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Audio listening system

Granted 19 Mar 2019 · 2 office actions

Assignee: Apple Inc.

Inventors: Nivay Anandarajah, Robert Brunner, Rhys Bonahoom, Christopher Fruhauf +1 · Examiner: Paula Allen Greene · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application

29/608,560

filed 22 Jun 2017

Publication

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US D843345

granted 19 Mar 2019

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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 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; and,

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof.

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Claims

1 · 1 independent · depth 1

1 granted claims

›1.independentThe ornamental design for an audio listening system, as shown and described.

Classifications

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USPC · US Patent Classification

D14/205

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1.7 y

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Examiner

Paula Allen Greene

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15 members · 5 offices

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Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
US	US-D731457-S	S1	9 Jun 2015	25 Apr 2014	granted	Audio listening system
US	US-D732000-S	S1	16 Jun 2015	9 May 2014	granted	Audio listening system
US	US-D760687-S	S1	5 Jul 2016	21 May 2015	granted	Audio listening system
US	US-D791103-S	S1	4 Jul 2017	30 Mar 2016	granted	Audio listening system
US	US-D791733-S	S1	11 Jul 2017	30 Mar 2016	granted	Audio listening system
USthis patent	US-D843345-S	S1	19 Mar 2019	22 Jun 2017	granted	Audio listening system
US	US-D889432-S	S1	7 Jul 2020	8 Mar 2019	granted	Audio listening system
US	US-D925489-S	S1	20 Jul 2021	25 Jun 2020	granted	Audio listening system
US	US-D950517-S	S1	3 May 2022	19 Jul 2021	granted	Audio listening system
US	US-D974326-S	S1	3 Jan 2023	2 May 2022	granted	Audio listening system
US	US-D1076868-S	S1	27 May 2025	30 Dec 2022	granted	Audio listening system
JP	JP-1530467-S	S	10 Aug 2015	24 Oct 2014	granted	no title held

›Other offices — 3 members

Office	Publication	Kind	Published	Filed	Status	Title
AU	AU-358536-S	S	3 Nov 2014	16 Oct 2014	published	Audio listening system
CA	CA-159134-S	S	15 Jun 2015	15 Oct 2014	granted	Headphones
TW	TW-D173491-S	S	1 Feb 2016	24 Oct 2014	published	Portion of headset

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