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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`Metromont Corporation,
`Petitioner,
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`v.
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`Reigstad & Associates, Inc.,
`Patent Owner.
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`METROMONT EXHIBIT 1023:
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`DECLARATION OF JAIME GUSTAVO TUMIALAN
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`IN SUPPORT OF EXHIBIT 1004
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`1. My name is Jaime Gustavo Tumialan and I am a Senior Project
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`Manager at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. I am providing this Declaration in
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`connection with Metromont Corporation’s above-referenced petition for inter partes
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`review of U.S. Patent No. 10,337,196. Unless otherwise stated, the facts set forth in
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`this Declaration are based on my personal knowledge.
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`2. Metromont Exhibit 1004 is a true and accurate copy of an article I co-
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`authored entitled Case Study: Strengthening of Parking Garage Decks with Near-
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`Surface-Mounted CFRP Bars, which was published in the September/October 2007
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`edition of the Journal of Composites for Construction (“Exhibit 1004”). An exhibit
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`label and page number have been added to the bottom of this document on all pages,
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`but no other alterations have been made.
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`3.
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`Exhibit 1004 was publicly accessible in September of 2007. The
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`Journal of Composites for Construction is published by the American Society of
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`Civil Engineers and is well-known in the construction and structural engineering
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`industry. The edition of the Journal of Composites for Construction including
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`Exhibit 1004 was published in September of 2007 and was publicly available and
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`widely disseminated at
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`this
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`time.
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`In particular,
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`I
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`recall
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`this specific
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`September/October 2007 edition of the Journal of Composites for Construction as it
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`included my article and I can confirm its public accessibility in September of 2007.
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`4.
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`I declare that all statements made herein on my own knowledge are true
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`and that all statements made on information and belief are believed to be true, and
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`further, that these statements were made with the knowledge that willful false
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`statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both,
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`under § 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code.
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`Executed on: 16 January 2021
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`By:
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`Jaime Gustavo Tumialan
`Senior Project Manager
`Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
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