Sentences with phrase «design patent applications»

Will this become a trend, encouraging design patent applications and enforcement?

Prosecutes design patent applications for a leading snack food manufacturer on designs of a variety of snack foods.

Utilising our international network of trusted associates to file design patent applications in other jurisdictions

The problem the D'677 patent faces here is that the USPTO has determined (for now) that this patent «is not entitled to benefit of the filing date» of two previous Apple design patent applications because the design at issue was not disclosed in those earlier applications.

Mr. Eisenhart also has extensive experience drafting and prosecuting design patent applications.

A U.S. design patent application, or an international application, may claim priority based on an earlier - filed international application.

The validity of one of the patents (618,677) has received a non-final rejection: The problem the D'677 patent faces here is that the USPTO has determined (for now) that this patent «is not entitled to benefit of the filing date» of two previous Apple design patent applications because the design at issue was not disclosed in those earlier applications.

28 May 2004 — date of priority claimed in the application for registration of the Design (based on it being the date of the filing of a US design patent application).

D546, 313 (obtained by LG, another Korean device maker) with either this Sharp patent application or some Japanese design patent application (JPD1235888).

Unlike most design patent applications, which are sometimes years old at the time of publication, the one published today was filed merely two weeks ago, giving us a very up - to - date look at what Samsung's R&D department is up to.

The Hague Agreement framework is an alternative to the existing U.S. system for filing design patent applications, but does not replace it.

U.S. design patent applications are not published prior to issue.

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A design patent application does not cover the usefulness of your invention like a utility patent, but instead focuses on the ornamental design of the invention.

Allowance rates are so high for design patent applications that the system effectively operates as a registration process.

He points out that while design applications have been on the rise since 1975, only 30,000 design patent applications were filed in fiscal year 2011, much lower than the number of eligible inventions.

In March 2004, Apple filed a design patent application for an «electronic device» that looks virtually identical to the iPad that wound up shipping.