Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Two dimensionally sectional layer – Next to unitary web or sheet of equal or greater extent
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-20
2007-11-20
Juska, Cheryl (Department: 1771)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Two dimensionally sectional layer
Next to unitary web or sheet of equal or greater extent
C428S044000, C428S085000, C428S088000, C428S089000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10513169
ABSTRACT:
A carpet web and a method of forming a carpet web having a striped pattern and color scheme that permits carpet tiles cut from the web to be installed without regard to relative tile positions and without visibly disrupting the pattern, but rather maintaining the appearance of a broadloom web. The web pattern includes parallel stripes having varying widths and longitudinal discontinuities. The stripes are formed with at least two colors or two shades of a color. The tiles are positionally ambiguous in that they need not be located on the floor in the same position they occupied in the web for the flooring installation to exhibit the desired uniform appearance. Instead, the tiles may be shuffled and laid in any side-by-side or top-to-bottom orientation (provided that uniform rotational orientation is maintained among the tiles) with respect to adjacent tiles without looking out of place to the ordinary viewer and without emphasizing the modularity of the flooring.
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Pictures of an installation of Interface Inc.'s “ITO” carpet tiles installed in U-Care of Minnesota of Minneapolis, Minnesota in Oct. 1999 (admitted prior art).
“Milstar Free-Lay Tiles,” brochure by Milliken, publication date unknown (admitted prior art).
Furrows Product Brochure, Interface, Inc., publication date unknown (admitted prior art).
Supplemental Information Disclosure Statement Dated Nov. 18, 2005 and Exhibits thereto as follows.
Exhibit A:Collins&Aikman Floorcoverings, Inc., Mohawk Industries, Inc., Mohawk Brands Inc. and Shaw Industries Group, Inc., Plaintiffs,v.Interface, Inc., Defendant, USDC, Northern District of GA, Rome Division, Civil Action No. 4:05-CV-00133-HLM, Amended Complaint dated Sep. 26, 2005.
Exhibit B: Declaration of David D. Oakey, dated Nov. 16, 2005.
Exhibit C: Office Action issued Dec. 17, 2003 in U.S. Appl. No. 09/783,354.
Exhibit D: Office Action issued Jun. 21, 2004 in U.S. Appl. No. 09/783,354.
Exhibit E: Amendment and Response filed with the U.S. Patent Office on Jul. 12, 2004 in U.S. Appl. No. 09/783,354.
Exhibit F: Notice of Allowability issued Oct. 4, 2004 in U.S. Appl. No. 09/783,354.
Daniel Sydney D.
Oakey David D.
Doyle Kristin J.
Interface, Inc.
Juska Cheryl
Pratt John S.
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