ARE Design Patent Alert: En Banc Decision in LXQ Corp. v. GM Global Tech. Brings The Law of Obviousness for Design Patent in Accord with KSR

On May 21, 2024, the full court of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Tech., 21-2348 (Fed. Cir. 2023) revitalized the law of obviousness for design patents by overruling four decades of precedent based on a rigid and inflexible Rosen-Durling test, to bring the law of obviousness […]