Crocs’ Competitor Cleared to Continue With Design Patent Appeal

Crocs Inc. failed to shake an appeal of a patent office decision reviving its design patent on foam-molded clogs by challenging its opposing party’s standing.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a precedential order allowed U.S.A. Dawgs Inc. to substitute in its successor-in-interest Mojave Desert Holdings LLC to handle the appeal. The decision allows the court to reach the merits of the appeal, which it will decide in a later opinion.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board revived Crocs’ U.S. Patent No. D517,789, on the foam-molded clog design, after an examiner found the patent anticipated ...