Week 7 - Obviousness Personal Search

Hi everyone! Great to be posting on my blog again after a week's hiatus. This week's blog posts and Youtube videos will surround the topic of "obviousness." This one term is extremely significant to the patent world, and really requires. 

In order to understand the patents, we need to realize what the exact specifications are for a patent to be true. Please find below the five key metrics that must be true for a patent to be established below:

1. Subject matter requirement
2. Written description
3. Utility
4. Novelty
5. Non-obviousness

Obviousness is a huge part of these metrics. For a patent to be true, it must be "non-obvious" or that a regular person (like myself) would not have been able to have come up with the idea of this patent and its applications. The reason why this is so important is so that patents are not granted to "obvious" inventions, and to encourage innovation for things that have not been made yet. 

Thanks,

Payal