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Beauty Fades: An Experimental Study Of Federal Court Design Patent Aesthetics, Dr. Andrew W. Torrance
Beauty Fades: An Experimental Study Of Federal Court Design Patent Aesthetics, Dr. Andrew W. Torrance
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
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Stop In The Name Of The Pto! A Review Of The Fresenius Saga And Pto-Judicial Interplay, Wayne A. Kalkwarf
Stop In The Name Of The Pto! A Review Of The Fresenius Saga And Pto-Judicial Interplay, Wayne A. Kalkwarf
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
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Level Of Skill And Long-Felt Need: Notes On A Forgotten Future, Joe Miller
Level Of Skill And Long-Felt Need: Notes On A Forgotten Future, Joe Miller
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The Supreme Court's KSR decision transforms the way we think about patent law's ordinary artisan. The ordinary artisan, the Supreme Court states, is also a person of ordinary creativity, not an automaton. This transformation, which sweeps aside a contrary precept that had informed the Federal Circuit's nonobviousness jurisprudence for a generation, raises a key question: How do we fill out the rest of our conception, in a given case, of the ordinary artisan's level of skill at the time the invention was made? Reaching back to a large vein of case law typified by Judge Learned Hand's decisions about nonobviousness, …