Broad Claims May Broaden the Prior Art – The Federal Circuit Looks to Claim Scope in Applying the Analogous Art Test
Obviousness rejections are among the most, if not the most, frustrating rejections a patent applicant can face. The examiner typically assembles two or three old patents or published patent applications as prior art references, announces that a person of ordinary skill in the art (a “POSITA”) would have combined them, and then supplies a reason […]
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