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`Application Number:
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`Title of Invention:
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`Quick connect/disconnect coupling for a stalk stomper
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`Kenneth E. Shoup
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`Examiner-Initiated lnterview Summary
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`I Application No.
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`1311 35,944
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`Examiner
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`ALICIA TORRES
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`I Applicant(s)
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`SHOUP, KENNETH E.
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`Art Unit
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`3671
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`All participants (applicant, applicant's representative, PTO personnel):
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`(1 ) ALICIA TORRES.
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`(2) JOSEPH KUO.
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`(3)-.
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`Date of Interview: 25 February 2013.
`Type: q Telephonic q Video Conference
`Personal [copy given to: q applicant q applicant's representative]
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`Attachment
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`/Alicia M Torres/
`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3671
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`S Patent and Trademark Off~ce
`PTOL-413B (Rev. 811 11201 0)
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`Interview Summary
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`ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.
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`Kenneth E. Shoup
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`Case 50
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`6604
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`TITLE OF INVENTION: Quick connect/disconnect coupling for a stak stomper
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`ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.
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`ART UNIT
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`CLASS-SUBCLASS
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`TORRES, ALICIA M
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`3671
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`03/01/2013
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`ART UNIT
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`I Application No.
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`I Applicant(s)
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`Notice of Allowability
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`1311 35,944
`SHOUP, KENNETH E.
`Examiner
`Art Unit
`1 3671
`I ALICIA TORRES
`-- The MAILING DATE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address-
`All claims being allowable, PROSECUTION ON THE MERITS IS (OR REMAINS) CLOSED in this application. If not included
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