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Commercial Law

Dec. 8, 2006

Doubting the Obvious

FOCUS COLUMN - By S. Christian Platt, Aslan Baghdadi and Jeremy Livianu - On Nov. 28, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the appeal of KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. regarding the standard for determining whether inventions are obvious. No. 04-1152, 2005 WL 23377 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 6, 2005).

Focus Column

By S. Christian Platt, Aslan Baghdadi and Jeremy Livianu
     
      On Nov. 28, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the appeal of KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. regarding the standard for determining whether inventions are obvious. No. 04-1152, 2005 WL 23377 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 6, 2005). Under Section 103 of the 1952 Patent Act, a patent must be non-obvious. The court last...

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