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Description

FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of a case 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;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof.

The dashed broken lines in the figures show portions of the case 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.

Claims

The ornamental design for a case, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D827432
Type: Grant
Filed: Jul 29, 2016
Date of Patent: Sep 4, 2018
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Cathron C Brooks
Assistant Examiner: W. A. Teddy Falloway
Application Number: 29/572,804
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: D9/436; D9/756