Case

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Description

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

FIG. 2 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof; and

FIG. 5 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a left side view thereof showing the case in an open position;

FIG. 8 is a right side view thereof showing the case in an open position;

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;

FIG. 11 is an enlarged top view thereof in two parts for ease of illustration; and,

FIG. 12 is an enlarged view of item 12 in FIG. 1.

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

The dot-dash-dot lines in FIGS. 10 and 11 show the location at which the two parts of each figure are divided for ease of illustration, and form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dot-dash line in FIG. 12 forms 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: D689498
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 23, 2012
Date of Patent: Sep 10, 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: 29/416,587
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Cover (D14/440)