Inventive Step: The Stories We Tell
12 Pages Posted: 14 Apr 2017
Date Written: March 31, 2017
Abstract
The premise of this paper is that arguing inventive step in patent cases is of necessity telling a story, and as such should be judged by appropriate standards. After exploring the reasons for taking this position, the standard approaches used by the English and German courts and the European Patent Organisation Boards of Appeal are examined to see how well they stand up as story-telling.
Keywords: Patents, inventive step, European patents, EPO, BoA
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Rees, David, Inventive Step: The Stories We Tell (March 31, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2952332 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2952332
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