Function Doesn't Count For Design Patents: Fed. Circ.

By Nick Brown (March 9, 2010, 6:57 PM EST) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision that tool giant Stanley Works Inc. did not infringe a patent for a combination hammer-crowbar through its popular Fubar, ruling that a product's functional elements must be discounted when analyzing whether a design patent has been infringed....

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