Apple has won the patent for its design of the iPhone and its stainless steel ban.

Apple gives credit to CEO Steve Jobs, VP Industrial Design Jonathan Ive and team members Bartley Andre, Freddy Anzures, Jeremy Bataillou, Imran Chaudhri, Daniel Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard Howarth, Duncan Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher Stringer, Eugene Whang and Rico Zorkendorfer as the inventors of Granted Patent D636,392, originally filed in Q3 2010.

With the recent lawsuit against Samsung copying the iPhone hardware (and software) will Samsung try to rip this one off also?

(via Patently Apple)