> They tell me that if an invention is obvious, then somebody would have done it before
...and for someone to have done it before, someone must have patented it...
I think that's the real rub of the patent conundrum. The patent office assumes that if something hasn't been patented yet, it must be non-obvious. The whole "skilled in the art" things sort of goes out the window.
...and for someone to have done it before, someone must have patented it...
I think that's the real rub of the patent conundrum. The patent office assumes that if something hasn't been patented yet, it must be non-obvious. The whole "skilled in the art" things sort of goes out the window.