[U.S./Design Patent] May 2024, CAFC en banc, LKQ v. GM Global

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[U.S./Design Patent] May 2024, CAFC en banc, LKQ v. GM Global Tech.

The court overturned the 40-year-old Rosen-Durling test (which required a primary reference “basically the same” as the claimed design when assessing design-patent obviousness), holding that the obviousness standard in the Supreme Court's 2007 KSR decision applies.

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