Band

- Apple
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Description

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

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a front left side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a front right side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a rear left side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a rear right side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof; and,

FIG. 10 is a bottom front perspective view thereof.

The dot-dash broken lines in the figures and the areas within the dot-dash lines show portions of the band that form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a band as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D1068758
Type: Grant
Filed: Aug 8, 2022
Date of Patent: Apr 1, 2025
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA), Molly Anderson (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), Marc A. Newson (London), 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: Messina L Smith
Assistant Examiner: Kwabena A. Ankobiah
Application Number: 29/849,022
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