Pants

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Description

A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material to which a claim for copyright is made. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but reserves all other copyright rights whatsoever.

FIG. 1 is a front view of pants showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a back view of pants thereof;

FIG. 3 is a left side view of pants thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side view of pants thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top view of pants thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of pants thereof.

The dashed lines showing the pants, stitching, and other details on the pants forms no part of the claimed design. The dot-dash lines indicate the boundary between claimed and unclaimed matter.

Claims

We claim the ornamental design for pants, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D811049
Type: Grant
Filed: Jul 18, 2016
Date of Patent: Feb 27, 2018
Assignee: V.F. Corporation (Greensboro, NC)
Inventors: Darren J. Peshek (Irvine, CA), Justin T. Mark (Irvine, CA), Brian Marion (Irvine, CA), Kyle Stephens (Irvine, CA), Donald Hoffman (Irvine, CA), Varun Wadhawan (Kwun Tong), Hwei Ching Jenny Chan (Kwun Tong), Stephen H. Zades (Greensboro, NC)
Primary Examiner: Cynthia Ramirez
Assistant Examiner: Laura Yu
Application Number: 29/571,432
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: D2/742