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Isn't "takes effort" opposite "obvious"?

• AnimalMuppet 10y ago
  No. Almost all of my programming takes effort, but most of it is obvious. (Some of it is obvious after a week's thought. But even then, there's usually nothing novel at the end of the week - just an architecture that thousands of people could have come up with. That's not patentable.) As an illustration, any patented algorithm may take a fair amount of effort to implement. That doesn't mean that implementing it gives me a new patent, though. Or say I write a novel. It takes a lot of work. I can copyright the novel, but not patent it, no matter how much work it took. "Takes effort" does not equal "non-obvious".