D742.965 - issued in 2015 for a design for "duct tape with [a] bacon pattern." #DesignPatents

Today in design patents:

D1032983 issued for a container.

Savvy design patent fans might guess the company that owns this one. #DesignPatents

Breaking: #LKQvGM is out! http://cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/21-2348.OPINION.5-21-2024_2321050.pdf

Reading now.

#DesignPatents

ICYMI: The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB conclusion that waffle design was anticipated by a Dunkin Donuts Belgian Waffle Breakfast Sandwich video: https://mastodon.social/@design_law/112050032886183399

#Waffles #PatentFedi #DesignPatents #FederalCircuit

In November, a jury in Lansing, Michigan found that Opti-luxx was liable for infringing a utility patent and a design patent, both relating to illuminated signs for school buses.

Now, Opti-luxx has filed a renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law on the design patent claim: https://www.scribd.com/document/697432537/Smarttrend-v-Optiluxx-Renewed-motion-for-JMOL

Shall we take a closer look?

#PatentFedi #PatentJuryTrials #UtilityPatents #DesignPatents #SmartrendVersusOptiluxx

I talk quite a bit about #CounterfeitRhetoric on here.

If you're interested in learning more, I just posted a draft of my working paper on the topic, "The Counterfeit Sham": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4549909

This paper includes a discussion of the #ScheduleA litigation model, the border-seizure bill that some want to resurrect in Congress & "terrorism" talk.

#DesignPatents #Counterfeiting #LegalScholarship #LawFedi #PatentFedi

And here it is: D1,000,000, issued today to Agustina Huckaby of Fort Worth for a design for a "dispensing comb."

According to LinkedIn, Huckaby is an entrepeneur and the owner of
https://pompandpowder.online/

#DesignPatents #OneMillionDesignPatents

Issued this week to Ford Global Technologies—D992,475, for a design for a “windshield”: https://design-law.tumblr.com/post/723395997719560192/issued-this-week-to-ford-global #DesignPatents #NewDesignPatents #RightToRepair