Tech companies of every kind use graphic user interfaces (“GUI”) as a powerful differentiator of products, user experience, and branding. Companies are smart to leverage GUIs. It’s well known by ...

A design patent protects the visual ornamental characteristics of an article, including consumer and industrial products, medical devices and related tools, sports equipment, jewelry, product ...

Demand for design patent protections has been increasing in the last decade, and there is no indication that this trend will slow down. James Rieke, partner at Merchant & Gould, spoke to Minnesota ...

One of the earliest innovations in personal computing was the application of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as an intermediary between users and computer programs. This innovation made computers ...

“Because design patent infringement requires focus on the drawings in total to assess whether an ordinary observer would believe the accused infringing product to be a copy, it is far easier to ...

“Two recent Federal Circuit decisions highlight the importance of the words in the title and claims of a design patent when seeking and enforcing a patent.” Is the scope of a design patent determined ...

A registered community design, often referred to as an "RCD," is the European equivalent to a U.S. design patent. Similar to a U.S. design patent, an RCD only protects the ornamental or outward ...