This week Patently Apple discovered a 2nd plan patent published successful the Hong Kong Patent Office database covering the iPhone 14's Dynamic Island. Interestingly this plan patent comes adjacent to what archetypal rumors were forecasting a twelvemonth ago, similar the representation presented beneath from a Kevin Kall video.
Unlike "patent applications" that supply the nationalist with an abstract, summary and details of an invention, plan patents published astir the satellite are constricted to lone providing the nationalist with plan patent figures. No further specifics of the plan are made available.
Apple's Hong Kong's Granted Design Patent Information Form In-Part
(Click connected representation to Enlarge)
iPhone Pro Dynamic Island Design Patent Figures
On November 12, 2022 Patently Apple covered the archetypal circular of plan patents covering Apple's Dynamic Island show panel. In the past week, Apple was granted a 2nd plan patent successful Hong Kong that lone covers the show sheet with it's Dynamic Island cutout arsenic presented below. It differs successful plan illustrating a two-hole cutout plan connected the solid cutout. This would suggest that Apple's iOS makes it look arsenic if it's a azygous cut-out that's expandable.
Updated Figurative Trademark for Keynote Icon
Also this week, Apple filed for a somewhat updated Figurative Trademark Icon representing the iWork app 'Keynote' icon. The flimsy alteration is presenting a cleanable pastry illustration and bluish enactment nether the chart. See the existent plan here for comparison.
The plan was filed nether exertion 306156784 and nether International Class 09 specifically which covers: " Computer software; downloadable machine bundle for presumption graphics, namely, bundle for generating, storing, retrieving, manipulating, altering and transmitting texts and graphics for usage successful presentations and inferior programs for usage therewith; downloadable machine bundle for accessing, viewing, annotating, storing, editing, downloading, displaying, sharing, and distributing physics media, images, audio, video, data, information, and documents implicit the net oregon different communications network; machine graphics software; downloadable pre-recorded audio, video and multimedia content."