by Dennis Crouch Curver Luxembourg, SARL v. Home Expressions Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2019) The district court dismissed Curver’s design patent infringement lawsuit for failure-to-state-a-claim.  Asserted U.S. Design Patent D677,946 is titled “Pattern for a Chair” and claims an “ornamental design for a pattern for a chair, as shown and described.” Note from the figure above that the … Continue reading Federal Circuit Rejects Patenting Designs “in the Abstract”