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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`Applicants: Teruko YAMAMOTO et a1.
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`Confirmation No. 6265
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`Appl. No.:
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`l 1/721,086
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`Examiner: M. M. NELSON
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`(U.8. National Stage of PCT/JP2007/056041 )
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`I.A. Filed : March 23, 2007
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`Group Art Unit: 3732
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`ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE WITH MAGNETIC FIELD
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`GENERATOR FOR CAUSING VIBRATION
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`SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
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`Commissioner for Patents
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`US Patent and Trademark Office
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`Customer Service Window, Mail Stop Amendment
`Randolph Building
`401 Dulany Street
`Alexandria, VA 22314
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`Sir:
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`In accordance with the duty of disclosure under 37 CFR § 1.56 and §§ 1.97 — 1.98,
`Applicants wish to bring the following information to the attention of the Examiner.
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`Applicants wish to make of record the documents listed on the attached form PTO-1449.
`Copies of the listed documents are attached, where required, as are noted English translations, or
`partial translations of pertinent portions, and/or English language abstracts, of any non-English
`language references. Statements of relevancy, if necessary, appear below.
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`COMMONLY ASSIGNED
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`Listed on the attached form PTO-1449 are certain of Applicant’s commonly assigned
`pending application(s), published application(s) or issued patent(s).
`In accordance with
`37 CFR §1.98(a)(2)(ii), copies of the cited U.S. pending applications, published
`applications and/or issued patents, are not provided.
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`STATEMENT OF RELEVANCY
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`* have been cited in an International Search Report and/or Written
`Documents *
`Opinion, which indicates the relevancy thereof to the claims of the International
`Application. Copies of documents cited in the International Search Report should have
`been forwarded by the International Bureau and thus have not been provided.
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`Documents A, N, O and P have been cited in the corresponding two Japanese Office
`Actions dated May 19, 2009, which indicates the relevancy of the cited documents. Any
`necessary copy is being submitted herewith.
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`* are cited in the Specification of the present application. Any
`Documents *
`necessary copy is being submitted herewith.
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`* have been cited in the parent application(s) either by the Applicant(s)
`Documents *
`or by the examiner. Copies of these documents should be available in the parent
`application(s) and thus have not been provided herewith.
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`Documents B and C are related as patent family members of document P.
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`Documents *
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`* were cited in related US. Patent Application No.
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`Documents *
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`* were cited by a third party.
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`Document A was previously cited in an earlier filed Information Disclosure Statement in
`the present application.
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`CERTIFICATION
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`Each item of information contained in this information disclosure statement was first
`cited in any communication from a foreign patent office in a counterpart foreign
`application not more than three months prior to the filing of this statement. This
`certification does not apply to any document previously cited in the present application.
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`Moreover, this communication was not received by any individual designated in §1.56 (c)
`more than thirty days prior to the filing of the Information Disclosure Statement.
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`The Information Disclosure Statement is being submitted subsequent to the filing of an
`RCE. Accordingly, no payment is believed to be due for consideration of the documents.
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`DEPOSIT ACCOUNT
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`In the event that any additional fees are due with respect to this paper, the Commissioner
`is hereby authorized to charge such fees to Deposit Account No. 19-0089 of the
`undersigned
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`If there should be any questions, the Examiner is invited to contact the undersigned at the
`telephone number listed below.
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`April 26, 2010
`GREENBLUM & BERNSTEIN, P.L.C.
`1950 Roland Clarke Place
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`Reston, VA 20191
`(703) 716-1191
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`Respectfully submitted,
`Teruko YAMAMOTO et a1.
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`Bruce H. Bernstein
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`Reg. No. 29027
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`Enoch E. Peavey
`Reg. NO- 57-686
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