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- Title
Notorious and generic prior art, technical character.
- Authors
Rogers, David
- Abstract
The patent concerned a means of selecting intangible items of abstract information upon the basis of certain criteria. A declaration of no search was issued by the search division and the examining division refused the application on the ground of lack of patentable subject matter. The Board concluded that the technical features in claim 1 were notorious features and that, accordingly, no additional search was required. The Board further concluded that the fact that all the technical features were notorious and generic meant that there was no inventive step.
- Subjects
PRIOR art doctrine (Patent law); INTANGIBLE property; PATENTABILITY; EUROPEAN Patent Organisation; COMPUTER software
- Publication
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2013, Vol 8, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
1747-1532
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jiplp/jps179