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  • 6 - Intellectual Property

  • Jonathan Lazar, University of Maryland, College Park, Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder, Brian Wentz, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, Raja Kushalnagar, Gallaudet University, Washington DC
  • Foreword by Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    Human–Computer Interaction and U.S. Law
    Published online:
    12 December 2025
    Print publication:
    08 January 2026, pp 136-172

  • Summary

    This chapter will delve into the relationship between intellectual property (IP) and human-computer interaction (HCI), examining how intellectual property rights and limitations influence the design process, drive technological progress, and shape user experiences.The chapter provides detailed discussions of the three main types of IP providing recognition and/or financial benefit for what people invent or create: patent, copyright, and trademark.

  • 6 - Utility Patents and the Fashion Industry

  • from Part II - Intellectual Property Rights: Copyright, Trademarks, Patents and Registered Designs
  • Edited by David Tan, National University of Singapore, Jeanne Fromer, New York University, Dev Gangjee, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Fashion and Intellectual Property
    Published online:
    27 October 2025
    Print publication:
    13 November 2025, pp 160-184
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    This chapter reviews the fashion industry’s uses of utility patents. It first provides an overview of the fashion industry’s patenting activities, looking at how many patents are granted for fashion-related inventions and how large apparel companies obtain those patents. It then examines companies’ use of patents, looking at how patent litigation in the fashion industry compares to other industries. Finally, it turns to the uneasy tension in fashion between function and aesthetics, examining the specific technologies and inventions being claimed in fashion patents to see what can be inferred about the relationship between fashion and intellectual property