Earphone
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This application is also related to U.S. application Ser. No. 29/336,806, filed May 8, 2009, which is a divisional application of U.S. application Ser. No. 29/324,197, filed Sep. 8, 2008, now U.S. Pat. No. D599,330, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 29/324,132, filed Sep. 5, 2008, now U.S. Pat. No. D596,616. The disclosures of these applications are incorporated herein in their entireties by reference thereto.
The shade lines in the Figures show contour and not surface ornamentation.
The broken lines in the Figures show portions of the earphone which form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dashed broken lines in the Figures show an unclaimed boundary around portions of the subject matter being claimed.
Claims
The ornamental design for an earphone, as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: May 13, 2011
Date of Patent: Jan 31, 2012
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: 29/391,833