<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have a friend in the Patent Office, and she suggests Mark Farrell. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeueThinCondensed, HelveticaNeue-Thin-Condensed, "Helvetica Neue Thin Condensed", HelveticaNeueThin, HelveticaNeue-Thin, "Helvetica Neue Thin", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="mailto:mark.farrell@leehayes.com" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 110, 161); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer;" class="">mark.farrell@leehayes.com</a></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeueThinCondensed, HelveticaNeue-Thin-Condensed, "Helvetica Neue Thin Condensed", HelveticaNeueThin, HelveticaNeue-Thin, "Helvetica Neue Thin", HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">T <a href="tel:5099444671" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 90, 132); line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" class="">509.944.4671</a></div><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 10, 2020, at 2:05 PM, <a href="mailto:lcvargo@comcast.net" class="">lcvargo@comcast.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hello Listmates,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I hope everyone is doing well as we continue to move forward during these unprecedented times.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">We have an estate that includes patents. The PR has had no luck in finding a broker who would be interested in listing the patents and has spoken informally to some people he knows or was connected to (including a data scientist and patent attorney). They have reviewed the patents are have informally told him that the patents have little or no resale value and that the technology that the decedent was working solved a problem that no longer exists. We are looking to obtain a formal statement from someone who can look at the patents and then say whether or not they have any value that is worth holding on to. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Has anyone worked with a company/person they can recommend we could contact to obtain this opinion from? Since the assets of the estate are minimal, it would be helpful if the costs were reasonable.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks for any assistance.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Best,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Lisa<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 102, 102);" class="">Lisa C. 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