Design Patent for Consumer Products

In today’s competitive marketplace a successful business product will likely draw competition, and competitors may try to copy the successful product.  This is especially true in the field of consumer products. A design patent is a cost-effective way to protect successful consumer products from infringement. A design patent protects the design of an invention.  Often,…

Patent Claim Drafting – Use of “OR”

It is surprising to read a Federal Circuit case on patent claim construction, delving deeply into the difference between “and” and “or”, referencing Stunk & White — and incorrectly writing “of” when the court meant to use “or” in a quote from Struck & White! The Federal Circuit wrote: “A common treatise on grammar teaches…