Earphones
Aoyagi , et al. Sep
Patent Grant D895575
U.S. patent number D895,575 [Application Number D/686,638] was granted by the patent office on 2020-09-08 for earphones. This patent grant is currently assigned to Apple Inc.. The grantee listed for this patent is Apple Inc.. Invention is credited to Shota Aoyagi, Robert Brunner, Monica Fernandez, Christopher Kuh, Christopher J. Stringer.
| United States Patent | D895,575 |
| Aoyagi , et al. | September 8, 2020 |
| **Please see images for: ( Certificate of Correction ) ** |
Earphones
Claims
CLAIM The ornamental design for earphones, as shown and described.
| Inventors: | Aoyagi; Shota (San Francisco, CA), Brunner; Robert (San Francisco, CA), Fernandez; Monica (Reseda, CA), Kuh; Christopher (San Francisco, CA), Stringer; Christopher J. (Woodside, CA) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applicant: |
|
||||||||||
| Assignee: | Apple Inc. (Cupertino,
CA) |
||||||||||
| Appl. No.: | D/686,638 | ||||||||||
| Filed: | April 5, 2019 |
Related U.S. Patent Documents
| Application Number | Filing Date | Patent Number | Issue Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29609517 | Jun 30, 2017 | D845926 | |||
| Current U.S. Class: | D14/217; D14/205 |
| Current International Class: | 1401 |
| Field of Search: | ;D14/217,205,223,188,192 ;D13/133,154,146,147,139.7 ;439/686,491,155,154,447,589 ;174/93 |
References Cited [Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
| 1642064 | September 1927 | Engstrom |
| 2120469 | June 1938 | Kyle |
| 2248837 | July 1941 | Walters |
| 2430229 | November 1947 | Kelsey |
| 2501107 | March 1950 | Volkmann |
| 2545731 | March 1951 | French |
| D168240 | November 1952 | Rodrieguez |
| 2739660 | March 1956 | French |
| 3020518 | February 1962 | Camping |
| 3049582 | August 1962 | Shinn |
| 3195392 | July 1965 | Guy |
| 3301253 | January 1967 | Glorig |
| 3457375 | July 1969 | Haggerty |
| D214906 | August 1969 | Stenlainemer |
| 3911203 | October 1975 | Goldowsky |
| D241881 | October 1976 | Peterson |
| 4070548 | January 1978 | Kasper |
| 4095044 | June 1978 | Horsma |
| 4217465 | August 1980 | Holden |
| 4438294 | March 1984 | Meltsch |
| 4457396 | July 1984 | James |
| D278234 | April 1985 | Saito |
| D298313 | November 1988 | De Jong |
| D299454 | January 1989 | Kwong |
| D309306 | July 1990 | Weiser et al. |
| 4992626 | February 1991 | Monroe |
| 5109424 | April 1992 | Andre |
| D328451 | August 1992 | Bosch |
| D337587 | July 1993 | Nakayama |
| D347208 | May 1994 | Martin |
| 5334044 | August 1994 | Falossi |
| D350354 | September 1994 | Nakamura |
| D356293 | March 1995 | Riley |
| 5547399 | August 1996 | Naghi |
| 5625171 | April 1997 | Marshall |
| 5659156 | August 1997 | Mauney et al. |
| D385254 | October 1997 | Owusu |
| 5749373 | May 1998 | Dix |
| 5792998 | August 1998 | Gardner, Jr. et al. |
| 5829062 | November 1998 | Magidson |
| D413301 | August 1999 | Goto |
| 6010216 | January 2000 | Jesiek |
| 6030258 | February 2000 | Fumikura |
| D430139 | August 2000 | Peters |
| 6233345 | May 2001 | Urwyler |
| 6280243 | August 2001 | Liu |
| D451888 | December 2001 | Milan |
| D458245 | June 2002 | Masuda |
| D466100 | November 2002 | Obata et al. |
| D469770 | February 2003 | Carpenter |
| D473217 | April 2003 | Rivera |
| 6603863 | August 2003 | Nagayoshi |
| D482348 | November 2003 | Villaverde et al. |
| D484137 | December 2003 | Wikel |
| 6741719 | May 2004 | Orten |
| 6786764 | September 2004 | Sivertsen |
| 6799018 | September 2004 | Lam |
| 6864427 | March 2005 | Radelet |
| D504177 | April 2005 | Erfan |
| D509797 | September 2005 | Milan |
| 7010139 | March 2006 | Smeehuyzen |
| D519108 | April 2006 | Yang |
| D535642 | January 2007 | Garcia et al. |
| D542280 | May 2007 | Taylor |
| D546321 | July 2007 | Kim |
| D550202 | September 2007 | Meier et al. |
| D550657 | September 2007 | Gan et al. |
| D552560 | October 2007 | Victor |
| D554109 | October 2007 | Ledbetter et al. |
