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USPTO Updates Obviousness Examination Guidelines

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued an update to its obviousness guidelines, publishing a notice in the Federal Register (75 Fed. Reg. 53644) that highlights case law developments on obviousness since the Supreme Court's 2007 decision in KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc. The update supplements the Office's 2007 guidelines, in which the Office identified seven rationales gleaned from the KSR decision (see "Patent Office Issues Examination Guidelines Regarding Obviousness after KSR"). The Office indicates that the update to the obviousness examination guidelines is intended to remind Office personnel of the principles of...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).