Atextual Conditions for Patentability and Stare Decisis
Patently O
JULY 6, 2022
Steve Gass has a PhD in physics and also a patent attorney. And, in any case, these exceptions have defined the reach of the statute as a matter of statutory stare decisis going back 150 years. In the area of obviousness though, the doctrine was developed by courts and then implemented by statute in 1952.
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