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"The below text is a notice from the USPTO about tests they’re removing in order to make it less difficult to pass the test for obviousness" Am I the only one
by Fargren 16y ago
"The below text is a notice from the USPTO about tests they’re removing in order to make it less difficult to pass the test for obviousness"
Am I the only one how finds this was unnecesarily oblique? I needed to read it over 3 times to understand whether the tests had become more or less strict.
- DougBTX 16y agoYes, I was not sure what it meant the first time I read it either. Perhaps this is better: Below is a USPTO notice describing how they will make it easier for patents to pass the obviousness tests
- ScottBurson 16y agoI think even clearer would be: "... easier for patents to pass the nonobviousness tests". That is, they're making it harder for examiners to reject patents as obvious. Contrary to the blogger, I think the obviousness bar is still much too low, and that this is, in fact, the biggest problem with the patent system. Now they're making the problem worse. I find this very dismaying.