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US 1,087,096 · App. 29/947,238 · Granted Aug 5, 2025

Pencil

Inventors: Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA); Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA); Bartley K. Andre (Palo Alto, CA); Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco, CA); Anthony Michael Ashcroft (San Francisco, CA); Marine C. Bataille (San Francisco, CA); Jeremy Bataillou (San Francisco, CA); Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA); M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA); Julian Hoenig (San Francisco, CA); Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA); Jonathan P. Ive (San Francisco, CA); Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA); Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA); Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA); Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA); Mikael Silvanto (San Francisco, CA); Joe Sung-Ho Tan (Vienna, AT); Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA); Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA); Rico Zörkendörfer (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 1,087,096
App. No.
29/947,238
Granted
Aug 5, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for a pencil as shown and described.

Continuity (5)
Continuation 29914746 · Oct 20, 2023
Continuation 29850453 · Aug 19, 2022
Continuation 29821012 · Dec 27, 2021
Continuation 29747600 · Aug 24, 2020
Continuation 29654659 · Jun 26, 2018
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