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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...