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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`APPLE INC.,
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`PINN, INC,
`Patent Owner.
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`Case IPR2021-00220
`Patent 10,455,066
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`PETITIONER REQUEST FOR REFUND OF POST-INSTITUTION FEES
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`Pursuant to the Patent and Trademark Office’s Final Rule Setting and
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`Case IPR2021-00220
`Attorney Docket No: 39521-0092IP2
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`Adjusting Patent Fees, 78 Fed. Reg. 4212, 4232–4234 (Jan. 18, 2013), Petitioner,
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`Apple Inc., requests a refund in the amount of $22,500 to be credited to Deposit
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`Account Number 06-1050.
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`On September 25, 2020, Petitioner filed a Petition for Inter Partes Review
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`of U.S. Patent No. 10,455,066 with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that was
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`assigned case number IPR2021-00220. In accordance with the fee schedule
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`specified in 37 C.F.R. § 42.15(a), Petitioner deposited an electronic payment in the
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`amount of $19,000 for the filing fees, and $22,500 in post-institution fees, for a
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`total of $41,500.
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`On March 19, 2021, prior to a decision on institution, the Patent Trial and
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`Appeal Board entered a Decision granting Decision granting dismissal of the
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`petition and terminating IPR2021-00220. Accordingly, Petitioner requests a
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`refund in the amount of $22,500 for the post-institution fees that it has paid to the
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`USPTO in connection with that proceeding and request that the refund be credited
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`to Deposit Account No. 06-1050.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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` /Andrew B. Patrick/
`W. Karl Renner, Reg. No. 41,265
`Kim Leung, Reg. No. 64,399
`Usman Khan, Reg. No. 70,439
`Andrew B. Patrick, Reg. No. 63,471
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`Date: May 14, 2021
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`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`Telephone: (202) 783-5070
`Facsimile: (202) 783-2331
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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`Pursuant to 37 CFR § 42.6(e), the undersigned certifies that on May 14,
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`2021, a complete and entire copy of this Petitioner Request for Refund of Post-
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`Institution Fees was provided via email to the Patent Owner by serving the
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`correspondence email addresses of record as follows:
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`Cabrach Connor
`CONNOR KUDLAC LEE PLLC
`609 Castle Ridge Road, Suite 450
`Austin, Texas 78746
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`Carder W. Brooks, David A. Skeels
`WHITAKER CHALK SWINDLE & SCHWARTZ PLLC
`301 Commerce Street, Suite 3500
`Fort Worth, Texas 76102-4135
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`John R. Kasha
`Kasha Law LLC
`14532 Dufief Mill Road
`North Potomac, MD 20878
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`Email: cab@connorkudlaclee.com
`cbrooks@whitakerchalk.com
`dskeels@whitakerchalk.com
`john.kasha@kashalaw.com
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`/Edward G. Faeth/
`Edward G. Faeth
`Fish & Richardson P.C.
`3200 RBC Plaza, 60 South Sixth Street
`Minneapolis, MN 55402
`(202) 626-46420
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