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Toothbrush refill

Granted 16 Mar 2010 · 2 office actions

Application
29/308,763
filed 3 Jul 2008
Publication
Not published
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US D611712
granted 16 Mar 2010

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view as seen…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view as seen from the front and left side of a toothbrush refill showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a left side view of the toothbrush refill of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a right side view of the toothbrush refill of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a front view of the toothbrush refill of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 5 is back view of the toothbrush refill of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged top view of the toothbrush refill of FIG. 1 ; and,

FIG. 7 is an enlarged bottom view of the toothbrush refill of FIG. 1 .

The broken lines illustrate portions of the toothbrush refill that form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D04/104

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Melanie H Tung
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AUAU-324345-SS3 Feb 200922 Dec 2008publishedToothbrush head
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