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Design Patents Expand for Digital Products While Courts Signal New Limits on Enforcement

Key Takeaways - The USPTO has expanded design patent protection for digital and emerging technologies. Its March 2026 guidance confirms that graphical user interfaces (GUIs), icons...

Leave the Article, Take the Design: USPTO Updates Guidance for Digital Designs to Drop the Depiction Requirement for Com...

On March 13, 2026, and effective immediately, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice of “Supplemental Guidance for Examination of Design Patent Ap...

Broken Lines are Dashed: USPTO Finally Modernizes Design Patent Guidance for GUIs, VR and AR

For years, design patent practitioners dealing with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and icons have been shackled to the ghost of Ex parte Strijland. If you wanted to get a case th...

Statutory guidance: Designs Practice Notice (DPN) 01/26: Practice in respect of graphic symbols/icons, graphical/web use...

This provides information on the examination of applications which consist of graphic symbols/icons, graphical web user interfaces and animated designs.

USPTO’s Supplemental Guidance on Design Patents: Key Changes to Requirements for Computer-Implemented and Emerging Digit...

On March 13, 2026, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued supplemental examination guidance (“supplemental guidance”) addressing long-standing uncertainty sur...

Key Takeaways: USPTO’s New GUI Design Patent Guidance

The USPTO’s newly updated guidance on graphical user interface (GUI) design patents marks a timely shift toward modern digital realities, offering companies far greater flexibility...

Adeia Guides Inc v Videotron Ltd: infringement through common design – a Canadian first

In the latest matter concerning Adeia Guides Inc’s (“Adeia”, formerly “Rovi Guides Inc”) patent enforcement campaign against Canadian cable service providers,1 the Federal Court he...

EU Design Act: Designing the Future - Why the EU Design Act matters for sports, media and entertainment

The EU Design Act (effective 1 May 2025 with further reforms effective 1 July 2026) has been introduced to strengthen, simplify, and harmonize existing design protection, which wil...

Design Patents Expand for Digital Products While Courts Signal New Limits on Enforcement

Key Takeaways: The USPTO has expanded design patent protection for digital and emerging technologies. Its March 2026 guidance confirms that graphical user interfaces (GUIs), icons...

EU Design Act: Designing the Future - Why the EU Design Act matters for sports, media and entertainment

The EU Design Act (effective 1 May 2025 with further reforms effective 1 July 2026) has been introduced to strengthen, simplify, and harmonize existing design protection, which wil...

From Blueprints to Bistro: Rethinking Culinary Creativity After Cryogas

What happens when creativity is both functional and aesthetic at the same time? The Supreme Court’s decision in Cryogas Equipment Pvt. Ltd. v. Inox India Ltd., though rooted in ind...

Hooked on Differences: Design Patent Doctrine and Schedule A Litigation at the Federal Circuit

Pending Fed. Cir. appeal Easlick v. AccEncyc pairs the plainly dissimilar design patent fight with a rare appellate test of Schedule A litigation. Continue reading this post on Pat...

Copyright notices

A copyright notice is a concise note published by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) providing basic copyright guidance.

Guitar Shape Controversy Highlights Nuances Of IP Protection

A recent German case related to Fender's efforts to secure intellectual property protection for its Stratocaster guitar design highlights a structural tension inherent in IP law —...

EU Design Act: Designing the Future - Why the EU Design Act matters for food and beverages

The EU Design Act (effective 1 May 2025 with further reforms effective 1 July 2026) has been introduced to strengthen, simplify, and harmonize existing design protection, which wil...

ImageX: Keeping Your Content Yours: Intellectual Property Protection in Drupal

The EU design reform is crossing the finish line

The new EU design legislation aims to modernize the EU design system and to provide design protection that is fit for the era of digital designs and evolving technologies. The seco...

Intellectual Property in Video Games, Part I: Trademarks and Characters

Wherever innovation occurs, intellectual property follows. Intellectual property (or “IP”) refers to trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets: the legal framework that sa...

Can the Indian Copyright Act Accommodate Fully Autonomous AI Generated Output?

As the Delhi High Court directs the Registrar of Copyright to consider Stephen Thaler’s bid to register a fully AI-generated artwork under Indian copyright law, a deeper question e...

IP Notebook: Global Copyright, ChatGPT TM, Rogers Test

This round of Law360's look at emerging copyright and trademark issues includes a forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court appeal with global implications for copyrights, and OpenAI's setbac...

Navigating Copyright in the Age of Generative AI: EU, French, and UK Developments and Approaches

On 10 March 2026, the European Parliament ("EP") adopted a Resolution titled "Copyright and Generative Artificial Intelligence – Opportunities and Challenges" (the "EU Resolution")...

Protecting your design abroad

To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.

Copyright Enforcement in the Gaming Industry: Key Takeaways from the University of Geneva’s 2026 IP Conference from an I...

As the global gaming industry evolves far beyond entertainment into a sophisticated IP ecosystem built on software, art, music, branding, and competitive digital economies, convers...

Патент на промышленный образец или авторское право: разберем механизм, чтобы сделать правильный выбор

Вечный спор дизайнеров и юристов: патент на промышленный образец или авторское право? Когда автору нужно защитить своё творение, вариантов вроде бы два. Но на деле всё сложнее.Меня...