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Surface configuration of a shift lever for a vehicle

Granted 1 Oct 2002 · no office action yet

Assignee: Mercedes-Benz Group AG

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Inventors: Franz Lecher, Murat Guenak, Peter Pfeiffer, Steffen Koehl · Examiner: Melody N. Brown · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application

29/150,785

filed 30 Nov 2001

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US D463765

granted 1 Oct 2002

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a surface configuration of a shift lever for a vehicle according to our novel design;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the surface configuratio of a shift lever for a vehicle according to our novel design;

FIG. 3 is a rear view of the surface cofiguration of a shift lever for a vehicle according to our novel design;

FIG. 4 is a left view of the surface configuration of a shift lever for a vehicle according to our novel design; and,

FIG. 5 is a right view of the surface configuration of a shift lever for a vehicle according to our novel design.

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›1.independentThe ornamental designfor a surface configuration of a shift lever for a vehicle, as shown and described.

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USPC · US Patent Classification

D12/179

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Melody N. Brown

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