Page spread from Thomas Weil’s New Grammar of Ornament. Rather than categorize ornamental patterns by region, Weil’s New Grammar offers a taxonomy of forms: minimal, geometric, and floral. And ...

, No. 2018-2214, (Fed. Cir. Sept. 12, 2019), Curver Luxembourg, SARL (Curver) asserted U.S. Design Patent No. D677,946 (’946 patent), entitled “Pattern for a Chair” and claimed an ...

Home Expressions, Inc. (CAFC, Sept. 12, 2019)—which already has become a rather infamous design patent case—the claims at issue recited an "ornamental design for a pattern for a chair," while ...

The ornamental pattern of the wafer itself, however, is the Oreo's visual signature. Stamped out by brass rollers passing over sheets of chocolate dough, ...

To understand how ornaments such as spines form, we must examine the forces produced during shell growth. The shell secretion process revolves around an interesting mechanical system.

For basins meant to spill over, the edges were shaped to vary the location and amount of water cascading over the sides. Shells, acanthus leaves, egg-and-dart motifs and other decorative patterns were ...