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Golf club shaft

Granted 14 Jul 2009 · 2 office actions

Assignee: MRC COMPOSITE PRODUCTS CO., LTD.

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Inventors: Kouji Shiga, Tetsuya Atsumi, Tsutomu Ibuki, Takashi Kaneko · Examiner: Mitchell I Siegel · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application

29/304,911

filed 10 Mar 2008

Publication

Not published

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US D596254

granted 14 Jul 2009

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front view of a…

FIG. 1 is a front view of a golf club shaft showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a rear view thereof;

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

FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The broken lines are environmental only and form no part of the claimed design. The ends of the shaft indicate indeterminate length.

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Claims

1 · 1 independent · depth 1

1 granted claims

›1.independentThe ornamental design for a golf club shaft, as shown and described.

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1 codes

USPC · US Patent Classification

D21/757

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Pendency

1.3 y

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Office actions

non-final + final

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Examiner

Mitchell I Siegel

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3 members · 3 offices

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Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
USthis patent	US-D596254-S	S1	14 Jul 2009	10 Mar 2008	granted	Golf club shaft

›Other offices — 2 members

Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
AU	AU-320104-S	S	1 Jul 2008	11 Mar 2008	published	Golf club shaft
CA	CA-124914-S	S	17 Oct 2008	6 Mar 2008	granted	Golf shaft

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