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Ironically, Ford fought tooth and nail against an overly generic patent for automobile (similar to a design patent because the guy who owns it is a lawyer and never built an actual model before getting the patent) and won.

http://www.bpmlegal.com/wselden.html




That's not what "design patent" means in US law.




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