Sentences with phrase «over a design patent»

In October, the iPad maker lost an appeal against Samsung in a U.K. case over design patents.
Disputes over design patents are usually not settled by way of a long - term license agreement.
So did Google, HP, Facebook and others, who warned that a company could lose its entire profits over a design patent covering a single icon.
That footnote refers to Samsung's previously - announced Supreme Court petition over design patent damages.
As expected, Apple doesn't deny that the disgorgement of a company's entire profits over a design patent infringement could have major economic implications (and, by extension, a chilling effect on innovation).
On a similar note, the fact that Apple did not keep on fighting for an injunction over its design patents also indicates its strategic priorities.
It is questionable whether Apple would really halt its advances in innovation in technology and design had it lost in court over a design patent.

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Committed to designing equipment that will help producers pack all types of foods more efficiency, our research and development department currently has over 2000 patents pending.
It uses light - weight, technical fabrics in a patented tubular design that surrounds the mother's body 360 degrees, distributing baby's weight evenly over her body.
The patented design allows you to save every drop of milk — it holds a little over 2 oz.
Developed with input from over one hundred Certified Child Life Specialists in the United States and Canada, the Nurture Smart Mobile is the most innovative patent - pending crib mobile designed to maximize cognitive development and provide optimum cleaning capabilities.
Winkel's patented design and developmental features have made it a baby favorite, parent «go to» for over 25 years.
Winkel's patented design and developmental features have made it a baby favourite, parent «go to» for over 25 years.
The patent - pending, spill - proof design keeps the food in your child's mouth... not all over their clothes just like the foil pouches we so readily pick up at the grocery store... then toss out.
This patent pending add - on hip belt design allows a babywearer using a Pikkolo Baby Carrier or any mei tai carrier to better distribute their baby or toddler's weight over a broader area around their hips.
The patented design is adjustable in size, using high quality Velcro, to sustain a perfect fit over time as a nursing mother's size changes.
They say software patents do just what patents were designed to do — encourage innovation and the free flow of information while protecting the inventor's rights over the product.
Extensive and patented questionnaire identifies and filters its members Must be 21 and over Designed for people who are seeking long term relationships Communicate with paying and non-paying members who are matches Patented 29 Key Dimensions ® and Compatibility Matching patented questionnaire identifies and filters its members Must be 21 and over Designed for people who are seeking long term relationships Communicate with paying and non-paying members who are matches Patented 29 Key Dimensions ® and Compatibility Matching Patented 29 Key Dimensions ® and Compatibility Matching System ®
The most serious difficulty arose over Joseph Williams» patent on the design of the K - W coil.
Nowadays, Mercedes - Benz proudly owns over 90,000 registered patents and an endless list of innovatons, like the ground - breaking plug - in hybrid drive system, coupled with the lightweight construction techniques, setting new standards in terms of safety, efficiency and design.
In the filing for a patent awarded in 2014 on the design of a system for vehicle dynamics control in electric vehicles, Ian Wright, currently the founder and CEO of Wrightspeed (earlier post) and a co-founder of Tesla Motors, and his co-inventor Ryan Cash explain that existing control systems for vehicle dynamics — e.g., Electronic Stability Control, Traction Control, and Anti-Lock Braking — exercise control over engine power, and may automatically apply and release brakes on each wheel independently.
Power and performance typical of BMW M is delivered by the power unit in both the BMW X5 M and the BMW X6 M by a new design and construction principle: The new M TwinPower Turbo with Twin Scroll Twin Turbo Technology and the exhaust manifold extending over both rows of cylinders patented by BMW offer absolutely extreme response and spontaneity, a linear build - up of engine power, and an unusually consistent torque curve.
Also, given Samsung's recent spate of court battles with Apple over cases of infringement of the iPad's design patents, the Samsung design team will work doubly hard to ensure their next tablet is discussed more in tech circles and markets than various courts the world over.
Zinn also holds over 20 patents for semiconductor design, and is now focusing on mentoring entrepreneurs.
It has been going on for over a year and finally the lawsuit brought against Barnes and Noble by Spring Design for patent and intellectual property violations has been settled once and for all!
All of this talk about Samsung being taken to court over infringing patents and copying the design of the iPhone and iPad and losing in the process, apparently doesn't matter to those wanting to make a quick buck or two.
Spring Design pioneered its patent - pending dual screen design with Duet Navigator ™ capability in 2006, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last two years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen dDesign pioneered its patent - pending dual screen design with Duet Navigator ™ capability in 2006, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last two years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen ddesign with Duet Navigator ™ capability in 2006, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last two years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen device.
Spring Design pioneered its patented dual - screen device with «touch and extend» capability in 2007, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the past two years to share its vision and the capabilities of the dual screen device.
Spring Design pioneered its patented dual - screen device with «touch and extend» capability in 2007, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the past two years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen device.
