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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`ARTESIAN HOME PRODUCTS
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`AMERICAN DIE & ROLLFORMING
`Petitioners,
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`v.
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`GUTTERGLOVE, INC.,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2018-00030
`Patent 8,479,454 B2
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`DECLARATION OF JOHN COSTELLO
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`IPR2018-00030
`Petitioners Ex. 1016 p. 1
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`I, John Costello, declare as follows:
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`I am an attorney at law, licensed to practice in the State of California,
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`and I am backup counsel of record for Petitioners Artesian Home Products
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`("Artesian Home Products") and American Die & Rollforming ("ADR")
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`(collectively "Petitioners"). I am also counsel of record in Gutterglove, Inc. v.
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`American Die and Rollforming, Inc., et al., United States District Court for the
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`Eastern District of California Case No. 2:16-CV-02408-WHO, which is the co-
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`pending patent litigation arising out of the patents that are the subject of these IPR
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`proceedings. I have personal knowledge of the facts set forth herein, except those
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`matters stated upon information and belief which I believe to be true. If called to
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`testify, I could and would testify competently to the contents herein.
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`2.
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`Exhibit 1017 is a true and correct copy of a "Superior Gutter Guards"
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`brochure that was produced by Petitioners to Patent Owner Gutterglove's
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`("Gutterglove") counsel at the Kutak Rock firm on March 28, 2017, in the matter
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`Gutterglove, Inc. v. American Die and Rollforming, Inc., et al., United States
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`District Court for the Eastern District of California Case No. 2:16-CV-02408-
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`WHO.
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`3.
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`Exhibit 1018 is a true and correct redacted copy of the supplemental
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`responses served by Artesian Home Products on July 14, 2017, to Gutterglove's
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`counsel at the Kutak Rock firm, in response to Gutterglove's Common
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`IPR2018-00030
`Petitioners Ex. 1016 p. 2
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`Interrogatories Set One in the matter Gutter love, Inc. v. American Die and
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`Rollforming, Inc., et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of
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`California Case No. 2:1 F-CV-024(1R-WH(1
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`4.
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`Exhibit 1019 is a true and correct copy of documents produced by
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`Gutterglove's counsel at Kutak Rock in October 2017, in the matter Gutterglove,
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`Inc. v. American Die and Rollforming, Inc., et al., United States District Court for
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`the Eastern District of California Case No. 2:16-CV-02408-WHO. These
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`documents were produced to my office by Kutak Rock with Bates stamps
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`(GG003333-GG003340) and confidentiality designations on them.
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`I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of
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`America that the foregoing is true and correct.
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`John Costello
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`Executed on this 5th day of September, 2018.
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`IPR2018-00030
`Petitioners Ex. 1016 p. 3
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