Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. Covidien, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[D]esign patents are directed to ornamental designs,” and design patents based on “functional rather than ornamental designs are invalid.”
• “Where the . . . [products] are ‘sufficiently distinct’ and ‘plainly dissimilar,’ the patentee fails to meet its burden of proving infringement as a matter of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).