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Common Sense: Treating Statutory Non-Obviousness As A Novelty Issue, N. Scott Pierce
Common Sense: Treating Statutory Non-Obviousness As A Novelty Issue, N. Scott Pierce
N. Scott Pierce
Title 35 of United States Code, at Section 103, limits patent protection to subject matter that would not be “obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains.” The requirement was introduced as a statute by the Patent Act of 1952, but, according to the legislative history, was a codification of judicial precedent. The origin of that precedent is widely attributed to the 1851 Supreme Court decision of Hotchkiss v. Greenwood, 52 U.S. 248 (1851). However, declaration of Hotchkiss as a watershed moment in legal history …
Patent Search, Kaviraj Singh
Patent Search, Kaviraj Singh
Kaviraj Singh Sr.
Patent search All the types of patent searches are the same in the sense that searchers are trying to find closely related documents. However, to make it effective, the ways and approach must be different from each other according to the aims of search. The basic purpose of various types of patent search is described herein-below: researchers can easily understand the state-of-the-art technology and so minimize researching time; product developers can be free from anticipated infringement suits; inventors can modify their ideas to be suitable for the patentability criteria; tentative applicants can determine whether they will apply or will save …