Patently-O

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

by Dennis Crouch LKQ’s brief for today’s en banc rehearing begins with the following interesting statement: “As with utility patents, the U.S. Constitution and the Patent Act prohibit design patents on ordinary innovations.” The Framers plainly did not want those monopolies freely granted.

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. “The falsity of Crocs’ advertising is that Croslite is simply not patented—neither to Crocs nor to anyone else. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions. ” Dawgs brief. .”

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False Advertising Advertising Advertising Patent 113

LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Utility patents are for functional inventions. Design patents protect the look of something functional, regardless of whether the functional aspects are new. Because of this, a popular use of design patents is to protect the outside of common consumer products. What’s more common than the written word?

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