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Telephone

Granted 10 Mar 2020 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: NEC PLATFORMS, LTD · originally AT&T Company

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Inventors: Masaki Kobayashi, Katsufumi Matsuura, Masaru Kunii, Chiaki Terao +8 · Examiner: Marie D. Fast Horse · AU 2918 · TC 2900

Application
29/660,451
filed 21 Aug 2018
Publication
Not published
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US D877711
granted 10 Mar 2020

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a reduced-scale perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a reduced-scale perspective view of a telephone showing the first embodiment of our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of the first embodiment thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view of the first embodiment thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view of the first embodiment thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view of the first embodiment thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top plan view of the first embodiment thereof;

FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view of the first embodiment thereof;

FIG. 8 is another reduced-scale front elevational view of the first embodiment thereof, showing a state in which a receiver is detached from a main body;

FIG. 9 is a reduced-scale perspective view of a telephone showing the second embodiment of our new design;

FIG. 10 is a front elevational view of the second embodiment thereof;

FIG. 11 is a rear elevational view of the second embodiment thereof;

FIG. 12 is a left side view of the second embodiment thereof;

FIG. 13 is a right side view of the second embodiment thereof;

FIG. 14 is a top plan view of the second embodiment thereof;

FIG. 15 is a bottom plan view of the second embodiment thereof; and,

FIG. 16 is another reduced-scale front elevational view of the second embodiment thereof, showing a state in which the receiver is detached from a main body.

The broken lines in the drawings depict portions of the telephone that 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
D14/151

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Pendency
1.6 y
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Marie D. Fast Horse
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