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`Application No.17/695,361
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`REMARKS
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`Uponentry of the present paper, claims 1 and 2 will have been amended. Thus, claims 1-
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`19 remain pending in the present application.
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`The present amendmentis submitted to make sure that the pending claims sufficiently
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`correspondto the allowable claims of the Japan Patent Application. Thus, the claims, as
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`amended, sufficiently correspond to the allowable claims in the Japan Patent Application,asis
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`required for participation in the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program.
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`Accordingly, the amendments to the claims which have been madein this paper, which
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`have not been specifically noted to overcomea rejection based upontheprior art, should be
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`considered to have been made for a purpose unrelated to patentability, and no estoppel should be
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`deemed to attach thereto.
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`While no additional fees are believed to have been incurred,
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`in the event that any
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`additional fees are due with respect to this paper, the Commissioner is hereby authorized to
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`charge such fees to Deposit Account No. 19-0089 of the undersigned.
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`If there should be any questions, the Examineris invited to contact the undersigned at the
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`telephone numberlisted below.
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`Respectfully Submitted,
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`/Naoko Ohashi/
`Reg. No. 66,999
`Naoko Ohashi
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`BruceH.Bernstein
`Reg. No. 29,027
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`December 12, 2022
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