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Supreme Court: Design patents are worth less, but we won't tell you how much

  • Written by Timothy Holbrook, Professor of Law, Emory University
imageMatt Wade, CC BY-SA

When the Supreme Court took up Apple’s case alleging Samsung had stolen its patented iPhone designs for Samsung’s own smartphones, product designers, lawyers and corporate executives were paying close attention. The case promised to shed new light on a relatively unexplored area of patent law – design patents.

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