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Vacuum cleaner

Granted 2 Dec 2014 · 4 office actions

Assignee: Dyson

Inventors: Peter David Gammack, Mark Stamford Vanderstegen-Drake, Jonathan George Marsh, Adam James Bates · Examiner: Ruth McInroy · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application

29/450,789

filed 22 Mar 2013

Publication

Not published

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US D718911

granted 2 Dec 2014

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vacuum cleaner showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a side view of the opposite side of FIG. 4 ; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof.

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Claims

1 · 1 independent · depth 1

1 granted claims

›1.independentWe claim the ornamental design for a vacuum cleaner, as shown and described.

Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification

D32/21

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1.7 y

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non-final + final

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Examiner

Ruth McInroy

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8 members · 2 offices

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Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
USthis patent	US-D718911-S	S1	2 Dec 2014	22 Mar 2013	granted	Vacuum cleaner
US	US-D753356-S	S1	5 Apr 2016	24 Nov 2014	granted	Vacuum cleaner
US	US-D778013-S	S1	31 Jan 2017	19 Feb 2016	granted	Vacuum cleaner
US	US-D798514-S	S1	26 Sep 2017	20 Dec 2016	granted	Vacuum cleaner
US	US-D834774-S	S1	27 Nov 2018	24 Aug 2017	granted	Vacuum cleaner
US	US-D857314-S	S1	20 Aug 2019	25 Oct 2018	granted	Vacuum cleaner
US	US-D979863-S	S1	28 Feb 2023	26 Jun 2019	granted	Vacuum cleaner

›Other offices — 1 members

Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
AU	AU-349618-S	S	4 Jul 2013	1 Mar 2013	published	A vacuum cleaner

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