Amusement devices: toys – Figure toy or accessory therefor – Having mechanism or manipulatable means to move figure or...
Reexamination Certificate
2010-10-20
2011-10-18
Kim, Gene (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: toys
Figure toy or accessory therefor
Having mechanism or manipulatable means to move figure or...
C446S003000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08038503
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus includes a body, an eccentric load, a rotational motor coupled to the body and adapted to rotate the eccentric load, and a plurality of legs each having a leg base and a leg tip at a distal end relative to the leg base. At least a portion of the plurality of legs are constructed from a flexible material, are injection molded, are integrally coupled to the body at the leg base, and include at least one driving leg configured to cause the apparatus to move in a direction generally defined by an offset between the leg base and the leg tip as the rotational motor rotates the eccentric load.
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Carter Joel Reagan
Galletti Douglas Michael
Mimlitch Robert H.
Norman David Anthony
Fish & Richardson P.C.
Hylinski Alyssa
Innovation First, Inc.
Kim Gene
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