Case

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Description

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

FIG. 2 is a 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 broken lines in the figures show portions of the case 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: D1129876
Type: Grant
Filed: Jul 15, 2024
Date of Patent: Jun 16, 2026
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA), Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA), Bartley Andre (Los Gatos, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, CA), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco, CA), Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, CA), Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA), Alexandre B. Girard (Sunnyvale, CA), Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco, CA), M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Anne-Marie Heck (San Francisco, CA), Moises Hernandez Hernandez (Palo Alto, CA), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA), Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Kainoa Kwon-Perez (San Francisco, CA), Nicolas Pedro Lylyk (Los Gatos, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Leanne Was-Englehart
Assistant Examiner: Jillian Mazzola
Application Number: 29/952,215
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: D3/294; Cordless Appliance Type (D13/108)