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AIPLA CLE Webinar: Constitutionality of Protecting Product Designs Both as Design Patents and as Trade Dress

Date(s):
December 10, 2019
Venue:
Austin, TX
 
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Traditionally, product designs have been protected both as design patents and trade dress. But should different intellectual property law regimes protect the same features of a product consecutively or even concurrently?  Both the Constitution's Patent/Copyright Clause (Art. I//8/8) and its Commerce Clause (Art. 1/8/3) probably can provide such protection.  But can they both really coexist?  Ken Germain asserts that the PC Cl. trumps the Commerce Cl., so that only one type of IP protection is available; Rich Stockton asserts that coexistence is allowable and appropriate. A spirted collegial debate will ensue!
 
Presented by: Kenneth Germain
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