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Writing instrument

Granted 2 Apr 2013 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Sanford, L.P. · originally Sanford L.P.

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Inventors: James Bergman, Zhijun Long, Amy Li, Qiang Luo +1 · Examiner: Elizabeth Albert · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/426,109
filed 29 Jun 2012
Publication
Not published
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US D679326
granted 2 Apr 2013

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing our…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing our new design for a writing instrument;

FIG. 2 is a right side view of the writing instrument of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a front view of the writing instrument of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a rear view of the writing instrument of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 5 is a left side view of the writing instrument of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 6 is a bottom plan view of the writing instrument of FIG. 1 ; and,

FIG. 7 is a top plan view of the writing instrument of FIG. 1 .

The broken lines showing portions of the writing instrument are included for the purpose of illustrating environment and form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D19/50

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Pendency
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277 days filing → grant
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1
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1
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Examiner
Elizabeth Albert
art unit 2913 · TC 2900
Citations: 32 back · 0 forward

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