The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced the upcoming launch of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered image-based prior-art ...

Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was launching a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool for ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently issued a decision that held for the first time that principles of prosecution ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants design patents for new designs that are ornamental, meaning the design affects the appearance and/or shape of an article, but not its function ...

Patent agent Kevin Prince, founder of QuickPatents, has obtained nearly 2,200 design patents for his clients since 2005. He said that on average, a simple design patent costs between $1,500 and ...

Many companies will continue to ignore design patents, which leaves the door wide open for those companies who spend a little extra to obtain design patents rather than only seeking traditional ...

The Federal Circuit reversed a $15.4 million design patent verdict based on sales of over-sized wearable blankets with ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision on Thursday holding that the ...

The law provides many different ways to obtain legal protection for intellectual property, including patents, trademarks and copyrights. The most common mechanism for protecting an invention is a ...

Campbell Soup concerns two U.S. design patents, D621,645 and D621,646, owned by Gamon Plus. The '645 patent claims the "ornamental design for a gravity feed dispenser display" shown in Image A ...

July 31, 2023 - Design patents and utility patents have co-existed in harmony — each staying in its own lane, covering its own subject matter — for over 180 years. The U.S. Patent Act was ...

Brief introduction to design patents in China. According to the Patent Law, ‘design’ refers to the whole or a part of a product; any new design of the shape, the pattern or their combination of a ...