Re:A patent lawsuit against GNOME
by bdowling on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:56PM
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> examiners (and non-technical folks who don't think much about it)
Patent examiners all have degrees in science or engineering. See, for example, this job listing: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/545074300. They're also organized into art groups which become experts in narrow fields of inventions.
> simple incremental improvements.
Almost every patent issued is an incremental improvement of some other invention. By "simple" you probably mean non-obvious, which is one of the requirements for patentability.
> I did some "computer work" and a "novel" new ability emerged.
That's a different kind of novelty. It's not patentably novel if anyone, anywhere in the world, ever did it publicly before you.
Patent examiners all have degrees in science or engineering. See, for example, this job listing: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/545074300. They're also organized into art groups which become experts in narrow fields of inventions.
> simple incremental improvements.
Almost every patent issued is an incremental improvement of some other invention. By "simple" you probably mean non-obvious, which is one of the requirements for patentability.
> I did some "computer work" and a "novel" new ability emerged.
That's a different kind of novelty. It's not patentably novel if anyone, anywhere in the world, ever did it publicly before you.