Ugg brand owner Deckers Outdoor Corp. lost its lawsuit against Quince, with a jury deciding the design patent covering the ...

Deckers lost its patent infringement case against Quince, and a lack of specificity on design defect means dupes will ...

all registered in Class 18 in respect of, among others: travelling bags, women's handbags and shopping bags for application on bags, the subject matter of Wang's design patent registration. Wang's ...

“If the ‘sufficiently distinct’ test is intended to impose a special gloss on Rule 56, that gloss cannot stand.” – North Star Petition for Rehearing This April, a Federal Circuit panel including ...

A district court recently refused to exclude testimony regarding consumer surveys conducted by a design patent expert, holding instead that the consumer surveys may be probative of how an ordinary ...

“What frustrates design patent stakeholders more broadly is attempting to reconcile widely divergent infringement outcomes between cases of differing closeness, making it more difficult to judge ...

Top Five Patent Law Decisions of 2024 Spanning damages, design patents, infringement loopholes, issue preclusion, and prior art disqualification, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had ...

Armaid started selling its Armaid1 product, a massaging apparatus for the arms, in the 1990s. (See Armaid1 image below). In 2016, Terry Cross, the late President of Armaid, Nic Bartolotta, and Brian ...

Firms reflect on how they’re managing their design patent practices as brands seek to enforce their rights at the Northern District of Illinois and beyond Design patent litigation has spiked in recent ...