Debate has raged, not least in the courts, about whether Apple should really be able to patent a rectangular device with rounded corners. Seems the US Patent and Trademark Office thinks it can, ...

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 ...

There’s been a lot of talk over the last couple of years — especially by Samsung during the course of its recent patent infringement trial — that Apple has obtained design patent coverage on ...