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Think of a "design patent" as being a subclass of "trademark", rather than a subclass of "patent". Do you think companies should be able to get trademarks? If s
by czr80 14y ago
Think of a "design patent" as being a subclass of "trademark", rather than a subclass of "patent". Do you think companies should be able to get trademarks? If so, then you believe most of the case for design patents.
- zalew 14y ago> Do you think companies should be able to get trademarks? If so, then you believe most of the case for design patents. BS. see fashion - strongly enforced trademarks, no design patents.
- danmaz74 14y agoI believe that trademarks should be granted (and patents too, for REAL non obvious innovations), but watching the black and white sketches it looks like they "trademarked" the very idea of an animation showing a page folding on a digital book. Following the trademarking analogy, this looks to me like trying to trademark the word "Apple" for a company selling apples - which AFAIK isn't allowed.
- bickfordb 14y agoI'm pretty certain trademarks are distinct from design patents, but that the same thing can claimed as both a design patent and a trademark. Many design patents are simply designs and do not reflect a brand or manufacturer of a product. Likewise many trademarks are merely words/phrases or iconography/brandmarks and are not patentable. I disagree with the concept of design patents. I believe that determining the novelty of a design is mostly subjective.