Case

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Description

FIG. 1 is a front view of a case showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a top front perspective view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a top rear perspective view thereof.

The background in the Figures forms no part of the claimed design.

The dot-dash broken lines in the Figures and the faded areas within the dot-dash broken lines show portions of the case that form 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: D976585
Type: Grant
Filed: Jul 17, 2020
Date of Patent: Jan 31, 2023
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: Paula Allen Greene
Application Number: 29/741,988
Classifications
Current U.S. Class: D3/294; Headphone (D14/223)