Sunday, February 5, 2023

Ooh, patents! Tiffany True® rings

 Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

The Tiffany True® collection is patented. The US design patent, USD906154S, titled Jewelry such as a ring, was awarded on December 29th 2020, to a group of six co-inventor designers: Eva Zuckerman, Young Byun, Seohee Koh, Stephane Krumenacker, Cary James, Neil Desai.

As a reminder, a US design patent covers the ornamental aspects of an invention, or what the invention looks like. In contrast, US utility patents cover the way an invention works.

Below, the US design patent Figure 5, depicting a left-side view of the invention design, together with two of the marketed embodiments of the invention ring, trademarked Tiffany True®. One of the embodiments of the inventive design is white gold, 8 mm wide. The other embodiment is 18 ct yellow gold, and also 8 mm wide.  The ring is designed with intricate links, featuring an alternating “T” pattern.




Reference
Tiffany and Company

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