Critigen, the technology consulting and geospatial systems development company, announced the creation of a dedicated Utility Design and Engineering Systems practice. The announcement signals the ...

Summer Associate Ben Gitzinger also contributed to this article. Need another reason to secure and enforce design patents? Design patents offer a unique additional remedy in district court litigation: ...

“The notion of patent-eligible subject matter applies only to utility patents. As a result, the enforcement of design patents avoids this potential area of dispute and attendant risk of invalidation, ...

The Autodesk Utility Design (AUD) solution now integrates directly with SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7. Infrastructure designers from electric, gas, water, and other utilities who use the AUD solution to ...

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Summer Associate Michael Nathanson also contributed to this article. Since the inception of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) in 2012, design patents obtained a higher rate of favorable ...

As everybody knows, utility coordination is essential in the success of most state and local highway construction projects. You didn’t know that? OK, so not everybody knows that, and I guess that’s ...

There is a group of products that, because of their specific character, can be protected as industrial designs, as well as patents. The Polish IP Law also provides the protection of utility models.

Worldwide, electrical utility metering is undergoing dramatic changes. To deal this variety of applications, Microchip has introduced two chips and an online design center to help engineers create ...