Keyboard

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a keyboard showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof.

The dashed broken lines illustrate portions of the keyboard which form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

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

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Patent History
Patent number: D776114
Type: Grant
Filed: Mar 6, 2015
Date of Patent: Jan 10, 2017
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA), Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, 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), Matthew Dean Rohrbach (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Christopher J. Stringer (Woodside, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA), Keith J. Hendren (San Francisco, CA), Craig C. Leong (San Jose, CA)
Primary Examiner: Freda S Nunn
Application Number: 29/519,705
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Keyboard With Conventional Key Arrangement (D14/392)