Trade Dress Series, Part 5: Trade dress infringement

Part 1 of this series introduced trade dress in restaurants and Part 2 took a closer look at restaurant décor as trade dress. Part 3 explored how courts across the country apply different tests when evaluating whether there has been an infringement and how the law is...

Trade Dress Series, Part 4: Successful claims

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the different methods for seeking protection on product designs, namely, trade dress, copyright, and design patent. In Part 2, we took a closer look at trade dress and how to obtain this type of intellectual property protection....