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Utility knife

Granted 3 Mar 2009 · 4 office actions

Current assignee: ECM Industries, LLC · originally ACTUANT CORPORATION

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Inventors: Patrick J. Radle, Daryl C. Brockman, Austin R. Braganza, Christopher L. Peterson +4 · Examiner: Philip S Hyder · AU 2915 · TC 2900

Application
29/282,477
filed 20 Jul 2007
Publication
Not published
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US D587554
granted 3 Mar 2009

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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 utility knife showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a right side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a top side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom side elevational view thereof;

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

FIG. 7 is a rear end elevational view thereof.

The broken line representations of portions of the utility knife in FIGS. 1–7 do not limit the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D08/99

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1.6 y
592 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
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Responses
2
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Examiner
Philip S Hyder
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