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Case with earphones

Granted 2 Jul 2024 · no office action yet

Assignee: Apple Inc.

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Inventors: Jeremy Bataillou, M. Evans Hankey, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Jonathan P. Ive +20 · Examiner: April Rivas · AU 2921 · TC 2900

Application
29/886,778
filed 13 Mar 2023
Publication
Not published
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US D1033350
granted 2 Jul 2024

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view…

FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of a case with earphones showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof.

The broken lines in the figures show portions of the case with earphones that form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

4 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D13/108D14/223D3/274D3/294

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April Rivas
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