Recently, it is been known that Apple won Samsung in “Patent War”, in which, the Korean company had to pay Apple billions of dollars. One of the main reasons was that Samsung illegally copied the design of icons: a square with rounded corners. However, at this time Apple went even further and patented the general form of its tablet devices – “rectangle with rounded corners”. (LOL) It means that Apple now has rights to sue almost everyone who produces the tablets, because almost all companies produce tablets with that shape.

In my opinion, it is absolutely unfair to patent a simple form – a rectangle, as it contradicts common sense, because rectangle is known by humankind since the big “bang times”. Now, it is not clear whether the patent covers all tablets with rounded corners, or it is only related to those tablets with 4:3 proportions, while most competitors produce in 16:9 or 16:10 proportions. Anyways, Apple now has a powerful weapon against its competitors and obviously they will try to use it.

Perhaps the need for that strategy was due to the fact that Apple has “some” problems on the stock market: Apple’s tablet market share has dropped from 65% to 50.4%, which is associated primarily with the release of the budget tablet Nexus 7 from Google. Moreover, since iPhone 5’s release Apple’s share prices have fallen from $ 700 to $527, while sales of its main competitor – Samsung Galaxy S III, only increased.

Well, now Apple has a great chance to revenge on its competitors, because every TV set, monitors, and even cutting boards have a form of “a rectangle with rounded edges”. (LOL)