{"id":826,"date":"2016-05-11T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:42:13","slug":"reflecting-on-design-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Design Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often the appearance of an article is attributable to the nature of the surface as much as its shape. \u00a0Reflective surfaces are often depicted in design patent drawings as parallel lines, as in U.S.Patent No. D754125:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D754125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-827 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D754125.jpg\" alt=\"D754125\" width=\"757\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D754125.jpg 757w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D754125-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D754125-469x300.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a>The test completes the disclosure: &#8220;The oblique shade lines in the Figures show a transparent, <b><i>reflective,<\/i><\/b> or shiny surface, and not surface ornamentation&#8221; (emphasis added). \u00a0Sometimes the surface is not reflective as much as the material is reflective. \u00a0This is commonly handled withing shading, and again an explanation in the text, as in U.S. Patent No. D733,397:<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D733397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-829 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D733397.jpg\" alt=\"D733397\" width=\"774\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D733397.jpg 774w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D733397-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/D733397-418x300.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/a>:&#8221;United States Patent: D733397<!---BUF1=D733397\nBUF7=2015\nBUF8=3477\nBUF9=\/1\/\nBUF51=D\n----> The stipple shading represents claimed <b><i>reflective<\/i><\/b> piping&#8221; (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often the appearance of an article is attributable to the nature of the surface as much as its shape. \u00a0Reflective surfaces are often depicted in design patent drawings as parallel lines, as in U.S.Patent No. D754125: The test completes the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=826\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}