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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. Article 2.4 Article 2.4

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China: Design Patents and the Metaverse

LexBlog IP

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. Article 2.4 Article 2.4

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Full Fed. Circ. To Review Design Patent Tests In GM Case

IP Law 360

The full Federal Circuit agreed Friday to review whether tests for proving that a design patent is obvious have been overruled by U.S. Supreme Court precedent, taking up a dispute involving a General Motors unit in the court's first en banc review of a patent case since 2017.

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2021 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends: US District Courts: No Slowdown in Filings

JD Supra Law

the number of cases filed annually in US district courts asserting US design patents has remained fairly steady: between 236 (in 2019) and 293 (in 2017). 2021 was no different with 254 new design patent cases filed. Since 2010—with the exception of outlier year 2016 (with 310 new filings!)—the

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

LexBlog IP

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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Design Protection: Don’t Sleep on Copyrights

LexBlog IP

Ct 1002, 1007 (2017). ” Second, the Board determined that the separable portions of the design, in combination, met the minimum threshold of creative authorship necessary for some level of copyright protection to result. Copyright law does not protect useful articles per se (i.e., ” Star Athletica, LLC v.

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Written Description as a Subset of Novelty and Nonobviousness

Patently-O

Zahner Design Group v. D746,078 (Patent being litigated). Zahner’s Design Pat. D746,078 covers the ornamental design of a shower curtain as shown in the figures above. The examiner found some great prior art from 2013, which predates this particular design application filing date. by Dennis Crouch.