Mbpro retina trackpad square on screen

Hi I own a mackbook pro retina.
yesterday I noticed that on the upper side of my screen there's a visible square. It looks like a stripe of dust, but I can't wipe it of. When u look closer it looks like broken pixels. It's also visible when the mac is turned off. The strange part is that the visible square is on the same place as the trackpad when the mb is closed.
It's now at apple for service but I'm curious if other people have noticed this failure also.
To me it looks like the heat of the MacBook is released through the sides of the trackpad and when it's closed it burns a square in the screen

You don't have to beg, as long as you haven't had it for 14 days. Just return it and get another one. You have that right and don't need any approval from the Genius Bar.
I have already turned in a MacBook Pro a week after I got it, because of poor battery perforamnce. The replacement worked fine

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