Earphone

- Apple
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Description

This application is also related to U.S. application Ser. No. 29/336,806, filed May 8, 2009, now U.S. Design Pat. No. D618,209, which is a divisional application of U.S. Design application Ser. No. 29/324,197, filed Sep. 8, 2008, now U.S. Design Pat. No. D599,330, which is a continuation of U.S. Design application Ser. No. 29/324,132, filed Sep. 5, 2008, now U.S. Design Pat. No. D596,616. The disclosures of these applications are incorporated herein in their entirety by reference thereto.

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of an earphone showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof

FIG. 6 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view thereof.

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

Claims

The ornamental design for an earphone, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D687419
Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 28, 2013
Date of Patent: Aug 6, 2013
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 (Kailua, HI), 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
Application Number: 29/444,234