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Audio listening system

Granted 24 Dec 2013 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Apple Inc. · originally Beats Electronics, LLC

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Inventors: Chris Fruhauf, Gregoire Vandenbussche, Robert Brunner · Examiner: Paula Greene · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/417,832
filed 9 Apr 2012
Publication
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US D696226
granted 24 Dec 2013

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the…

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the audio listening system in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the embodiment of the audio listening system depicted in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a right side view of the embodiment of the audio listening system depicted in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a left side view of the embodiment of the audio listening system depicted in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 5 is a back view of the embodiment of the audio listening system depicted in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 6 is a top view of the embodiment of the audio listening system depicted in FIG. 1 ; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the embodiment of the audio listening system depicted in FIG. 1 .

The broken lines showing the environment in the figures are for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D14/205

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›IP5 & PCT — 9 members
OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
USUS-D657345-SS110 Apr 20123 Jan 2011grantedAudio listening system
USthis patentUS-D696226-SS124 Dec 20139 Apr 2012grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D704163-SS16 May 20144 Dec 2013grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D729198-SS112 May 201518 Apr 2014grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D778255-SS17 Feb 20177 May 2015grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D832233-SS130 Oct 20186 Feb 2017grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D876389-SS125 Feb 202026 Oct 2018grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D921609-SS18 Jun 20216 Feb 2020grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D935437-SS19 Nov 20218 Jun 2021grantedAudio listening system
›Other offices — 4 members
OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
AUAU-337852-SS27 Jul 20111 Jul 2011publishedAudio listening system
BRBR-DI7103190-SS12 Nov 20134 Jul 2011publishedConfiguração aplicada a um sistema de áudiopt
CACA-141133-SS24 Jan 201227 Jun 2011grantedHeadphones
TWTW-D160827-SS1 Jun 20141 Jul 2011publishedA portion of headphones

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