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> nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do _All_ patents are "nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do". I'm not defendi
by darkstar999 12y ago
> nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do
_All_ patents are "nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do".
I'm not defending this particular patent, I just wanted to refute that part of your argument.
- al2o3cr 12y agoDepends on what you read into "clever", I'd say. The standard for novelty that the USPTO uses makes anything "obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the subject matter pertains" non-patentable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_in_the_art#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_in...