JD Supra: Court Interprets Purported Contour Lines in Design Patent Drawings as Claimed Features
The benefits of clear surface shading in a design patent were highlighted in a recent district circuit decision, which found that purported contour or tangent edge lines added to the drawings to ...
Court Interprets Purported Contour Lines in Design Patent Drawings as Claimed Features
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contour stresses the quality of an outline or a bounding surface as being smooth, jagged, curving, or sharply angled.
contour (ˈkontuə) noun 1. an outline. the contours of the coastline. contorno 2. (also contour line) on a map, a line joining points at the same height or depth. curva
CONTOUR definition: the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object. See examples of contour used in a sentence.
A contour on a map is a line joining points of equal height and indicating hills, valleys, and the steepness of slopes. There were three moderate climbs to just below the 450 feet contour. ...a contour map showing two hills and this large mountain in the middle.
Modern orometry has introduced the calculation of the mean angle of the slope of a given uneven surface provided that maps can be prepared showing equidistant contour lines.
He loved the sleek/smooth/flowing contours of the car. The map showed the contour of the coastline.