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WIPIP, Concurrent Session #1, Design

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When Design Within Reach started, it said in its 2007 10K: “our competitors believe they have exclusive rights” in some of their proudcts, including some of their best selling items, which were reproductions. and design patents were hard to get/not as valuable at the time. In the 1960s, preemption was big (Sears v.

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