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Common Ground

The 2015 Americas Altair Technology Conference takes off May 5-7 in Dearborn, MI. Hundreds of engineers and researchers will examine new techniques for simulating vehicle design with composites and optimizing designs for additive manufacturing, lightweight vehicles and aircraft in what's being billed as the foremost, annual event for engineering professionals and top-level industry leaders in product design, advanced manufacturing, applied physics and high-performance computing.

"Design is Always Part of the Equation"

Declaring “it’s an exciting time to be a designer,” IDSA member and Apple's first industrial design director Robert Brunner served as the keynote speaker on April 14, 2015 at the 9th annual US Patent and Trademark Office’s Design Day at the USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, VA.

USPTO staff, design patent attorneys and representatives from corporations and design firms across the country discussed “Designs Worth Protecting.”

Brunner, the son of an engineer, initially considered a career in engineering, but soon found his calling in ID. “For me, industrial design made perfect sense,” he told the full house.

Less is Better

"If I had something to do in this world again, I would not want to be a designer. Because I believe, in the future, it will be less important to have many things and more important to exercise care about where and how we live."

“When Enough Is Enough”

The Journal of the Patent & Trademark Society has published an article by Perry J. Saidman, A/IDSA, and Kerry Leonard of Saidman Designlaw Group, LLC, entitled “Edison: Describing a Design—When Enough is Enough!” They ask: Do the same rules that govern utility patents, apply to design patents? Read what the authors learned.

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