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Portions of a grille surround

Granted 5 May 2015 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Caterpillar Inc. · originally Caterpillar

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Inventors: Eric J. Hanson, Joseph F. DeNatale, Gary C. Bryant · Examiner: Melody Brown · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application
29/481,474
filed 6 Feb 2014
Publication
Not published
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US D728435
granted 5 May 2015

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of portions…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of portions of a grille surround showing our new design that are represented in illustration of a brushed metallic gray surface finish, all other portions of the grille surround and truck shown in broken lines are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design; and,

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof.

The broken lines of the figures are included for the purposes of illustrating environmental structure and form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D12/163

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