The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants design patents for new designs that are ornamental, meaning the design affects the appearance and/or shape of an article, but not its function or ...

In 2017, Microsoft first introduced the Fluent Design system, a design language refresh that would be released over time, generally as part of feature updates for Windows 10. Since then, numerous ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The epic smartphone design patent battle — Apple v. Samsung — brought design patents out of the shadows and into the spotlight for the ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...