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`| 31700.000322 Shengzhou Enterp. Co.
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`| 31700.000322 U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, Office Action issued on U.S. Application No. 11/934,320 on June 10, 2009Floor Mat Comparison Chart, Stylinconcepts.com, June 2, 2002.
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`U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, Office Action issued on U.S. Application No. 12/332,757 on June 11,2009.
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`CANADIAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE, Requisition by the Examiner dated December 17, 2009 on
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`JAPANESE PATENT OFFICE, Rejection issued in connection with Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-317635
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`CANADIAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE, Requisition on CA 2,672,085, dated Jan. 14, 2011.
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`American Specialty Equipment Corp., “Big Book” catalog for “Performance Parts, Truck Accessories, And Sport
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`List of "front custom auto floor mats", etrailer.com (as downloaded by web.archive.org), June 4, 2004.
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`Description and illustration of "Front Custom Auto floor Mats"; etrailer.com (as downloaded by web.archive.org), June
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`Highland Catalog and Jobber sheet; prior to 2004.
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`Volvo Accessories brochure, 1990, pages 1 and 23.
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`Volvo 760 GLE Accessories Brochure, 1983, pages 1-3.
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`Photographs of a HuskyLinerfloor tray with unknown manufacture date, obtained by Applicant in 2010, and believed
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`Husky Liners Product Catalog, 2003 % , SEMA ShowEdition, selected pages.
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`Photographs of Winfield’s Husky Liner Model 3780 for 2000-2001 BMW X-5 possessed by Applicant, believed to be
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`1998 Lund Product Catalog, p. 24, Lund SportMat Molded Floor Trays.
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`Web advertisement for Fox Weatherboots, foxweatherboots.com (as downloaded by web.archive.org), March 3, 2000.
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`Nifty Products Catalog, 2003-2004, selected pages.
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`Advertisement of unknown publication date for Husky Liner 3D Molded Carpeted Front Floor Liners, obtained by
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`| 31700.000322 Geomagic Press Release, "Geomagic, Inc. Wins Second Computer Graphics World Innovation Award," December 10,April 25, 2002.
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`Geomagic Press Release, "Geomagic to Introduce Unique Solution for 3D Content Creation at SIGGRAPH ’99,"
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`Geomagic Press Release, "Geomagic Announces Geomagic Studio 2.0," January 14, 2000.
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`Geomagic Press Release, "Geomagic, QTE Offer RevQuick, Automatic Surface Generation for Mastercam,"
`September 25, 2000.
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`Advertisement, "Third Party Options (Romer, A CimCore Company)," 2000.
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`SON, SECKBAE; PARK, HYUNPUNG; and LEE, KWAN; "Automated laser scanning system for reverse engineering
`and inspection," Int. J. Machine Tools & Manufacture, 42, 889-897 (2007).
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`"Competition Rising in Portable CMMs," Quality Magazine, May 5, 2003.
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`Press Release by Brown and Sharpe, "Portable K Series Optical CMMs," 9/1/2002.
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`"CAMZ2 software," as downloaded from hitp:/Aweb.archive.org/web/2004021 506561 3/www.faro.com/Products on
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`"Laser Scanner edges out CMM in the race to market," Machine Design.com, February 5, 2004.
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`"Highres Delivers Complete Reverse Engineering Software Suite for SolidWorks 2001Plus,” Reverse Engineering.com,
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`"HighRes Provides 3D Reverse Engineering Software to Higher Education Learning Institutions", ReverseEngineering.
`com, May 21, 2002.
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`"HighRes Reverse Engineering Software now Ships with Every Romer 3000) and StingerII Portable CMM in North
`America," ReverseEnginering.com, October 14, 2002.
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`Press Release, "FARO Debuts Affordable “Advantage” Line of Measurement Products," September 4, 2003.
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