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Apple awarded glass-on-metal trackpad design patent

by Steven Sande (Jan 15th, 2013)

The next time you sit down at an aluminum unibody MacBook and glide your finger atop the trackpad, you can take pride in knowing that the design of that trackpad has been issued a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Design patent D674382 was published today under the rather mundane ...

German court dismisses Apple design claim against Motorola Xoom

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 18th, 2012)

A German court has ruled that Motorola's Xoom tablet does not infringe on Apple's patents, says an Associated Press report. In its case, Apple argued that the design of the Motorola Xoom too closely resembled the Apple iPad. A judge did not agree with Apple and ruled against this claim. It ...