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En Banc Federal Circuit Adopts a New Test for Design Patent Obviousness

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Before Moore, Lourie, Dyk, Prost, Reyna, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, Stoll, and Stark.  Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board....more

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Full Federal Circuit Ditches Decades-Old Design Patent Test

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Last week, the full Federal Circuit overruled its decades-old test for deciding whether a design patent is invalid as obvious. LKQ Corp. v. GM Glob. Tech. Operations LLC, No. 2021-2348, 2024 WL 2280728 (Fed. Cir. May 21,...more

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