Stand
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The stand, which can be utilized as a dock, is used to support one or more electronic devices, such as a media player, media storage device, cellular phone, PDA, earpiece and/or the like. By way of example, the electronic device may correspond to the electronic device shown and described in U.S. Design patent application Ser. No. 29/270,887, titled “Electronic Device,” filed concurrently herewith, and to the electronic device shown and described in the U.S. Design patent application Ser. No. 29/270,881, titled “Earpiece,” filed concurrently herewith, both of which are herein incorporated by reference.
The features shown in broken lines in the various Figures are for illustrating environmental structure and form no part of the claimed design.
Claims
We claim the ornamental design for a stand, substantially as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 5, 2007
Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
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: Prabhakar Deshmukh
Assistant Examiner: Keli′ L. Acker
Attorney: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
Application Number: 29/270,883