Spring Design Inc. pioneered its patent - pending dual screen design with Duet Navigator ™ capability in 2006, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last 2 years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen dDesign Inc. pioneered its patent - pending dual screen design with Duet Navigator ™ capability in 2006, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last 2 years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen ddesign with Duet Navigator ™ capability in 2006, and has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last 2 years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen device.
The patent pending design provides a unique bounce - back action that dogs prefer over traditional stuffed plush toys.
iPrimio Cat Scratcher Ramp - Foldable for Travel and Easy Storage - Great for Cats Playing Over, Under, and Scratching - Patent Pending Design
If that seems like something out of the ancient past in an age of hundred - million - dollar lawsuits over your phone's bezel design, students can also come to see that education retains an «exceptional» status within intellectual property law that promotes learning through fair use rights (copyright), experimental exceptions (patents), and an academic exception that recognizes the special contribution of teachers and scholars in creating intellectual property that does not simply and automatically belong to their employer (both).
This ruling is not thermonuclear on its own, but in its aftermath, we will not only see a lot of wrangling over a judgment as a matter of law to overrule the jury and over injunctive relief but there will also be, even more importantly, a push by Apple to enforce many more design patents and utility (hardware and software) patents against Samsung.
A week ago I reported that a decision on Apple's post-appeal motion for a U.S. ban of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 over an iPad design patent was approaching after the Federal Circuit denied a Samsung request for a rehearing.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California just became the third court to order a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and the second, after the Düsseldorf Regional Court, to do so over an iPad design patent (an Australian injunction, which was subsequently lifted, was based on two technical patents).
I am a Partner at Berggren and I have over 20 years» experience in the fields of IP relating to patents, designs and trademarks.
The escalating patent battle between shapewear makers Spanx and Yummie Tummie over body - slimming camisoles has sparked discussion about what it and similar cases may mean for the future of design patents in the fashion industry.
«Reining in Remedies in Patent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jPatent Litigation: Three (Increasingly Immodest) Proposals» proposes that injunctions be unavailable over FRAND - pledged SEPs, advocates apportionment of the disgorgement of an infringer's profits that a design patent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jpatent holder can seek (this approach would have taken care of a substantial part of the damages issue in Apple v. Samsung, for example), and finally — which is the most ambitious part but makes a lot of sense to me — elaborates in the form of a «thought experiment» on an idea Judge Posner tossed out a few month ago: for a «wide swath of U.S. patent cases» it might be preferable to avoid jpatent cases» it might be preferable to avoid juries.
With over 20 years of experience in all aspects of patent preparation, prosecution, opinion work, and litigation, Keats is regularly consulted by clients and colleagues to address complex matters in mechanical, electromechanical, biomedical, computer, medical device, design, and electrical arts.
For example, patents covering the overall design of a product may have advantages over patents covering individual components of the product.
This Court has personal jurisdiction over Yummie Tummie by virtue of Yummie Tummie's purposeful contact with this district, including, on information and belief, Yummie Tummie's substantial business conducted with customers residing in this district; and Yummie Tummie's attempts to enforce design patents purportedly assigned to it against Spanx, an entity having a principal place of business in Georgia, for alleged infringing activity occurring in Georgia.
But on Wednesday, Administrative Law Judge Thomas B. Pender issued a preliminary ruling in Apple's favor against Samsung over four patents: one design patent, one hardware patent, and two multitouch software patents.
Design patent remedies, injunctive relief, partial summary judgment over invalidated patents, the royalty base (a context in which I hope Apple will defeat Ericsson because it will discourage outsized royalty claims over standard - essential patents), and possibly some procedural issues concerning the interplay of infringement cases and FRAND contract cases in different venues.
In that post I expressed hopes that Samsung would take the design patent issues in that case to the Supreme Court, and a filing made by Samsung with the Federal Circuit on Wednesday (a motion to stay execution of a mandate, i.e., to prevent Apple from physically collecting money before the case is really over) now states clearly that this will happen (this post continues below the document):
In the summer of 2011, the Düsseldorf Regional Court had granted Apple a preliminary injunction against the same product over the European equivalent, a so - called Community design, of this U.S. design patent.
For example, Mr. Korniczky designed and implemented a patent strategy for Cameron Health, a Carlsbad medical device company, to protect its Subcutaneous Cardio Implantable Defibrillator (S - ICD) system and attract over $ 25 million in venture capital.
Then over the next 15 years I add a whole bunch of new features to that invention and patent each of the modified designs.
Of course, it would still be up to a jury to decide, but based on Apple's proposed and supported interpretation of the law, the judge presiding over a cupholder design patent trial wouldn't have a choice but to instruct the jury that a total, unapportioned disgorgement of profits is possible under the law.
On August 9, 2011 the Düsseldorf Regional Court shocked the wireless world by ordering a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 over a Community design (EU equivalent of U.S. design patent) held by Apple.
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