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`SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE INTERPRETATION OF INPUT FROM A
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`Applicant/Patent Owner, Henry DACOSTAetal.
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`STATEMENT UNDER 37 CFR3.73(b)
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`Titled:=SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE INTERPRETATION OF INPUT FROM A TOUCH-SENSITIVE
`INPUT DEVICE
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`Immersion Corporation
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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARKOFFICE
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`CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION
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`PATENT NO.
`APPLICATION NO.
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`: 8,164,573 B2
`: 10/723778
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`DATED
`INVENTOR(S)
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`: April 24, 2012
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`Page lofl
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`It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent is hereby corrected as shownbelow:
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`Title page 3, item [56], Line 62, Please delete “Vwiker,” please insert -- Wiker,--.
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`Column 8, Line 45, Please delete “(A Z)”, please insert -- (A Z)--.
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`Patent No. 8,164,573 B2
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`PATENT
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Henry DaCostaetal.
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`8,164,573 B2
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`April 24, 2012
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`SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE
`INTERPRETATION OF INPUT FROM A
`TOUCH-SENSITIVE INPUT DEVICE
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`Patentees
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`Patent No.
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`Issued
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`Title of Invention
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`:
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`Commissioner for Patents
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`REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION OF PATENT FOR PATENT
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`U.S. Patent Application Number 10/723,778, from which the above-referenced patent
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`issued, was filed on November 26, 2003. This communication is being submitted to request
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`Certificate of Correction under 37 C.F.R. § 1.322 be issued for the above-referenced U.S.
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`Please direct any questions regarding this request, and send the Certificate of
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`Dated: Crctola WT, 217
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`Carl E. Sanders (Reg. 57,203)
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`ISSUE DATE
`INVENTOR(S)
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`Henry DaCosta etal.
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`lt is certified that an error appears or errors appearin the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent
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