[Camillo]

You're right, it's ridiculous. What is an iPhone if not a combination of silicon, carbon, oxygen, aluminium, potassium, copper, boron, phosphorus, nitrogen etc.? Did Apple come up with any of these elements? Was it the first to bring them to market? With such prior art as clocks, wires, plants or rocks, going back lustra or even scores, it's a wonder their case has not been thrown out yet.

[__alexs]

Apple aren't trying to claim exclusive use of any chemical elements that I'm aware of.

This isn't about whether or not Apple make good and/or innovative products. It's about their claim of exclusive rights to the concepts they use in building them.