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Portion of a steering wheel for a game controller

Granted 6 May 2008 · no office action yet

Assignee: Microsoft Corporation

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Inventors: Joshua David Maruska, John Ikeda · Examiner: Prabhakar Deshmukh · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/275,195
filed 15 Dec 2006
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US D568409
granted 6 May 2008

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a portion of a steering wheel for a game controller showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof; and,

FIG. 3 is a top view thereof.

The broken line showing of the remainder of the steering wheel and the remainder of the game controller is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.

The broken lines, which define the bounds of the claimed design, on the lateral spoke member, form no part thereof.

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Claims

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D21/333D14/414D21/385D14/416

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Examiner
Prabhakar Deshmukh
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CACA-119788-SS30 Oct 20087 Mar 2007grantedSteering wheel based game controller

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