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;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof;

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

FIG. 8 is an enlarged 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 in two parts;

FIG. 11 is an enlarged top view thereof in two parts;

FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 12-12 of FIG. 3;

FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 13-13 of FIG. 9;

FIG. 14 is a cross-sectional view taken along lines 14-14 of FIG. 3; and,

FIG. 15 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a portion of FIG. 14.

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. 14 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: D713848
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 13, 2013
Date of Patent: Sep 23, 2014
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Menlo Park, 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: 29/448,734
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Cover (D14/440)