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Speaker

Granted 30 Dec 2025 · no office action yet

Assignee: Apple Inc.

Inventors: Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Shota Aoyagi +21 · Examiner: Khawaja Anwar · AU 2916 · TC 2900

Application

29/963,800

filed 19 Sep 2024

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US D1107679

granted 30 Dec 2025

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a speaker 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.

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Claims

1 · 1 independent · depth 1

1 granted claims

›1.independentThe ornamental design for a speaker as shown and described.

Classifications

1 codes

USPC · US Patent Classification

D14/204

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Examiner

Khawaja Anwar

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7 members · 4 offices

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Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
US	US-D1047958-S	S1	22 Oct 2024	6 Oct 2022	granted	Speaker
US	US-D1106997-S	S1	23 Dec 2025	16 Jan 2025	granted	Speaker
USthis patent	US-D1107679-S	S1	30 Dec 2025	19 Sep 2024	granted	Speaker
JP	JP-1760412-S	S	27 Dec 2023	6 Apr 2023	granted	スピーカーja
JP	JP-1760413-S	S	27 Dec 2023	6 Apr 2023	granted	スピーカーja

›Other offices — 2 members

Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
CA	CA-220440-S	S	10 Oct 2024	31 Mar 2023	granted	Speaker
TW	TW-D230363-S	S	11 Mar 2024	31 Mar 2023	published	Speaker

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