From pb@breese.fr  Tue May  8 17:43:21 2001
From: pb@breese.fr (Pierre Breese)
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 18:43:21 +0200
Subject: [Patents] consultation questions
In-Reply-To: <20010508183901.B26826@jl1.quim.ucm.es>
Message-ID: <B71DEEC9.18BD%pb@breese.fr>

> So even if the patent is simple and straightforward, if nobody had the
> same idea before, it is "non-obvious", right?
No, it is "new", but not necessary "non-obvious".
> 
> Perhaps the problem is that it is difficult to convince lawyers that
> having the idea of how to solve a problem is generally easy for a
> programmer. 
The programmer is "the skilled man of the art". If the technical embodiment
that solve a problem is "easy", this embodiment is obvious, in application
of patent law...
 
Pierre



