The USPTO issued the first derivation certificate for a design patent on November 3, 2021, cancelling the claim, finding it derived from another inventor.
In the utility patent field, a topic of major concern is non-practicing entities, or trolls, who use patents they did not innovate as legal weapons in litigation. But the subject of this design patent exploration is derived from different Norse mythology, it’s about gnomes, transiting in small packages through the rainforest of e-commerce.
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