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Intellectual Property Litigation: Courts Begin Applying Test for Copyright Eligibility of Design of a Useful Article
November 14, 2017 Download PDF
Litigation partners Lew Clayton’s latest intellectual property litigation column, “Courts Begin Applying Test for Copyright Eligibility of Design of a Useful Article,” appeared in the November 8 issue of the New York Law Journal. Lew discusses Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands and the subsequent cases applying the U.S. Supreme Court’s two-part test for determining whether the design of a useful article is eligible for copyright protection.