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Federal Circuit Overrules Obviousness Test for Design Patents and Decades of Precedent | JD Supra
JD Supra· 3 days agoA recent en banc Federal Circuit decision overruled the unique test for obviousness of design patents and advised that the same analysis should apply to both utility patents ...
Federal Circuit Overhauls Test for Assessing Design Patent Obviousness | JD Supra
JD Supra· 2 days agoIn a landmark decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overruled the longstanding test for assessing whether a design patent is considered obvious in ...
R.I.P. Mr. Rosen: Federal Circuit Upends Longstanding Design Patent Obviousness Test | JD Supra
JD Supra· 2 days agoUpending decades of continuity in the world of design patents, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”), sitting en banc in LKQ Corporation v. GM ...
JD Supra: Forever CERCLA: EPA Designates Certain PFAS as Hazardous Substances Under Superfund
JD Supra· 13 hours agoOn Friday,19 April 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule to designate two common per-and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)...
Federal Circuit Overrules Rosen-Durling Test for Design Patent Obviousness as “Improperly Rigid” | ...
JD Supra· 4 days agoStoll, J. The Court vacated a final written decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board finding a design patent nonobvious and remanded. Appellants filed a petition to institute ...
JD Supra: Blockchain+ Bi-Weekly
JD Supra· 14 hours agoBig news dropped in the past few weeks, which sent shockwaves across the industry: according to a recently filed lawsuit, the SEC has classified the second largest cryptocurrency, Ether, as ...
After 40 Years, a Fundamental Change to Design Patent Law | JD Supra
JD Supra· 3 days agoOperations LLC, No. 21-2348 (Fed. Cir. On May 21, 2024, the Federal Circuit overruled its long-standing Rosen-Durling obviousness test for design patents and replaced it with ...
JD Supra: It May Be a Hairy Situation, but Detailed Declaration Sufficient Evidence of Prior Use
JD Supra· 16 hours agoJalmar Araujo v. Framboise Holdings, Inc., Case No. 23-1142 (Fed. Cir. On December 3, 2019, Jalmar Araujo filed an application to register #TODECACHO as a standard character mark for hair combs ...
JD Supra: Transforming Culture: Part 4 – Culture Transformation Strategy
JD Supra· 14 hours agoIn this companion, 5-part blog post series, we look at the ways a company in the depths of such a toxic culture can begin to make a culture comeback by planning out and taking concrete steps ...
JD Supra: State Department Aims to Streamline Export Controls for Future Collaboration Among the...
JD Supra· 13 hours agoOn 1 May 2024, the US State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) issued a proposed rule to amend the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to support the goals ...
