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
Section 4: Proof
Chapter 3: Industrial application
Title 3: Obtaining the patent
Title 4: Rights attached to the patent
Title 5: Patent protection
Part 4: Designs
260. Inventive step
1 minute de lecture
To be patentable, an invention must not only be new, but must also involve an inventive step (Article L. 611-10, 1° IP Code). An invention is considered to involve an inventive step if, for a person skilled in the art, it does not result in an obvious way from the state of the art (Article L. 611-14 IP Code) . Inventive step and novelty are distinct criteria. However, the question of inventive nat …
