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Audio listening system

Granted 9 Jun 2015 · no office action yet

Assignee: Apple Inc.

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Inventors: Rhys Bonahoom, Nivay Anandarajah, Gregoire Vandenbussche, Robert Brunner +1 · Examiner: Paula Greene · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/489,127
filed 25 Apr 2014
Publication
Not published
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US D731457
granted 9 Jun 2015

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of…

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

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

FIG. 3 is front view of the embodiment of an audio listening system depicted in FIG. 1

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

FIG. 5 is a right side view of the embodiment of an audio listening system depicted in FIG. 1 ; and,

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

The broken lines in the Figures show portions of the audio listening system that form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D14/205

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OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
USthis patentUS-D731457-SS19 Jun 201525 Apr 2014grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D732000-SS116 Jun 20159 May 2014grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D760687-SS15 Jul 201621 May 2015grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D791103-SS14 Jul 201730 Mar 2016grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D791733-SS111 Jul 201730 Mar 2016grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D843345-SS119 Mar 201922 Jun 2017grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D889432-SS17 Jul 20208 Mar 2019grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D925489-SS120 Jul 202125 Jun 2020grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D950517-SS13 May 202219 Jul 2021grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D974326-SS13 Jan 20232 May 2022grantedAudio listening system
USUS-D1076868-SS127 May 202530 Dec 2022grantedAudio listening system
JPJP-1530467-SS10 Aug 201524 Oct 2014grantedno title held
›Other offices — 3 members
OfficePublicationKindPublishedFiledStatusTitle
AUAU-358536-SS3 Nov 201416 Oct 2014publishedAudio listening system
CACA-159134-SS15 Jun 201515 Oct 2014grantedHeadphones
TWTW-D173491-SS1 Feb 201624 Oct 2014publishedPortion of headset

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