Depends 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 a

Depends 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...