Hi readers,
Following our discussion about obviousness and prior art in the last couple of blog posts, I wanted to dive deeper and understand more about the novelty and non-obviousness. Therefore, I am attaching this YouTube video by a patent attorney called Richard Goldstein in order to further discuss non-obviousness in relation to patentability.
Goldstein details just how different an idea has to be to become patentable. To be novel, there must be nothing like it. To be non-obvious, Goldstein details that whatever is different about your invention must be more unexpected than an obvious leap from someone previous in the field. He gives the example of smaller clothes hangers for children's clothes: manufacturers of clothes hangers would not find this invention novel because it is something that they are perfectly capable of creating. Therefore, changing the size of a clothes hanger would be obvious.
Goldstein, does however mention that patent attorneys help determine if something truly is non-obvious. To do that, one must look at what similar products are available in the field. He mentions patent attorneys to indicate just how hard it is to determine obviousness for regular people like me and you. He also stressed the importance behind examining prior art of an invention before sending an application to the Patent Office.
I hope you all enjoyed this deeper look into novelty and non-obviousness. Looking forward to reading your comments!
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