Earphone
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The broken lines in the Figures show environment only and form no part of the claimed design. The drawings are stipple and line shaded to show contrast. For example, the areas with line shading are white, the areas with light stipple shading on the round feature of the design are clear frosted, the areas with darker stipple shading on the lower end of the design are grey, and the areas with the darkest stipple shading at the upper end of the design are a stainless steel or silver color.
Claims
The ornamental design for an earphone, as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 8, 2008
Date of Patent: Sep 1, 2009
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 (Portola Valley, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Douglas B. Satzger (Menlo Park, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Paula Greene
Attorney: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Application Number: 29/324,197