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Keyboard

Granted 9 Dec 2008 · no office action yet

Assignee: Microsoft Corporation

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Inventors: John Ikeda, Carl J. Ledbetter, Jared Randall, Michael Baseflug +1 · Examiner: Jeffrey D Asch · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
29/278,650
filed 5 Apr 2007
Publication
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US D582423
granted 9 Dec 2008

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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 keyboard showing the new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a first side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a second side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof.

The broken line circles on the fourth and seventh keys in the center row of FIGS. 1 and 6 form no part of the claimed design. The broken line across the front portion of the design in FIGS. 1 , 2 , 4 , and 5 forms no part of the claimed design. The non-shaded regions, and the broken lines within the non-shaded regions, in FIGS. 3–7 , are for the purpose of illustrating portions of the article and form no part of the claimed design.

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D14/455D14/401

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