Patents on the soles of your shoes...: Longchamp

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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Oh, patents! Longchamp® (5) Le Pliage (vintage)

Some of the Longchamp® Le Pliage models are already vintage. For example, the model included below with vertical zippers, allowing the handbag to expand with color-contrasting gussets, is vintage. It was granted the US design patent USD495486S1, titled Handbag.

As a reminder:

“a utility patent” protects the way an article is used and works (35 U.S.C. 101), while a “design patent” protects the way an article looks (35 U.S.C. 171) [MPEP Chapt. 1502.01; [R-07.2015]].

Figures 2 and 7, extracted from the patent, show the vintage Longchamp® Le Pliage, top-handle handbag, respectively zipped and unzipped. Also included, the image of a previously marketed model, in tan, with contrasting white gussets.

References

Lonchamp®

https://us.longchamp.com/

MPEP – Chapt. 1502-01 – Distinction between design and utility patent

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s1502.html

Friday, October 25, 2019

Oh, patents! Longchamp® (4) Le Pliage Travel

The Longchamp® Le Pliage Travel bag is designed with a horizontal zipper so that the bag might expand when unzipped. The Longchamp® Le Pliage Travel bag was awarded the US design patent USD530909S1, titled Handbag. As a reminder:

“a utility patent” protects the way an article is used and works (35 U.S.C. 101), while a “design patent” protects the way an article looks (35 U.S.C. 171) [MPEP Chapt. 1502.01; [R-07.2015]].

Below, the patent cover-page figure drawing, showing the Longchamp® Le Pliage Travel bag zipped and unzipped, together with images of one of the marketed Lonchamp® Le Pliage Travel bags, also zipped and unzipped.

References

Lonchamp®

https://us.longchamp.com/

MPEP – Chapt. 1502-01 – Distinction between design and utility patent

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s1502.html

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Oh, patents! Longchamp® (3) Mini Pliage (leather)

In 2012, Longchamp® created a collection of all leather Le Pliage handbags. In 2014, the mini leather Le Pliage handbag came out. The mini leather Le Pliage design was granted the US design patent USD755512S1, titled Handbag. As a reminder:

“a utility patent” protects the way an article is used and works (35 U.S.C. 101), while a “design patent” protects the way an article looks (35 U.S.C. 171) [MPEP Chapt. 1502.01; [R-07.2015]].

Figure 1, extracted from the US design patent USD755512S1, is included below, together with two models of the Longchamp® mini leather Le Pliage, currently marketed.

References
Lonchamp®
https://us.longchamp.com/

MPEP – Chapt. 1502-01 – Distinction between design and utility patent

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s1502.html

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Oh, patents! Longchamp® (2) Collaborations

Since 1993, when the first Longchamp® Le Pliage handbags were deployed in six different fabric colors with leather handles, hundreds of vibrantly different Le Pliage models have been designed. Among the hundreds of designs, those special editions commissioned in collaboration with local and international designers and artists, such as Jeremy Scott, Mary Katrantzou, Sarah Morris, Shayne Oliver (founder of Hood by Air in NYC), Cloé Floirat, and the most recent 2019 collaboration with Nendo /Oki Sato.

The explosion of Le Pliage creativity is even chronicled in a book titled Le Pliage Longchamp, written by French author Laure Verchère.