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Fenwick & West LLP

New Federal Circuit Guidance on Design Patents: Key Takeaways for Companies Seeking Protection

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With few substantive decisions addressing design patents, it’s always exciting to see new guidance from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on how these valuable IP assets are prosecuted and enforced. In two...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Keep on Truckin’: Aesthetic Functionality Has No Part in Design Patent Validity

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Addressing the issue of the functional requirements of design patents, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to invalidate design patents on truck parts on the basis of aesthetic functionality. Automotive...more

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Federal Circuit Confirms the Value of Design Patents Covering Replacement Parts

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On July 23, 2019, the Federal Circuit departed from its utility patent-focused docket to deliver a precedential opinion relating to design patents in Auto. Body Parts Ass’n v. Ford Global Techns., LLC. At issue were the...more

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Patent Case Summaries

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A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board....more

Holland & Knight LLP

Aesthetic Appeal of a Patent's Claimed Design Is Inadequate to Render It Functional

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• In a relatively rare opinion regarding design patents, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit weighed in recently on the requirements for design patents in its Automotive Body Parts Association v. Ford Global...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - July 2019 #4

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - Automotive Body Parts Ass’n. v. Ford Global Techs., LLC, Appeal No. 2018-1613 (Fed. Cir. July 23, 2019) - Our case of the week is a design patent case. It concerns two primary issues—what...more

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ABPA v. Ford: Design Patent Defenses Run Out of Gas on Appeal - A U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision...

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On July 23, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit released its decision affirming summary judgment that the asserted design patents were not invalid for non-ornamentality under 35 U.S.C. § 171, and rejecting...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Circuit Refuses to Create Separate Exhaustion and Repair Rules for Design Patents

The Federal Circuit has ruled that neither the exhaustion nor permissible repair doctrines allow manufacture of new replacement components covered by design patents. The Automotive Body Parts Association (ABPA) sued Ford...more

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Federal Circuit Affirms Validity of Design Patents For Automotive Body Parts in Precedential Opinion

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The Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion on July 23, 2019, affirming the validity of two design patents related to the Ford F-150 hood and headlamp and sweepingly rejecting arguments that the patents on automotive...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Top Ten Patent Wars – Automobiles (#3)

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Our next patent war has an interesting twist, in that the man most associated with this invention never claimed to be the inventor, yet a patent lawsuit won him the public acclaim that launched his industry. That man was...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation – March Hearing Preview

The next hearing session of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) is scheduled for March 29, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. ...more

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District Court Rejects Efforts To Invalidate Design Patents on Automobile Parts

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In a case affecting aftermarket automotive suppliers, on February 20, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan issued a decision declining to invalidate or render unenforceable two of Ford’s design...more

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Fresh From the Bench: Latest Circuit Federal Court Cases

Paice LLC, The Abell Foundation, Inc., v. Ford Motor Company (Fed. Cir. Feb. 1, 2018) - In Paice LLC, The Abell Foundation, Inc. v. Ford Motor Company, the Federal Circuit vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s...more

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Commission to Weigh in on IPR Estoppel

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The Commission has determined to review an initial determination finding that Respondent Ford is estopped under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) from asserting certain invalidity defenses previously adjudicated by the Patent Trial and...more

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Standing Conferred Only to a Privy of the Petitioner - Acxiom Corporation v. Phoenix Licensing, LLC

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Addressing the issue of standing, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) denied institution of a covered business method (CBM) patent review, finding that the petitioner failed to provide sufficient proof...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

IP Newsflash - August 2015 #2

FEDERAL CIRCUIT CASES - Federal Circuit Quashes $287 Million Enhanced Damages Award Finding Objectively Reasonable Defenses Raised During Litigation - The Federal Circuit has reversed a district court’s award of...more

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Claims Regarding User Interface Systems And Methods For Cars Are Held Invalid

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The disputed technology relates to user interface systems and methods for a vehicle. The parties agreed during oral argument that construction of the term “page” is the only matter at issue for determining whether a...more

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Steeda Autosports Seeks to Put the Brakes on Alleged Patent Infringement

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Steeda Autosports, Inc. ("Steeda"), a Valdosta, Georgia-based company specializing in the design and manufacture of after-market parts for Ford vehicles, particularly Ford Mustangs, filed suit on August 22, 2014, in the...more

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Legal Alert: UPDATE: The Hare Loses Steam – Patent Litigation Reform Law Unlikely This Year

Efforts by the U.S. Senate to pass an alternative to the Innovation Act, which aims to reform abusive patent litigation, have stalled. Sen. Patrick Leahy, who is leading the effort, has announced that his committee is tabling...more

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