With all the products known to humanity with a "rectangle shape with rounded
corners" - that "on a tablet" is not novel and was not at the time the tablet
was being technically designed. Even Star Trek showed in the sci-fi imagination
sense rectangle with rounded corners.
novel: New or unusual in an
interesting way
Given most video viewers are built with a rectangular
shaped glass screen - and tv's of the 50's shows rounded corners on both the
glass and encasing units - how is simply shrinking the existing design for
"tablet sized" new or unusual?
Even "square" tv's were never square...
not widescreen - but not square either. Even your projectors display a
rectangle viewing area.
You want to apply a specific fractal design -
such as the mandalbrot design - to your tablet? Ok - I'll accept that is
definitely both new and unusual. You can have a design patent on that. Have
fun getting the proper viewing area developed - remember, if you want to patent
that viewing shape area as well, you have to break away from traditional
rectangle.
Basic shapes should not be allowed to be patented - design or
otherwise.
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