Case for electronic communications device or the like Patent Grant Akana , et al. May 25, 2 [Apple Inc.]

Case for electronic communications device or the like

Akana , et al. May 25, 2

Patent Grant D920317

U.S. patent number D920,317 [Application Number D/607,252] was granted by the patent office on 2021-05-25 for case for electronic communications device or the like. 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	D920,317
Akana , et al.	May 25, 2021

Case for electronic communications device or the like

Claims

CLAIM The ornamental design for a case for electronic communications device or the like, 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/607,252

Filed:

June 12, 2017

Related U.S. Patent Documents


Application Number	Filing Date	Patent Number	Issue Date
29538665	Sep 4, 2015	D789346

Current U.S. Class:	D14/250
Current International Class:	1403
Field of Search:	;D14/203.3-203.7,439,251-253,447,217,240,238.1,250,440,248 ;D13/103,107-108,119 ;D3/201,218,247,249,269,273,301,303

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Primary Examiner: Wright; Carla J
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Description

FIG. 1 is a bottom rear perspective view of a case for electronic communications device or the like showing the claimed design;

FIG. 2 is a bottom view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof; and,

FIG. 6 is a rear view thereof.

The dashed broken lines in the figures show portions of the case that form no part of the claimed design.

The dot-dash broken line in FIGS. 1 and 4-6 represent a boundary of the claimed design. The dashed and dot-dash broken lines form no part of the claimed design.

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