Lawman Armor's Petition for Rehearing
At his excellent Patently-O patent law blog, Dennis Crouch discusses the Lawman decision and provides Appellant Lawman Armor's "Combined Petition For Panel Rehearing And For Rehearing En Banc Of Plaintiff-Appellant Laman Armor Corporation." Download Petition here
Dennis Crouch
In its Petition, Lawman asserts that the CAFC's ruling that a combination of known elements cannot comprise a "point of novelty" for infringement purposes leads to the "logical yet impossible" conclusion that "valid design patents can issue and not be capable of being infringed."