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    United States, a design patent is a form of legal protection granted to the ornamental design of an article of manufacture. Design patents are a type of...
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    intellectual property rights are also called patents in some jurisdictions: industrial design rights are called design patents in the US, plant breeders' rights...
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    letters patent has evolved into the modern intellectual property patent (referred to as a utility patent or design patent in United States patent law) granting...
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  • starting from the filing date of the patent application or from the date of grant of the patent. In most patent laws, annuities or maintenance fees have...
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    November 29, 2016, David Allen Pavelsky of Killeen, Texas, applied for a design patent (not claiming an original functional invention) on a three-lobed version...
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    raise intellectual property considerations in copyright, trademark, design patent, and related laws. The copyright status of a typeface and of any font...
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    Registering for an industrial design right is related to granting a patent. According to industrial property Act 2001, an industrial design is defined as "any composition...
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  • Wingdings (category Typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow (type designer))
    the design and glyph order was awarded U.S. Design Patent D341848 in 1993. The patent expired in 2005. In many other countries, a Design Patent would...
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  • 736 U.S. patents. His final count was 1,093 U.S. patents, including 1084 utility patents (patents for inventions) and 9 artistic design patents. It was...
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    6,242 were patent examiners (almost all of whom were assigned to examine utility patents; only 99 were assigned to examine design patents) and 388 were...
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