Case for an electronic device

- Apple
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Description

FIG. 1 is a bottom front perspective view of a case for an electronic device showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a top front perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a top rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 8 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 9 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 10 is a bottom view thereof.

The broken lines in the figures show portions of the case for an electronic device that form no part of the claimed design.

Claims

The ornamental design for a case for an electronic device, as shown and described.

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Patent History
Patent number: D969790
Type: Grant
Filed: Jan 25, 2019
Date of Patent: Nov 15, 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), Sung-Ho Tan (San Francisco, CA), Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA), Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA), Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Primary Examiner: L. A. Grabenstetter
Application Number: 29/678,098