{"id":1857,"date":"2010-05-23T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T23:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/patently-bleedin-obvious\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T23:23:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T23:23:57","slug":"patently-bleedin-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/patently-bleedin-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"patently bleedin&#8217; obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;\"><p> <b>A patent application must<\/b> contain a description of the invention in such a way that the invention can be <b>implemented<\/b> and practiced by a <b>person skilled<\/b> in the art without <b>undue effort<\/b>. In the field of computer programs, this would be a computer programmer&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<div>but\u00a0<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;\"><p> <b>To be patentable<\/b>, an invention must be novel (i.e. not exist) and be the result of inventive activity. This is the case when the measures taken in the invention were <b>not obvious<\/b> to the <b>skilled person<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p \/>quotes from\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iusmentis.com\/patents\/software\/epc\/#practice\">http:\/\/www.iusmentis.com\/patents\/software\/epc\/#practice<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iusmentis.com\/patents\/obviousness\/\">http:\/\/www.iusmentis.com\/patents\/obviousness\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iusmentis.com\/patents\/software\/epc\/#practice\"><\/a>bolding by me<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>so when is the not obvious, obvious? surely if a skilled person can implement the invention the invention could be obvious.\u00a0Obviously\u00a0I don&#39;t get this at all.<\/p>\n<p \/> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.briangreene.com\/patently-bleedin-obvious\">web lab<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A patent application must contain a description of the invention in such a way that the invention can be implemented and practiced by a person skilled in the art without undue effort. In the field of computer programs, this would be a computer programmer&#8230; but\u00a0 To be patentable, an invention must be novel (i.e.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/patently-bleedin-obvious\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">patently bleedin&#8217; obvious<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}