design patent
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design patent
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Anotherdesignpatenthe made was the aluminum fuel blivet that would roll behind a jeep.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thus a design that was arrived at independently can still infringe adesignpatent.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Adesignpatentis the strongest system of protection but the most uncommon.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An actual shield of a given shape, for example, can be cited as prior art against adesignpatenton a computer icon with a shield shape.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Black and white photographs are not ordinarily permitted in utility anddesignpatentapplications, unless this is the only practicable medium for illustrating the claimed invention.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One cannot simply take a particular engineering feature out of adesignpatentbook and stick it down anywhere and expect it to work.
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Design patents are only granted if the design is novel and not obvious for all items, even those of different utility than the patented object.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The validity of design patents is not affected by whether or not the design is commercialized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He also attempted to construct a machine for color photography and cinematography and had his design patented in 1911.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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