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
I: Set of indicia
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
264. Proof
1 minute de lecture
Inventive step is assessed separately from novelty , at the patent filing date, and by comparing the characteristic features of the invention with the prior art . To establish the existence of an inventive step, trial courts use the “set of indicia method "(méthode du faisceau d'indice), the problem-solution approach or both methods applied in combination .
While the court has full discretion to …
