 | Frederick Pontius - Science - 2003 - 1072 pages
...USC Sec. l03. a patent may not be obtained if "the differences between the subject matter as a whole and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made. to a person having ordinary skill... | |
 | Rachel Gader-Shafran - Law - 2004 - 734 pages
...Patentability; Non-Obvious Subject Matter. Conditions for Patentability; NonObvious Subject Matter: (a) A patent may not be obtained though the invention...said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made. (b) (l)Notwithstanding subsection (a),... | |
 | Howard B. Rockman - Law - 2004 - 542 pages
...invention to the patent attorney. Obviousness As mentioned previously, the inventor cannot obtain a patent if the differences between the subject matter sought...the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time of the invention to a person having ordinary skill in the... | |
 | Keith E. Maskus, Jerome H. Reichman - Law - 2005 - 952 pages
...patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title"); 35 USC § 103(a) (2000) ("A patent may not be obtained though the invention...the art to which said subject matter pertains."); 35 USC § 112 (2000) ("The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and... | |
 | Johan Braeckman, Bert de Reuver, Thomas Vervisch - Bioethics - 2005 - 324 pages
...skilled in the art' (art. 56). In de Amerikaanse patentwet luidt het dat geen patent kan worden verkregen 'if the differences between the subject matter sought...the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill... | |
 | Michael A. Epstein - Law - 2006 - 1454 pages
...[D] Nonobviousness Section 103 of the 1952 Patent Act precludes an inventor from obtaining a patent if the differences between the "subject matter sought...the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains."60... | |
 | Lashon Booker, Stephanie Forrest, Melanie Mitchell, Rick Riolo - Computers - 2005 - 325 pages
...legal criteria for obtaining a US patent are that the proposed invention be "new" and "useful" and . . .the differences between the subject matter sought...the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would [not] have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary... | |
 | James L. Rogers - Law - 2005 - 426 pages
...not identically disclosed or described as set forth in Section 102 of this title, if the difference between the subject matter sought to be patented and...the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary sill in... | |
 | Stuart O. Schweitzer - Business & Economics - 2007 - 362 pages
...Education of the Bar 1993). By "non-obvious" the law means as follows: A patent may not be obtained . . . if the differences between the subject matter sought...in the art to which said subject matter pertains. (35 USC § 103) The determination of whether a patent is non-obvious, and therefore enforceable against... | |
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A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter... 
