Microphone

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Description

FIG. 1 is a front right perspective view of a microphone showing a first embodiment of our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a front right perspective view of a microphone showing a second embodiment of our new design;

FIG. 9 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 10 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 11 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 12 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 13 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 14 is a bottom view thereof.

The dash-dot-dash broken line showing immediately adjacent to the shaded area in the figures represents an unclaimed boundary of the design. The dot-dot-dot broken line showing of the remainder of the microphone in the figures is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a microphone, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D604274
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 10, 2009
Date of Patent: Nov 17, 2009
Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc. (Niles, IL)
Inventors: James Daniel Durrett (Chicago, IL), Kenneth Alvin Tarbell (Roselle, IL), Michael Chad Wiggins (Gilberts, IL), John P. Devlin (Tewksbury, MA), Kurt M. Maw (Salem, MA), Mark A. Nichols (Newton, MA), Gabor Zanoni (Cambridge, MA)
Primary Examiner: Paula Greene
Attorney: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
Application Number: 29/333,462
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