design patent

A design patent would also be considered under this category.

Design patents are valid for 14 years from the date of issue.

As a result, they say, design patents often take years to obtain and are difficult to enforce.

Some experts say design patents are more effective than is generally acknowledged.

A design patent is the strongest system of protection but the most uncommon.

Clearly, the cube should be covered by an industrial design patent.

I'm certainly no expert on design patents, but that doesn't make any sense.

Items can be covered by both trademarks and design patents.

Indeed, he probably sue over it somehow, claiming some design patent.

Design patents were first filed on July 24, 2002.

Nope, design patents in particular are most commonly for a company's own benefit, that's the whole point of them.

The appearance of the animated image was subject to a dispute over a design patent.

Design patents were filed on April 20, 1998 and March 4, 1999.

And if Paramount didn't think to file an industrial design patent?

That is the exclusive purview of the design patent (as mentioned above).

The excuse commonly given is that the basic engine design patent has expired.

Both novel fonts and computer icons can be covered by design patents.

Under current law, companies can obtain design patents.

Many of these new fonts received design patent protection in the United States.

Proponents of the legislation say it resolves a problem with design patents, which are difficult to enforce.

In many other countries, a Design Patent would be called a registered design.

Design patents are a type of industrial design right.

The design patent was for a new font.

I think of design patents more like a formalised type of copyright.

Most design patents are simply allowed to lapse.