Re:Wil Shipley on Apple's Patent Enforcement
by mechanical_fish on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @11:36AM
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That's trademark law. Not the same thing as patent law, which in turn is not the same thing as copyright law.
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Re:Wil Shipley on Apple's Patent Enforcement
by bitwize on Friday March 05, 2010 @07:18PM
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The design of a functional thing may be covered under a design patent; and indeed the Coke bottle shape is covered by such a patent.
Trademark law refers primarily to the design of nonfunctional things such as logos, the Deep Note sound, etc.