Claimed
Design
The Board, however, declined "to find that the field of
fender design is specifically a crowded art simply because there
exist at least 22 vehicle fender design patents." Slip
op. at 10. It was "not persuaded that there is any one
element, on its own, so unique or prominent as to be deserving of
significantly more weight in our analysis than any other
element."
Id. at 13.
Goddess and
Harvey. This despite the fact
that the
LKQ prior art seems as "crowded" as the
prior art in those precedents, at least in terms of number and
similarity. Indeed, as the Board later found, the primary