Industrial Design Win Patents # 1 & 2: MacBook Pro with Glass Trackpad

Apple credits Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Steve Jobs, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Satzger, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patent D611,045 relating to the MacBook Pro, originally filed in Q3 2009. Apple's second related patent is D611,043 which credits the same personnel with the design for the MacBook Pro glass trackpad which is noted at the bottom of the design above. Apple states that "the diagonal broken lines represent glass."

Industrial Design Win Patent # 3: The MacBook Air

Apple credits Bartley Andre, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Jonathan Ive, Steve Jobs, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas Satzger, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patent D611,044 for the MacBook Air, originally filed in Q3 2009.

Note that Apple's patent states that "the bottom surface of the electronic device may be black, as may be the keys" - as shown above. It's unknown at this time if Apple dropped this design feature originally or if we're to see a black bottom on a future upgrade.

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