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`Enclosed for filing is the design patent application of Aya WATANABEandShinji
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`YAMAMOTO_for ELECTRIC SHAVER .
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`Also enclosed are:
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`Thefiling fee has been calculated as follows:
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`Please address all correspondence concerning the present application to:
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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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`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: fa ee ceLeeneter
`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: April 8, 1998
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`Attorney's Docket No. 031310-024
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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:
`Your petitioner or petitioners if more than one nameis listed below
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`Aya WATANABEandShinji YAMAMOTO
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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 and Japanese
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`rays or pray that Letters Patent be granted to him or them for the new and original design for an
`LECTRIC SHAVERset forth in the following specification:
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`Be it known that I or we the above namedpetitioner or petitioners has or have invented a new,
`riginal and ornamental design for an ELECTRIC SHAVERof which the following is a
`ecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof.
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`FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the front, top and right side of our new design for an
`‘Electric Shaver;
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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 view thereof;
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`FIG. 5 is a right side 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 ELECTRIC SHAVERas shown and described.
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`hereby state that I have reviewed and understand the contents of the above-identified specification, including the claims, as
`samended by any amendmentreferred to above.
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`‘{-acknowledge the duty to disclose to the Office all information known to me to be material to patentability as defined in Title 37,
`“ode of Federal Regulations, §1.56.
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`I hereby claim foreign priority benefits under Title 35, United States Code, §119 (a)-(e) of any foreign application(s) for patent or
`inventor's certificate or of any PCT international application(s) designating at least one country other than the United States of
`America listed below and have also 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 sarne
`subject matter having a filing date before that of the application(s) of which priority is claimed:
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`COMBINED DECLARATION FOR PATENT APPLICATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
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`ATTORNEY'S DOCKET NUMBER
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`031310-024
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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, first and sole inventor (if only one nameis listed below) or an original, first and joint inventor (if plural
`namesare listed below) of the subject matter which is claimed and for which a patent is sought on the invention entitled:
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`the specification of which (check only one item below):
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`COMBINED DECLARATION FOR PATENT APPLICATION AND POWER OF ATTORNEY {CONTINUED)|ATTORNEY'S DOCKET NO.
`(Includes Reference to Provisional and PCT Internationa! Applications)
`031310-024
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`I hereby claim the benefit under Title 35, United States Code, $120 of any United States applications(s) or PCT international
`application(s) designating the United States of Americathatis/are listed below and, insofar as the subject matter of each of the
`claimsof this application is not disclosed in that/those prior application(s) in the mamner 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 the
`patentability as defined in Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations §1.56, which became available between thefiling date of the prior
`application(s) and the national or PCTinternational filing date of this application:
`PRIOR U.S. APPLICATIONS OR PCT INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS DESIGNATING THE U.S. FOR BENEFIT UNDER 35 U.S.C. 120:
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`U.S. APPLICATIONS
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`application if the present application is a
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`thereby appoint the following attorneys and agent(s) to prosecute said application and to transactall 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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`17,337
`15,913
`19,885
`22,124
`22,030
`24,239
`22,716
`24,970
`26,003
`25,813
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`Robert G. Mukai
`George A. Hovanec, Jr.
`James A. LaBarre
`E. Joseph Gess
`R. Danny Huntington
`Eric H. Weisblatt
`James W. Peterson
`Teresa Stanek Rea
`Robert E. Krebs
`Robert M. Schulman
`William C. Rowland
`T. Gene Ditlahunty
`Patrick C. Keane
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`28,531
`28,223
`28,632
`28,510
`27,903
`30,505
`26,057
`30,427
`25,885
`31,196
`30,888
`25,423
`32,858
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`Bruce J. Boggs, Jr.
`William H. Benz
`Peter K. Skiff
`Richard J. McGrath
`Matthew L. Schneider
`Michael G. Savage
`Geraid F. Swiss
`Michael J. Ure
`Charles F. Wieland I
`Bruce T. Wieder
`Todd R. Walters
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`such willful false statements may jeopardize the validity of the application or any patent issued thereon.
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`William L. Mathis
`Peter H. Smolka
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`Benton S. Duffett, Jr.
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`Norman H. Stepno
`Ronald L. Grudziecki
`Frederick G. Michaud, Jr.
`Alan E. Kopecki
`Regis E. Siniter
`Samuel C. Miller, WII
`Ralph L. Freeland, Jr.
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`and: William A. Knoeller, Reg. No. 20,929
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`Address all correspondenceto:
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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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`Address ali telephonecalls to:
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`William A. Knoeller
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`at (703) 836-6620.
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`I hereby declare that all statements made herein of my own knowledgeare true andthatall 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 of Title 18 of the United States Code andthat
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