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Design Patent Infringement Needs A Free Expression Defense (La Infracción De Patentes De Diseño Necesita Una Defensa De Libre Expresión), Richard J. Peltz-Steele, Ralph D. Clifford
Design Patent Infringement Needs A Free Expression Defense (La Infracción De Patentes De Diseño Necesita Una Defensa De Libre Expresión), Richard J. Peltz-Steele, Ralph D. Clifford
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English Abstract: As elsewhere in the world, design patents are propagating copiously in U.S. intellectual property law. Notwithstanding their fertility, design patents face potentially prohibitive and as yet unexplored legal challenges. One possibility is that the U.S. Congress might lack the very power to authorize design patents. Another possibility – our subject here, with implications for design patents in Europe and around the world – is that design patents violate fundamental rights if there is not a defense to infringement founded in the freedom of expression.
Spanish Abstract: Las patentes de diseño se propagan en abundancia en el derecho de …