The five major US. intellectual property (" IP") regimes-trademark, trade secrecy, copyright, design patent, and utility patent (" patent") laws-have quite different rules about the …
MA Lemley, MP McKenna - Stan. L. Rev., 2023 - HeinOnline
When is a design just a design, and when is it a trademark? Over the last several decades, courts have developed a clear framework for evaluating the distinctiveness of certain …
S Burstein, S Vishnubhakat - Am. UL Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
The legal literature is full of dire empirical assertions about design patents. Commentators say that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) rejects around half of all design …
SM King, NS Hall - California Law Review, 2020 - JSTOR
In recent years, there has been a massive influx of unaccompanied minors (UMs) 1 crossing the southern border. 2 Under the Trump administration, migrant children are being held in …
Under US law, patents are available for" any new, original and ornamental design for an article of manufacture."'Today, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) allows …
In 1980, the US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) radically redefined what counts as a patentable" design for an article of manufacture." 1 In In re Zahn, it held that …
P Samuelson, M Gergen - California Law Review, 2020 - JSTOR
Until recently, the disgorgement of profits remedy in US design patent law garnered little attention from scholars or practitioners. 1 Congress created this remedy in the late …
In June 2021, the United States Supreme Court held, in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez,'that plaintiffs lack standing to assert claims for statutory damages under the Fair Credit Reporting …