Design Patents Sunk in International Seaway

83 BNA’s Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal 278, December 23, 2011.
 

Perry Saidman charges that the Federal Circuit’s analysis of anticipation and obviousness in the two-year old design patent ruling of International Seaway Trading Corp. v. Walgreens Corp. has created a “maelstrom” in design patent law. Mr. Saidman urges litigators to challenge Seaway’s holding in the Federal Circuit “to bring design patent validity analyses back to a safe harbor”.
 

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