Keyboard

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a front, perspective view of a keyboard showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a rear view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a rear perspective view thereof.

The broken lines illustrate portions of the keyboard and form no part of the claimed design. The gray shading on a portion of the keyboard represents a metallic-looking surface.

Claims

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

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Patent History
Patent number: D649549
Type: Grant
Filed: Jun 1, 2011
Date of Patent: Nov 29, 2011
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), Steve Jobs (Palo Alto, 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), Calvin Q. Seid (Palo Alto, CA), Vincent Keane Seid, legal representative (Los Gatos, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zorkendorfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Freda S Nunn
Attorney: SAIDMAN DesignLaw Group
Application Number: 29/393,263
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Keyboard With Conventional Key Arrangement (D14/392)