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Description

US design patents only cover what is shown as solid lines. Dotted lines don't count. The left image is from Apple's US design patent D593087. The right image is of a Samsung Galaxy S 4G. The Samsung image is from the court records in Apple v Samsung. The Samsung phone infringed the Apple patent even though the backs were different because the Apple patent showed the back as a dotted line and was not claimed.

Author or
copyright owner

Mark Nowotarski

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2013/07/30/strong-design-patents-the-power-of-the-broken-line/id=44215/

Date of publication

7/30/13

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

design patent

Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)

The use of dotted lines in a design patent

Not replaceable with
free media because (WP:NFCC#1)

n.a.

Not replaceable with
textual coverage because (WP:NFCC#1)

Visual images are needed to show what design patents cover

Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)

This file is only being used to show what US design patents cover.

Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)

n.a.

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I am the author and created this image using images from a US design patent and records from a US federal court case.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:07, 9 October 2017		365 × 273 (52 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	12:40, 31 July 2013	No thumbnail	480 × 360 (65 KB)	Nowa (talk \| contribs)	Uploading an excerpt from a non-free work using File Upload Wizard

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