Granted Patent
S1
US 1,129,876 · App. 29/952,215 · Granted Jun 16, 2026
Case
Inventors:
Jody Akana (Los Altos Hills, CA); Molly Anderson (San Francisco, CA); Bartley Andre (Los Gatos, 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); Alexandre B. Girard (Sunnyvale, CA); Jonathan Gomez Garcia (San Francisco, CA); M. Evans Hankey (San Francisco, CA); Anne-Marie Heck (San Francisco, CA); Moises Hernandez Hernandez (Palo Alto, CA); Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco, CA); Julian Jaede (San Francisco, CA); Duncan Robert Kerr (San Francisco, CA); Kainoa Kwon-Perez (San Francisco, CA); Nicolas Pedro Lylyk (Los Gatos, CA); Peter Russell-Clarke (San Francisco, CA); Benjamin Andrew Shaffer (San Jose, CA); Clement Tissandier (San Francisco, CA); Eugene Antony Whang (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee:
Apple Inc.
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Claims (1)
The ornamental design for a case as shown and described.
Continuity (2)
Continuation
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Continuation
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