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Designing Damages
In Samsung v. Apple, both determining “apportionment” and properly identifying an “article of manufacture” were key in the Court’s interpretation of the Code For over a century, design patents have enjoyed a distinct advantage over their more popular siblings, utility patents, when it comes to infringement damages recovery. Utility and design patent damages are set forth…
When Is A Design Patent Invalid For Being Obvious?
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeal has granted a request for an en banc hearing to determine the proper standard for invalidity of design patents based on obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103. The expected en banc decision, in LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Technology Operations (LKQ, will be the first en banc decision by the…