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Federal Circuit Limits Scope of Design Patent to Specific Article of Manufacture

The Federal Circuit’s recent decision to dismiss a claim for design patent infringement raises the importance of the specification in design patents. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ...
JD Supra

Federal Circuit Holds That Claim Language Can Limit The Scope Of A Design Patent

In Curver Luxembourg SARL v. Home Expressions Inc., case number 18-2214, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently held that the claim language of a design patent can limit its scope ...
Design Week

Disability charity Scope gets a rebrand to push for a “fairer society”

Scope has been rebranded by The Team, in a bid to focus on the charity’s aim to create “a fairer society for disabled people”. Scope is a national disability charity, which supports people with ...
Law

Federal Circuit Decision Raises Issues About Scope of Design Patents

A recent Federal Circuit decision, Curver Luxembourg, SARL v. Home Expressions (Fed. Cir. 2019), held, in what the court described as a matter of first impression, that a design patent for surface ...