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design

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)

Definitions from Case Law

From 553 U.S. 550 - Cuellar v. United States · 2008Most cited · 274 citing opinions

purpose or plan; " i. e., " the intended aim of the transportation.

United States Code

42 U.S.C. § 2014 — in this section

The term “design” means (1) specifications, plans, drawings, blueprints, and other items of like nature; (2) the information contained therein; or (3) the research and development data pertinent to the information contained therein.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Ip the law of evidence. Purpose or intention, combined with plan, or implying a plan in the mind. Burr Circ. Evid. 331; 95 Wis. 293. As Term of Art. The giving of a visible form to the conceptions of the mind, or, in other words, to the invention. 4 Wash. 52. In Scotch Law. To assign to; to make over.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

As a term of art, "the giving of a visible form to the conceptions of the mind, or in other words to the invention." Binns v. Woodruff, 4 Wash. O. C. 48, Fed. Cas. No. 1,424. See Ooptbioht; Patents. Plan, scheme, or intention carried into effect. Catlin v. Fire Ins. •',,., i Sumn. 434, Fed. Cas. No. 2.522. A project, an idea. 3 H. & N. 301. As used in an indictment for having in one's possession materials for counterfeiting it may refer to the purpose for which the materials were originally designed, and not to criminal intent in the defendant to use them; Commonwealth v. Morse. 2 Mass. r_'s. DESIGNATIO PERS0N/E. See Descbit- TIO I'l KSON.T..

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the law of evidence. Purpose or intention, combined with plan or implying a plan in the mind. Burrill, Circ. Ev. 331; Slate v. Grant, 86 Iowa, 216, 53 N. W. 120; Ernest v. State, 20 Fla. 388; Hogan v. State, 36 Wis. 226. As a term of art,'the giving of a visible form to the conceptions of the mind, or invention. Binns v. Woodruff, 4 Wash. G. C. 48, Fed. Cas. No. 1,424.

In patent law. The drawing or depiction of an original plan or conception for a novel pattern, model, shape, or configuration, to be used In the manufacturing or textile arts or the fine arts, and chiefly of a decorative or ornamental character. "Design patents" are contrasted with "utility patents," but equally involve the exercise of the inventive or originative faculty. Gorham Co. v. White, 14 Wall. 524, 20 L. Ed. 731; Manufacturing Co. v. Odell (D. C.) 18 Fed. 321; Binns v. Woodruff, 3 Fed. Cas. 424; Henderson v. Tompkins (C. C.) 60 Fed. 758. "Design, in the view of the patent law, is that characteristic of a physical substance which, by means of lines, images, configuration, and the like, taken as a whole, makes an impression, through the eye, upon the mind of the observer. The essence of a design resides, not in the elements individually, nor in their method of arrangement, but in the tout ensemble—in that indefinable whole that awakens some sensation in the observer's mind. Impressions thus imparted may be complex or simple ; in one a mingled impression of gracefulness and strength, in another the impression of strength alone. But whatever the impression, there is attached in the mind of the observer, to the object observed, a sense of uniqueness and character." Pelouze Scale Co. v. American Co.tlery Co., 102 Fed. 918, 43 C. C. A. 52. Designatio justiciariorum est a rege) jurisdictio vero ordinaria a lege. 4 Inst. 74. The appointment of justices is by the king, but their ordinary jurisdiction by the law.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Purpose or intention, combined with plan, or implying a plan in the mind.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In the law of evidence. Purposs or intention, combined with plan, or implying a plan in the mind. Burrill, Cire. Ey. 3dl. As a term of art, the giving of a visible form to the conceptions of the mind, or invention. 4 Wash. C. C. 48. Designatio justiciarioriim est a rego; juriscictio vero ordinaria a lege. 4 Inst, 74, The appointment of justices is by the king, but their ordinary jurisdiction by the law,