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Ball for sports and exercise

Granted 26 May 2015 · 4 office actions

Assignee: Rpm Sports Limited

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Inventors: Adrian Charles Bennett · Examiner: Catherine Tuttle · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/478,965
filed 10 Jan 2014
Publication
Not published
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US D730461
granted 26 May 2015

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front view of the…

FIG. 1 is a front view of the ball for sports and exercise embodying my new design;

FIG. 2 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a view of the lower hemisphere in FIGS. 1 and 2 ; and,

FIG. 4 is a view of the upper hemisphere in FIGS. 1 and 2 .

The broken line in FIG. 2 represents a portion of the ball for sports and exercise that forms no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D21/713

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Pendency
1.4 y
501 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
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Responses
3
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Interviews
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Examiner
Catherine Tuttle
art unit 2912 · TC 2900
Citations: 7 back · 0 forward

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