Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should you use a design patent to protect your new product? When compared to utility patents , design patents are often overlooked as an IP asset. Let’s explore when it makes sense to pursue a product design patent. Let’s explore when it makes sense to pursue a product design patent.

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Patent Trademark Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

How to Design Patent the Appearance of Clothing Does your article of clothing have some unique 3-dimensional features? To protect the appearance of an article of clothing with such unique features, consider filing design patents. Need to patent and trademark your clothing line?

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Intepat

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Further, the Copyright protects the following types of original artwork. It’s important to understand that while copyright law allows you to protect your design, it does not cover the article’s utilitarian aspect. Hence, the maximum period of protection in design patents is fifteen years. Registration–.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s the first anniversary of the Garrigues IP Blog. We take a look at our Top10 most-read posts in this first year of the IP Blog: The Influencers’ Code of conduct comes into force on January 1, 2021: are you aware of your obligations? Banksy Case: registration of a trademark in bad faith and the price of anonymity.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 26, 2023

It’s not the function, but the looks of your product that might be protectable if it’s too late to file a patent. These are the visual features that would have been appropriate for design patent protection. Notice I said ornamental features, not ornamental products.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

In this blog post we examine how copyright is leveraged to protect NFTs, both in the US and China, with a comparative approach that elucidates both the challenges and potential solutions. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents. They sold out within roughly 20 minutes.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

In this blog post we examine how copyright is leveraged to protect NFTs, both in the US and China, with a comparative approach that elucidates both the challenges and potential solutions. It has been debated whether NFTs/DC could be protected in China by design patents. They sold out within roughly 20 minutes.

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