U.S. Patent 6,473,441
`PETITIONER SONOS, INC.’S REQUEST FOR
`REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`Pursuant to the Patent and Trademark Office’s (“PTO”) Final Rule Setting
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`and Adjusting Patent Fees, 78 F.R. 4211, 4233-4234 (Jan. 18, 2013), Petitioner
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`Sonos, Inc. (“Sonos”) requests a refund in the amount of $14,000.
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`On March 7, 2017, Sonos filed a Petition for Inter Partes Review of U.S.
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`Patent 6,473,441 (“the ‘441 Patent”) with the PTO that was assigned case number
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`IPR2017-01043. In accordance with the fee schedule specified in 37 C.F.R.
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`§42.15(a), Sonos provided the PTO with a credit card payment in the amount of
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`$23,000 at the time of filing of its Petition to cover the associated fees. Sonos’s
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`payment consisted of $9,000 in fees associated with Sonos’s request for Inter
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`Partes Review, and a further $14,000 for post-institution fees.
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`On September 18, 2017, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board entered
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`judgment terminating the IPR2017-01043 proceeding prior to institution (Paper
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`No. 10).
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`Accordingly, Sonos requests a refund in the amount of $14,000 for the post-
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`institution fees that it has paid to the PTO in connection with this proceeding.
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`Sonos would appreciate receiving this refund either in the form of a credit back to
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`the same credit card used for the original $23,000 fee, or a check made payable to
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`its counsel, Lee Sullivan Shea & Smith LLP at the below address.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`Dated: September 18, 2017
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`IPR2017-01043
`U.S. Patent 6,473,441
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`By: /Sean M. Sullivan/
`Sean M. Sullivan, Reg. No. 40,191
`Lee Sullivan Shea & Smith LLP
`224 N. Desplaines St., Suite 250
`Chicago, IL 60661
`(312) 754-9607 (telephone)
`(312) 754-9603 (fax)
`sullivan@ls3ip.com
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`Counsel for Petitioner
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`I hereby certify that on September 18, 2017, a true and accurate copy of this
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`IPR2017-01043
`U.S. Patent 6,473,441
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`paper, PETITIONER SONOS, INC.’S REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST
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`INSTITUTION FEES, was served on the following counsel for Patent Owner via
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`email:
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`Christopher J. Rourk, Lead Counsel
`Reg. No. 39,348
`crourk@jw.com
`Jackson Walker LLP
`2323 Ross Avenue, Suite 600
`Dallas, TX 75201
`T: 214-953-5990
`F: 214-661-6604
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`Wasif H. Qureshi, Backup Counsel
`Reg. No. 51,048
`wqureshi@jw.com
`Jackson Walker LLP
`1401 McKinney Street, Suite 1900
`Houston, TX 77010
`T: 713-752-4521
`F: 713-308-4121
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`Dated: September 18, 2017
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`By: /Sean M. Sullivan/
`Sean M. Sullivan, Reg. No. 40,191
`Lee Sullivan Shea & Smith LLP
`224 N. Desplaines St., Suite 250
`Chicago, IL 60661
`(312) 754-9607 (telephone)
`(312) 754-9603 (fax)
`sullivan@ls3ip.com
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`Counsel for Petitioner
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