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Granted 3 Jun 2025 · no office action yet

Assignee: Apple Inc.

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Inventors: Matthew Vincent Costello, Zu-Ning Chen, Elvin Chu, Duy P. Le +6 · Examiner: April Rivas · AU 2922 · TC 2900

Application
29/913,462
filed 2 Oct 2023
Publication
Not published
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US D1077470
granted 3 Jun 2025

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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 showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof.

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

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Claims

1 · 1 independent · depth 1
1 granted claims

Classifications

2 codes
USPC · US Patent Classification
D03/294D13/108

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Pendency
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Responses
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Examiner
April Rivas
art unit 2922 · TC 2900
Citations: 167 back · 6 forward

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USUS-D1000117-SS13 Oct 202319 May 2021grantedCase with earphones
USthis patentUS-D1077470-SS13 Jun 20252 Oct 2023grantedCase
USUS-D1114774-SS124 Feb 20262 Jun 2025grantedEarphones
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