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Defending Design Patents

Patently-O

In our new paper, The Truth About Design Patents , we debunk three widely held—but incorrect—views about U.S. design patents. Taken together, these myths paint a grim picture of design patents: Half of all design patent applications are rejected. Most asserted design patents are invalidated in litigation.

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AI Developing Software Companies Litigate Over Patent Infringement

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

(DSI) filed suit against Plaintiff, Perq Software, LLC for Patent Infringement. Since launching their website in 2011, Disintermediation has handled over one million chat messages. According to the Complaint, DSI’s software includes numerous technological improvements that were captured in a family of patent applications.

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Smart Wallets and Measuring Credibility of the Prior Art

Patently-O

In 2020, Storus (AKA “Mosaic Brands”) sued Ridge Wallet for both patent infringement (US7334616) and product-design trade dress misappropriation. Ridge counterclaimed with its own patent infringement contentions (US10791808, Fig 11 shown above). Ridge Wallet LLC , — F.4th 4th — (Fed.

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Op Ed: Reflections on the American Invents Act on its Tenth Year Anniversary 

Patently-O

Lee is vice president at Amazon Web Services and was the Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (2015-2017). She spent a decade at Google leading their patent team. . The transition to a first inventor to file system was needed to harmonize the U.S. with the rest of the world.

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De Forest Radio v. GE: A Landmark Supreme Court Decision on the Invention Requirement

Patently-O

By Dennis Crouch In 1931, the United States Supreme Court decided a landmark case on the patentability of inventions, De Forest Radio Co. The case involved a patent infringement suit over an improved vacuum tube used in radio communications. 57, 111 (2011). General Electric Co. , 664 (1931), amended, 284 U.S. 571 (1931).

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Spicy IP Weekly Review (November 16- November 21)

SpicyIP

The Plaintiff had argued that all the rights pertaining to the film vests with them by virtue of an agreement with the producer entered in 2011. Controller General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks launches IPO Grievance Portal. Opposition filed against a patent application which claims AI to be the inventor.

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Third-party preissuance submissions

Larson & Larson

On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”). Among the changes created by the AIA, a new system was put into place for the submission of prior art to the Patent Office prior to patent issuance. Effective September 16, 2012, a third-party may submit prior art to the Patent Office.

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