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`Attorney’s Docket No. 031310-016
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`IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`DESIGN PATENT
`APPLICATION TRANSMITTAL LETTER
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`Box PATENT APPLICATION
`Assistant Commissioner for Patents
`Washington, D.C. 20231
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`Sir:
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`Maki HIRAKAWA_for SPHYGMOMANOMETER_.
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`Enclosed for filing is the design patent application of _Yasunari MAEDA and
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`Design Patent Application Transmittal Letter
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`The Commissioner is hereby authorized to charge any appropriate fees under
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`overpayment, to Deposit Account No. 02-4800. This paper is submitted in triplicate.
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`BURNS, DOANE, SWECKER & MATHIS, L.L.P.
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`By: geo ssc
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`William A. Knoeller
`Registration No. 20,929
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`P.O. Box 1404
`Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1404
`(703) 836-6620
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`Date: October 14, 1997 (Tuesday after a Holiday)
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`Attorney’s Docket No. 031310-016
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`APPLICATION FOR DESIGN LETTERS
`PATENT OF THE UNITED STATES
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`Petition and Preamble
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`To the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks:
`Yourpetitioner or petitioners if more than one nameis listed below
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`Yasunari MAEDA and Maki HIRAKAWA
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`a citizen or subject (or if there is more than one petitioner) citizens or subjects, of respectively,
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`Japan and Japan
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`prays or pray that Letters Patent be granted to him or them for the new and original design for
`SPHYGMOMANOMETERsetforth in the following specification:
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`Specification
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`Be it known that we the above namedpetitioners have invented a new, original and
`ornamental design for SPHYGMOMANOMETERofwhich the following is a specification,
`reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof.
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`FIGURE1is a perspective view of our new design for a sphygmomanometer;
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`FIGURE 2 is a second perspective view thereof in which the drawing shows the
`sphygmomanometerin use;
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`FIGURE 3 is a front view thereof;
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`FIGURE4is a rear view thereof;
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`FIGURE 5 is a right side view thereof;
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`FIGURE6is a left side view thereof;
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`FIGURE 7 is a bottom view thereof;
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`FIGURE8is a top view thereof.
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`Weclaim:
`The ornamental design for SPHYGMOMANOMETERas shown and described.
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`As a below named inventor, I hereby declare that:
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`Myresidence, post office address and citizenship are as stated below next to my name;
`I believe I am the original, first and sole inventor (if only one nameis listed below) or an original, first and joint inventor Gf
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`plural names are listed below) of the subject matter which is claimed and for which a patentis sought on the invention entitled:
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`I acknowledge the duty to disclose to the Office all information known to me to be material to patentability as defined in Title 37, Code of
`Federal Regulations, §1.56.
`I hereby claim foreign priority benefits under Title 35, United States Code, §119 (a)-(e) of any foreign application(s) for patent or imventor’s
`certificate or of any PCT international application(s) designating at least one country other than the United States of America listed below and
`havealso identified below any foreign application(s) for patent or inventor’s certificate or any PCT international application(s) designating at
`least one country other than the United States of America filed by me on the same subject matter having a filing date before that of the
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`12. PRIOR FOREIGN/PCT APPLICATION(S) AND ANY PRIORITY CLAIMS UNDER35 U.S.C. $119: PARIS CONVENTION)
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`COMBINED DECLARATION FOR PATENT APPLICATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY (CONTINUED)
`ATTORNEY'S DOCKET NO.
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`031310-016
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`I hereby claim the benefit under Title 35, United States Code, §120 of any United States applications(s) or PCTinternational
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`application(s) designating the United States of America thatis/are listed below and, insofar as the subject matter of each of the
`claims of this application is not disclosed in that/those prior application(s) in the manner provided by the first paragraph of Title
`35, United States Code, §112, I acknowledge the duty to disclose to the Office all information known to me to be material to
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`the patentability as defined in Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations §1.56, which became available between the filing date of
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`the prior application(s) and the national or PCT international filing date of this application:
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`PRIOR U.S. APPLICATIONS OR PCT INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS DESIGNATING THE U.S. FOR BENEFIT UNDER 35 U.S.C. 120:
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`I hereby appoint the following attorneys and agent(s) to prosecute said application and to transact all business in the Patent and
`Trademark Office connected therewith and to file, prosecute andto transact all business in connection with international
`applications directed to said invention:
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`William L. Mathis
`17,337
`Ralph L. Freeland, Jr.
`16,110
`William C. Rowland
`30,888
`Peter H. Smolka
`15,913
`Robert G. Mukai
`28,531
`T. Gene Dillahunty
`25,423
`Robert S. Swecker
`19,885
`George A. Hovanec,Jr.
`28,223
`Anthony W. Shaw
`30,104
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`Platon N. Mandros
`22,124
`James A. LaBarre
`28,632
`Patrick C. Keane
`32,858
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`Benton S. Duffett, Jr.
`22,030
`E. Joseph Gess
`28,510
`Bruce J. Boggs, Jr.
`32,344
`Joseph R. Magnone
`24,239
`R. Danny Huntington
`27,903
`William H. Benz
`25,952
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`Norman H. Stepno
`22,716
`Eric H. Weisblatt
`30,505
`Peter K. Skiff
`31,917
`Ronald L. Grudziecki
`24,970
`James W.Peterson
`26,057
`Richard J. McGrath
`29,195
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`Frederick G. Michaud, Jr.
`26,003
`Teresa Stanek Rea
`30,427
`Matthew L. Schneider
`32,814
`Alan E. Kopecki
`25,813
`Robert E. Krebs
`25,885
`Michael G. Savage
`32,596
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`Regis E. Slutter
`26,999
`Robert M. Schulman.
`31,196
`Gerald F. Swiss
`30,113
`Samuel C. Miller, TI
`27,360
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`and: William A. Knoeller, Reg. No. 20,929
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` William A. Knoeller
`Address all correspondenceto:
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`BURNS, DOANE, SWECKER & MATHIS,L.L.P.
`P.O. Box 1404
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`Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1404
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`Address all telephone calls to: William A. Knoeller
`at (703) 836-6620.
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`I hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledgeare true and that all statements made on information and
`belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made with the knowledgethat willful false statements and
`the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code and
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`that such willful false statements may jeopardize the validity of the application or any patent issued thereon.
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`COMBINED DECLARATION FOR PATENT APPLICATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
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`FULL NAMEOF SOLE OR FIRST INVENTOR
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