The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Design patents and utility patents are two different things. Design patents protect ornamental designs, such as the shape of a perfume bottle or the design on flatware. To be patentable, however, both designs and functional inventions must satisfy two requirements.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

If that information becomes known to others (outside a nondisclosure agreement or license, etc.), 101, “[w]hoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.”

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 18, 2024

If that information becomes known to others (outside a nondisclosure agreement or license, etc.), ” But there are exceptions and exclusions under patent law. For example, courts have found that abstract ideas, natural phenomena, and laws of nature are not patentable. then it is no longer a trade secret.

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