In particular, a designer may first seek and secure a design patent and then secondary meaning for trade dress protection of the design can be developed during the 14 years of design patent protection.
This is why Apple is in the perverse position of arguing that design elements which make good smartphones so useful are not functional at all, and merely decorative ornamentation: if it admitted these features were actually useful, it would forfeit its design protection.
Mutual and the Obama administration want that protection extended to the design of the drug, since the generic is an exact copy of the brand-name drug that has already been approved by the federal government.
So, design an asset protection plan and transfer your personal assets into well-structured private entities (like trusts).
Others doubt whether a Lululemon will provide much of a boost to the industry, partly because design patents provide protection only against exact copies or near copies.
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The ultra-thin and lightweight design of the juice pack also complements the smartphone's zero-gap unibody design, delivering full protection and power in a sleek profile.
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The successor to the best-selling Fitbit Ultra, the One tracks steps taken, distance travelled, calories burned, floors climbed and sleep quality, boasts a smaller, sleeker design, and offers protection against perspiration, rain and water.
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Etymotic's hearing protection products were honored with a Design and Engineering Innovations Award in the Health and Wellness category at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show and the prestigious 2010 Safe-in-Sound Award for decades of innovation in hearing loss prevention from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Hearing Conservation Association.
The juice pack air is engineered to deliver edge-to-edge protection and touts a 10 percent thinner design than the previous air model.
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Environmental protection was an important factor in equipment design .
These solutions integrate seamlessly with multi-vendor and legacy protection relays and devices and enable easy expansion, installation and testing, along with flexibility in design, engineering, commissioning and upgrades throughout the life of a protection and control system.
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Samsung is alleging that the iPhone 5 breaches patent protection, not the look and feel of design.
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All battery cases offer optimum protection, high-powered charging and elegant design.
Their conclusions: The "hurricane protection system" built by the Corps had serious design and construction flaws, baked into the system over 40 years under administrations of both parties, that caused catastrophic failure in more than 50 locations under storm surge conditions markedly less than the system was advertised to withstand.
Because color is such an integral part of fashion design, courts had been hesitant to extend the same protection to clothes.
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Even then, purchased music must be stored on a special type of Memory Stick another Sony design that includes Sony's MagicGate copy protection.
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If the Fashion Bill is enacted into law, designers would be well-advised to continue pursuing the foregoing copyright and trademark registrations, but would have to reconsider pursuing design patents based on cost considerations and whether the useful life of each relevant design is expected to last more than the three years of copyright protection provided by the Fashion Bill.
This type of protection requires constant diligence, and a great deal of thought and planning in the design of information systems.
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In fact, the mine design submitted to the Salvadoran authorities would set a new precedent for water protection for any gold mine in the Americas, including the United States.
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It offers the full protection of a hard-shell case with an ultra-thin, light-weight, low-profile design.
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