Stylus Patent Grant Akana , et al. June 13, 2 [Apple Inc.]

Stylus

Akana , et al. June 13, 2

Patent Grant D789370

U.S. patent number D789,370 [Application Number D/578,227] was granted by the patent office on 2017-06-13 for stylus. This patent grant is currently assigned to Apple Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is Apple Inc.. Invention is credited to Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer.

United States Patent	D789,370
Akana , et al.	June 13, 2017

Stylus

Claims

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

Inventors:

Akana; Jody (San Francisco, CA), Anderson; Molly (San Francisco, CA), Andre; Bartley K. (Palo Alto, CA), Aoyagi; Shota (San Francisco, CA), Ashcroft; Anthony Michael (San Francisco, 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), Rohrbach; Matthew Dean (San Francisco, CA), Russell-Clarke; Peter (San Francisco, CA), Shaffer; Benjamin Andrew (San Jose, CA), Silvanto; Mikael (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/578,227

Filed:

September 20, 2016

Related U.S. Patent Documents


Application Number	Filing Date	Patent Number	Issue Date
29538663	Sep 4, 2015	D771630

Current U.S. Class:	D14/411
Current International Class:	1402
Field of Search:	;D14/372,496,432,371,125,126,129,299,411 ;D16/300-342 ;351/158,153,144 ;345/7-9,905 ;455/344 ;348/115,53,121,739

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Other References

Adonit Styluses, <http://www.adonit.net/jot/>, available at least as early as Sep. 4, 2015. cited by applicant .
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Primary Examiner: Murphy; Austin
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Saidman DesignLaw Group, LLC

Description

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a stylus showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is another perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a front view thereof; and,

FIG. 5 is a rear view thereof.

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

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References

adonit.net/jot