CAFC Chief Judge Moore delivered a dissent Monday in which she claimed her court has caused “the legal frame of reference” in ...
LKQ Corporation and Keystone Automotive Industries, Inc. (collectively, LKQ) filed an inter partes review (IPR) of GM’s design patent for a car part, asserting that it was unpatentable as obvious. The ...
“We see no reason to distinguish between disclaimer by amendment and disclaimer by argument and conclude that a patentee may surrender claim scope of a design patent by its representations to the ...
On August 6, 2024, the PTAB issued its first written decision applying a new test for obviousness of design patents. In Next Step Group, Inc. v. Deckers Outdoor Corp., IPR2024-00525, Paper 16 (P.T.A.B ...
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