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Base for a phone

Granted 21 Dec 2010 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Microsoft Corporation

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Inventors: Stephen Grant Lee, William George Verthein · Examiner: Robert M Spear · AU 2915 · TC 2900

Application
29/334,474
filed 27 Mar 2009
Publication
Not published
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US D629381
granted 21 Dec 2010

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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 base for a phone showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof; and,

FIG. 4 is a top view thereof.

The broken lines immediately adjacent to the shaded areas represent unclaimed boundaries of the design. The broken line showing of the remainder of the base and the unshaded regions within the broken lines are for environmental purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

2 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D14/142D14/257

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Robert M Spear
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