Docking station

- Apple
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Description

This application is related to: U.S. Design patent application Ser. No. 29/237,233, and entitled “Docking Station,” filed Aug. 24, 2005 now U.S. Design Pat. No. D558,739 which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

Various examples of dock insert embodiments are shown and described in (i) U.S. Design patent application Ser. No. 29/237,097, filed Aug. 24, 2005 and entitled “Dock Insert,” now U.S. Design Pat. No. D552,085; (ii) U.S. Design patent application Ser. No. 29/237,111, filed Aug. 24, 2005 and entitled “Dock Insert,” now U.S. Design Pat. No. D551,212; and (iii) U.S. Design patent application Ser. No.29/237,112, filed Aug. 24, 2005 and entitled “Dock Insert,” now U.S. Design Pat. No. D551,231, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference.

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a docking station in accordance with the present design.

FIG. 2 is a rear perspective view of the docking station.

FIG. 3 is a top view for the docking station.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary perspective view of how a docking system can incorporate the docking station with a dock insert.

FIGS. 5–8 are exemplary top views of a docking system that incorporates different dock inserts into the docking station; and,

FIG. 9 is an exemplary perspective view of the docking station integrated into an electronic device such as a portable music player (e.g., boom box).

The broken lines represent the portions of the design that form no part of the claim.

Claims

We claim the ornamental design for a docking station, substantially as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D599783
Type: Grant
Filed: Oct 30, 2007
Date of Patent: Sep 8, 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 (San Francisco, CA), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Douglas B. Satzger (Menlo Park, CA), Calvin Q. Seid (Palo Alto, CA), Vincent Keane Seid, legal representative (Los Gatos, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Portola Valley, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Stella M Reid
Assistant Examiner: Keli L Hill
Attorney: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Application Number: 29/296,895
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Element Or Attachment (11) (D14/217)