The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a summary judgment of no design patent infringement in North Star Tech. Int’l Ltd. v. Latham Pool Products, Inc., ruling that the ...
On January 23, 2016, Applicant Bonnie Floyd filed a utility patent application claiming a cooling blanket with ventilated openings along a matrix of sealed compartments. The utility application ...
In May, the Federal Circuit issued its decision in 'LKQ v. GM Global Technology Operations', which marks a significant shift away from the prior and more rigid 'Rosen-Durling test', toward a more ...
An en banc panel of the Federal Circuit will soon decide whether to amend its long-standing framework for assessing design patent obviousness, known as the 'Rosen-Durling' test. The forthcoming ...
“The ‘more flexible approach’ adopted this week will unquestionably give [design patent] challengers more latitude to argue that prior art warrants a finding of obviousness.” Applications for design ...
Samsung has filed for a unique flip phone design patent at WIPO. This shows a reversible front-and-back flip phone design. The patent images give an impression that the design doesn’t have a defined ...
Jun-yan Wu of Saint Island International Patent & Law Offices explains that the key changes concern design patent protection, with a particular eye on digital developments, and dispute resolution The ...
“What frustrates design patent stakeholders more broadly is attempting to reconcile widely divergent infringement outcomes between cases of differing closeness, making it more difficult to judge ...
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