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 ...

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, ...

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’s design team is falling apart as the group which designed the rounded rectangle slowly leaves Apple. The latest to leave is Christopher Stringer, who has not said where he is going next but it ...

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 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 ...

Does anyone own the rectangle? Should anyone own the rectangle? These questions may sound absurd, but they’re at the heart of U.S. patent law’s Battle of the Titans: Apple vs. Samsung. On Aug. 24, a ...

Apple vs. Samsung is going to trial today in California — we’ve broken it all down here — but Wired has sat down with Samsung’s Senior Vice President of Product Development and Marketing Kevin ...

Apple iPad Apple proffers design advice on how Samsung could avoid stepping on Apple’s design patent toes, in a legal brief filed as part of its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit against its ...

Tomas Haffenden (pictured below) is a futurist at VERSA. In this guest post, he says it’s hard not to look enviously at Apple’s product line-up and marvel at numerous examples of category-defining ...

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 ...