Thumbs Up Emoji Is an Official Contract Agreement, Canadian Court Rules

To produce golf’s premier ball, Loper and his team spent countless hours working with players and iterating through hundreds of different designs.

Upending decades of continuity in the world of design patents, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”), sitting en banc in LKQ Corporation v. GM Global Technology Operations LLC, overturned the Rosen/Durling standard for obviousness of design patents.