Case

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a left side perspective view of a case in a closed position showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a right side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side view thereof; and,

FIG. 5 is a top view thereof.

The background in the digital images 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: D956421
Type: Grant
Filed: Nov 3, 2020
Date of Patent: Jul 5, 2022
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), Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA), Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA), Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco, CA), Markus Diebel (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), Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA), Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA), Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA), Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA), Sung-Ho Tan (San Francisco, CA), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: Christian P. McLean
Assistant Examiner: Kourosh Taie-Tehrani
Application Number: 29/757,110
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: D3/294; Headphone (D14/223)