[eletious]

Didn't they patent the corners on iPads and iPhones? Just a rumour that I've heard as a reason we couldn't get parts a few years back, but still.

[gumby]

A design patent and a utility patent are utterly different things; about the only thing they have in common is the trace of the Elizabethan term "Letters Patent".

Q'comm is asserting that Apple isn't paying for utility patents.