| D558735 | January 2008 | Carr |
| D566044 | April 2008 | D'Arco |
| D569841 | May 2008 | Chung |
| D573095 | July 2008 | Poupore |
| D575268 | August 2008 | Christopher et al. |
| D576149 | September 2008 | Malik et al. |
| D576154 | September 2008 | Ledbetter et al. |
| D576948 | September 2008 | Bernstine |
| D578507 | October 2008 | Ando |
| D579005 | October 2008 | Wilhelmsen |
| D579444 | October 2008 | Ewert et al. |
| D582389 | December 2008 | Bose |
| D585384 | January 2009 | Andre |
| D587678 | March 2009 | Yuyama |
| D587681 | March 2009 | Yanai |
| D587685 | March 2009 | Densho |
| D589493 | March 2009 | Densho |
| D593067 | May 2009 | Millora et al. |
| D594441 | June 2009 | Lee et al. |
| D594442 | June 2009 | Chon et al. |
| D595690 | July 2009 | Fullerton |
| D596617 | July 2009 | Devlas et al. |
| D597071 | July 2009 | Andre et al. |
| D598901 | August 2009 | Lee et al. |
| D599778 | September 2009 | Ando |
| D599781 | September 2009 | Lee et al. |
| D600675 | September 2009 | Lee et al. |
| D604269 | November 2009 | Choe |
| D604272 | November 2009 | Kitayama |
| D605628 | December 2009 | Ando |
| D606971 | December 2009 | Christopher et al. |
| 7639824 | December 2009 | Franzen |
| D607875 | January 2010 | Pedersen, II |
| D609698 | February 2010 | Ng |
| D614168 | April 2010 | Rogers |
| D621389 | August 2010 | Nagayama et al. |
| D622707 | August 2010 | Chen et al. |
| D623630 | September 2010 | Ohori et al. |
| D625292 | October 2010 | Andre et al. |
| D627764 | November 2010 | Tsai et al. |
| D627765 | November 2010 | Zheng |
| D629793 | December 2010 | Goransson |
| D630179 | January 2011 | Park et al. |
| D631037 | January 2011 | Park et al. |
| D636763 | April 2011 | Walter |
| 7920902 | April 2011 | Carroll |
| D637585 | May 2011 | Nagayama et al. |
| D637998 | May 2011 | Brunner et al. |
| D637999 | May 2011 | Brunner et al. |
| D639741 | June 2011 | Gharib |
| D643414 | August 2011 | Lee |
| D643830 | August 2011 | Fish |
| D648316 | November 2011 | Lee |
| D648708 | November 2011 | Katsuraku et al. |
| D650368 | December 2011 | Lee et al. |
| D652817 | January 2012 | Lee |
| D653234 | January 2012 | Lee et al. |
| D656489 | March 2012 | Kumagai et al. |
| D656491 | March 2012 | Nomura |
| D656492 | March 2012 | Huang |
| 8144915 | March 2012 | Hankey et al. |
| D663714 | July 2012 | Kang et al. |
| D666581 | September 2012 | Perez |
| D669881 | October 2012 | Clements et al. |
| 8290193 | October 2012 | Pang et al. |
| 8314354 | November 2012 | Prest et al. |
| D681001 | April 2013 | Murchison et al. |
| 8433082 | April 2013 | Abolfathi |
| D683334 | May 2013 | Gondo |
| 8447062 | May 2013 | Lin |
| D685764 | July 2013 | Coulter |
| D695724 | December 2013 | Ishikura |
| 8611581 | December 2013 | Matsuo et al. |
| D698750 | February 2014 | Yoon |
| 8655006 | February 2014 | Aase et al. |
| 8712087 | April 2014 | Ozawa |
| D707660 | June 2014 | Yang |
| 8743533 | June 2014 | Stanley |
| D712371 | September 2014 | Henning |
| D716759 | November 2014 | Ha et al. |
| D721673 | January 2015 | Park et al. |
| 8934654 | January 2015 | Fullam |
| D722040 | February 2015 | Tan et al. |
| D726145 | April 2015 | Hsieh et al. |
| D727871 | April 2015 | Orbach |
| 9031264 | May 2015 | Yang |
| D731456 | June 2015 | Dahlberg |
| D731999 | June 2015 | Cepress et al. |
| D736178 | August 2015 | Tsou |
| D737251 | August 2015 | Thompson et al. |
| D743381 | November 2015 | Pi et al. |
| D743947 | November 2015 | Yoshimura |
| 9197959 | November 2015 | Fukushima et al. |
| D756958 | May 2016 | Lee et al. |
| D756959 | May 2016 | Lee et al. |
| D758353 | June 2016 | Akana et al. |
| D762196 | July 2016 | Hsieh et al. |
| D762616 | August 2016 | Hsieh et al. |
| D766189 | September 2016 | Gieski et al. |
| D771010 | November 2016 | Louis |
| D775108 | December 2016 | Hsieh et al. |
| D776083 | January 2017 | Lee et al. |
| D776635 | January 2017 | Chang et al. |
