For decades, the Rosen-Durling test was used to assess obviousness of design patents. The test’s rigid standard resulted in few design patents being invalidated as obvious. In its first en banc ...

Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture; and Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and ...

Drexel University has consistently appeared on the National Academy of Inventors and Intellectual Property Owners Association’s list of the world’s top 100 universities for patents granted. With 44 ...

The idea is to create an ecosystem that encourages tech and design patents, which will not just multiply industry revenue at a later point but also cushion the country against global developments ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office grants different types of patents: utility, design and plant. Plant patents specifically cover certain types of asexually reproduced plants ...

Car leasing company Vanarama decided to take the Apple aesthetic from iPhones, MacBooks, and other products and combine that with real patents filed ... has a very minimal design that Apple ...

The patent, published through the European Patent Office, describes an engine design that differs dramatically from ...