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The Problem of the “Closest Prior Art”

Kathrin Füchsle, Thorsten Bausch (Hoffmann Eitle)/June 24, 2020June 25, 2020 /11 Comments

As readers of this blog will be aware, the EPO applies a quite peculiar and unique method to the analysis of inventive step, the “problem-solution approach”. This approach breaks the statutory question of Art 56 whether the invention was, having regard to the state of the art, obvious to a person skilled in the art,…

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