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Pump assembly

Granted 8 May 2012 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Smith & Nephew

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Inventors: Ed McLean, Kevin Ryczek, Fred Boussu, Sean Albert · Examiner: Ralf Seifert · AU 2914 · TC 2900

Application

29/357,727

filed 16 Mar 2010

Publication

Not published

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US D659165

granted 8 May 2012

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Description

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

FIG. 1 is a front, perspective view of a first implementation of a new ornamental design of a pump assembly.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the design of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 3 is a back view of the design of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 4 is a right, side view of the design of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 5 is a left, side view of the design of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 6 is a top view of the design of FIG. 1 ; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the design of FIG. 1 .

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Claims

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›1.independentThe ornamental design for a pump assembly, as shown and described.

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USPC · US Patent Classification

D15/7

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Ralf Seifert

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Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
US	US-D611961-S	S1	16 Mar 2010	8 Feb 2008	granted	Pump assembly
USthis patent	US-D659165-S	S1	8 May 2012	16 Mar 2010	granted	Pump assembly

›Other offices — 2 members

Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
AU	AU-321891-S	S	6 Nov 2008	28 Jul 2008	published	Pump assembly
CA	CA-127072-S	S	22 Jun 2009	28 Jul 2008	granted	Pump assembly

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