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 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 ...

Your dining table is so much more than just a place to sit for mealtimes — here’s how to decide which shape best suits your space and style ...

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 ...