Sentences with phrase «strong design patent»

A brief was filed by 27 law professors on Samsung's behalf, while Apple's position has the backing of companies such as Oakley, Kohler and Novo Nordisk — which favor strong design patent protections — as well as various designers and design educators.

I didn't disagree with the 2012 jury's verdict (apart from validity and the fact that I would have actually seen a stronger design patent case in connection with tablets than with smartphones, as Judge Koh did in her preliminary injunction decision as well) nearly as much as with its approach.

Not exact matches

Translation: The push for stronger patent laws is about to ratchet up, especially with The Pirate Bay launching Physibles, its own category of 3D printer designs.

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the modern day spark plug patent, and after seven billion plugs later, the company that revolutionized spark plug design still is going strong.

The wider body accentuates the vehicles strong lines that is BMW's patented style and design.

There are strong rumours that the NX follows a similar line of thinking to the Wii U. With patents suggesting a controller that includes a screen, similar to the GamePad but with a more innovative design.

A design patent is one of the strongest protections you can get for your product, but it is also more challenging to get.

Besides, we have found that some Chinese companies tried to build strong and hybrid IPRs portfolios by using design patents.

Once you have registered and received your industrial design patent, you will have an even stronger legal base to prevent people from using your designs.

If the Supreme Court denied certiorari, the Federal Circuit ruling would be the last word on the issue, and as a result, design patents would be stronger than they should be and give their holders leverage beyond their reasonable value.

With DataNovo, companies are able to obtain stronger, defensible patents during prosecution; challenge frivolous patents in litigation; or make informed decisions during ideation and design stages to improve product design to avoid potential infringement.

Before the jury verdict came down, Judge Koh (in a preliminary injunction ruling last year) and many observers (including me) thought that Apple had a stronger case with its tablet design patent, while the smartphone design patent case looked like a closer call.

I would argue that the combination of these two outcomes related to design patents doesn't make sense, but Apple's smartphone design patent case is strong enough that a jury can find that way, and the tablet design patent case is so strong that Apple may very well get the jury overruled either by Judge Koh or on appeal.

However, I can't see how the existence of other smartphone - related patents (utility patents as well as design patents) would not have probative value: the single strongest argument for a narrowly - defined article of manufacture (just the casing) simply is that there is so much more in and on a smartphone than just a very few, narrow designs.

It wants design patents to be strong and that makes sense.

Anyhow, design should be stronger considered in the early stage of the technical development to provide strong protection in addition to patents for the technical ideas behind the product.

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