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;

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 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 an enlarged bottom view of the case in an open position shown in two parts for ease of illustration; and,

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

The broken lines in the Figures show portions of the case which 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 of each figure are divided for ease of illustration, and form no part of the claimed design.

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

Claims

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

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Patent History
Patent number: D711887
Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 6, 2013
Date of Patent: Aug 26, 2014
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: Deanna L Pratt
Assistant Examiner: Lilyana Bekic
Application Number: 29/466,380
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Cover (D14/440)