Earphones

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a view of earphones showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is another view thereof;

FIG. 3 is another view thereof; and,

FIG. 4 is another view thereof.

Claims

The ornamental design for earphones, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D691594
Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 12, 2012
Date of Patent: Oct 15, 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: Paula Greene
Application Number: 29/432,033
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Headphone (D14/223)