Apple's notorious asserted ownership over "rectangles with curved corners" got a shot of legitimacy this week, with the US patent office finally granting a design patent for the original iPad ...

Apple has opened a broad new front its intellectual property war by patenting a rectangle with rounded corners. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent for the 'ornamental design for a ...

Apple has been granted a patent so vague it may never be able to use it. The patent covers the outer shape of a device - a rectangle with rounded corners. The design is defined by a single line ...

It appears like Apple's quest for rounded rectangle patent has paid off finally! The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued patent no. D670,286 to Apple Nov.6, and it covers the outer edge ...

Patent no. D670,286, the “ornamental design for a portable display device” as stated in the patent application, has been awarded to Apple by the US Patent and Trademark Office yesterday. Basically, ...

There’s a growing trend in smartphone design that slices and dices the screen in shapes that stray further and further from the traditional rectangle. Rounded corners are a relatively tiny change and ...

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Both the iPhone and the iPad are in the form of an elongated rectangular parallelepiped. When looking from the front, the rectangle constituting the surface has rounded corners. This is not limited to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Apple has been awarded a design patent for the "rectangles with curved corners" look of the iPad. Apple ... won a patent for its iPad ...