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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 DESIGN
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`William A. Knoeller
`Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, L.L.P.
`P.O. Box 1404
`Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1404.
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`The Commissioner is hereby authorized to charge any appropriate fees under
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`37 C.F.R. §§ 1.16, 1.17 and 1.21 that may be required by this paper, and to credit any
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, L.L.P.
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`Registration No. 20,929
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`P.O. Box 1404
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`Date: October 28, 1998
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`Attorney's Docket No. 031310-037
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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 Cornmissioner of Patents and Trademarks:
`Your petitioner or petitioners if more than one nameis listed below
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`Yasunari MAEDA
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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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`Japanese
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`prays or pray that Letters Patent be granted to him or them for the new andoriginal design for an
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`ORALCAVITYCLEANERsetforth in the following specification:
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` FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the front and a portion of the top and right side of our
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`Be it knownthat I or we the above namedpetitioner or petitioners has or have invented a new,
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`;, Original and ornamental design for anORALCAVITYCLEANERof whichthe followingis a
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`new design for an Oral Cavity Cleaner;
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`FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof;
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`FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view thereof;
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`FIG. 4 is a left side elevational view thereof;
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`FIG. 5 is a right side elevational view thereof;
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`FIG.6 is a top plan view thereof; and
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`FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view thereof.
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`Weclaim:
`The ornamental design for an ORAL CAVITY CLEANER as shown and described.
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`Claim
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`COMBINED DECLARATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
`FOR DESIGN PATENT APPLICATION
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`031310-037
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`Attorney's Docket No.
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`As a below-named inventor, I hereby declare that:
`My residence, post office address and citizenship are as stated below next to my name;
`I BELIEVE I AM THE ORIGINAL, PIRST AND SOLE INVENTOR (if only one same is listed below) OR AN
`ORIGINAL, FIRST AND JOINT INVENTOR(if more than one nameis listed below) OF THE SUBJECT MATTER
`WHICH [S CLAIMED AND FOR WHICH A PATENT IS SOUGHT ON THE INVENTION ENTITLED:
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`which priority is claimed:
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`ORAL CAVITY CLEANER
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`the specification of which
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`{check one)
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`is attached hereto;
`C1 was filed on
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`Application No.
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`and was amended on
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`I HAVE REVIEWED AND UNDERSTAND THE CONTENTS OF THE ABOVE-IDENTIFIED SPECIFICATION,
`INCLUDING THE CLAIM, AS AMENDED BY ANY AMENDMENT REFERRED TO ABOVE;
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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, Sec. 1.56
`(as amended effective March 16, 1992):
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`T do not know and do notbelieve the said invention was ever known or used in the United States of America before my
`or our invention thereof, or patented or described in any printed publication in any country before my or our invention
`thereof or more than one year prior to said application; that said invention was not in public use or on sale in the United
`States of America more than one year prior to said application; that said invention has not been patented or made the
`subject of an inventor's certificate issued before the date of said application in any country foreign to the United States
`of America on any application filed by me or my legal representatives or assigus more than six mouths prior to said
`application;
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`[ hereby claim foreign priority benefits under Title 35, United States Code Sec. 119 and Sec. 172 of any foreign
`application(s) for patent or inventor's certificate as indicated below and have also identified below any foreign
`application for patent or inventor's certificate on this invention having a filing date before that of the application(s) on
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`COMBINED DECLARATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY Osa§Pocket No.
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`COUNTRY/INTERNATIONAL
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`APPLICATION NUMBER
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`DATE OF FILING
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`PRIORITY
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`I hereby appoint the following attorneys and agent(s) toprosecute said application and to transact all business in the Patent and
`Trademark Office connected therewith and to file, prosecute and to transact all business in connection with international
`applications directed to said invention:
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`William L. Mathis
`Feter H. Smolka
`Robert S. Swecker
`Platon N. Mandros
`Benton S. Duffett, Jr.
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`Alan B. Kopecti
`Regis E. Stuccer
`Samuel C. Miller, OT
`Ralph L. Freeland, Jr.
`Robert G. Mukai
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`James A. LaBarre
`E. Joseph Gess
`R. Danny Huntington
`Bric H. Welsbiatr
`Jarnes W. Peterson
`Teresa Stanek Rea
`Robert E. Krebs
`William C. Rowland
`T. Gene Dillahuny
`Parrick C. Keane
`Bruce J. Boggs, Jr.
`William H. Benz
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`Peter X. Skiff
`Richard J. McGrath
`Matthew L. Schneider
`Michael G. Savage
`Gerald F. Swiss
`Michael J. Ure
`Charles 8. Wieland 10
`Bruce T. Wieder
`Todd R. Walters
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`and;_William A. Knoeller, Reg. No. 20,929
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`Address all correspondence to:
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`William A. Knoeller
`Burns, DOANE, SWECKER & Matuis, L.L.P.
`_ P.O. Box 1404
`Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1404
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`Address all telephone calls to:___WilliamA.Knoellerat (703) 896-6620.
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`Thereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledge are true and that all statements made on information
`and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made with the knowledge that willful false
`statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 ofTitle 18 of the
`ned States Code and that such willful false statements may jeopardize the validity of the application or any patent issued
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