Housing for an electronic device

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a bottom front perspective view of a housing for an electronic device 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 left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom view thereof.

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

The broken lines in the Figures show portions of the housing for an electronic device that form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a housing for an electronic device, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D749077
Type: Grant
Filed: Jul 11, 2014
Date of Patent: Feb 9, 2016
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Sean Stewart Corbin (San Jose, CA), Daniel J. Coster (San Francisco, CA), Daniele De Iuliis (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Contini Franklin (San Francisco, CA), Kevin David Gibbs (Menlo Park, 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), Stephen McClure (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
Application Number: 29/496,380
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: For Computer (D14/439)