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Does it claim the entire problem (by handwaving around aspects which will necessarily appear in any possible solution) rather than a specific solution which mig
by prodigal_erik 14y ago
Does it claim the entire problem (by handwaving around aspects which will necessarily appear in any possible solution) rather than a specific solution which might be invented around? Is it the solution any practitioner will immediately produce upon first facing the problem (i.e., what "obvious" means everywhere outside patent law), so devoid of creative steps that writing it down was considered a waste of time? Was it "disclosed" in the patent repository (that mountain of obfuscated drivel we're well advised never to look at, on penalty of bigger lawsuits) and nowhere else?