Appellate Practice
Mar. 24, 2001
Court Favors Competition in Trade Dress Case
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Tuesday resolved an important intellectual-property issue with a decidedly pro-competition ruling, unanimously holding that an innovator of flexible highway warning signs could not use the patent process to preclude another manufacturer from copying and improving its design.
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