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Front bumper for a vehicle

Granted 9 Aug 2011 · no office action yet

Assignee: BMW Manufacturing

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Inventors: Henning Holstein, Dirk Mueller-Stolz · Examiner: Melody N Brown · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application
29/371,302
filed 22 Dec 2010
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US D642965
granted 9 Aug 2011

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›This application contains subject matter related to the…

This application contains subject matter related to the following co-pending U.S. design patent application:

Application Ser. No. 29/371,301, filed herewith and entitled “Front Bumper for a Vehicle”.

FIG. 1 is a left, front perspective view of a front bumper for a vehicle according to our design;

FIG. 2 is a right, front perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof.

The broken lines are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

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D12/169

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