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Apple has been Granted 16 Design Patents covering the iPhone Wallet with MagSafe, iPhone Home Screen GUIs, Widgets+
 
On Friday Apple was granted 16 design patents in Hong Kong covering the iPhone Wallet with MagSafe and a series of iPhone Home Screen Graphical User Interfaces for widgets, edit pages and more. Our report also covers a few new Registered Trademarks granted to Apple by the U.S. Trademark Office late last month.
 
Unlike "patent applications" that provide the public with an abstract, summary and details of an invention, design patents published around the world are limited to only providing the public with design patent figures. No additional specifics of the design are made available.

Microsoft is set to Attack Apple during Holiday 2020 with an All-New Foldable Tablet and Foldable Phone
 
Patently Apple and Patently Mobile have been reporting on Microsoft's patents pointing to future foldable devices for years now (01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11 and more) and so it wasn't a shock to learn about Microsoft's future foldable Surface tablet and foldable Surface smartphone coming to market in Q4 2020. The new devices will run on Android OS and will use a custom processor designed by Intel specifically for next-gen foldable devices.
 
 
While I wasn't shocked by the announcements, I must admit that it was a bit of rush when the Surface phone was revealed. Over the years typical naysayers wrote into us about our Microsoft patent coverage and basically stated that such future products were not only stupid but that they would never see the light of day. Today's revelations confirm that the patents filed by Microsoft were in fact about the products coming to market in Q4 2020.