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Intellectual Property

Nov. 27, 2006

Supreme Court Will Consider Altering Obviousness Patent Test

SAN FRANCISCO - It isn't always obvious whether something is obvious - at least not in patent law.

By Anna Oberthur
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - It isn't always obvious whether something is obvious - at least not in patent law.
      That's why the U.S. Supreme Court is gearing up for oral arguments tomorrow in a case with the potential to alter completely one of the three key tests of patentability: how to determine whether an invention would have been obvious to...

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