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Handle for a folding tool

Granted 20 May 2003 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Leatherman Tool Group

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Inventors: Benjamin C. Rivera · Examiner: Alan P. Douglas · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/155,104
filed 30 Jan 2002
Publication
Not published
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US D474670
granted 20 May 2003

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is an isometric view from the…

FIG. 1 is an isometric view from the upper right front of a handle for a folding tool showing my new design, wherein the broken-line depictions of rivet heads on the side of the handle and of a folding tool including a pair of similar handles and a pair of scissors blades associated therewith are included merely for illustrative purposes and form no part of the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a right side elevational view of the handle for a folding tool shown in FIG. 1, the left side elevational view thereof being a mirror image of this view;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a rear end elevational view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a front end elevational view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is an isometric view taken from the upper right front thereof.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D08/107D80/58

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Pendency
1.3 y
475 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
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1
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Examiner
Alan P. Douglas
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