Patent
   D675194
Priority
Sep 05 2008
Filed
Jun 21 2012
Issued
Jan 29 2013
Expiry
Jan 29 2027
Assg.orig
Entity
unknown
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The ornamental design for an earphone, as shown and described.

This application is also related to U.S. application Ser. No. 29/336,806, filed May 8, 2009, now U.S. Design Pat. No. D618,209, which is a divisional application of U.S. Design application Ser. No. 29/324,197, filed Sep. 8, 2008, now U.S. Design Pat. No. D599,330, which is a continuation of U.S. Design application Ser. No. 29/324,132, filed Sep. 5, 2008, now U.S. Design Pat. No. D596,616. The disclosures of these applications are incorporated herein in their entirety by reference thereto.

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of an earphone showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a rear perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is front view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof

FIG. 6 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The shade lines in the Figures show contour and not surface ornamentation.

The broken lines in the Figures show portions of the earphones which form no part of the claimed design. The dot-dash lines in the Figures show an unclaimed boundary which forms no part of the claimed design.

Andre, Bartley K., Coster, Daniel J., De Iuliis, Daniele, Howarth, Richard P., Ive, Jonathan P., Kerr, Duncan Robert, Nishibori, Shin, Rohrbach, Matthew Dean, Russell-Clarke, Peter, Stringer, Christopher J., Whang, Eugene Antony, Zörkendörfer, Rico, Satzger, Douglas B.

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