What Was Obvious No Longer Is
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Magazine: Winter 2008
- Opinion & Analysis
- Read Time: 2 min
U.S. patent law says that you can’t patent an invention that is “obvious.” However, in the 2007 case KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. et. al., the Supreme Court raised the standard for showing that an invention is not obvious and is therefore worthy of a patent.