Daniel Payne
Moderator
I've always been amazed that Apple was granted a design patent for a rectangular shape with rounded corners for their fashionable iPhone product, because it was so obvious to me that prior art was filled with dozens of consumer products that are a rectangular with rounded corners.
Now the tables have turned, and a Chinese court has ruled that Apple is violating design patents from Shenzhen Baili and therefore must stop selling its popular iPhone 6 model in China.
Apple ordered to halt iPhone 6 sales in Beijing - Jun. 17, 2 16
If design patents were issued in the automotive world and defended in the courts, then we would likely have to stop buying new automobiles because of the striking amount of design re-use in the shape of our cars.
Now the tables have turned, and a Chinese court has ruled that Apple is violating design patents from Shenzhen Baili and therefore must stop selling its popular iPhone 6 model in China.
Apple ordered to halt iPhone 6 sales in Beijing - Jun. 17, 2 16
If design patents were issued in the automotive world and defended in the courts, then we would likely have to stop buying new automobiles because of the striking amount of design re-use in the shape of our cars.