Frisina & Smith, LLC

Industrial designs are the aesthetic appointments that make finished goods attractive. For instance, the functionality of Apple’s iMac® does not depend on its unusual combination of a personal computer and video screen in a single artfully formed unit, but it certainly is both appealing and distinctive, and that is value worth protecting. However, at the intersection of form, function, art and engineering certain unique problems arise that render the proper choice of intellectual property (IP) less than certain.

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