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`STATEMENT BY APPLICANT
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`U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`Examiner|Cite Document Number Publication Date Nameof Patentee or RoeitPrewnees orRelavant
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`Initiats*|No.’|Number-Kind Code?(known)|MM-DD-YYYY Applicant of Cited Document Figures Appear
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`|_JIR/[AA*[US-D511,398[11-08-2005[Nishizawa
`|yJAB"[US-0511,590[11-15-2005[Nishizawa
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`| TAC"[US-0513,541_ [01-10-2006 [Nishizawa
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`LN JAE* [US-0514,745[02-07-2006[Nishizawa
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`FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
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`Examiner|Cite Foreign Patent ment Date Name of Patentes or Where Relevant Passages
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`Intiats”|No."|Country Code?-Number"Kind Code®(known)|MM-DD-YYYY Applicant of Cited Document——_|or Relevant Figures
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`“EXAMINER:Initial ¢ information considered, whetheror not citation is in conformance with MPEP 609. Draw line throughcitation if not in conformance and not
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`Include copy of this form with next communication to applicant.
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`? Enter Office that issued the document, by the two-letter code (WIPO Standard ST.3).
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`Japanese patent documents, the indication of the yearofthe reign of tha Emperor must precede the serial numberof the patent document. 5 Kind of document by
`the appropriate symbois as indicated on the document under WIPO Standard ST. 16 if possible. * Applicant is to place a check mark here if English language
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`include nameof the author ( in CAPITAL LETTERS),title of the article (when appropriate), title of the item (book,
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`NON PATENT LITERATURE DOCUMENTS
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`‘Applicant's unique citation designation number(optional). Applicant is to place a check mark hereif English tanguage Transtation is attached.
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`(Jennifer Rivard! (04/12/2007)
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