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Intellectual Property Litigation: ‘Ornamental Nail Buffer’ Begets Design Patent Issues
January 16, 2008 Full PDF
Litigation partner Lew Clayton's "Intellectual Property Litigation" column, published in the January 16 issue of the New York Law Journal, discusses the Federal Circuit's decision to convene an en banc court to consider fundamental questions concerning design patents, which protect purely "ornamental" design elements. The column also discusses recent patent, trademark and copyright cases, including a Ninth Circuit opinion discussing the parody doctrine in trademark law. Litigation associate Michael Beck assisted in the preparation of this article.