Do design patent applications need to comply with §112?
Section 112 requires that patent application specifications contain:
a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most clearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor for carrying out his invention.
Does a typical design patent application do that?
IP blogger Jim Hawes argues they should.