Comment by CodesInChaos
24 days ago
Unfortunately there are many patents that simply combine an old thing with a new thing in the obvious way. Since the new thing is new, the combination is "novel".
24 days ago
Unfortunately there are many patents that simply combine an old thing with a new thing in the obvious way. Since the new thing is new, the combination is "novel".
Law says must be NON obvious
The patent office applies a much lower "non-obviousness" threshold than how a technical person would interpret that word.
It’s old memories from the engineering school in Europe but I remember that a patent office is about collecting fees and documents, and won’t do any actual checks on the patents validities.
Whether a patent is valid is tested in court.
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