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Intellectual Property Boston College Law School February 26, 2007 Patent - Nonobviousness

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Intellectual Property. Boston College Law School February 26, 2007 Patent - Nonobviousness. Requirements. (1) Patentable Subject Matter (2) Novelty (3) Utility (4) Nonobviousness (5) Enablement. Nonobviousness. 35 U.S.C. § 103. Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Intellectual Property

Boston College Law School

February 26, 2007

Patent - Nonobviousness

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Requirements

• (1) Patentable Subject Matter

• (2) Novelty

• (3) Utility

• (4) Nonobviousness

• (5) Enablement

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Nonobviousness

• 35 U.S.C. § 103. Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter.– “A patent may not be obtained though the invention is

not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 … if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains …”

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Nonobviousness

• Factors in the analysis– (1) Scope and content of prior art– (2) Differences between invention and prior art– (3) Level of ordinary skill in the art– (4) “Secondary considerations”

• Commercial success

• Long-felt but unsolved needs

• Failure of others to invent

• Copying by others

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Graham v. John Deere

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In re Dembiczak

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Nonobviousness

• Secondary considerations– Commercial success– Long-felt but unsolved needs– Failure of others to invent– Copying by others

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Problem 3-10

• Claimed invention– Lollipop in shape of human thumb

– Wrapped in a mold that can be worn

– Contains gum inside lollipop

• Prior art references– Siciliano: ice cream wrapped in a

removable mold

– Copeman: lollipops in various molds usable as balloons

– Harris: hollow, thumb-shaped lollipop

– Webster: chewing gum enclosing liquid syrup

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Administrative

• Next Assignment– Through IV.C.3 – Doctrine of Equivalents


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