| D777136 | January 2017 | Erbeus |
| D777137 | January 2017 | Erbeus |
| D777138 | January 2017 | Fletcher et al. |
| D777139 | January 2017 | Fletcher et al. |
| D778267 | February 2017 | Hsieh et al. |
| D780155 | February 2017 | Levine et al. |
| D782998 | April 2017 | Shin et al. |
| D786217 | May 2017 | Stoch |
| D793995 | August 2017 | Nakagawa |
| D812038 | March 2018 | Nakajima |
| D816059 | April 2018 | Liu |
| D817301 | May 2018 | Aoyagi et al. |
| 9980032 | May 2018 | Yajima |
| D820810 | June 2018 | Levine et al. |
| D821999 | July 2018 | Guo |
| D839194 | January 2019 | Wardenburg |
| D845926 | April 2019 | Aoyagi |
| D885369 | May 2020 | Chen |
| 2010/0104126 | April 2010 | Greene |
| 2010/0120294 | May 2010 | Ko |
| 2011/0014821 | January 2011 | Ko |
| 2011/0142276 | June 2011 | Uchida et al. |
| 2012/0170789 | July 2012 | Lin |
| 2013/0077815 | March 2013 | Stephenson |
| 2013/0170692 | July 2013 | Kaneko et al. |
| 2016/0050487 | February 2016 | Kim |
| 2016/0142808 | May 2016 | Monahan et al. |
| 2017/0295421 | October 2017 | Hung |
| 206323524 | Aug 2013 | CN | |||
| 303159413 | Apr 2015 | CN | |||
| 303190103 | Apr 2015 | CN | |||
| 303297640 | Jul 2015 | CN | |||
| 303634597 | Apr 2016 | CN | |||
| 303647619 | Apr 2016 | CN | |||
| 303654967 | Apr 2016 | CN | |||
| 303691284 | Jun 2016 | CN | |||
| 303841127 | Sep 2016 | CN | |||
| 304122715 | Jan 2017 | CN | |||
| 304369242 | Nov 2017 | CN | |||
| 003502681-0001 | Feb 2017 | EM | |||
| D1322444 | Jan 2008 | JP | |||
| 2013168981 | Aug 2013 | JP | |||
| D1490815 | Jan 2014 | JP | |||
| D1543469 | Feb 2016 | JP | |||
| D1567615 | Dec 2016 | JP | |||
| D1577262 | Apr 2017 | JP | |||
| D1580978 | Jul 2017 | JP | |||
| 30-0675093 | Jan 2013 | KR | |||
| 30-0796056 | May 2015 | KR | |||
| 30-0825094 | Nov 2015 | KR | |||
| 30-0842042 | Feb 2016 | KR | |||
| 30-0852003 | Apr 2016 | KR | |||
Other References
|
Japanese Patent Office Document HJ22045658, dated by JPO Oct. 5, 2010. cited by applicant . John Schettino, Nyrius NAEB500 Noise Isolating In-Ear Earphones Review, Online Review, Feb. 23, 2012. cited by applicant . Japanese Patent Office Document HJ25015145, dated by JPO May 15, 2013. cited by applicant . Japanese Patent Office Document HJ25037202, dated by JPO Sep. 9, 2013. cited by applicant . Dime, Japanese Patent Office Document HA27001939, dated by JPO Apr. 16, 2015. cited by applicant. |
Primary Examiner: Greene; Paula Allen
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
Description
FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of earphones showing the claimed design;
FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a right side view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;
FIG. 6 is a top view thereof; and,
FIG. 7 is a bottom view thereof.
The broken lines in the figures show portions of the earphones that are for illustrative purposes only; the broken lines form no part of the claimed design.
* * * * *
Patent Diagrams and Documents
D00000
D00001
D00002
D00003
D00004
XML
uspto.report is an independent third-party trademark research tool that is not affiliated, endorsed, or sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or any other governmental organization. The information provided by uspto.report is based on publicly available data at the time of writing and is intended for informational purposes only.
While we strive to provide accurate and up-to-date information, we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability of the information displayed on this site. The use of this site is at your own risk. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.
All official trademark data, including owner information, should be verified by visiting the official USPTO website at www.uspto.gov. This site is not intended to replace professional legal advice and should not be used as a substitute for consulting with a legal professional who is knowledgeable about trademark law.
| 