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Guest Post: Old Designs, New Design Patents

Patently-O

Last week, at Design Day 2022, the USPTO announced that it had completed its summary of those comments. In the request for comments, the USPTO floated the idea of issuing design patents for what they are now calling “designs for projections, holograms, and virtual and augmented reality (PHVAR).” In Feist v.

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Infographic | How to protect packaging with IP

Olartemoure Blog

How can I protect designs with patents? Design patents or Industrial Designs offer protection for novel designs, providing exclusive rights to the features of the visual qualities of the product or packaging.

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Guest Post: Design Protection and Functionality: Does the PTO or the Copyright Office Apply a More Rubbery Stamp?

Patently-O

Mennell, Koret Professor of Law; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology; Faculty Director, Berkeley Judicial Institute; University of California at Berkeley School of Law, and Ella Corren, University of California at Berkeley School of Law, J.S.D. Design Patent No. D915,487 (Apr. See, e.g. , U.S.

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Protecting the Product™: Typefaces and Fonts

LexBlog IP

While copyright law is at the center of a few recent disputes over intellectual property protection for typefaces and fonts, design patents are an often-overlooked mechanism for protecting these designs. Copyrights. Design Patents. Design Patent No. Design Patent No.

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If You’re Making Your Own Board Game, How Do You Protect Your Idea?

LexBlog IP

Eliezer How to Legally Protect your Board Game with Intellectual Property Law Table of Contents: Copyright Law Design Patents Trademarks and Trade Dress Utility Patents Limitations of Protection Say there is a game that’s been around. A lot of people are familiar with it.

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Exploring Copyright in Graphical User Interface

Intepat

However, protecting these interfaces involves navigating complex layers of copyright, design patents, and other intellectual property laws that cover specific aspects of GUIs. In the United States, GUIs can receive protection through both copyright and design patents.

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GUI Guidelines: The Old Rules are New Again

Patently-O

By Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School USPTO Notice, 88 FR 80277 (Nov. In it, the USPTO reaffirmed its prior interpretation of the phrase “design for an article of manufacture” and did not—as many had hoped—expand its interpretation of that phrase.