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My Swedish vocabulary word of the day (design law edition): “Dubbelskapandekriteriet”

Basically, if the subject matter could be independently duplicated by someone else, it's not original for the purposes of copyright law.

Thanks to Karin Cederlund for this one.

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On the bright side, LKQ has made it a lot easier to decide what cases to include in my § 103 unit.

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Thinking back on the #GorgeDesign arguments from yesterday and how it's a design case that isn't a design case.

I was struck by how Gorge's attorney characterized the alleged bad act as selling a product that LOOKED like his client's product, even though the complaint does not assert a claim for design patent, trade dress, or copyright infringement: https://oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov/default.aspx?fl=21-1695_04042023.mp3

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Just found a spot to use one of my favorite lines in all of the design literature:

“Piracy involves the use of violence on the high seas and is clearly irrelevant to the utilization of other people's ideas in the field of industrial design.”

The Vestal Bill for the Copyright Registration of Designs, 31 COLUM. L. REV. 477, 478 (1931).

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Today in #DesignLaw:

17 U.S.C. § 113.

Yes, a whole day on it.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/113

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In a design case, when a court says that a plaintiff has identified non-infringing alternatives, the court should put pictures of those alternatives in the decision.

Competitors shouldn't have to spend time and money to try to find those pictures on PACER.*

This post brought to you by Silvertop v. Kangaroo.

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* Yes, PACER should be free. But even if it were, the point remains: If the alternatives are important to the decision, include them.