INTRODUCTION Courts have newly wrestled with the relationship between patent law and trademark law.

INTRODUCTION

Courts have newly wrestled with the relationship between patent law and trademark law.(1) What happens when couple federal statutes, the Patent Act and the Lanham Act, overlap?(2) Should the same of the federal laws yield? Where should courts draw the line when a utilitarian invention and produce identifying feature are the same? Nowhere is this issue more striking than in cases where harvest configurations have also been the bring under rule of patent protection. In like instances, trade dress protection can have potentially far-reaching drifts for manufacturers of

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