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Closure

Granted 17 Jul 2007 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company · originally Colgate-Palmolive

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Inventors: Bruce Cummings, John C. Crawford · Examiner: Robert M. Spear · AU 2915 · TC 2900

Application

29/250,697

filed 28 Nov 2006

Publication

Not published

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US D546684

granted 17 Jul 2007

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Citations

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2 dated events

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Description

1 parts

›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the closure of my design;

FIG. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

FIG. 3 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The broken line showing of a bottom portion of the closure is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

1 · 1 independent · depth 1

1 granted claims

›1.independentThe ornamental design for a closure, as shown and described.

Classifications

2 codes

USPC · US Patent Classification

D09/451D94/52

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Pendency

0.6 y

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none on record

Examiner

Robert M. Spear

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4 members · 2 offices

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4 of 4

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Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
US	US-D535879-S	S1	30 Jan 2007	31 Mar 2005	granted	Closure
USthis patent	US-D546684-S	S1	17 Jul 2007	28 Nov 2006	granted	Closure

›Other offices — 2 members

Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
CA	CA-112759-S	S	19 Oct 2007	23 Sep 2005	granted	Closure
CA	CA-118732-S	S	19 Oct 2007	23 Sep 2005	granted	Closure

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