Assignment 7: Part 4 of 4

This is fun and creative video I found about obviousness. The narrators use horse boarding in England as the basis of what is and is not obvious, and how it directly relates to everyday life (especially if you are a horse boarder).


Key points:

+ Inventions are usually "small incremental steps of improvement". This video says that it's okay to add different features from different subjects together, it does not necessarily make the product obvious.
+ Depending on the person whose viewpoint you are looking at, something can be obvious or not obvious. This really depends on the gut feeling of the person who is judging your patent.
+ The narrator says that in his experience, if you are linking three or more things together - especially from three different disciplines - then the judge and jury will not think your product is obvious.
+ U.S. patent laws require product to be non-obvious. European patent laws require that an "inventive step" has been found in the invention and must be necessary for an issued patent.