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Description

FIG. 1 is a bottom 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;

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 8-8 in FIG. 2;

FIG. 9 is a bottom front perspective view of another embodiment of a case showing the claimed design;

FIG. 10 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 11 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 12 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 13 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 14 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 15 is a bottom view thereof; and,

FIG. 16 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 16-16 in FIG. 10.

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 and the areas within the dot-dash broken lines show portions of the case that form no part of the claimed design.

The cross-hatched shading in FIGS. 8 and 16 forms 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: D1006026
Type: Grant
Filed: Jul 6, 2020
Date of Patent: Nov 28, 2023
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Shota Aoyagi (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), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Cynthia R Underwood
Application Number: 29/740,577
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Cover (D14/440)