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- From: pb@breese.fr (Pierre Breese)
- Subject: [Patents] consultation questions
- Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 19:01:01 +0200
>
> From posting 1 (legal definition of obvious):
>> See the "examiners directives" concerning the "problem solution approach" :
>> 1 - identifying the closest prior art document
>> 2 - determining the objective problem not solved by prior art embodiment
>> 3 - show the technical solution provided by the claimed invention
>> 4 - verifying if the same solution to a similar "objective probleme" exist
>> in prior art.
>
> From posting 2:
>> 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...
>
> I find the two postings contradictory.
Posting 1 describes one method for verifying if the claimed invention is
obvious, in the meaning of EPC (posting 2)....
Pierre
(Sorry, Ramon, I must interrupt our discussion...)
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