By Saranjit Dhindsa and Liz Gray What is an Industrial Design? If IP rights are a family, industrial design rights (also known as ‘design rights’ or ‘design patent rights’) are the shallowest family member—it’s what’s on the outside that counts. Industrial designs protect a product’s unique appearance, not how the product works or the materials that it’s made of. Industrial …
By Alexandra Johnson Dingee, Art Brion, Dennis Haszko In Part 3 of Brion Raffoul’s Patent Spotlight Series, this week’s topic is graphical user interfaces or GUIs (pronounced gooeys). In 2020, there are approximately 3.5 Billion smart-phone users worldwide. With the proliferation of the smartphone, GUIs are more important …
By: Natalie Raffoul This article first appeared in IAM Yearbook: Building IP value in the 21st century 2020,a supplement to IAM, published by Law Business Research – IP Division. To view the guide in full, please go to www.IAM-media.com. Also, check out the article on Lexology.
