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Soap dispenser

Granted 24 Aug 2004 · no office action yet

Assignee: Moen Incorporated

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Inventors: Lizabeth Dretzka · Examiner: Louis S. Zarfas · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application

29/170,289

filed 4 Nov 2002

Publication

Not published

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US D495032

granted 24 Aug 2004

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Description

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›Applicant disclaims the matter shown in dotted lines…

Applicant disclaims the matter shown in dotted lines in FIG. 6.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of my new design for a soap dispenser;

FIG. 2 is a front elevation view;

FIG. 3 is a rear elevation view;

FIG. 4 is a right side elevation view, the left side view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top plan view; and,

FIG. 6 is a bottom plan view.

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3 codes

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/DRW

USPC · US Patent Classification

D23/238D65/42

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Examiner

Louis S. Zarfas

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Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
USthis patent	US-D495032-S	S1	24 Aug 2004	4 Nov 2002	granted	Soap dispenser

›Other offices — 1 members

Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
CA	CA-102887-S	S	28 Jan 2004	2 May 2003	granted	Soap dispenser

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