Apple will do the best it can to prevent this, defending patents, copyrights and design rights, but someone, we pretty much expect, will catch them and those excess profits will get competed away.
Temperatures in Germany have been in the 80s thanks to a heat wave and the hearing between the two technology giants over design rights to their respective tablet computers had to take a few breaks this afternoon.
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At the Court of Appeal last year Sir Robin Jacob and two other judges reviewed an earlier ruling which had ordered Apple to publish a notice in UK newspapers and on its website saying that Samsung had not infringed its design rights.
Dundee-based firm i-design has secured exclusive rights to sell advertising space across supermarket chain Asda's entire cash machine network.
And who is to stop YSL, which declares it pioneered the monochrome design, from trumping the whole foot wear design industry by asserting rights to the single color shoe concept in all shades?
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Apple asserting that it owns exclusive rights to those generic design features runs counter to what patents and patent law were intended to do.
Desperate for a way to show the pipelines they were better off together, an Aerie executive used game theory to design a mock online auction of rights-of-way.
In this respect, design patents can work well together with trade dress rights.
Right from the beginning, by design, in this land here, you start with a Bill of Rights, Constitution to set the rules of the game, and then you build the institutions.
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With elaborate stagecraft, it is more interested in making the case for commercial perfume as high art, with the rights and privileges accorded therein, than in revealing the artistry of perfume design.
Ms. Gardner worked with the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit libertarian law firm, to sue the Florida regulatory body in charge of interior design in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, claiming the law violated their First Amendment rights to call themselves interior designers.
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