Case Patent Grant Akana , et al. August 26, 2 [Apple Inc.]

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Akana , et al. August 26, 2

Patent Grant D711887

U.S. patent number D711,887 [Application Number D/466,380] was granted by the patent office on 2014-08-26 for case. This patent grant is currently assigned to Apple Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is Apple Inc.. Invention is credited to Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer.

United States Patent	D711,887
Akana , et al.	August 26, 2014

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Claims

CLAIM The ornamental design for a case, as shown and described.

Inventors:

Akana; Jody (San Francisco, CA), Andre; Bartley K. (Palo Alto, CA), Bataillou; Jeremy (San Francisco, CA), Coster; Daniel J. (San Francisco, CA), De Iuliis; Daniele (San Francisco, CA), Hankey; M. Evans (San Francisco, CA), Hoenig; Julian (San Francisco, CA), Howarth; Richard P. (San Francisco, CA), Ive; Jonathan P. (San Francisco, CA), Kerr; Duncan Robert (San Francisco, CA), Nishibori; Shin (Kailua, HI), Rohrbach; Matthew Dean (San Francisco, CA), Russell-Clarke; Peter (San Francisco, CA), Stringer; Christopher J. (Woodside, CA), Whang; Eugene Antony (San Francisco, CA), Zorkendorfer; Rico (San Francisco, CA)

Applicant:

Name	City	State	Country	Type
Apple Inc.	Cupertino	CA	US

Assignee:

Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA)

Appl. No.:

D/466,380

Filed:

September 6, 2013

Related U.S. Patent Documents


Application Number	Filing Date	Patent Number	Issue Date
29416587	Sep 10, 2013	D689498
29415062	Aug 20, 2013	D688251
29415035	Mar 6, 2012

Current U.S. Class:	D14/440
Current International Class:	1402
Field of Search:	;D14/138G,250,251,253,240,217,496,440,203.3,203.4,203.5,203.8,341,318,345 ;D3/218,215,201,269,273,294,289,303,327,900 ;D21/469 ;220/4.02 ;248/309.1 ;361/679.56 ;379/426,433.11,455 ;455/575.1,575.8 ;190/100 ;206/305,320

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Primary Examiner: Pratt; Deanna L
Assistant Examiner: Bekic; Lilyana
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Description

FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of a case in an open position showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a left side view thereof showing the case in an open position;

FIG. 8 is a right side view thereof showing the case in an open position;

FIG. 9 is a front view thereof showing the case in a closed position;

FIG. 10 is an enlarged bottom view of the case in an open position shown in two parts for ease of illustration; and,

FIG. 11 is an enlarged top view thereof shown in two parts for ease of illustration.

The broken lines in the Figures show portions of the case which form no part of the claimed design.

The dot-dot-dash lines in FIGS. 10 and 11 show the location at which the two parts of each figure are divided for ease of illustration, and form no part of the claimed design.

The shade lines in the Figures show contour and not surface ornamentation.

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