For the purpose of this blog, I evaluated this video clip
According to the video, for a invention to be patentable it must be both novel, and non-obvious. "Non-obvious means whatever is different about your invention, can't be an obvious leap." The patent invention must contain a unexpectedness that would not be obvious to someone in the field. In layman terms, it cannot be an invention in which someone in the field is able to identify and do, but just haven't done it yet. One way to distinguish a difference is to compare the invention to its closest competitors in the field. However this difference can often be highly subjective and is best left to those who work in the patent offices.
Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteI like how you pointed out that sometimes it is even hard for us to distinguish between similar patents, and that is why we have people employed whose jobs are meant to do this. I definitely agree that a huge level of knowledge is required for anyone to understand these patent differences in full.