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`Response to Rule 312 Communication
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`Application No.
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`Preliminary Amendment dated: April 27. 2006
`Title: Hands-Ree, Voice Operated Remote-Control Transmitter
`Applicant: William Small Bush
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`DECLARATION FOR PATENT APPLICATION
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`As a below named inventor. I hereby declare that my residence. post office address and citizenship are
`as stated below next to my name: i believe that I am the original. first and sole inventor (if only one name is listed
`below) or an original. first and joint inventor (if plural names are listed below) of the subject matter which is
`claimed and for which a patent is sought on the invention entitled "HANDS-FREE. VOICE-OPERATED REMOTE
`CONTROL TRANSMITTER" the specification of which was tiled on January 27. 2003 as Attenuation Serial No.
`toll 68.935 and was amended on ______________(if applicable);
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`acknowledge the duty to disclow to the Patent and Trademark Office all information known to me to be material
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