U.S. Design Patent Number D1,110,455 – Firearm
Every Tuesday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office publishes newly granted patents. This blog post is part of a weekly series in which I pick an interesting new patent that has Idaho connections and briefly describe it.
Inventors: Cory J. Newman (Smithfield, UT), James Ian Sandercock (Boise, ID), Nolan Blake Young (Boise, ID), Jeremy Gerald Abell (Boise, ID)
Assignee: Evolved Gear LLC (Boise, ID)
Today’s featured patent is a design patent. As opposed to utility patents, which have extensive write-ups, design patents are all about the drawings. No information about the functionality of the invention can be included, because the subject matter of the design patent is the ornamental design only.
This doesn’t mean that a functional item cannot be covered by a design patent–if the appearance of the device is tied to its functionality.
In design patents, it’s important to prepare views from multiple perspectives to properly depict the three-dimensional shapes and features of the device.
