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`INFORMATION DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
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`FORM PTO/SB/08 A&B (modified)
`U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
`PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`FIRST NAMED INVENTOR
`Tomoaki TAKEMURA
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`LIST OF REFERENCES CITED BY APPLICANT(S)
`(Use several sheets ifnecessary)
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`Date Submitted to PTO: September 22, 2014
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`FILING DATE
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`September 22; 2014
`U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`*EXAMINER
`INITIAL
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`DOCUMENT
`NUMBER
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`DATE
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`NAME
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`CLASS
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`SUBCLASS
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`FILING DATE
`IF APPROPRIATE
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`6,283,763
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`09/2001
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`3aEEa: 9
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`6,346,940
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`02/2002
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`Fukunaga
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`AC
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`2012/0032959
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`02/2012
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`Imanaka et al.
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`2011/0234780
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`09/2011
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`Ito et al.
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`8,102,416
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`01/2012
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`Ito et al.
`FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`DOCUMENT
`NUMBER
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`COUNTRY
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`CLASS
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`SUBCLASS
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`TRANSLATION
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`Z0
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`03
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`11-161813
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`06/1999
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`10-295639
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`11/1998
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`BC
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`2004-173 973
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`06/2004
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`2011/118208
`4152402
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`09/2011
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`09/2008
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`5- 123327
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`05/ 1 993
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`2003 -265408
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`09/2003
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`2011/102012
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`08/2011
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`WO
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`BE
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`BF
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`BG
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`BH
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`BI
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`2010-200894
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`09/2010
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`JP
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`Machine translation
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`and corresponds to
`AA
`Machine translation
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`and corresponds to
`AB
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`Machine translation
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`Abstract and
`corresponds to AC
`Machine translation
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`Machine translation
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`Machine translation
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`Abstract and
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`corresponds to AD
`and AE
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`Machine translation
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`OTHER DOCUMENT(S) (Including Author, Title, Date, Pertinent Pages, Etc.)
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`International Search Report issued May 14, 2013 in International (PCT) Application No. PCT/JP2013/002062
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`International Search Report issued May 14, 2013 in International (PCT) Application No. PCT/JP2013/002065
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`Keiho Imanishi et al., “Haptic Navigation Method for Improving Safety of Master-Slave Type Robotic Surgery”,
`Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, September 30, 2003, Vol. 8, No. 3
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`Written Opinion of the International Searching Authority issued May 14, 2013 in International (PCT) Application No.
`PCT/JP2013/002065
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