When there are fewer design elements in a design claim or when the individual elements of the design seem commonplace in isolation, it can be easy to overlook the inventive effort that went into developing a design. Rather than looking to the overall visual impression that those design elements provide as a whole, one can make the fatal error of ignoring a majority or the entirety of the design, considering it to be no more than an “abstract idea.”Continue Reading Sometimes Less is More: Patentability of “Simple” Designs