Meera Kamath
Partner
Music, Science + Design
Meera Kamath, musician, scientist and design enthusiast is a Partner at DesignLaw Group, where she specializes in design patent prosecution, copyright and trademark matters, and portfolio management support. She is a member of the Women in IP Law Committee of AIPLA and a member of the South Asian Bar Association of Washington, D.C.
Meera previously completed a fellowship with the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston’s Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, where she played an active role in the Pro Bono Patent Program and assisted in various intellectual property matters related to enforcement and litigation. During law school, she interned at Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., where she focused on in-house transactional work, primarily contracts and intellectual property licensing. Meera was also the recipient of the 2011 Legal Intern Fellowship awarded by the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston.
Admitted:
District of Columbia
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
United States Patent and Trademark Office
(Not admitted in Maryland)
Education:
J.D., Concentration in Intellectual Property, Boston University School of Law (2013)
B.A. with honors, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis (2008)
Articles
DesignLaw Knowledge
International Applications
The World Intellectual Property Organization administers the Hague System for International Registration of Designs which provides for filing a single International Application with the International Bureau, designating protection in member states.
Virtual Designs
Design Patents can claim the appearance of computer-generated image designs that are displayed as integral to the operation of a programmed computer. Design Patents do not protect designs per se or in the abstract, but cover designs directed to an article of manufacture. Logically, the article of manufacture responsible for creating computer-generated image designs is the computer, but since computer designs have typically been displayed on screens, the USPTO prefers that the title and claim language identify a screen, panel or monitor, and that the claimed image be surrounded by a broken line which illustrates a display screen, which may form no part of the claimed design. However, many issued design patents identify different articles of manufacture than a display screen, such as a computer, wearable devices, headsets and glasses, induction ranges, , washing machines, vehicles and construction equipment, among more.
The USPTO issued a Request for Public Comments on the Article of Manufacture Requirement for computer-generated designs, on Dec. 21, 202, a Summary of Public Views on January 19, 2021, Supplemental for Examination of Computer-Generated Electronic Images Including Computer-Generated Icons and Graphical User Interfaces, on November 17, 2023 (updated on January 29, 2024 with corrected examples and setting a comment period).
