Apple has made new progress in applying for a patent for iOS7 icon. The United States Patent and Trademark Office announced today that Apple has successfully registered the newsstand trademark patent for iOS7, which we saw on the iPhone? Newspapers and magazines? Applications. It is understood that as early as the fourth quarter of 20 13, Apple has submitted a patent application for the newsstand trademark of iOS7. In addition to the United States, Apple has also submitted patent applications in other regions. Shortly after the release of iOS7, Apple submitted a batch of trademark application documents for iOS7 application icons to the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Office. At that time, the application icons included maps, address books, newspapers and magazines, bankbooks, pictures, reminders, settings, stock market and GameCenter. These application icons were all displayed at the Apple WWDC conference.
Compared with iOS6, the biggest change of iOS7 is that the user interface has been completely transformed, and all applications have been redesigned more or less, both in appearance and color matching. So Apple is already strengthening the intellectual property protection of iOS7.