In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit stated that the title and claim language can limit the scope of a design patent when the patent’s drawings don’t indicate what type of product is involved. The court’s reasoning could have significant ramifications for design patent law. When considering the scope of a design patent, judges typically…
We received a Non- Final Office Action from the Examiner on March 16, 2020 in which the Examiner did not allow any of our claims. More specifically, the Examiner rejected our broadest claim 1, as well as claims 2, 4, 7, 9, 13-16, 18 and 20 with a total of seven different references. Additionally, the…
This is a good example of we never give up and do anything we can for our client to get a successful result. This is an application at the European Patent Office (EPO) where the case received an oral proceeding notice after several office communications. The last office action rejected all claims under…