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 ...

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, ...

The court case between Samsung and Apple is in full swing with Samsung’s legal team pointing out that Jobs' Mob did not invent the rounded rectangle. Samsung attorney Charlie Verhoeven said that there ...

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 ...

Or so say The Register as their contribution to today's jollities. That Apple has claimed patent rights to the rectangle itself. The problem with this addition to the April Fool jokes this year is ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple and additional design patent for the iPad’s “ornamental design.” US Patent D670,286 was reviewed by the office and awarded on Tuesday.