Oh, patents! IKEA Play kitchen

 Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

The IKEA Spisig “play kitchen with curtain” is a versatile toy. One side of the toy has a play kitchen, complete with sink, faucet, stovetop, oven and storage. The other side has a blackboard. Thus, children can play on both sides. The curtains on top also enable the blackboard side to function as small puppet theater. Indeed, the IKEA toy description further specifies:

“We call it a play kitchen, but what it actually is–that’s up to little imaginations. Maybe it will be a restaurant, café, shop or puppet theatre. Or something completely different.”

In any event, the IKEA Spisig toy is a patented design. The US design patent, USD924984S1, titled Children's kitchen, was awarded, on July 13, 2021, to the Swedish industrial designer, Maria Gustavsson, cofounder of the Swedish Ninja design firm.

Below, the Figures 3 and 4, extracted from the patent, together with images of the marketed IKEA play kitchen and theatre toy. The patent Figure 3 depicts the front view (kitchen side) of the design. The patent Figure 4 depicts the back view (theater side) of the design.

References
IKEA (website)
www.ikea.com
Swedish Ninja (website)
https://www.swedishninja.com/ 

Oh, patents! IKEA infant crib

 Copyright © Françoise Herrmann 

The best-selling IKEA Myllra crib is a patented invention. The US design patent USD896544S1, titled Crib, was awarded on September 22, 2020, to the Swedish industrial designer Henrik Preutz.

The patent Figure 1, displaying a perspective view of the crib, appears below with an image of the marketed product. Notice the dotted lines on the drawing. The broken lines indicate that this part of the design is excluded from the claimed patent protection. In other words, the three decorative bars, depicted in front of the crib drawing, are not part of the patented design.

   

References
IKEA (website)
www.ikea.com

Oh, patents! IKEA Skymningen pendant lamp

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The IKEA Skymningen pendant light is a patented design. The US design patent, USD841841S1, titled Lamp, was awarded on February 26, 2019, to Carl Öjerstam, the Swedish industrial designer of the Skymningen pendant.

Below, the patent Figure 1 showing a top front view of the lamp, appears together with an image of the marketed product. Notice the dotted lines on the drawing. The broken lines indicate that this part of the design is excluded from the claimed patent protection. In other words, the pendant light suspension cord, shown with broken lines on the drawing, is not part of the patented design. 

References

Carl Öjerstam
https://materia.se/en/designer/carl-ojerstam/
IKEA (website)
www.ikea.com

Oh, patents! IKEA pendant lamp

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The IKEA Blasverk pendant light is a patented design. The US design patent, USD1000679S1, titled Lamp, was awarded on October 3, 2023, to Carl Öjerstam, the Swedish industrial designer of the Blasverk pendant.

Below, the patent Figure 1 showing a bottom perspective view of the lamp, appears together with an image of the marketed product. Notice the dotted lines on the drawing. The broken lines indicate that this part of the design is excluded from the claimed patent protection. In other words, the pendant light suspender, shown with broken lines on the drawing, is not part of the patented design. 

References

Carl Öjerstam

https://materia.se/en/designer/carl-ojerstam/

IKEA (website)

www.ikea.com

Oh, patents! IKEA wireless-charging floor lamp

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The discontinued IKEA Varv wireless-charging floor lamp is a patented design. The US design patent, USD766823S1, titled Wireless charging fixture, was awarded on September 20, 2016, to David Wahl, the Swedish industrial designer of the Varv lamp.

Below, the patent Figure 1, together with an image of the marketed product. Notice the dotted lines for the lampshade on the drawing. The broken lines indicate that this part of the design is excluded from the claimed patent protection. In other words, only the wireless charging pad and the base of the Varv floor lamp are patented. 

Reference

IKEA (website)

www.ikea.com

Oh, patents! IKEA Wireless charging lamp

Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

The IKEA NYMÅNE LED lamp offers wireless charging for any mobile phone that supports wireless charging. The lamp was awarded the US design patent, USD764090S1, titled Wireless charging lamp. The patent was granted on August 16, 2016, to the IKEA designer David Wahl.  

Below, the patent Figure 1 showing a perspective view of the IKEA NYMÅNE LED lamp design, and an image of the marketed IKEA NYMÅNE LED lamp, in black. The IKEA NYMÅNE LED lamp is also sold in white.

 As a reminder, a US design patent covers the ornamental aspects of an invention, or what the invention looks like. Whereas a US utility patent covers the functional aspects of an invention, or how the invention works. 

Reference

IKEA (website)

www.ikea.com

Oh, patents! Ikea heart raccoon night light

Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

The IKEA Luriga heart raccoon night light squeezes on, and dims off. The design patent USD838896S1, titled Lamp, was awarded on January 22, 2019 to Tina Alnaes, the Swedish designer of the child LED night light. Below, the patent Figure 1 and an image of the marketed product.

 

Incidentally, the brand name IKEA is an eponymic acronym that stands for:

• (IK) Ingvar Kamprad, the initials of the founder’s name
• (E) Elmtaryd, the family farm where Kamprad was born, and
• (A) Agunnaryd, the name of the village where Kamprad grew up. 

Reference
Ikea (website)
www.ikea.com

Oh, patents! IKEA hedgehog night light

Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

A search for IKEA patents returned 5716 patents, which should explain, at least partly, the timelessness, craftpersonship, and success of so many IKEA products. Founded in 1943, in Sweden, IKEA is now a multinational company, the largest retail furniture company in the world since 2008.

The IKEA design for the corded and battery-operated, Luriga hedgehog, LED night light for kids, is a patented invention. The child-friendly lamp is soft with two settings, white and color-changing, fading in and out of green. An internal timer slowly switches off the lamp. However, it is the way the invention looks that was patented—the ornamental hedgehog aspect of the night light. The US design patent, USD847401S1, titled Lamp, was awarded to Tina Alnæs, an industrial designer, on April 30th, 2019.

Below, the Figure 1 extracted from the patent shows a perspective view of the inventive design. An image of the marketed Luriga hedgehog LED night light is also shown below the patent figure.

Reference

IKEA

www.ikea.com