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`Applicant
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`: Hiroyasu KITAMURA
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`Group Art Unit: Not Yet Assigned
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`Appln. No.
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`I.A. Filed
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`Examiner: Not Yet Assigned
`12/279,002
`(U.S. National Stage of PCT/JP2007/062798)
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`June 26, 2007
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`Confirmation No. : 6863
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`For
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`: DRYING DEVICE
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`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 C.F.R. §1.56 and §§1.97-1.98,
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`Applicant hereby brings to the attention of the Examiner the following information.
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`The following documents were cited in an International Search Report with respect to
`International Patent Application No. PCT/JP2007/062798, ofwhich the present applicatign is the
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`US. National Stage Application. A copy of the International Search Report has been filed
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`concurrently with the present application and should thus have been brought to the attention of
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`the Examiner.
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`(1) Japanese Patent Publication No. HEI 10-94685 A, together with an English
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`language Abstract thereof;
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`(2) Japanese Patent Publication No. HEI 1 1-218384 A, together with an
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`English language Abstract thereof; and
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`(3) Japanese Utility Model Publication No. SHO 60-631 Y2, together with a
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`partial English language translation thereof.
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`The relevance of the documents cited in the International Search Report, as ascertained
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`with respect to the International claims by the International Examiner, is set forth in the
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`International Search Report.
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`Applicant further submits the following documents:
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`(4) Japanese Patent Publication No. 2003-308955 A, together with an English
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`language Abstract thereof; and
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`(5) Japanese Patent Publication No. HEI 2-114485 A, together with an English
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`language Abstract thereof.
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`Applicant notes that documents (1) and (4) are cited beginning at pages 1 and 2 of the
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`specification of the above-captioned application.
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`Applicant respectfully requests that the Examiner consider the above material and cite the
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`same. Copies of above-noted foreign documents, including the noted English language Abstracts
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`and translation, are attached hereto, and are listed on an attached PTO-1449 Form. The
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`Examiner is requested to initial the appropriate spaces on the attached Form and to retum a copy
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`of the completed Form to Applicant with the next official communication in the present
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`application.
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`Should the Examiner have any questions, the Examiner is invited to contact the
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`undersigned at the below-listed telephone number.
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`Respectfully submitted,
`Hiroyasu KITAMURA
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` Bruce
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`. Bernstein
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`Reg. No. 29,027
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`Enoch E. Paavey
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`November 19, 2008
`GREENBLUM & BERNSTEIN, P.L.C.
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`Reston, VA 20191
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