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, ...

Apple has only offered a rectangular Apple Watch design since the wearable first launched in 2015. But a new patent from the company suggests it's at least thinking about other options. Apple was ...

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 ...