What is inventive activity?
Understanding the inventive step criterion
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What is inventive activity?
Understanding the inventive step criterion

Author : Laurence LOUMES

Publication date: May 10, 2021 | Lire en français

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1. What is inventive activity?

This is a basic condition for patentability ( article L. 611-10, 1. du CPI and article 52(1) de la CBE ). In essence, it is legally stipulated that an invention involves an inventive step if, for a person skilled in the art, it does not follow in an obvious way from the state of the art ( article L. 611-14 du CPI and article 56 de la CBE ). In other words, the criterion...

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