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 ...

On December 21, 2020, the USPTO published a request for information seeking public input on “whether its interpretation of the article of manufacture requirement in the United States Code should be ...

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 ...

GM has filed a patent application for an adaptive shock absorber with a mechanical design, potentially reducing complexity over electronic alternatives.

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Freder Shen and Jenny Li of Kangxin describe recent changes to the way in which preliminary examinations of utility model and design patent applications should be conducted The latest developments to ...

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 ...