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`Declaration Form 3.1 (Jan. 2009)
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`DECLARATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR U.S. PATENT APPLICATION
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`I hereby declare that: my residence, post office address and citizenship are as stated
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`below next to my name; and I believe that I am the original, first and sole inventor (if only one name is listed below) or an original,
`first and joint inventor (if plural inventors are named below) of the subject matter which is claimed and for which a patent is
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`CHARACTER STRING EXTRACTION METHOD AND CHARACTER STRING EXTRACTION DEVICE
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`I acknowledge my duty to disclose to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office all information known to me to be material
`to patentability as defined in Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations, §1.56.
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`I hereby claim foreign priority benefits under Title 35, United States Code, §119 (a-d), §172, or §365(b) of any foreign
`appIication(s) for patent or inventor's certificate, or §365(a) of any PCT international application which designated at least one
`country other than the United States of America, listed below, and have also identified below any foreign application for patent or
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`I hereby claim the benefit under Title 35, United States Code §119(e) of any United States Provisional application(s)
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`I hereby claim the benefit under Title 35, United States Code §120 of any United States application(s), or §365(C) of
`any PCT international application designating the United States of America, listed below and, insofar as the subject matter of
`each of the claims of this application is not disclosed in the prior United States or PCT international application in the manner
`provided by the first paragraph of Title 35, United States Code §112,
`I acknowledge the duty to disclose information material to
`patentability as defined in Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations, §1.56 which occurred between the filing date of the prior
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`POWER OF ATTORNEY: As a named inventor,
`I hereby appoint the attorneys and agents associated with U.S. Patent and
`Trademark Office Customer Number identified below to prosecute this application including divisions, continuations and reissues
`thereof in the United States and to transact all business in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office connected therewith, and direct
`that all correspondence be addressed to that customer number.
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`I hereby authorize the U.S. attorneys and agents associated with the customer number to accept and follow instructions
`from Panasonic Corporation and any affiliated or subsidiary company thereof, received via their corporate representatives and/or
`their foreign patent attorneys or agents, if any, as to any action to be taken in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding
`this application without direct communication between the U.S. attorneys or agents and myself.
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`I further declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are true, and that all statements made on
`information and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made with the knowledge that willful false
`statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United
`States Code, and that such willful false statements may jeopardize the validity of the application or any patent issuing thereon.
`lNVENTOR (5)
`Full Name of Sole or First
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`Residence & Citizenship
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`LAST NAME
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`SETOYAMA
`Masahiro
`CITY. STATE or COUNTRY
`Nagasaki, Japan
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`c/o Panasonic Eco Technology Center Co., Ltd.
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`50, Saho, Kato-shi, Hyogo 673-1447 Japan Full Name of
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`Haruo
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`lbaraki, Japan
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`c/o Panasonic Eco Technology Kanto Co, Ltd.
`1741, Kamai, inashiki-shi, lbarakiken, 300—0604 Japan
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`Third Invemor
`Kazuhiko
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`Residence & Citizenship
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`CITY, STATE or COUNTRY
`Hyogo, Japan
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`c/o Panasonic Eco Technology Center Co., Ltd.
`50, Saho, Kato-Shi, Hyogo 673-1447 Japan
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`Masanori
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`F UJ IWA RA
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`CITY. STATE or COUNTRY
`Hyogo, Japan
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`c/o Panasonic Production Technology Co, Ltd.
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`2-7, Matsuba-cho, Kadoma-shi, Osaka 571—8502 Japan
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`C/o Panasonic Communications Solutions Co, Ltd.
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`2-6—54, Tsunashima Higashi, Kohoku—ku, Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa 223—8687 Japan
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