Case

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of a case in an open position showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a front view thereof; showing the case in a closed position;

FIG. 10 is a bottom view of the case in an open position shown in two parts for ease of illustration with the dot-dash-dot line forming no part of the claim;

FIG. 11 is a top view thereof shown in two parts for ease of illustration with the dot-dash-dot line forming no part of the claim; and,

FIG. 12 is an enlarged view taken from FIG. 1.

The broken lines in the Figures show portions of the case which form no part of the claimed design.

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

The dot-dash-dot lines in FIGS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 12 show an unclaimed boundary, and form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dot-dash lines in FIGS. 10 and 11 show the location at which the two parts are divided, and form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

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

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Patent History
Patent number: D686627
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 8, 2012
Date of Patent: Jul 23, 2013
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), M. 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 (Kailua, HI), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Cynthia Underwood
Application Number: 29/415,277
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Cover (D14/440)