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The mud thickens: the Federal Circuit issues its latest decision on utilitarian functionality, refusing registration to Becton Dickinson’s blood collection tube cap

  • Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 16 2012

On April 12, 2012, the Federal Circuit waded into the increasingly muddy waters of utilitarian functionality law with its decision in In re Becton, Dickinson and Co., 2012 WL 1216281