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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Docket No.: l-lOK-O279
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`(PATENT)
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`In re Patent Application of:
`Tomoyuki lnoue et al.
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`Application No.: 11/151,280
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`Confirmation No.: 5855
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`Filed: June 14, 2005
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`Art Unit: 3724
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`INFORMATION DISCLOSURE STATEMENT QIDSQ
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`Dear Sir:
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`Submitted herewith on Form PTO—1449 or PTO/SB/O8 is a listing of documents known to
`Applicant in order to comply with Applicant's duty of disclosure pursuant to 37 CFR 1.56. Applicant
`respectfully requests that the listed documents be considered by the Examiner and formally be made
`of record in the present application and that an initialed copy of Form PTO-1449 or PTO/SB/08 be
`returned in accordance with MPEP §609.
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`E A copy of each listed document is being submitted to comply with the provisions of 37
`CFR§§1.97 and 1.98
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`The submission of any document herewith, which is not a statutory bar, is not intended
`as an admission that such document constitutes prior art against the claims of the present application
`or that such document is considered material to patentability as defined in 37 CFR §1.56(b).
`Applicant does not waive any rights to take any action which would be appropriate to antedate or
`otherwise remove as a competent reference any document which is determined to be a primafacie
`prior art reference against the claims of the present application.
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`June 14, 2005
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`‘ CITE NO: Those application(s) which are marked with an single asterisk (*) next
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`the document, by the two-letter code (WIPO Standard ST.3).
`4 For Japanese patent documents. the indication of the year of the reign of the Emperor must
`precede the serial number of the patent document. 5 Kind of document by the appropriate symbols as indicated on the document under WIPO Standard ST.16 if
`possible. 3Applicant is to place a check mark here if English language Trans!ation is attached.
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`magazine. journal, serial. symposium, catalog, etc), date, page(s), volume-issue number(s), publisher, city
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`Examination Report for corresponding Application No. 2005100817687 dated November 22,
`2006 with En. Iish translation
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`Dated: February 22, 2007
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