Wolfgang Festl-Wietek and Alexander R Schlee, of Viering Jentschura & Partner in Munich and Los Angeles, examine how trade dress can be useful when patents, designs and trade marks fail The ...

Trade dress is an important, but often overlooked, way to protect your IP assets. Anessa Owen Kramer explains how to obtain protection in the US, and reviews some recent cases In today's economy, ...

Two forms of intellectual property protection — design patents and trade dress— can offer distinct forms of protection for consumer products at different points in the product’s lifecycle. Timing can ...

A trademark (or service mark for services) primarily protects words, names, symbols, slogans or logos used to identify and distinguish the source of goods or services. Trade dress is essentially a ...

In the absence of trade dress-specific legislation, rights holders in China must manoeuvre around the Trademark Law and the Anti-unfair Competition Law if they are to protect their unique designs ...

Addressing the scope of trade dress protection, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit found that the shape and color scheme of a product was functional and therefore only eligible for patent ...

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“Choosing distinct and unique designs for your product packaging and design may not only attract consumers, but it will also increase your ability to protect your products against infringement.” ...

RECENT FASB RULE CHANGES HAVE MADE IT IMPORTANT for CPAs to understand the concept of “trade dress” and its impact on a company’s financial statements. Trade dress refers to the unique packaging or ...

“Ezaki Glico argued that ‘functional’ should be defined as ‘essential.’ The Third Circuit disagreed and noted that the Lanham Act and Supreme Court precedent supported defining functional as ‘useful.’ ...

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