Docking station

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of a docking station showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom front perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a bottom plan view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a front view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a rear view thereof.

The shade lines in the Figures show contour and not surface ornamentation.

The dashed lines in the Figures show portions of the docking station which form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a docking station, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D648325
Type: Grant
Filed: Feb 18, 2011
Date of Patent: Nov 8, 2011
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Menlo Park, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA), Julian Hoenig (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), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Prabhakar Deshmukh
Assistant Examiner: Keli L Hill
Attorney: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, PLLC
Application Number: 29/385,788