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Headphones

Granted 8 Aug 2023 · no office action yet

Assignee: Apple Inc.

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Inventors: Duncan Robert Kerr, Clement Tissandier, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, Julian Jaede +17 · Examiner: Paula Allen Greene · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
29/856,905
filed 18 Oct 2022
Publication
Not published
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US D994635
granted 8 Aug 2023

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Description

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›U.S. Design application Ser. No. 29/731,849, filed Apr…

U.S. Design application Ser. No. 29/731,849, filed Apr. 17, 2020, is also incorporated herein in its entirety by reference thereto.

FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of headphones showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof.

The dashed broken lines in the figures show portions of the headphones that form no part of the claimed design.

The dot-dash broken lines in the figures show boundaries 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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