Apple's Statement of Novelty

All three of Apple's media player icons were accompanied by this verbiage: The features of the design for which novelty is claimed are the pattern, ornament, shape and configuration of the article as shown in the representations. The broken lines are for the purpose of illustrating a portion of the article that forms no part of the claimed design.

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