William A. Elmer and Hth, Inc. v. Icc Fabricating, Inc., and Take-Out Express, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding focus is on the overall ornamental features of the design
• applying the \as shown and described\ language in a design patent to \limit[ ] the scope of [a] patent claim\
• “[T]he focus is on the overall ornamental appearance of the claimed design, not selected ornamental features.” (emphasis original)
• “The claimed design, as indicated above, is limited to a vehicle sign having, inter alia, triangular vertical ribs and an upper protrusion. ICC’s sign lacks these ornamental features.”
• trade dress refers to product packaging and the design of the product itself
• fact finder conducts visual examination to determine substantial similarity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).