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`BEFORE TI{E PATENT TRIAL A}ID APPEAL BOARD
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`FedEx Corp.
`Petitioner
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`v.
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`Intellectual Venfires tr LLC and Roelsis Wireless LLC
`Patent Ovmer
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`U.S. Patent No. 9,047,586
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`Declaration of Mark Reboulet
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`I. Ixrnonucrrou
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`I, Mark Reboulet submit this declaration to state my opinions on the
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`matters described below.
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`I am currently employed as the President of Reboulet & Associates
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`LLC, a consulting firm based in Tipp City, Ohio, focusing on AIDC, including
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`Item Unique Identification (IUID) as used by the Department of Defense @OD),
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`Unique Device Identification (UDI) as used by the Food and Drug Administration,
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`and data capture and traceability in manufacturing generally.
`3. Beginning in 1994, I led the newly-formed Air Force Automatic
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`Identffication Technology Program Management Offrce, a consolidation ofthe
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`Microcircuit Technology in Logistics Applications (MITLA) program and the
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`Logistics Marking and Automated Reading Symbols (LOGMARS) program,
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`which was responsible for bar coding within the Air Force and the Department of
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`Defense, I worked for the Air Force until I retired September 30,2014.
`4.
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`In 1999 and 2000, while working with the Air Force, I assisted
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`Richard B. Meyers in coordinating several United States Air Force Bar Code
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`Seminars ('Seminars"). These Seminars were attended by members of the Air
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`Force and other branches of the Armed Services working in the area of bar code
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`technology, including members of the Air Force Automatic Identification
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`Technology Program Office as well as contractors working on Air Force and
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`Department of Defense automatic identification and data capture projects. These
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`Seminars were additionally attorded by other indusfiy professionals working in the
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`area of bar code technology, including professionals from Intermec Corporation,
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`Symbol Technologies Inc., and CDO Technologies.
`5. The Seminars welcomed 267 atlendees in 1999 and 345 attendees
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`in 2000. Meyers and I kept a record of attendance at these Seminars. I have
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`maintained this record in my own files. A copy ofthis record is attached as
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`Exhibit A to this Declaration.
`II. Busmrur,r,
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`ln 1999 and 2000, we provided attendees of the Seminars with a copy
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`of Richard D. Bushnell and Richard B. Meyers, "Getting Started with Bar Codes:
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`A Systematic Guide'(5* ed. 1999) @x. 1002), hereinafter Bushnett.I have
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`personal knowledge that attendees of the Seminars received copies of Bushnell
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`in 1999 and 2000.
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`I hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own
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`knowledge are true, and that all statements made on infonnation and belief are
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`believed to be true and that such statements are made with the knowledge that
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`willful false statements and the like are pmishable by fine or imprisonment or
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`both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
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`Mark S. Reboulet
`3t AUGADt?
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