"The iPhone" isn't a patent. There's one often-ridiculed "design patent" on the rounded-rectangle-in-a-grid home screen layout. But these "design patents" are

"The iPhone" isn't a patent. There's one often-ridiculed "design patent" on the rounded-rectangle-in-a-grid home screen layout. But these "design patents" are a lot closer to copyright than actual patents. The mere existence of Android phones are proof that at least one of the following two believes or yours must be wrong: - That trivial stuff is easily patented - That Apple is willing to abuse the patent system for anti-competitive reasons.