Apple's latest iPad-related design patent is literally for the rounded rectangular front outlined in solid black. Unfortunate use of the word "literally." Any

Apple's latest iPad-related design patent is literally for the rounded rectangular front outlined in solid black. Unfortunate use of the word "literally." Anyway, this is what a rounded rectangle looks like: http://www.enfoportals.com/index_image953.png http://www.enfoportals.com/index_image953.png I don't see a third dimension, a button, a connector, a camera, a screen, speaker holes, and so on. The current state of patents, design or otherwise, seems to be at new heights of stupidity. But this article–below the standard Ars usually lives up to, title, body content, and all–makes me wonder if the thoughtlessness of discourse on the subject isn't also setting some new records.