Telephone
Granted 19 Feb 2013 · 2 office actions
Current assignee: NEC PLATFORMS, LTD · originally AT&T Company
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Inventors: Eiichi Taniguchi, Tadamine Toh, Jun Tamatsu, Wataru Kuwajima +2 · Examiner: Carla Jobe Wright · AU 2915 · TC 2900
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1 parts›FIG. 1 is a front, right side, bottom…
FIG. 1 is a front, right side, bottom perspective view of a telephone showing our new design;
FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;
FIG. 6 is a top plan view thereof;
FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view thereof;
FIG. 8 is a front elevational view thereof showing a state in which a receiver is taken from its rest of the telephone;
FIG. 9 is a front, right side, bottom perspective view of a second embodiment of the telephone shown in FIG. 1 ;
FIG. 10 is a front elevational view thereof;
FIG. 11 is a rear elevational view thereof;
FIG. 12 is a left side view thereof;
FIG. 13 is a right side view thereof;
FIG. 14 is a top plan view thereof;
FIG. 15 is a bottom plan view thereof;
FIG. 16 is a front elevational view thereof showing a state in which a receiver is taken from its rest of the telephone;
FIG. 17 is a front, right side, bottom perspective view of a third embodiment of the telephone shown in FIG. 1 ;
FIG. 18 is a front elevational view thereof;
FIG. 19 is a rear elevational view thereof;
FIG. 20 is a left side view thereof;
FIG. 21 is a right side view thereof;
FIG. 22 is a top plan view thereof;
FIG. 23 is a bottom plan view thereof;
FIG. 24 is a front elevational view thereof showing a state in which a receiver is taken from its rest of the telephone;
FIG. 25 is a front, right side, bottom perspective view of a fourth embodiment of the telephone shown in FIG. 1 ;
FIG. 26 is a front elevational view thereof;
FIG. 27 is a rear elevational view thereof;
FIG. 28 is a left side view thereof;
FIG. 29 is a right side view thereof;
FIG. 30 is a top plan view thereof;
FIG. 31 is a bottom plan view thereof; and,
FIG. 32 is a front elevational view thereof showing a state in which a receiver is taken from its rest of the telephone.
In FIGS. 1 , 7 - 9 , 15 - 17 , 23 - 25 , and 31 - 32 , the broken lines immediately adjacent the shaded surfaces represent boundaries of the claimed design; whereas all other broken lines in these figures depict unclaimed environment. In FIGS. 3 , 11 , 19 , and 27 , the broken lines depict unclaimed environment, and the unshaded central surface on the rear of the telephone in these figures forms no part of the claimed design. Throughout the drawing figures, the broken lines and unshaded surfaces bounded by broken lines form no part of the claimed design.
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