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?New? Test Design Patent Infringement ? Egyptian Goddess

By Stephen M. Nipper

Before today, to find infringement of a design patent, two tests need to be satisfied: 1) the ?point-of-novelty? test and 2) the ?substantial identity? test. Sun Hill Indus. v. Easter Unlimited, Inc., 48 F.3d 1193, 1197, 33 U.S.P.Q.2d 1925, 1928 (C.A.F.C. 1995); Brainard v. Custom Chrome, Inc., 872 F.Supp. 39 (W.D.N.Y. 1994). Today, in Egyptian Goddess, Inc. v. Swisa, Inc., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2008)(en banc)(Bryson, J.), the Federal Circuit reworked the test for design patent infringement, ho read more

Full post as published by Invent Blog on September 22, 2008 (boomark / email).