<br />
Ipls Proceedings<br />
State Bar of Michigan<br />
Volume 32 • Issue 2 • 2021<br />
In This Issue<br />
View from the Chair ........................... 1<br />
Upcoming Events .............................. 2<br />
Intermediary Status – Social<br />
Media’s Sword & Shield:<br />
Content Creators Beware ............ 3<br />
Why Companies Should Care<br />
about Increasing Criminal<br />
Enforcement of Trade Secret<br />
Theft ............................................. 7<br />
Overview of Design Patent<br />
Protection in the United States .... 9<br />
Design Patents: Infringement<br />
Fundamentals and Strategies .... 16<br />
View from the Chair<br />
Members,<br />
The Intellectual Property Law Section (IPLS) has some exciting items<br />
remaining for this year. In September, the Michigan Bar Journal will be<br />
publishing an intellectual pro<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=1"> Ipls Proceedings State Bar of Mi</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=2"> Intellectual Property Law Section 2020-2021 Of</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=3"> Intermediary Status – Social Media’s Sword & Shie</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=4"> ary. An entity that wants safe harbor under the i</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=5"> In contrast to Section 230, the limited sco</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=6"> Endnotes 1 Brandon Doyle, TikTok Statistics – U</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=7"> Why Companies Should Care about Increasing Crimin</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=8"> executive was arrested in July 2018 at the San Jo</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=9"> Overview of Design Patent Protection in the Unite</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=10"> Circuit in a recent patent infringement suit used</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=11"> ance of the “article of manufacture” to which the</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=12"> readily made without changing its overall appeara</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=13"> fringement of a design patent additionally includ</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=14"> Trade Dress/Trademarks Trade dress is a typ</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=15"> 7 See Act of May 9, 1902, Ch. 783, 32 Stat. 193</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=16"> 63 See Central Soya Co. Inc. v. Geo. A. Hormel &</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=17"> A major advantage of design patents is that</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=18"> design patents typically have minimal text (usual</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=19"> dictated by function. Those ornamental aspects ha</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=20"> question. Gorham, 81 U.S. at 528. According to th</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=21"> The plainly dissimilar analysis is highly f</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=22"> illustrate the differences or similarities</a>
<a title="IPLS Proceedings--Vol 32, No 2 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/63f1fa28?page=23"> a patented design and an accused one.” 2019 U.S. </a>