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 ...

A design patent protects a new, original, ornamental design for an article of manufacture. 35 USC section 171. “Ornamental” means that the design is purely decorative; the patentability is based on ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

“Before filing, every inventor should pause and ask these seven questions. Doing so doesn’t just improve your odds of getting a patent granted, but it also strengthens your ability to enforce, license ...

Foreign companies and designers can seek design protection through the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs in Russia The State Duma passed a bill allowing the ...

Practitioners have welcomed the proposed Third Amendment to the Chinese Patent Law. Qing Ge of Liu Shen considers the possibilities At present, the proposal for the Third Amendment to the Patent Law ...