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Flashlight

Granted 4 Sep 2018 · 4 office actions

Assignee: Panasonic

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Inventors: Katsumasa Kawabata, Yuji Wada, Hiroshi Fujita · Examiner: Karen E Kearney · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application
29/533,768
filed 22 Jul 2015
Publication
Not published
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US D827891
granted 4 Sep 2018

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front and top perspective…

FIG. 1 is a front and top perspective view of a flashlight of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof, the rear view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 3 is a first side view thereof, the second side view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 4 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a front and top perspective view thereof shown in an alternate environment.

The broken lines shown in FIG. 6 represent environment. All other broken lines represent unclaimed portion of the article. The broken lines form no part of the claimed design.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D26/40

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Pendency
3.1 y
1,140 days filing → grant
Office actions
2
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Responses
2
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Examiner
Karen E Kearney
art unit 2916 · TC 2900
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USthis patentUS-D827891-SS14 Sep 201822 Jul 2015grantedFlashlight
JPJP-1532600-SS7 Sep 201523 Jan 2015grantedno title held

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