I have re-read this argument "design patents have a very limited scope" a few times over the latest Apple patent craze. It's not an argument, it's a fact. Desi

I have re-read this argument "design patents have a very limited scope" a few times over the latest Apple patent craze. It's not an argument, it's a fact. Design patents are not utility patents. Utility patents are not design patents. They work differently, and the objections people have to "questionable" utility patents do not apply equally to design patents. It comes up a lot because the press seems to be willfully ignorant of the distinction, and the people arguing about the reports tend to be universally clueless. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent