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Intellectual Property

Feb. 25, 2021

Design patents: the forgotten, underappreciated sibling of utility patents

This is unfortunate because it fails to give proper recognition to the tremendous potential of design patents to add value to a business’s bottom line.

Dariush Adli

President
ADLI Law Group

444 S Flower St
Los Angeles , CA 90071

Email: adli@adlilaw.com

Univ of Michigan Law Sch; Ann Arbor MI

Design patents are often treated as the forgotten sibling of their better known and more popular utility patents. That is unfortunate because it fails to give proper recognition to the tremendous potential of design patents to add value to a business's bottom line. Relative to utility patents, design patents are inexpensive to obtain, fast to issue, easy to enforce in court against infringers, and enjoy preferential treatment for damages recovery. Developments in the ...

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