Blog 17: Sketching and Describing the Design of P&G's Mouthwash Bottle

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P&G is trying to patent an adaptation design of a mouthwash bottle. However, they are running into trouble because the person who patented the a new design on the bottle did not follow all of the rules. There are a few problems with the sketch of the new patent. The sketch added a trapezoidal region with dotted lines. Dotted lines is supposed to identify a region of the design that is unclaimed by another patent but already exists on the original design. However, P&G could not prove that the claimed trapezoidal region originally existed. Additionally, any new boundaries need to be correctly described in the brief, which this brief did not properly explain. The author continues to show where the written description for similar case had new lines that were not properly written in the brief. This additional error shows that the laws need to be more explicit in how to describe these new boundaries.    

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