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Disposable plate

Granted 28 Feb 2006 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Hoffmaster Group, Inc. · originally Solo Cup

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Inventors: Warren Giles Wiedmeyer, John Stewart Gitschlag · Examiner: Charles A. Rademaker · AU 2915 · TC 2900

Application
29/194,894
filed 3 Dec 2003
Publication
Not published
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US D515866
granted 28 Feb 2006

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Description

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

FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of a disposable plate showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a top pan view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a left side elevation thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side elevation thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a top plan view of modified embodiment of the design shown in FIGS. 1 through 5, the other views thereof being mirror images of FIGS. 1 through 5.

The broken lines shown in the drawings represent environment and for no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

1 · 1 independent · depth 1
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Classifications

2 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D07/396.1D75/55

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Pendency
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Examiner
Charles A. Rademaker
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10 members · 2 offices
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OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
USUS-D494816-SS124 Aug 200430 May 2003grantedErgonomic disposable plate
USUS-D494817-SS124 Aug 200430 May 2003grantedErgonomic disposable plate
USUS-D496825-SS15 Oct 200430 May 2003grantedErgonomic disposable plate handle
USUS-D497774-SS12 Nov 200430 May 2003grantedErgonomic disposable plate
USUS-D498980-SS130 Nov 20043 Dec 2003grantedDisposable plate
USUS-D499304-SS17 Dec 20043 Dec 2003grantedDisposable plate
USUS-D499933-SS121 Dec 200430 May 2003grantedErgonomic disposable plate bottom
USUS-D499936-SS121 Dec 200430 May 2003grantedErgonomic disposable plate
USthis patentUS-D515866-SS128 Feb 20063 Dec 2003grantedDisposable plate
›Other offices — 1 members
OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
CRCR-7803-AA4 Aug 200521 Apr 2005publishedPlato desechable ergonomicamente mejoradoes

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