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Footwear tread

Granted 8 Dec 2015 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Tbl Licensing Llc · originally VF Corporation

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Inventors: Christopher Adam, Michael P. Kirk, Peter Dillon · Examiner: T. Chase Nelson · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/462,480
filed 5 Aug 2013
Publication
Not published
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US D744733
granted 8 Dec 2015

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a plan view of a…

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a footwear tread applied to an unclaimed shoe sole in accordance with a first embodiment of the ornamental design;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the footwear tread of the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the footwear tread of the first embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a front side elevational view of the footwear tread of the first embodiment, the rear side being identical thereto;

FIG. 5 is a right side elevational view of the footwear tread of the first embodiment, the left side being identical thereto;

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the footwear tread of the first embodiment applied in a different scale to an alternative unclaimed shoe sole;

FIG. 7 is a plan view of a footwear tread applied to an unclaimed shoe sole in accordance with a second embodiment of the ornamental design;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the footwear tread of the second embodiment;

FIG. 9 is a top plan view of the footwear tread of the second embodiment;

FIG. 10 is a front side elevational view of the footwear tread of the second embodiment, the rear side being identical thereto; and,

FIG. 11 is a right side elevational view of the footwear tread of the second embodiment, the left side being identical thereto.

Broken lines are environmental only and form no part of the claimed design. Broken lines adjacent shaded areas of the design represent the bounds of the claimed design and are not themselves a part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D02/957D29/51

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USthis patentUS-D744733-SS18 Dec 20155 Aug 2013grantedFootwear tread
USUS-D785305-SS12 May 201718 Jun 2015grantedFootwear tread
JPJP-1522202-SS20 Apr 20155 Feb 2014grantedno title held
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TWTW-D169137-SS21 Jul 201524 Jan 2014publishedA part of footwear tread
TWTW-D172555-SS21 Dec 201524 Jan 2014publishedA part of footwear tread

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