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While he did invent lots of stuff, I think it's pretty undisputed by the people close to him such as Jony Ive and Andy Hertzfeld, that Steve was famous for claiming other peoples ideas as his own.

[Edit: Jony Ive describes this in chapter 26 of the biography. See folklore.org for more examples.]

"CLAIM The ornamental design for packaging, as shown and described."

really?

It's called a design patent. It explicitly covers only the ornamental, non-functional design of the object, and is subject to somewhat different terms than a utility patent.

In terms of IP law, it's actually quite reasonable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent

appreciated, however I don't think that people mean "design" as in aesthetic design when they say "invented"

for example, the spinning beach ball is patented... I think we have passed the point where "patented" has anything to do with what people think of as "invention"

How does this put the argument to rest?

The CEO is on a lot of corporate patent applications for contributing" to the invention. I have seen two CEOs on my applications for patents.