Prior art that requires fundamental reconfiguration of the disclosed solution to end up with something falling under the scope of protection of a claim cannot normally render the claimed subject matter obvious.
Case date: 17 January 2019
Case number: X ZR 8/17
Court: Federal Court of Justice of Germany
A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law.
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