"The showing of depth, and other aspects of the
requirements for a perspective view, tends to add limitations to
the claim that now can be eliminated," as Daniel Gurfinkel of
Dennemeyer & Associates US explains.
The Chicago office of Dennemeyer & Associates was recently
asked to assist in the prosecution of a US national phase design
patent application which had its priority in an International
Design application. The design comprised the front elevational view
of an industrial product and five similarly shown additional
embodiments of the product, showing no other views for any of the
embodiments.
In our arguments before the US Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO), we insisted that the design was not unlike a design for a
two-dimensional object (such as a placemat or rug) or even a
graphical user interface (GUI) for which US Patent law (35 USC
§171 et seq) allows a single drawing to represent the
industrial design.
