Pencil

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 shows a front perspective view of a pencil showing our new design;

FIG. 2 shows a rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 shows a top view thereof;

FIG. 4 shows a front view; the rear view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 5 shows a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 6 shows a left view thereof; and,

FIG. 7 shows a right view thereof.

The broken lines illustrate structure or features which form no part of the claimed design.

The dot-dash broken lines illustrate boundaries which form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

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

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Patent History
Patent number: D968407
Type: Grant
Filed: Dec 27, 2021
Date of Patent: Nov 1, 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), 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), Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA), Joe Sung-Ho Tan (San Francisco, CA), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (Cupertino, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (Cupertino, CA)
Primary Examiner: Austin Murphy
Application Number: 29/821,012
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: Stylus (D14/411)