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Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says
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The "rounded corners" falls into a different category of patents known as "design patents" which seek to protect a non-functional design of something. The ones that we tend to be more familiar with are "utility patents".
Also in this category of patents, Coca-cola's bottle (from 1923) https://patents.google.com/patent/USD63657S/en (this is a more updated version than the one that was in the Wiki article which is the original one).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/apply/design-patent
All that is needed for Apple's "rounded corners" design patent is indeed just a drawing.
From the standpoint of a design patent, the rounded rectangles is not a frivolous patent.