Sentences with phrase «asserting design patents»

But the other extreme would mean that a device maker could be liable for several times or even many times the profits (because each of multiple asserted design patents would on its own entitle its owner to a disgorgement of total profits), which underscores how little sense the absence of any apportionment makes in this world, no matter how reasonable it may have appeared to Congress in the late 19th century when design patents related to no - tech products like carpets.

However, due to the continued and increasing strength of design patent rights globally, and the emerging mechanisms being offered by e-commerce platforms as an aim to enforce design rights, many corporations facing counterfeit issues stand to benefit from the ability to more easily and cost effectively assert design patent rights against infringers.

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- Unless otherwise specified, each author of Material on the Site has asserted his / her moral right pursuant to Section 77 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author thereof.

It's clear that Apple is determined to assert its different intellectual property rights — hardware patents, software patents, and design - related rights — against Android device makers.

Indefiniteness is an invalidity theory, but it's one for the court, not the jury, to decide, which is why Samsung's related motion attacking four Apple patents (the asserted claim of one software patent, and four design patents) is technically a separate motion from its JMOL («overrule the jury») motion.

Rights can be asserted by way of registered trade marks, patents and registered designs, as well as rights that arise automatically such as copyright, unregistered design rights and passing off.

In its original complaint filed in July 2011, Apple had asserted five utility (technical) patents and two design patents.

Since 2005, there have been, on average, about cases 56 per quarter (or about 225 per year) in which at least one design patent has been asserted.

As a result of online e-commerce marketplaces, such as Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba, beginning to enforce design patent rights asserted by design patent holders without the benefit of any type of judicial or administrative review, allegedly infringing products are being taken down from the online marketplace without formally engaging in design patent claim construction.