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`First Named Inventor
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`Lawrence Kates
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`Relaying Communications in a Wireless Sensor System
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`563800USCON19
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`Goog Ie LLC
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`Sitittfid Lawrence Kates We Relaying Communications in a Wireless Sensor System i
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`APPLICANT HEREBY REQUESTS A FIRST ACTEQN iNTERViEW EN THE ABOVE-tDENTiFiEt)
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`By filing this request:
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`Appiieant is agreeing to make an election without traverse if the Office determines that the ciaims are not
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`Applicant is agreeing not to request for a refund of the search fee and any excess cieims fee paid in the
`application afterthe maiiing or notification of the tire-interview communication prepared by the examiner.
`
`Other attachments:
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`Signature
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`
`Matthew Johnson
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`I Date May 13! 2018
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`72,299
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`
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`
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`The information is required to obtain or retain a benefit by the puoiic which is to iiie (and by the USPTO to process) an application. Confidentiaiity is governed by
`
`
`35 U.S.C. 122 and 37’ CFR Hi and 1.14. This oollecticn is estimated to take 12 hours
`.ipiete, inciuding gathering. preparing,
`id suhrriitting the compieted
`application form to the USPTO. Time will vary depending upon the individuai case.
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`Sonos Ex. 1002, p. 6
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`|PR2021-00964
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` Sonos v. Google
` IPR2021-00964
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`. The application must contain three (3) or fewer independent ciaims and twenty (29) ortewertotai claims.
`The application may not contain any multipie dependent claims.
`
`. The request must be iiied eiectronicaily using the Office’s electronic filing system, EFS—Web.
`
`ltthe Office determines that the ciaims are directed to
`. The claims must be directed to a singie invention.
`muitipie inventions (so, in a restriction requirement), the appiicant must make an eiection without traverse.
`
`. The request must be iiied at ieast one day before a first inice action on the merits of the appilcatlon
`appears in the Patent Appiication lnformation Retrieval (PAlR) system (tie, at least one day priorto the
`date when a first Qtfioe action on the merits, notice ofallowahiiity or aiiowance, or action under Ex parte
`Quayie, 1935 Dec. Comm’r Pat. 11 (1935) appears in the PAiR system). Appiicant may check the status of
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`notification oi the Pro—interview Communication. Any petition for express abandonment under 37 CFR
`1.138(d), and request for a refund of the search fee and any excess ciaims tees. fited afterthe mailing or
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`
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`A record from this system of records may be disclosed, as a routine use, to the
`Administrator, General Services, or his/her designee, during an inspection of records
`conducted by GSA as part oithat agency's responsibility to recommend improvements in
`records management practices and programs, under authority of 44 Lit-3.0. 2904 and 2905.
`Such disciosure shall he made in accordance with the GSA regulations governing
`inspection of records iorthis purpose, and any other reievanl (Le. GSA or Commerce):
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`A record from this system of records may be disclosed, as a routine use, to the public after
`either publication of the application pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 1226)) or issuance of a patent
`pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 151. Further, a record may be disclosed, subject to the iimitations of
`37 CFR 1.14, as a routine use, to the public if the record was l‘iied in an application which
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`CERTIFICATION AND REQUEST FOR PRIORITIZED EXAMINATION
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`The application contains or is amended to contain no more than four independent claims and
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`PATENT
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Inventorship: Lawrence Kates
`Serial No.:
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`Filed:
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`Unassigned
`Examiner:
`Group Art Unit: Unassigned
`Docket:
`563 800USCON19
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`Title:
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`Relaying Communications in a Wireless Sensor System
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