The treatment of functional features in design patents was discussed in the recent Federal Circuit case for Sport Dimension, Inc. v. The Coleman Company, Inc., Case No. 15-1553 (Fed. Cir. 2016). The ...

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

Functional specifications provide Web developers with a blueprint of how the website or Web component will behave or function. This means that the functional specifications should not detail technical ...

Antonia Bremeyer is the founder & CEO of Cordée Cases, where she focuses on product innovation in the consumer mobile accessories industry. For many years, consumer product design was largely driven ...

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...

Wendy Lin of Saint Island International Patent & Law Offices examines two Taiwanese court decisions clarifying how purely functional features are assessed when examining design patents and challenges ...

This guide has been created to support WMU instructors in the design and development of courses for all modalities, helping them to create learning experiences that meet instructional goals and ...

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