Case for mobile communications device
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The solid line that forms the innermost edge of the front of the case and the solid line that forms the innermost edge of the rear of the case are boundaries of the claimed design and are part of the claimed design. All surfaces on the interior of the case that are between these two solid line boundaries form no part of the claimed design. The broken lines on the exterior of the case that represent through holes are boundaries of the claimed design and form no part of the claimed design. All other broken lines on the exterior and interior of the case depict environmental subject matter that forms no part of the claimed design.
Claims
The ornamental design for a case for mobile communications device, as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: May 30, 2014
Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
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), 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: Carla Jobe Wright
Application Number: 29/492,404