For establishing inventive step it is not necessary that the prior art contains a pointer for combination, only that in the relevant prior art an incentive was present to combine the prior art.
Case date: 27 November 2018
Case number: C/09/534649/HA ZA 17-651C/09/533643/HA ZA 17-599200.237.828/01
Court: Court of Appeal of The Hague
A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law.
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