IP Library Granted Patent US 1,098,086
Granted Patent S1
US 1,098,086 · App. 29/949,884 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Case with earphones

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); Abidur Rahman Chowdhury (San Francisco, CA); Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne (Palo Alto, CA); Markus Diebel (San Francisco, CA); Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco, CA); M. Evans Hankey (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); Joe Sung-Ho Tan (Vienna, AT); Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA); Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: Apple Inc.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 1,098,086
App. No.
29/949,884
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
S1
Claims (1)

The ornamental design for a case with earphones as shown and described.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 29914693 · Oct 20, 2023
Continuation 29861951 · Dec 5, 2022
Continuation 29758168 · Nov 12, 2020
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