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Design Patents After "Range of Motion": When Should a Judge Decide Infringement?

Design Patent Risk Can Turn on the Record Before a Jury Ever Compares the Products

Design Patent Infringement Claim for Sink Caddy Survives Motion to Dismiss

Feng v. Kitsure-BJT, No. 25 CV 9209, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Mar. 26, 2026) (Shah, J.). Judge Shah denied Defendant Kitsure-BJT’s Fed. R. Civ. P 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss in this desi...

Design Patents Did It: How China Passed Japan in US Patent Grants

China passed Japan in US patent grants in 2024, but the margin is almost entirely design patents. Japan still leads in utility patents. Continue reading this post on Patently-O.

Full Fed. Circ. Declines To Revisit Design Patent Test

The full Federal Circuit on Tuesday refused to review the test for proving design patent infringement, rejecting a massage device maker's argument that the court has strayed from U...

VIKING Car Care Expands Intellectual Property Portfolio with New Design Patents

VIKING, a leader in automotive cleaning tools and accessories, announced the expansion of its intellectual property portfolio with the issuance of a new design patent for its innov...

Federal Circuit Affirms Dissolution of Preliminary Injunction in Split Decision Over Foldable Fan Design Patent

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a decision today affirming a district court’s dissolution of a preliminary injunction (PI) and denial of a temporary...

Fed. Circ.'s Shaping Of Tech Patent Doctrine Resembles EPO's

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Ceiva v. Amazon crystallizes an informal U.S. heuristic, "a technological solution to a technological problem," rewarding emphasis of a tra...

IP Protection for Physical Products: What to File First

Patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyright, trade dress—physical products can need all of them. Here’s what each covers and the order that actually makes sense. The post IP Prot...

Heirs’ Lights Flicker Out- Sixth Circuit Affirms MillerKnoll’s Bubble Lamp Rights

Not Before Us: The Federal Circuit Sidesteps Schedule A in Jacki Easlick

Fed. Cir. affirms design patent injunction denial in Jacki Easlick v. CJ Emerald, declining to address Schedule A practice in a single footnote. Continue reading this post on Paten...

Federal Circuit Rebuffs SAD Scheme Plaintiff–Shenzhen Jisu v. Annex A Defendants

Nomenclature note: This is an Annex A case, not a Schedule A case, but they are the same thing. Snarky note about design patents: This is a design patent case. I don’t mean any dis...

The Trail Guide Problem: Judge, Jury, and Design Patent Claim Construction

The Federal Circuit denies en banc rehearing in Range of Motion v. Armaid. Chief Judge Moore says Markman was built for text, not pictures. Continue reading this post on Patently-O...

Attys Looking To Justices To Resolve Design Patent 'Mess'

Following a sharply divided order where the full Federal Circuit declined to reconsider the standards for design patent infringement, attorneys tell Law360 they hope the deep disag...

Not a Fan of Shortcuts? Judge Stoll’s Dissent Keeps Egyptian Goddess’s Three-Way Analytical Framework Alive

On July 22, 2026, the Federal Circuit handed down a nonprecedential yet strategically important decision in Shenzhen Jisu Technology Co., Ltd. v. The Entities and Individuals Ident...

Fractured CAFC Denies En Banc Rehearing in Case on Proper Test for Design Patent Infringement

A split U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today denied a request for rehearing or rehearing en banc of a decision issued in February of this year relating to the...

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Part B: Absolute grounds for refusal

Includes chapters on definition of a design, novelty and individual character, technical function, morality and emblems.

ITC To Review Part Of Judge's Decision In Tool Patent Row

The U.S. International Trade Commission will review parts of an administrative law judge's ruling that four patents on glow fish tape and a safety helmet system are not invalid in...

Seeing More Clearly: Patent Marking Compliance in the Wake of VDPP v. Volkswagen

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Registered Designs Examination Practice guide

This guide provides information on how design applications are examined in respect of national applications filed at the UK Intellectual Property Office.

MillerKnoll Wins $172K Fees After Beating Bubble Lamp IP Suit

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday awarded MillerKnoll $172,000 in attorney fees after it defeated intellectual property claims brought by the heirs of modernist furniture desig...

Fast to Deny, Slow to Grant: The Range of Motion En Banc Petition at 102 Days

At 102 days pending, the Range of Motion design patent en banc petition has passed the Federal Circuit's median time to grant. Reading the clock. Continue reading this post on Pate...