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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`APPLICATION NO.
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`FILING DATE
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`UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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`ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.
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`CONFIRMATION NO.
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`13/366,197
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`02/03/2012
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`Paul Timothy Miller
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`47583.3
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`HAYNES AND BOONE, LLP
`IP Section
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`2323 Victory Avenue
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`DATE MAILED: 04/21/2014
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`Determination of Patent Term Adjustment under 35 U.S.C. 154 (b)
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`(application filed on or after May 29, 2000)
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`The Patent Term Adjustment to date is 187 day(s). If the issue fee is paid on the date that is three months after the
`mailing date of this notice and the patent issues on the Tuesday before the date that is 28 weeks (six and a half
`months) after the mailing date of this notice, the Patent Term Adjustment will be 187 day(s).
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`Notice Of Allowablllty
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`Application No.
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`Applicant(s)
`MILLER ET AL.
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`AIA (First Inventor to
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`-- The MAILING DA TE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address--
`All claims being allowable, PROSECUTION ON THE MERITS IS (OR REMAINS) CLOSED in this application.
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`NOTICE OF ALLOWABILITY IS NOT A GRANT OF PATENT RIGHTS. This application is subject to withdrawal from issue at the initiative
`of the Office or upon petition by the applicant. See 37 CFR 1.313 and MPEP 1308.
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`1. IXI This communication is responsive to 01/06/2014.
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`I] A declaration(s)/affidavit(s) under 37 CFR 1.130(b) was/were filed on
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`2. I:I An election was made by the applicant in response to a restriction requirement set forth during the interview on
`requirement and election have been incorporated into this action.
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`3. E The allowed claim(s) is/are 13-14 16-25 27-30 32-34. As a result of the allowed claim(s), you may be eligible to benefit from the
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`The present application is being examined under the pre—AIA first to invent provisions.
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`Claim Re'ections - 35 U.S.C.
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`112:
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`Applicants’ arguments with respect to 112 lSt paragraph with rejection of claims 13—34
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`have been fully considered and are persuasive. The rejection of 112 1St paragraph of claims 13—
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`34 have been withdrawn in view of the amendment to claim.
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`Claim Re'ections - 35 U.S.C.
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`101:
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`Applicants’ arguments with respect to claims 13—23 have been fully considered and are
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`persuasive. The rejection of 35 USC §101 regarding claims 13—23 have been withdrawn in view
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`of the amendment to claim.
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`EXAMINER ’S AMENDMENT
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`An examiner’s amendment to the record appears below. Should the changes and/or
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`additions be unacceptable to applicant, an amendment may be filed as provided by 37 CFR
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`1.312. To ensure consideration of such an amendment, it MUST be submitted no later than the
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`payment of the issue fee.
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`Authorization for this examiner’s amendment was given in a telephone interview with
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`Attorney David Bowls on 04/11/2014.
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`The application has been amended as follows:
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`13. (Currently amended) A computer implemented method comprising:
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`selecting, by a hardware processor, a varying combination of minutia from a plurality of
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`minutia types including software minutia of a device being chall