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| By PatentMonkey on 4/30/2007 5:41 PM |
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The US Supreme Court handed down their decision today (April 30, 2007) in the KSR v Teleflex patent case. The decision sets forth new rules on the question of obviousness when determining if patents should be issued and in patent owners ability to defend patents.
The KSR v Teleflex case involved US 6,237,565 on an adjustable accelerator pedal.
The court unanimously ruled that the federal appeals court that handles patent cases had given too much power to developers of trivial technological improvements. “Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress,’’ Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.
Until this ruling, one seeking to invalidate a patent had to show that all parts of a claimed invention were known. Further, the challenger had to show that there was a prior "teaching, suggestion or motivation" to combine these prior technologies to produce the invention. Typically, the teaching had to be expressly stated in prior art.
The ruling is designed to help lower courts determine when an invention is too obvious to deserve patent protection. The court concluded that the former test used by the lower court was too rigid and that a case-by-case approach was more prudent.
We can certainly expect that patents will be harder to obtain, that patent owners may be more cautious before enforcing their rights and that defendents will more willing to challenge existing patents.
Time will tell how this effects innovation and the willingness of companies to invest heavily in research and development. Although software companies are pleased with the decision, the pharmaceutical industry is very concerned as the billions of dollars and years they invest in drug development are more at risk of being knocked off through patent invalidation.
Quality patents are beneficial to all parties and we hope this ruling leads to better patents. However, we will clearly see an increase in the number of companies whose sole business model is too knock of successful products and technology based on the premise that they can invalidate the patents behind the products and technology.
The court issued an obvious ruling which may slow down patent enforcement but it will also have an obvious impact on innovation and the dollars spent on improving the technology we already enjoy.
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Obviousness Redux: Arm-chair Quarterbacking KSR v. Teleflex
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By TrackBack on
5/1/2007 11:11 AM
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KSR v. Teleflex, 550 U.S. __ (2007).A unanimous Supreme Court rolled back the Federal Circuit's teaching, suggestion or motivation obviousness test in favor of the Court's prior, and substantially broader, test as set forth in Graham v. John Deere Co....
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Obviousness Redux: Arm-chair Quarterbacking KSR v. Teleflex
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By TrackBack on
5/1/2007 12:13 PM
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KSR v. Teleflex, 550 U.S. __ (2007).A unanimous Supreme Court rolled back the Federal Circuit's teaching, suggestion or motivation obviousness test in favor of the Court's prior, and substantially broader, test as set forth in Graham v. John Deere Co....
# Chicago IP Litigation Blog
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