Industrial Property Law
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: Administrative and professional organization
Part 2: Trademarks, service marks and other distinctive signs
Title 1: Scope of Application
Chapter 1: Novelty
Section 1: Person skilled in the art
Section 2: State of the art
Section 3: Obviousness
II: Problem-solution approach
Chapter 3: Industrial application
Title 3: Obtaining the patent
Title 4: Rights attached to the patent
Title 5: Patent protection
Part 4: Designs
265. Set of indicia
1 minute de lecture
When applying the “set of indicia method” (méthode du faisceau d'indices), the courts consider, in particular, the novelty of the problem in question, a preconception that has been overcome, or a surprising or unexpected result, as indicative of an inventive step. An invention developed on the basis of a prior art patent displays inventive step when the prior art does not teach the skilled perso …
