Ear piece
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Description
The features shown in broken lines in the various Figures are for illustrating environmental structure and form no part of the claimed design.
Claims
We claim the ornamental design for an ear piece, substantially as shown and described.
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- English Translation of a search report for Taiwan Patent Application No. 096303170, dated Mar. 25, 2008.
Patent History
Patent number: D579923
Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 5, 2007
Date of Patent: Nov 4, 2008
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Bartley K. Andre (Menlo Park, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Shin Nishibori (San Francisco, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Douglas B. Satzger (Menlo Park, CA), Calvin Q. Seid (Palo Alto, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Portola Valley, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Paula A Greene
Attorney: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
Application Number: 29/270,881
Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 5, 2007
Date of Patent: Nov 4, 2008
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Bartley K. Andre (Menlo Park, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Shin Nishibori (San Francisco, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Douglas B. Satzger (Menlo Park, CA), Calvin Q. Seid (Palo Alto, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Portola Valley, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Paula A Greene
Attorney: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
Application Number: 29/270,881
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