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Granted 25 Aug 2020 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Certainteed Corporation · originally Saint-Gobain

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Inventors: Kim Dupont-Madinier, Conor Patrick McDonald · Examiner: John Windmuller · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application
29/681,617
filed 27 Feb 2019
Publication
Not published
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US D893994
granted 25 Aug 2020

Life of the patent

2 dated events
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Description

1 parts
›FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a clip;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a back view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is an opposite side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof.

The broken lines showing a portion of the clip are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

1 · 1 independent · depth 1
1 granted claims

Classifications

2 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D08/394D8/395

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Pendency
1.5 y
545 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
non-final + final
Responses
2
no RCE
Examiner
John Windmuller
art unit 2914 · TC 2900
Citations: 59 back · 0 forward

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5 members · 2 offices
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USUS-D846978-SS130 Apr 201930 Nov 2016grantedClip
USthis patentUS-D893994-SS125 Aug 202027 Feb 2019grantedClip
USUS-D973478-SS127 Dec 202224 Jul 2020grantedClip
›Other offices — 2 members
OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
CACA-174999-SS21 Oct 202029 May 2017grantedClip for a grid ceiling system
CACA-182033-SS21 Oct 202029 May 2017grantedClip for a grid ceiling system

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