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Embedding an antenna in the external body of a phone? Maybe not such a
good idea. Hiding it behind the logo sounds a little more practical,
and that's the idea Apple wrote up in a patent application dated June
17th, 2009, back before we knew antennas and gates could be so
wickedly conjoined. That was also before we knew about the iPad, which
seems to have one of these so-called "logo antennas" within it, as
found when iFixit did their dirty thing. The same can be said for
iMacs, which also have antennas peering through an apple-shaped hole
to avoid any reception issues caused by an aluminum chassis. It looks
to be a good solution, but not exactly a novel one. In roaming around
the USPTO archives we found a similar 2003 patent from Dell also
called "Logo Antenna," the big difference being that while Apple's
logo forms a window for the antenna the logo in Dell's patent actually
is the antenna.
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