IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL AND ACTUAL IP PROTECTION IN CROSSOVER AREAS MITCH HARRIS Mitch Harris, Attorney at Law, LLC Athens, Georgia.

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IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL AND ACTUAL IP PROTECTION IN CROSSOVER AREAS MITCH HARRIS Mitch Harris, Attorney at Law, LLC Athens, Georgia

The Look/Shape of Things: Copyright, Trade Dress and Design Patents Design Patents Egyptian Goddess, Inc. v. Swisa, Inc., 543 F. 3d 665 (Fed. Cir. 2008) Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., 786 F.3d 983 (Fed. Cir. 2015) Trade Dress Apple v. Samsung

What Do Design Patents actually protect? Functional exclusion Functional portions of drawing eliminated leaving non- functional design choices OddzOn Prods., Inc., v. Just Toys, Inc. 122 F.3d 1396 (Fed. Cir. 1997) Differences from prior art used to determine what is protected Egyptian Goddess v. Swisa Similarity to what is accused used to determine infringement Gorham Co. v. White, 81 U.S. 511 (1872)

What Does Trade Dress actually protect? Apple v. Samsung

The Craft and Art of Software Craft Patentable technology? (Utility Patent) 35 U.S.C. §101 Copyright on Code (Textual Work) may cover structure, sequence and organization Johnson Controls v. Phoenix Control Sys., 886 F. 2d 1173 (9th Cir.1989) and perhaps more: Oracle Am. Inc, v. Google, Inc 750 F.3d 1339 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (S.Ct. cert. denied)

Art User Interface Copyright (Visual Work) Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft 35 F. 3d 1435 (9 th Cir. 1994) Design Patent on Visual Interface? 35 U.S.C. §171, Google: D599,372 Trade Dress? Ingrid & Isabel, LLC v. Baby Be Mine, LLC 13-cv JCS (N.D. Cal. 2014)

The Melting Pot:Websites Elements of both Design and Software plus a URL Design Content generally multi-media, so evaluate all protections Content will generally have trade/service mark usage separately protectable 15. U.S.C. § Design Patent e.g., Google’s D599,372

URL URL inclusion maybe trade/service mark infringement Maritz, Inc. v. CyberGold, Inc., 947 F.Supp (E.D. Mo. 1996) or may be fair use: Patmont Motor Werks Inc. v. Gateway Marine Inc., C (N.D.Cal. 1997)

Software Textual work copyright (Html or source code) Johnson Controls v. Phoenix Control Sys. If the website operates in unique way: possible utility patent 35 U.S.C. §101