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Logos Remain Relevant: Source Confusion and Design Patent Infringement

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This post will focus on another key issue from the case – the relevance of logos in design patent infringement analysis. Still, ornamental logos found on the accused product can still be relevant as visual distractors in the process of evaluating similarities and differences between the claimed design and accused design.

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The Scope of Comparison Prior Art in Design Patent Infringement

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2022) raises a number of important design patent law questions, including an issue of first-impression of the scope of “comparison prior art” available for the ordinary observer infringement analysis under Egyptian Goddess, Inc. 2008) (en banc) and its key predecessor Smith v. 2008) (en banc).