Suppose you have a design for an ornamental appearance of an article and start producing the article. Subsequently, you receive notice from an owner of a design patent that you are infringing their ...

The landscape of design patent law has recently evolved with the introduction of a new standard for determining obviousness. For decades, the Rosen-Durling test was used to assess obviousness of ...

“Unfortunately, not nearly enough individuals and companies are seeking design patent protection. In 2019, for example, there were 46,847 design patent applications filed, which represents 7.01% of ...

Demand for design patent protections has been increasing in the last decade, and there is no indication that this trend will slow down. James Rieke, partner at Merchant & Gould, spoke to Minnesota ...

“While design patents are the exact right tool in the toolbox at certain time, such as when a temporary restraining order is desirable against an infringing competitor showing off a knockoff at a ...

Christopher Santone used the US Patent and Trademark Office’s launch of a practice bar specific to design patents to make a ...

People think that you need a utility patent in order to license an invention. But that’s not the case. Design patents have more value than they used to. Recently, I helped two orthodontists license a ...

Tesla has obtained today a design patent for the Cybertruck, and the patent application references several interesting prior designs that could have influenced Tesla’s unique design. Today, Tesla was ...

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July 12, 2022 - One year after China's updated patent laws went into effect, much uncertainty remains as to how protection and coverage for medical devices will look in the long term. Chinese patent ...