In my first week of studying industrial design in college one of my professors turned to the class, and while holding and pointing to a hammer, he said "form follows function." That was the first time ...

Function has often taken precedence over form in medical device design. But as healthcare increasingly moves from the hospital to the home and into the hands of the consumer or patient population, the ...

Does the function of a product dictate its form, leaving it simply protectable under patent law? Or should a product’s aesthetic elements be viable for protection in their own right?