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Patent Law
: The Patent ProspectorFinite Genus Killer
By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn
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Xerox
filed a patent related to electrophotography. The examiner piled on §103(a)
combos. Appeal before the BPAI, arguing against 'obvious to try.' The issue was
whether a "claimed species is obvious over prior art which discloses a genus
containing the species." Obvious if the genus is defined by a "finite number" of
possibilities, and the prior art does not teach away. KSR strikes again.
Min-Hong Fu, Colleen A. Helbig, Kent J. Evans, Kathleen M. Carmichael and
David read more
Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on May 03, 2008 (boomark / email).
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