Design patent damages can far exceed the reasonable royalties often associated with utility patent infringement because design patentees can recover the infringer’s total profits from the [...]
After a souring of the business relationship between the holder of a patent on a design for a football jersey for dogs and a retailer of licensed pet jerseys, the retailer hired another supplier. [...]
Most of the patents that make the news these days are utility patents rather than design patents. This might explain the result of High Point Design LLC v. Buyer’s Direct, Inc. Here, the U.S. [...]