Case for electronic communications device or the like

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a bottom rear perspective view of a case for electronic communications device or the like showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a rear view thereof.

The dashed broken lines in the figures show portions of the case that form no part of the claimed design.

The dot-dash broken line in FIGS. 1 and 4-6 represent a boundary of the claimed design. The dashed and dot-dash broken lines form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a case for electronic communications device or the like, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D920317
Type: Grant
Filed: Jun 12, 2017
Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
Assignee: Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)
Inventors: Jody Akana (San Francisco, CA), Molly Anderson (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)
Primary Examiner: Carla J Wright
Application Number: 29/607,252
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