10 March 2020CopyrightSarah Morgan

SCOTUS rejects pair of copyright and design patent suits

The US Supreme Court yesterday, March 9, rejected two disputes covering design patents in the automobile sector and the provision of inaccurate information to the US Copyright Office.

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