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.
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.
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.
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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Samsung is alleging that the iPhone 5 breaches patent protection, not the look and feel of design.
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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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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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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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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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