Many brand owners are familiar with the value of registered trademarks, which safeguard the goodwill cultivated between mark holders and consumers by reducing confusion as to the source of the ...

When people think of patents, things like technology, science and engineering often come to mind. But design patents are a different type of patent that intellectual property-focused luxury brands ...

Design patents, like utility patents, are required to comply with a requirement that an applicant's design is non-obvious. 35 U.S.C. §§103, 171. But design patents protect the non-functional aspects ...

“While patenting a website’s computer implemented methods presents tricky Section 101 issues, the GUI’s of those sites are surprisingly easy to patent via design patents.” A common question I get is ...

One of the earliest innovations in personal computing was the application of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as an intermediary between users and computer programs. This innovation made computers ...

Practitioners said that this week's Federal Circuit decision in Apple v Samsung brings welcome clarity for design patents and highlights their increasing importance, especially with advances in 3D ...