The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional ...

In the world of intellectual property, securing patents for innovative ideas rests heavily on the criteria of novelty, non-obviousness, and the inventive step. This panel will examine the complexities ...

The role of AI-generated prior art in obviousness determinations will likely require careful analysis of how AI systems operate and whether their outputs reflect new and inventive steps. 5.

The recent Federal Circuit decision in Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its implications for obviousness issues in polymorph patents Strategies for evaluating novelty in ...

Ruwan Fernando South Centre Research Paper No. 180. Apart from the basic statutory definition in section 65 of the Intellectual Property Act of Sri Lanka, there do not appear to be any detailed ...

Among the requirements for patentability of a design is that the design must be non-obvious. 35 U.S.C. §103; 35 U.S.C. §171; In re Borden, 90 F.3d 1570, 1574 (Fed. Cir. 1996).When ascertaining ...

Marco Lissandrini of Bugnion likens the decision in G1/19 to a round of golf, explaining the three-step pattern of reasoning to assess inventiveness Golf is a game of precision. You start by hitting a ...

As the title suggests, this article compares the inventive step in Chinese patent law with the U.S. non-obviousness standard. In this context, “unique” simply means that the law in China is ...