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Granted 5 Aug 2025 · no office action yet

Assignee: Apple Inc.

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Inventors: Rico Zorkendorfer, M. Evans Hankey, Jeremy Bataillou, Duncan Robert Kerr +17 · Examiner: Austin Murphy · AU 2917 · TC 2900

Application
29/947,238
filed 13 Jun 2024
Publication
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US D1087096
granted 5 Aug 2025

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Description

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›FIG. 1 shows a front perspective view of…

FIG. 1 shows a front perspective view of a pencil showing our new design;

FIG. 2 shows a rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 shows a top view thereof;

FIG. 4 shows a front view; the rear view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 5 shows a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 6 shows a left view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 shows a right view thereof.

The broken lines illustrate structure or features which form no part of the claimed design.

The dot-dash broken lines illustrate boundaries which form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D14/372

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