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 ...

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 ...

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 ...