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meredithlowry

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Patent & trademark attorney for WLJ Tech Law. Proud Arkansan despite the political hellscape. Tech obsessed. Half marathoner. Social media addict. Opinions my own.

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Today in design patents, display screen edition:

D994686 issued for a display panel or portion thereof with a transitional mixed reality graphical user interface.

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@design_law The patent is assigned to Magic Leap and it looks like they make augmented reality devices. I'm not sure why they chose to use "mixed reality" here.

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Today in design patents, edition:

D994761 issued for a piano.

The keys of the piano - the most piano-est part of a piano - are not claimed.

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Today in design patents, edition:

D994040 issued for a foldable geometric block.

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Today in design patents, creepy tech edition?

D993145 issued for a face authentication device for a motor vehicle.

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Today in design patents, display screen edition:

D993271 issued for a communication device display with graphical user interface.

This has three embodiments, each claiming a little more of the design. Anything shown in dashed lines represents unclaimed matter.

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Today in design patents, building edition:

D993456 issued for a kitchen.

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@blogdiva I'm not sure since I'm not familiar with those, but this patent is claiming the design of the room.

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@blogdiva Ah. Invalidating is potentially correct for a design patent, but it is rare. My mother sewed, so I remember the file cabinets of sewing patterns, but I never paid attention to their protection. Now, more of the patterns rely upon copyright and claims that home sewists cannot use the pattern for commercial products.

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Today in design patents, edition:

D993461 issued for a porch step.

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@design_law I was surprised they did.

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Today in trademarks:

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The plaintiff in this recently-filed case says "there is no question that an ordinary observer would view the patented design and the design of the Accused Product to be substantially the same."

I have questions.

https://design-law.tumblr.com/post/723366423243653120/does-this-sun-shade-infringe-these-design-patents

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@design_law The plaintiff needs to avoid the beach. There are tons of shades like this out here and none of these are that design.

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Today in design patents, right to repair edition:

D992784 issued for a taillight for a vehicle.

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@design_law I'm going back to the beach now and ignoring the hearing. But I love the running commentary from your perspective.

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Okay, I'm going to try to listen in on this hearing: https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/there-right-repair

We'll see how long I last.

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@design_law Ahh. I feel like I would have screamed through most of this hearing. 😬

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@design_law 🤮

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Today in design patents, furniture edition:

D992289 issued for a chair.

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Today in design patents, packaging edition:

D992410 issued for a cosmetic product package having a hang tab.

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Today in design patents, love edition:

D992768 issued for a candlestick.

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Today in trademarks:

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Today in design patents, shoe edition:

D991637 issued to Rothy's for a sneaker.

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@design_law That was exactly my thought. I don't normally include the assignee in posts, but this one seemed relevant.

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Today in design patents, display screen edition:

D991960 issued for a display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface.

This one comes with a delightful copyright reservation notice in the description, which is allowed under design patent examination rules, but is questionable in application here.

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@design_law I had to stop looking at the GUI patents today. There are too many bad ones.

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