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Federal Circuit Reverses Claim Construction of Design Patent That Ignored Functional Elements

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Applicants for design patents should consider claiming functional aspects of their designs in addition to the purely ornamental elements as part of their claiming strategy to achieve the broadest protection for their designs....more

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Federal Circuit Holds Patentee to Functional Claim Language

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In Bayer Cropscience AG v. Dow AgroSciences LLC, the Federal Circuit upheld the district court’s claim construction that interpreted “2,4-D monooxygenase” in accordance with its established scientific meaning, even though...more

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