ARE Design Patent Law Alert: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP Design Patent Alert

On September 22, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, reconsidered (and rejected) the test it had used since 1984 to determine whether a design patent is infringed in its unanimous en banc opinion in Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa, No. 2006-1562, slip op. (Fed. Cir. Sept. 22, 2008) (en banc). For over […]