{"id":13019,"date":"2025-01-18T19:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=13019"},"modified":"2025-01-18T19:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T12:37:38","slug":"hbd-to-me-and-my-first-design-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=13019","title":{"rendered":"HBD to me and my first design patent!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In honor of celebrating my birthday AND the one-year anniversary of my very first design patent, I wanna give a very special shoutout to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogilates.com\/blog\/shein-stole-my-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SHEIN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, you read that right. We give credit where credit is due, right?<\/p>\n<p>If it weren\u2019t for them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogilates.com\/blog\/shein-stole-my-design-again-and-i-have-more-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stealing my Pirouette Skort design<\/a> (ahem, twice), I wouldn\u2019t have applied for my very first design patent. I wouldn\u2019t have been granted that patent one year later, ON MY BIRTHDAY. Best gift of my life.<\/p>\n<h2>Two years and 499 dupes later<\/h2>\n<p>Receiving that patent on my birthday was like a really weird sign that I was on the right path. Since then, we\u2019ve now taken down <strong>393 dupes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popflexactive.com\/products\/pirouette-skort-with-pockets-digital-lavender?_pos=3&amp;_psq=pirouette&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0&amp;utm_source=blogilates.com&amp;utm_medium=blogilates.com&amp;utm_campaign=syndicateIG_birthdaypatents_Cassey01.18.25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pirouette Skort<\/a> alone<\/strong>. INSANE.<\/p>\n<p>Now, design patents are NOT easy to get. They\u2019re incredibly expensive and the application process is extremely time consuming and confusing. It\u2019s very difficult, which is why you don\u2019t hear about many designers going this route.\u00a0 That said, having a design patent is the most powerful tool I have in my pocket for protecting my rights as an independent designer.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ve simply had enough of dupers. Enough. I\u2019m so happy to share that in 2024, I was also awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popflexactive.com\/pages\/patents?srsltid=AfmBOoopXZCWify5PHAyXFzKKUmvC-5P0NvdzHsdvHeW3-zYMd6HZvXW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patent<\/a> on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popflexactive.com\/products\/corset-pirouette-dress-black?_pos=1&amp;_sid=57359528c&amp;_ss=r&amp;utm_source=blogilates.com&amp;utm_medium=blogilates.com&amp;utm_campaign=syndicateIG_birthdaypatents_Cassey01.18.25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corset Pirouette Dress<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popflexactive.com\/products\/superbra-lavender?_pos=4&amp;_sid=bfa937984&amp;_ss=r&amp;utm_source=blogilates.com&amp;utm_medium=blogilates.com&amp;utm_campaign=syndicateIG_birthdaypatents_Cassey01.18.25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Superbra\u00ae<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popflexactive.com\/products\/crisscross-hourglass-sklegging-black?_pos=1&amp;_sid=44f406d68&amp;_ss=r&amp;utm_source=blogilates.com&amp;utm_medium=blogilates.com&amp;utm_campaign=syndicateIG_birthdaypatents_Cassey01.18.25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sklegging<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popflexactive.com\/products\/hiking-superskort-black?_pos=1&amp;_sid=ce84bd013&amp;_ss=r&amp;utm_source=blogilates.com&amp;utm_medium=blogilates.com&amp;utm_campaign=syndicateIG_birthdaypatents_Cassey01.18.25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hiking Superskort\u2122<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since my last bday, we\u2019ve now killed 499 dupes.\u00a0<\/strong>And we\u2019re just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40823 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogilates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cassey-Signature.webp?resize=183%2C137&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blogilates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cassey-Signature.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.blogilates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Cassey-Signature-253x190.webp 253w\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"137\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogilates.com\/blog\/happy-birthday-to-my-first-design-patent\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of celebrating my birthday AND the one-year anniversary of my very first design patent, I wanna give a very special shoutout to SHEIN. Yeah, you read that right. We give credit where credit is due, right? If it weren\u2019t for them stealing my Pirouette Skort design (ahem, twice), I wouldn\u2019t have applied for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}