The Office for Patents and Trademarks recorded recently 37 new patents for the Apple company, including two covering the iPhone 5 design and the iCloud service icon. The remaining 35 invention patents are utilitarian and cover various technologies implemented over time in iOS and the rest of the iDevices launched so far on the market, utilitarian patents being often used by Apple in the lawsuits filed against Android terminal manufacturers.
All the technologies and designs described by Apple in these patents are quite old, there is nothing 100% new, so we are only talking about protecting what can be copied by others.
