Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona, Spain, on February 25-28, 2019. To commemorate the mobile industry’s largest trade show, this blog will showcase various recently issued U.S. patents related to mobile technology.
U.S. Patent No. D834,588 S (‘588) issued on November 27, 2018, for “Display Screen with Graphical User Interface for a Prompt Animation.” It was issued to inventors Katie Priscilla Chen of Berkeley, California, and Salih Abdul-Karim and Pablo Fernando Caro, both of San Francisco, California. The applicant/assignee is Airbnb, Inc., the online hospitality services company. This patent is a design patent under 35 U.S.C. §171, which protects the ornamental features of an article of manufacture. The features cover a mobile graphical user interface which displays a message about the selected room or home on the display screen.
Figure 1 below illustrates the ornamental features of the display screen.
Under 35 U.S.C. §173, the ‘244 patent, like all design patents, has a patent term of 15 years, and expires on November 27, 2033 (MPEP 1505).
The U.S. Patent Classification is D14/485 (recording, communication or information retrieval equipment, namely, design for electronically produced symbol for computer that may be viewed on a computer screen).
Many tech companies are realizing the benefits of a patent portfolio, which include extensive design patent portfolios. Design patents are about 10% of all patents issued by the USPTO, and that number is growing steadily every year. Please contact Yonaxis for more information on design patents, or patents in general, if you have any questions.