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Is > For an invention to be patentable, the core inventive concept must be beyond the grasp of those with average powers of imagination. Really the case? I ha
by Coffeewine 2y ago
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> For an invention to be patentable, the core inventive concept must be beyond the grasp of those with average powers of imagination.
Really the case? I had always interpreted the obviousness test as more ‘an average person familiar with the state of the art would not immediately think of the invention’, not that they never would.
- pdpi 2y agoYeah. It’s more a case of “average person would only be able to come up with the invention after months/years of R&D”. What’s being protected is the effort (and corresponding investment of resources), not the intellectual prowess of the inventor.