Chapter 23 Outline

• Jurisdiction: United States

Chapter 23

Design Patents

§23.01 Introduction

§23.02 Requirements for Design Patentability

[A] Primarily Ornamental

[B] Novelty

[C] Nonobviousness

[1] Designer of Ordinary Skill Perspective

[2] Two-Step Analysis for Combining Design Prior Art

[3] Secondary Considerations

§23.03 Enforcement of Design Patents

[A] "Ordinary Observer" Test of Gorham v. White (U.S. 1871)

[B] Discarded "Point of Novelty" Component

[C] Modern Standard: Egyptian Goddess (Fed. Cir. 2008) ( en banc)

[D] Illustrative Decisions After Egyptian Goddess

[E] Doctrine of Equivalents and Prosecution History Estoppel

§23.04 Remedies for Infringement of Design Patents

[A] Statutory Basis: 35 U.S.C. §289

[B] Apportionment of Infringer's Profits for Multicomponent Products:

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