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Patent law is hard and generalising it is very difficult. It all depends on the nature of the claims. What can be said, generally, is that patentability isn't
by YPPH 5y ago
Patent law is hard and generalising it is very difficult. It all depends on the nature of the claims.
What can be said, generally, is that patentability isn't assessed with the benefit of hindsight, and a combination of well-known methods may, in some circumstances, be patentable.
- _fat_santa 5y agoYeah as ridiculous as this patent is, the context is important here. The TSA tested this method, then refused to license it and continued to use it. In another world where the TSA had no idea about this guy and just came up with this method on their own, this would be a very different case. This is more of a case of "knowingly infringing on a patent" rather than "infringing on a patent"
- jmgoeke 5y agoReally motivates you to point the obvious ideas out to as many people/companies as you can find before they can think of said obvious ideas themselves (if you somehow have one of these “no brainer” patents)