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Archive for January 2017

Quick Hitter: Is It Really Obvious To Combine Those References?

By Stephen B. Schott | January 6, 2017

One justification for a patent office rejection is the brick wall, “It would have been obvious for a person of ordinary skill in the art to combine these references.” This is a tough statement to overcome for any would-be patentee hoping to argue that an examiner improperly combined two (or more) references in issuing an…

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