Law Clerk Sam Finkel contributed to this article. Reissue applications are often filed to pursue claim scope different from the original patent. For utility applications, this may mean revising or ...

Designing functional features on a device will not make you an inventor for design patents on the device! The District of Delaware (“the court”) recently held that Apple Inc.’s (“Apple”) design ...

Christopher Santone used the US Patent and Trademark Office’s launch of a practice bar specific to design patents to make a ...

“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 ...

The U.S. accession to the Hague Agreement creates a new standardized application that should simplify international filing for industrial design patents for many inventors. The Hague Agreement is ...

“The ‘more flexible approach’ adopted this week will unquestionably give [design patent] challengers more latitude to argue that prior art warrants a finding of obviousness.” Applications for design ...

US design patent lawyers have experienced a significant surge in applications filed for patents related to graphical user interfaces (GUI) in recent years, as attorneys tell WIPR.

On December 18, President Obama signed a bill (U.S. Bill S.3486, referred to as the Patent Law Treaties Implementation Act of 2012) that will allow U.S. citizens and residents to participate in an ...