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Latch assembly

Granted 6 Jan 2015 · 6 office actions

Current assignee: CITIZENS BANK, N.A. · originally the eastern company

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Inventors: Fredrick L. Putzier, Lee S. Weinerman · Examiner: Prabhakar Deshmukh · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/438,101
filed 26 Nov 2012
Publication
Not published
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US D720599
granted 6 Jan 2015

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top, front, right side…

FIG. 1 is a top, front, right side perspective view of a latch assembly showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom, front, left side perspective view thereof.

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof.

FIG. 4 is a right side view thereof, the left side thereof being a mirror image.

FIG. 5 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a bottom view thereof.

The broken line disclosure in several views of other features of the latch assembly is provided for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D08/331

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Pendency
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771 days filing → grant
Office actions
3
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Responses
4
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Examiner
Prabhakar Deshmukh
art unit 2912 · TC 2900
Citations: 25 back · 0 forward

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OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
USthis patentUS-D720599-SS16 Jan 201526 Nov 2012grantedLatch assembly
›Other offices — 3 members
OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
AUAU-348377-SS10 May 20139 Mar 2013publishedLatch assembly for service or emergency vehicles
CACA-150123-SS19 Nov 20137 Mar 2013grantedLatch assembly
TWTW-D158344-SS11 Jan 20148 Mar 2013publishedLatch assembly

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