Dock insert
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This application is related to: (i) U.S. Design patent application Ser. No.: 29/237,097, filed concurrently and entitled “Dock Insert”, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference, and (ii) U.S. Design patent application Ser. No.: 29/237,112, filed concurrently and entitled “Dock Insert”, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
Various examples of docking station embodiments are shown and described, for example in U.S. Design patent application Ser. No.: 29/237,233, filed concurrently and entitled “Docking Station”; and U.S. Design patent application Ser. No.: 29/237,084, filed concurrently and entitled “Docking Station”, both of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
All of the material from the two U.S. Design Patent applications that is essential to the claimed design is included herein. Any material in the two U.S. Design Patent applications that is not present herein forms no part of the claimed design.
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Claims
We claim the ornamental design for a dock insert, substantially as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Aug 24, 2005
Date of Patent: Sep 18, 2007
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), 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: Stella Reid
Assistant Examiner: Keli′ L. Acker
Attorney: Beyer Weaver LLP
Application Number: 29/237,111