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- Title
There is no hope in inventive step.
- Authors
Wooden, Gemma; Blaseby, Matthew; Visser, Derk
- Abstract
Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office , November 2019 edition The European Patent Office's Guidelines have been updated to clarify that the approach for assessing inventive step involves determining whether a skilled person would have modified the closest prior art in an expectation of some advantage or improvement. A hope of solving the objective technical problem is insufficient for a modification of the closest prior art to be considered obvious.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Patent Office; PRIOR art doctrine (Patent law)
- Publication
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2020, Vol 15, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
1747-1532
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jiplp/jpz163