Apple patents rectangles with curved edges like those of the iPad

Yes, friends, it seemed that we would not get to this point but we have arrived. Yesterday the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) agreed that Apple patent a rectangle with curved edges. Actually, it seems that what the company is trying to do is protect iPad design, but due to the generic nature of the sketch presented, it could really be many devices that we already find on the market.

Number patent D670,286  was registered yesterday attaching a drawing that clearly corresponds to the design of the first generation of Cupertino tablets. You can enter the official document and check the sketches that are attached in this patent.

After endless legal battles with other companies, especially Samsung, Apple has tried to reinforce one of the arguments that produced the most jokes: the shape of the tablets. The South Korean company has already scoffed at the courts and publicly emphasizing that the American company wanted to do exclusive use of the rectangle with borders curved. Although it may sound like a joke, what this record made by the United States government admits is more or less this. The lines of the featured prototype are ambiguous enough that hundreds of tablets were under suspicion. The question is whether the Steve Jobs heirs are really going to go to trial with all of them. In the end it will turn out that the legal department of the company will be more important than the innovation department.

In the patent war, Apple was victorious in the majority of lawsuits against Samsung, except for a few such as the Galaxy Tab in the United Kingdom, where it had to apologize on its website. However, even if it could bring new legal victories for them, consumers should not be happy that something so ambiguous can stop the enriching competition that different brands have in the real market, where we decide and force companies to improve with best products.

Source: The Verge