Opinion ID: 210374
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Heading: Calmar's Contentions of Error

Text: Calmar asserts four primary bases for its appeal: (1) the district court erred by construing the claims of Calmar's patents too narrowly; (2) the district court erred in its identification of the industrial buyer, not the retail consumer, as the ordinary observer; (3) the district court erred in holding that no reasonable jury could find that the ordinary observer would be deceived by the similarities of the trigger sprayers' shroud designs in question; (4) the district court erred in holding that no reasonable jury could find the points of novelty of the patented designs to be present in Arminak's AA Trigger shroud's design. Each of Calmar's arguments supporting its contentions of error is discussed below, after a brief overview of the law governing design patents.