Chair
The evenly-spaced broken lines shown in the drawings represent portions of the chair that form no part of the claimed design. The long and short broken lines indicate a boundary of the claimed design and form no part of the claimed design.
Claims
We claim the ornamental design for a chair, as shown and described.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Oct 18, 2022
Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
Assignee: MillerKnoll, Inc. (Zeeland, MI)
Inventors: Johann Burkhard Schmitz (Berlin), Carola Zwick (Berlin), Roland Zwick (Berlin)
Primary Examiner: Kevin K Rudzinski
Assistant Examiner: Paul D Bohannon
Application Number: 29/856,953