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Protective case for an electronic device

Granted 13 Oct 2020 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: Rakuten Kobo Inc. · originally Rakuten Group, Inc.

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Inventors: Kuan-Chang Lin, Archer Wun, Anna Buechin · Examiner: Cynthia R Underwood · AU 2918 · TC 2900

Application
29/683,422
filed 13 Mar 2019
Publication
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US D898746
granted 13 Oct 2020

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front view of the…

FIG. 1 is a front view of the protective case for an electronic device in an open position in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a rear view of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a front view of a second embodiment of FIG. 1 ; and,

FIG. 4 is a rear view of FIG. 3 .

The broken lines in the Figures show portions of the protective case for an electronic device that form no part of the claim.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D14/440

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Examiner
Cynthia R Underwood
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