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March 12th, 2016
By Dennis Crouch Quality patent examination demands that patent examiners first identify the closest and most applicable prior art. To that end, the USPTO has spent many millions of dollars to ensure that examiners have fingertip-access to extensive databases of prior art literature. For patent documents, the USPTO maintains a ...
Commentaries
March 12th, 2016
Jorge L. Contreras May 6, 2015 Prior to 2002, U.S. patent examiners were permitted to reject claims for obviousness based on “common knowledge and common sense of a person of ordinary skill in the art without any specific hint or suggestion in a particular reference.” But this practice was effectively ...