YouTube Video Of Waffle Sandwich Dooms Design Patent Plans, Panel Says

(March 6, 2024, 1:41 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Efforts by two inventors to patent an ornamental design for a waffle featuring one smooth side were properly rejected as anticipated by a widely disseminated video on YouTube, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said March 6; in a separate opinion issued the same day, the same panel upheld a rejection of a similar utility patent application, this time on obviousness grounds....

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