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Trailer rear impact guard

Granted 6 Feb 2024 · no office action yet

Current assignee: PNC Bank, National Association · originally STI Holdings, Inc.

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Inventors: Daniel Patrick Miller, Francis Steven Smidler · Examiner: Katrina A Betton · AU 2913 · TC 2900

Application
29/740,628
filed 6 Jul 2020
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US D1013579
granted 6 Feb 2024

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Description

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›The sole FIGURE shows a rear view of…

The sole FIGURE shows a rear view of a trailer rear impact guard showing our new design.

The portions of the design shown in broken lines disclose environmental structure and form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/106

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Examiner
Katrina A Betton
art unit 2913 · TC 2900
Citations: 94 back · 2 forward

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OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
USUS-D790407-SS127 Jun 20173 Jun 2015grantedTrailer rear impact guard
USUS-D864038-SS122 Oct 201919 Jun 2017grantedTrailer rear impact guard
USUS-D889320-SS17 Jul 202016 Sep 2019grantedTrailer rear impact guard
USthis patentUS-D1013579-SS16 Feb 20246 Jul 2020grantedTrailer rear impact guard
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CACA-165669-SS26 Jul 20162 Dec 2015grantedTrailer rear impact guard

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