
Consider a Spherical Patent: IP and Patenting in Technology Business
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inventor should be hit smartly with a stick) to innite (i.e., so profound as to defy
human comprehension). By this classical patent mechanics measure, a prima facie
case for obviousness has a uniform strength (say, normalized to 1) as soon as it can
be established, and the degree of inventiveness (or lack thereof) does not matter
once the switchover point is crossed. e switchover point S represents a kind of
obviousness singularity that remains unexplained by classical patent mechanics.
e quantum patent mechanics viewpoint permits a more realistic view of
how obviousness ...