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"Justifying" The Public Interest In Patent Litigation, Scott A. Allen
"Justifying" The Public Interest In Patent Litigation, Scott A. Allen
Indiana Law Journal
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The Origins Of American Design Patent Protection, Jason John Du Mont, Mark D. Janis
The Origins Of American Design Patent Protection, Jason John Du Mont, Mark D. Janis
Indiana Law Journal
Many firms invest heavily in the way their products look, and they rely on a handful of intellectual property regimes to stop rivals from producing look-alikes. Two of these regimes—copyright and trademark—have been closely scrutinized in intellectual property scholarship. A third, the design patent, remains little understood except among specialists. In particular, there has been virtually no analysis of the design patent system’s core assumption: that the rules governing patents for inventions should be incorporated en masse for designs.
One reason why the design patent system has remained largely unexplored in the literature is that scholars have never explained how …