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You are completely right, but it does highlight the incongruity of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_in_the_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_i... Based on the above phrase you could almost be forgiven for thinking somethings "patentability" would actually be defined by how engineers typically judged it, rather than how specialist lawyers judge it.