Document (#25129)

Author

Rademaker, C.A.

Title

¬The classification of ornamental designs in the United States Patent Classification System

Source

Dynamism and stability in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the 6th International ISKO-Conference, 10-13 July 2000, Toronto, Canada. Ed.: C. Beghtol et al

Imprint

Würzburg : Ergon

Year

2000

Pages

S.275-281

Series

Advances in knowledge organization; vol.7

Abstract

Industrial design is the professional discipline that creates pleasing, aesthetic shapes and appearances for mass-produced articles and consumer goods. This profession has grown in importance in recent decades as the science of introducing innovative ornamental designs for mass-produced articles has developed into a highly successful marketing tool. Businesses have recognized that profits can be enhanced by the introduction of improved ornamental designs. Consequently, in the modern market place an enormous variety of innovative ornamental designs is available to consumers for practically all articles of mass manufacture including vehicles, furniture, packaging, communication devices, luggage and apparel. As the availability of consumer goods becomes commonplace throughout the world, the profession of industrial design is becoming increasingly active and important. The significance of innovative ornamental designs to the field of business commerce has been long-recognized by intellectual property offices throughout the world. Most governments have established statutory means that permit designers to protect new ornamental designs. However, as large numbers of ornamental designs are granted statutory protection, intellectual property offices are faced with the challenge of organizing the images of these designs in a format that permits efficient access and decimation. The classification of ornamental images is a difficult problem: as the number of new designs produced each year grows, efficient access to protected designs has become an increasingly complicated task. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has provided statutory protection for ornamental designs since 1844. To date, more than 400,000 industrial designs havebeen granted patented statutory protection which is known as a design patent. In order to permit efficient storage and retrieval to the collection of design patents, the USPTO has developed a classification system that is directed to ornamental appearance of industrial designs

Field

Patentinformation

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