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China: Design Patents and the Metaverse

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Are they protectable by design patents? In this post we will analyze the availability of design patents for digital commodities and how it compares with other Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. In China, a GUI alone cannot be registered as a design patent. 2014)??(?)???2815?).

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China: Design Patents and the Metaverse

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Are they protectable by design patents? In this post we will analyze the availability of design patents for digital commodities and how it compares with other Asian countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. In China, a GUI alone cannot be registered as a design patent. Section 4.4.2

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Recent Trends in Article of Manufacture of Design Claims: A Modern Digital Popularity Contest

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Over the last 20 years, the total number of design patents issued per year in the United States has erupted. As illustrated in the graph below and further highlighted in this animated graph, in the 30 year period between the years 1971 and 2000 a total of nearly 219,000 design patents were issued by the U.S.

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Forced Nationalization of Patent Monopolies Held by “Unfriendlies” in Russia

IP Intelligence

However, on March 5, 2022, the Russian government went much further and marched toward far-reaching patent nationalization of non-Russian patent holders. In plain speak, the Russian government ostensibly used its invasion of Ukraine to declare war on patents from the 47 “unfriendly” countries, including the United States.

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Well-known Cases Proving the Importance of Intellectual Property Rights – part 3

CopyrightsWorld

In 2014, Apple and Google released a joint statement saying that it had agreed to settle all patent litigation with Apple and would even “work together in some areas of patent reform.”. Apple didn’t’ attack Google directly, but instead went after companies selling Android devices.

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Capturing All the Dimensions: Intellectual Property Protection for 3-D Designs and 3-D Printing Methods

More Than Your Mark

The functionalities and any new and unobvious structures created by 3-D printing technologies may be the subject of a utility or a design patent. An example of this is a 2014 initiative by Hasbro, Inc. , Take care in such situations to avoid unintended problems. the toy company that owns the My Little Pony intellectual property.

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Design Patent Obviousness Inquiry Is Up for Review at the CAFC

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GM Global Technology to rule on the issue of whether the current test for determining obviousness of design patents, i.e., the Rosen/Durling Standard, is proper in view of the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in KSR v. Teleflex , 550 U.S. Hunter Mfg., 3d 1326, 1334 (Fed. In contrast to the Rosen/Durling Standard, the U.S.