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Maybe Motorola beat Apple to the PTO with a design patent for a circle.
Maybe Motorola beat Apple to the PTO with a design patent for a circle.
Their patent portfolio is that ridiculous, so I wouldn't be surprised. I bet Motorola also holds the patent for "centering stuff" --hence the strangely off-centered everything.
Apple could argue that a circle is just very rounded corners, so they hold the older patent.