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A Teapot Steeped with Dicta: An Update on In re Maatita and Design Definiteness

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By Justin DeAngelis, Mason Baranczyk, James Aquilina, Nicholas Schmidbauer
| IP Watchdog Verified
“The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has slowly been chipping away at [the USPTO’s] limited reading of In re Maatita.” Disclosure: The authors of this article represented the Applicant, PUMA SE, in the ex parte appeal before the Patent Trial & Appeal Board in Ex parte Silva, Appeal 2024-000238 (P.T.A.B. September 27, 2024), which is discussed below.
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Sometimes Less is More: Patentability of “Simple” Designs | JD Supra

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By Mason Baranczyk
| JD Supra
When there are fewer design elements in a design claim or when the individual elements of the design seem commonplace in isolation, it can be easy to overlook the inventive effort that went into developing a design.
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Junker v. Medical Components, Inc.: Pre-filing Offers for Sale Trigger Patent “On-Sale Bar” | JD Supra

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By Mason Baranczyk
| JD Supra
A recent Federal Circuit decision, Junker v. Med. Components, Inc., No. 2021-1649 (Feb. 10, 2022), serves as a warning to prospective filers that making pre-filing offers for sale, or engaging in discussions for future sales, can be detrimental to one’s ability to obtain both design and utility patents.
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