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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Supreme Court ruling makes "obvious" patents harder to defend

The Supreme Court reinforced a previous ruling yesterday that "mandated that an invention could not be patented if a "person having ordinary skill in the art" would consider it obvious." The case is discussed here.

The current patent system is messed up and needs fixing. "Obviousness" is narrow and vague.
Posted by Ed at 5/01/2007 11:15:00 AM

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