EM.C wrote:I should have worded my question better but Dr.Review's reply was not very nice.
Lawyers and law professors tend to not be very nice, especially when clarity of communication is an issue.
I don't think one has to have intention to practice to care about a legal subject.
Right, but sometimes when you ask questions that can be answered by a 10 minute google search, knowing why you're asking helps us cut to the chase.
I am a newcomer to this TLS forum but even with few days of observing, I can surely conclude this forum is filled with trollings and sarcasm.
welcome to law school. You need thick skin or they're gonna eat you alive.
One assistant professor (lawyering) from NYU was introduced as an active voice in the field of fashion law, so I guessed there was something like fashion law. Since Finnegan's website stated fashion designers could utilize design patents, I had to think there were some patent lawyers who were filing those design patents. It was natural to me to wonder whether lawyers representing fashion house like Ralph Lauren and Louis Vuitton were typically patent lawyers.
IP = Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secrets
You need to be registered to practice at the USPTO do to patents... thus it being called the patent bar.
While there are design patents, things like fashion are generally protected by trademark and copyright. You don't need the patent bar to practice trademark and copyright law.
Patent lawyers are not the same as copyright and trademark lawyers. However, it may be advantageous, depending on what the "fashion" is, to have a USPTO registered patent attorney, in case filing design patents makes sense.